Un-named Tactics RPG
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Category: Pixel Art
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Topic: Un-named Tactics RPG
Posted By: Draco9898
Subject: Un-named Tactics RPG
Date Posted: 06 July 2006 at 12:36am
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I have here a few pieces of work, please tell me what you think. I'm striving to improve my work: A work-in-progress dragon and hero: it took me over 3 tries to create the dragon's leg, I had to look at many leg references... And I'm pretty happy with the hero guy...  I'd also like advice on drawing nice looking isometric grass tiles that happen to be 72 x 24 pixels big. When ever I try to draw nice looking grass using say...3 colors to ends up looking like I used the spray paint tool :P Thanks guys... |
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Posted By: Draco9898
Date Posted: 06 July 2006 at 8:39am
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Guys? Any Help here? I never seem to get anyone to post in my topics sometimes... Update: |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 06 July 2006 at 9:29am
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You've got a good start! The colors and shapes of the characters are nice. I'd add some more highlights to make it contrast a little more but as is there's no huge problems. Where's the dragon's arms? ------------- |
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 06 July 2006 at 10:23am
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i would like to see the dragon finished, 2 legs, 2 arms...
------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: Draco9898
Date Posted: 06 July 2006 at 4:04pm
Your wish... |
Posted By: Scruffs
Date Posted: 06 July 2006 at 4:09pm
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move the far arm and far leg back, so less is visible. ------------- www.jakeww.deviantart.com - www.jakeww.deviantart.com |
Posted By: Draco9898
Date Posted: 06 July 2006 at 9:03pm
| gotcha- looking mighty fine now, thanks all |
Posted By: BlackFang
Date Posted: 06 July 2006 at 9:21pm
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the dragon seems sad =P thats the intention? |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 06 July 2006 at 11:14pm
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iso grass tiles will usually end up looking like a spry pattern. Keep
it simple and only siggest a pattern rather than have an actual one.
2-3 version with a random placement of grass tufts and edge tiles with
jaggy edges could work. The dragon and dude look good. ------------- |
Posted By: Draco9898
Date Posted: 07 July 2006 at 1:33am
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Originally posted by BlackFang the dragon seems sad =P thats the intention? I suppose not, but then again that's the power of one pixel...I guess he looks sad cause it looks like he's looking to the sky...how ironic... The concept art is a completely different story, there he looks happy...in a not-so-bright kinda way...Meloncoly... Blackfang and Scruffs -Better? Update: AA'ing does wonders, especially when you forget to do it like a dummy :)  |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 07 July 2006 at 4:07am
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that is one really camp dragon - make it more ferocious. ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: Draco9898
Date Posted: 08 July 2006 at 11:23pm
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Originally posted by Shark 'that is one really camp dragon - make it more ferocious. Better? |
Posted By: Omegavolt
Date Posted: 09 July 2006 at 6:17am
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I would reduce the size of the hands, they're nearly bigger than its feet. The horns have an odd curve to them as well, they should be jutting out of the crown of the head, as in your avatar. The shading on the tail could use a little touch up also. But very good overall. For grass, I've always found that drawing 1x2 vertical pixel bars in 3 different shades of green make a pretty good grass effect. It requires a lot of repetitive drawing of the same bar over and over, but if you space them out right and make sure the edges get the same treatment as the center, it will look real nice. |
Posted By: Draco9898
Date Posted: 09 July 2006 at 2:35pm
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The images are getting broken, oh well... Is this alittle better?  |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 09 July 2006 at 3:18pm
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Broken images? Use http://imagehost.ensellitis.com - Ensellitis(tm) image hosting . It's like crack for the internet! ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 09 July 2006 at 4:23pm
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Posted By: Draco9898
Date Posted: 09 July 2006 at 5:19pm
| Oh thanks, that's a big help, with the land tiles, but now I'm having trouble re-drawing my dragon to face north-east. I can't get the snout to look like its foreshortened and its facing the correct angle...any tips? |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 09 July 2006 at 5:23pm
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Show us what you've got. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com">
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Draco9898
Date Posted: 09 July 2006 at 6:04pm
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Ok, my grass is evil.... dunno about the head...   Ok, I figured it out, I cheated and copied the muzzle and fore-shortend it in the exact same position:   |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 09 July 2006 at 7:56pm
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The grass is nice but I think it needs more contrast.
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Posted By: Draco9898
Date Posted: 09 July 2006 at 8:07pm
| My grass is a terrible miss-mash...It looks like BUTT in my 320 x 240 game |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 10 July 2006 at 12:18am
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Your dragon becomes uni-horn on two of the rotations. ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: Morgan
Date Posted: 10 July 2006 at 8:58am
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The dragon's front feet seem a little big, or maybe just awkwardly positioned. You might try sliding them inwards, towards each other, or maybe take off a digit-- four is a lot. I like the overall design, though. Your grass doesn't look so bad. If you're not happy with it, though, you could try something with less definition... horizonal clumps of grass, rather than vertical grass blades. It might give a better sense of scale. |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 10 July 2006 at 3:23pm
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The grass needs more little strands, and it could use being filled all the way up with texture. Try that and see what you get. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com">
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Draco9898
Date Posted: 11 July 2006 at 9:10am
This still looks kinda off for some reason... |
Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 11 July 2006 at 11:49am
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I think it's cus he's going from frontleft, to frontright, then just flipping, rather than turning to far right... perhaps? I'm not very good with iso though, so it's just an opinion. -------------  http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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Posted By: Draco9898
Date Posted: 11 July 2006 at 12:16pm
He's mirrored on 2 frames, I ain't drawing 4x the frames when it comes to animation time  |
Posted By: Morgan
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 9:52am
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Try nudging the muzzle up a few pixels in the back-facing view(s).
You might want to add some shadowing to the underside of the back-facing horns, too.
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