First steps into pixels
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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 11:42am
Topic: First steps into pixels
Posted By: mrfatbooty
Subject: First steps into pixels
Date Posted: 09 August 2017 at 3:51am
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Hi my Name is Jan,
i always loved the style of 8 bit games. Now i stoped playing and just invest my time to draw or pixelate some things. i hope you can give me some feedback and advice :) The house is inspired by verbit. And the improved scarecrow was made with the amazing help of gennoveus. 
I know the house has to much colours but it was my very first try :) and im on my way to improve this |
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Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 09 August 2017 at 7:15am
Wow, very good for beginner!
 There are little defects, in pixel art, rarely smooth gradients in the shadows look non appropriate.  https://opengameart.org/content/chapter-7-textures-and-dithering - color dirtering Look at this http://gas13.ru/v3/tutorials/sywtbapa_gradient_tool.php - tutorial http://pixeljoint.com/pixels/tutorials.asp - You can read more here |
Posted By: eishiya
Date Posted: 09 August 2017 at 8:04am
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The tiles on the roof look really blurry because they have faint shadows on both sides of the line. I think you'll get a sharper and more voluminous look if you keep the shadows to just the side of the tiles and no cast shadows. Overall, I am having a hard time imagining how you even made this building with this many colours. Did you use brushes and gradients? It seems like you created more work for yourself instead of taking a simpler route and getting a cleaner result. Here's an edit of the roof tiles. I gave them some thickness, made them not-blurry (but, ironically, less blocky because I AAed the edges and got rid of the banding you had) and reduced the colour count (on just the tiles) from over 100 to just 8.  I hope this gives you some ideas on how to proceed! In general, I recommend sticking to your Pencil, line, and bucket tools unless you're 100% certain you need something else. What might seem like a shortcut to create some textures or colours will quite likely give you worse results and waste time in the long run, and will deprive you of a learning opportunity. |
Posted By: mrfatbooty
Date Posted: 09 August 2017 at 8:08am
| Thx you both gave me very good tips. Good for me i kept everything in layers 😀 |
Posted By: mrfatbooty
Date Posted: 14 August 2017 at 7:54am
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-reduced colours from over 1000 to 60
-added some aa -killed gratiants -made other Kinds of shadows next step work on details 
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Posted By: mrfatbooty
Date Posted: 14 August 2017 at 7:58am
first steps into animations
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Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 14 August 2017 at 8:07am
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Much better :) The hat is too fixed, you can make a little flapping the brim of the hat. |
Posted By: mrfatbooty
Date Posted: 14 August 2017 at 8:28am
| yes, its exactly what i thought an working on @ the moment |
Posted By: eishiya
Date Posted: 14 August 2017 at 11:38am
| The animation on the poncho reads more like something seen through rippling water rather than an object flapping in the wind. Don't be afraid to have the whole poncho move and flap. As-is, it would have to be fixed with pins almost everywhere to move like that. |
Posted By: mrfatbooty
Date Posted: 27 August 2017 at 1:15pm
Yes i have much work to do , but first i will make me some more ^^
Idle 
Walking Animation |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 27 August 2017 at 2:28pm
 Oh, oh,I imagine how much time was spent to animate this :) It remains only to finish the belly and add a slight rocking of the head, that it would not seem frozen. And yet, try not to make a Twitching Pixels |
Posted By: mrfatbooty
Date Posted: 27 August 2017 at 4:42pm
yes will overwork it ^^ its like i said i make more and more thinks i must work on 
i already killed the twitching Pixel. will post an update soon |
Posted By: mrfatbooty
Date Posted: 05 September 2017 at 9:19pm
worked out the back, now again to the front.
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Posted By: AshCrimson
Date Posted: 06 September 2017 at 4:52am
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Don't have much to add beyond perhaps widening the hips, but i love the animation! |
Posted By: mrfatbooty
Date Posted: 06 September 2017 at 5:45pm
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Ok i got a free day today and desided to rework the human model again ....
from left to right old to newest in my opinion all the time i spended to make Pixels makes me better. but see and decide for yourself 
btw i changed to the new model because i wanted the char to more topdownview but it doesnt worked very well. now i need more practice in perspective and aa . and the worst is ...i must redraw the whole sheet for Animation ...that sucks |