I think the ground's got the feel of Animal Crossing's graphics pretty nicely. The character though needs a lot of work. It looks like an AC boy, yes, but he doesnt match the upward angle the ground is at. The AC character's bodies are also a fair deal smaller than that - very bigheaded folk.

Off to a good start though, keep at it

more stuff i added and changed

thank you

i kinda agree with you on that but ive tried to do that and it didn't look very good so i just kept the one i had

yea i know i just really wanted to get this done so i tried the bigger head again
 howse look:?

old    new:?

Way better for top view!
The mouth has indeed lost its function, and the foots are still viewed from the side, but the body and the face are better now!

Indeed that looks much more AC like :D

the only major issue i have now is that the body is still seen from the side. what I mean is if you're looking from that high of an angle where the shirt meets the pants would form a curve, showing the curve of the body. Like the head is now, really.

I started to edit it to show what I mean but i have to get ready for classes. I did notice, however, that the body isnt symmetrical. you may want to look into that.

I actually like the bigger body more, but I had some time here at work (hurray for down time at work before classes :P) so I managed to make my edits:



changes:
-- feet made 1 pixel longer (to help with the angle)
-- curve made in the shirt
-- moved the pants/feet up 1 (kept the height the same and it's a bit more "from above, i think)
-- moved the arms in and shrunk the shoulders, but the arms maybe need to be moved out away from the body?may be too close in my version i think now that I look at it.


Does that help? :)


Edited by Zeratanus - 29 January 2009 at 8:12am

Looks sweet :D. Way more AC style than the first version dontcha think? :)


but now that he's significantly larger than the first version you'll have to revamp the tree to be a bit bigger :\ or you can try to scale the new version down but that may get to small for details like the triangle nose and such.

think i should put it in the gallery now?

almost, but theres one small thing thats been bothering me, which is you need to make the circles in the grass in the shadow under the tree darker.

well animal crossing does have those kinds of miss-matched cliff colors:



but perhaps the colors could be improved, as the darkest ones are rather dark..

Anyway, it looks bad on the 3d, and even worse on the 2d in my opinion. You don't neeeed to do everything as it is in the game, especially not if other things make your artwork better :)

It's just part of AC's style (though I dont personally remember it being the colors of the 2nd picture... but I dont feel like putting it in and checking lol.


I wouldnt say it needs changing but if you want to change something I'd lighten the darkest strips in the cliff a little bit.

no what i ment is that you cant make a 2d mockup better than the game yur mockin up

haven't fixed what? You mentioned the mouth, which is removed, and the perspective. Now the perspective isnt perfect, no, but it far from what it started as, and has improved a fair deal since your post. So instead of yelling at him why not give him some tips to improve or advice that amounts to more than "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!"?

The tree looks a tad odd. Too square.

am i doing it right?


Mines on left, his is on right.

good job, thats the edit i just made.

quick but severe edit, mainly for shading and jaggedness, increased constrast, changed heaps of colours.You don't have to use this, I just wanted to see what could be improved.

woops, sorry.XD