(WIP) Classic Forest
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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 10 September 2025 at 11:39pm
Topic: (WIP) Classic Forest
Posted By: Krysis
Subject: (WIP) Classic Forest
Date Posted: 10 July 2006 at 3:46am
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OK, I've been working on this for the last few hours:
It's an Space Quest 2 screen I wanted to try improving. It is allmost done exept the bushes at the foreground and that damn cliff. I tryed and I tryed and I tryed but the cliff doesn't look good. Can someone help me a little? Just give me an example or something.. I want to finish this one. And also.. colour suggestions? |
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Posted By: Demon
Date Posted: 10 July 2006 at 3:56am
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It'd be really cool to see the same lighting from the original piece in your rendition. IE, the blue and green lighting against the trees.
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Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 10 July 2006 at 4:30am
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Yeah I agree with Demon, doing the same lighting would be really good. http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/7893.htm - This piece uses a similar lighting on the tree, and http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/9114.htm - this piece has a nice cliff texture for you to study. http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/10001.htm - This piece might also be a good study for what you're doing.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 9:40am
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WOW, I <3 this. I would recolor using the ref as a guide with natural coloring as you've started. lawerence provides great cliff refs. ------------- |
Posted By: halfDemon
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 10:07am
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Sace Quest rules!!!!!!
I erm, really like what you've done. I reccomend you just image search cliffs and use them as referances. ------------- Every pixel counts, even the dead ones. |
Posted By: iSTVAN
Date Posted: 15 July 2006 at 10:21pm
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The longer I look at them the more I like the original. The funny thing is, the only thing I don't like about the original is the cliffs.
Your work shows us that you're very talented with your rendering, but I'd try to push yourself a little further and include, like others have mentioned, some of the sharp back lighting you see in the original. The way green and blue have been used really is a testement to how brilliant those old pixel arteests were with limited palettes. I'd also suggest following a similar path with your stones lighting.
I also find it strange how you've included black shading on only one of the bushes. I'd either use it everywhere (for a really sharp look) or not at all.
The texture of the trees doesn't seem to match the shading quality of the stones and grass either. I don't know what it is, but you might want to take a look at some wood texturing tuts or examples. By the sounds of it Lawrence is the man to ask if you're after pixel examples! I like what you've done with the grass so far, and like I said, theres some nice rendering here! Just address the couple of things I mentioned and I reckon you'll have a stella scenic piece. ------------- Listen to what the flower people say... 
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