Great start. Player sprite is great. I love the animation in your gallery.
Only crit is the colors of the world that seem needlessly drab in this early WIP.
Also the world does not read China.

Edited by jalonso - 21 July 2015 at 7:53pm

My simple take is that you are thinking like a Western person.
My opinion and advice on drawing Asian for Western people:

1- Nighttime colors in the West are blue and in the East its red.
In your case using red also helps to read China because red is associated with China for most.
2- In landscapes nothing will read China/Asia like a pagoda or temple but its also too expected. I suggest all mountains and hills be rounded. Nothing pointy.
2 & 3- Flatlands that are stepped always convey Asia in landscapes or at the least very flat with no slopes at all....round peaks with very flat land.
4 & 5- Adding mist and fog is a classic feature in Chinese art and I would consider doing this in the world a must.
Notice that Chinese/Asian landscapes rarely have clouds. Think very simple elements.
6- Your current trees are fine and if the BG is more Asian as described above then they should be fine but you will notice that Chinese trees are generally skimpy in foliage and have very swirly trunks that almost serve to add in the flourish one would find in clouds in a Western scene.




Edited by jalonso - 22 July 2015 at 6:44am

some update on tree, and change on sky pallete colours.

yes, after I change the road to grey/blue it looks totally better! and I make some update on the foreground, I make it animated to 5 frame. My reference for this is muramasa and odin sphere, both vanillaware's games. Will add second layer for the foreground.


Edited by RolandMelvinZ - 26 July 2015 at 9:16pm

It's all working so well now. Road color change really made a difference.

Maybe, maybe the front green leave animation will be distracting in gameplay because of too much motion?

hi again :D @jalonso yes, I will decrease the motion.

so many things happen this week, and tomorrow I will be graduated from college :D *yippie* so here some update on this piece.

I try to finish the background first, from the most distant one.

3rd layer BG:


2nd layer BG:


overall overview

I think it looks strange that you have the same repeating silhouettes in the 3rd layer background and in the foreground, when the foreground is meant to be much closer (and therefore should appear bigger). It's also weird that despite that, there's no indication of the green plants in the background. The plant silhouettes in the background also make the background feel a bit too busy.

I'm not sure that you need the highlighted grass blades, I think they create too much contrast. The background reads just fine with three colours.

The transition between the road and the grass feels very sharp, I think it could use a softer transition, with some little clumps of grass growing out of the road, some bare patches of dirt on the road and in the grass, etc.

Edit: The rocks look good, but are you sure they would be there? The background features suggest limestone, but the rocks have a colour and texture that look quite different. They look cool, but seem quite out of place, both compared to the background geology, and their location - rocks tend to be moved away from roads for safety reasons, as far as I know.


Edited by eishiya - 24 August 2015 at 7:28am