Trying to create an animated title screen for a game I'm working on.

It's supposed to be a sunken city, and will be animated in the final version.

Anyone have any suggestions for improvements and how to make it look more like it's underwater?

Lovely layout, but are these colors 'reading' underwater enough???
I know these are underwater tones but 'fast readability' in game art is so critical.
This PA by Gas uses much better green hues than you are showing.
It has a dash of red in it to reflect stones.


E: Save those colors you have now for a swamp/forest scene.



Edited by jalonso - 19 November 2008 at 2:05pm

I like your colors, looks so planty and really dull :D

reminds me of like ectoplasm, slime, or the ghost pirate cove addon thingy from Oblivion :P

His palette works too, I think. There are two basic water palettes in games I've found: Pristine, and murky. It all depends on what feeling you're trying to get across. The blisteringly blue pristine palettes are good for when you want something to be pretty, eye catching, beautiful. Murky is better for things like sunken ships, and scary, creepy scenes- places where you should be worrying about an octopus rocketing out of some unseen trench and dragging you down into the pitch black depths.

As far as your title screen: Pristine may be the better option here, as suggested by jalonso. This is a title screen after all, and you are trying to make a swift impression on your player. Murky may still be the choice, however, if you're trying to weird them out. If you go murky though, you're gonna need to pack it full of interesting objects and details to make up for the palette's shortcomings.

That's my opinion though. It all depends on what you're going for.

Well those could have better detail/shading, and it should look it a bit more blue in the background because right now to me it doesnt really look underwater.  Otherwise its pretty good :)

Edit: Oh nevermind you edited your post.


Edited by linx - 06 March 2009 at 8:37am