QuaziGNRLnose

 honestly Paul Robertson isnt any better :P
whats with pixel animations and this kind of subject matter :S

 the animation and layered parralax, no matter how gross at times, was absolutley superb. 
Raul Robertsons work although great lacks the camera work found in this.

  this guy is going in all the wrong directions with this. videogames are art because of the atmosphere some of them have and the emotions they induce. its the only thing besides life itself wich can make you feel as if you are in another world. they are so much more than just an interactive movie. they place you into a world, and coax you into having your own adventure, due to the position in life the character in the game is in when you begin. of course not all games apply, but you couldnt call a home video art if you classified it as a movie either.

i think it says win, prime, docomo. since thats what the websites kinda about. winning a PRIME phone, from DOCOMO

 extremely random, i kinda found out how to play just by clicking around, no idea what yure supposed to do, but i have a feeling its collecting the most people

 i love the way your work feels like the pixel art from the 90's-96's era.
your colours and rendering style have that je ne sais pas about them.
it reminds me of the stuff from snes, neo geo and arcade games of the era.
especially of cyberbots for some reason. i love that game
http://www.coolrom.com/screenshots/cps2/Cyberbots%20-%20Fullmetal%20Madness%20(2).gif

 i feel those are the strengths of both.

 they look to be a mix, which you cant really blame them for since the scene is a huge image that would take ages to get polished. im wondering if theyre animated more than anything.

the characters in the stage background are pixeled for sure tho

 it is monotone to be fair so 15 colours is quite a large palette, he only really uses 5 or 6 on the most detailed stuff so it is still incredible

 i was comparing one of snk's game's art quality to what fool does, i couldnt really say that fool has metal slug quality stuff because im not talking about fools stuff. anyways.

what i meant is metal slug is HAZ OMG AUWSUM DOTZARTZ!!111!!

" ick no I don't like those sprites at all.  Maybe it's just that I've never liked SNK's art style but I just find those to be really patchy and ugly."

dont forget theyre the makers of metal slug. which has fool quality stuff

the sprites might not have the greatest detail, but considering the high framerate, resolution and smoothness of these things the quality is superb. not to mention theres 22 characters and probably more with 4 animations which are probably pretty damn long

compare it to the choppy  blocky animation of some sf games and its damn nice

the shading style is quite uniqe and nice imo and the prerendering made for some damn nice accurate shadow play on the character

it has that 90's sprite palette, like youd find on some snes or arcade game sprites.

looks like dr seuss drawings

thank you :D

yea its animation shops fault xD, i didnt want to bother making a custom pallete so i let it choose its own

as for the rendering of the metal, i did my best :P any idea how i could improve it?

the bottom does get hard to read, probably cause i didnt want to use add new colours and was unsure how to go about makind the best of what i had. maybe ill make a forum thread to get some help?

lol. like the style here

those rays could use some aa tho, you have an orange perfect for it

what do you mean by flash dogmeat? the colours have been a little messed by gif compression, the icon for it is a png so the colours there arent messed up.

if you mean its too matte i see where your coming from, and the shine on the main hub could us some work i guess plz tell me what you ment so i can improve it xD

keep in mind im no pro at pixel art xD this is the 3rd or 4th piece i ever did xD

and thanks for the comments guys, i hope this gets approved

its meant to match this other gun i made somewhat http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm245/QuaziGnrlNose/blobber.png

mediaval / not high tech fantasy looking cave story game lol,

i like the cavestoryish style you used here, but enemys dont show enough imo, i could run into that goblin thinking he was a post if iwerent paying attention

ive seen other pieces with rotation and ive seen pieces that use layering
(i dont) and i dont think ppl should be so strict about what a piece has, i used rotation because my game is purely made using a paperdoll animation technique and any other form wouldnt fit, using rotation doesnt mean this piece wasnt drawn or animated by me, its still pixel art and i post it here since this all it will ever get to be in pixel art form, and i would like for people to enjoy it rather than to get mad cause its not animated purely on mspaint

btw the skeletroids guy uses rotation, dont see any prblm using it here, and you have to realise i spent alot of time removing stuff i didnt want from the rotation, any ways thanks for the feedback, im not saying im right either. just dont turn art into something littered with rules, its supposed to be free expression not communism, animation techniques should be exempt from PA rules (except if you use something REAAAALLLY cheap, like 3d programs or flash) i used powerpoint and edited frame by frame so just as to get it perfect, then redrew ontop of the shit it left behind

oh btw this is my first walk cycle ever, thats why i posted it