Hello!
I and my friends started to make an adventure game with mindf*ck and some tricky story.
I made first background and stuck with main hero...Drew it on paper and tried to pixelate it but I found that in resolution 320x240 it's very difficult to make the face look good and detailed. Here's the example. Don't look on the body, I'm busy with the head right now. Any suggestions how to draw it correctly? maybe some links to tutorials?



Edited by Killar - 01 April 2013 at 8:33pm

Banding alert! When you do shading, don't allow the lines to match up that. You're creating lines that aren't there because their pixels are right next to each other. Those hands look like parallel lines to me. The hands are filled with banding and the jacket could use some minor, additional shaping.

Any comments? Guys think the cheek is bad, don't see where..

Thanks to ags forum, added some improvements


Edited by Killar - 17 April 2013 at 4:49am

The legs look fine, if not comical. But it'll be hard to judge until you animate the top half as well.

oh, it's WIP so I did the legs only :)
Of course, you will hear this "orchestra of muscles" soon)

you mean like this?

Is he supposed to have a funny walk? If yes, this is amazing. If not, have the knees bend to the front, not to the side!

And I second r1k's comment, it needs vertical bounce.

Hair needs to bounce around and the whole body needs to shift height throughout the walk.

This walk is rather amusing in it's comical style but quite good none the less. You have the shape and form down, which is a good place to be. Before going into finer detailing I recommend doing all the other directions first.
When you do get to the cleanup stage make sure to remove the banding from the jumper collar.
My only nitpick is that the backgrounds will have to be changed for the character as he has a very low almost front on angle. (would work great for one of those point and click titles)

Why does his arm(same with the white thingy, sorry, english isn't my first language) move forward all of a sudden and then goes back? I'd fix that if I was you(either make a smoother transition or just stick it back), otherwise I like it.

Edited by CrazyRock - 23 June 2013 at 7:43am

I think this looks very nice, if you look past a few minor details here and there, like the fact that he looks like he's stomping the ground and bouncing lol. The shadows also need to shift more in my opinion, and maybe throw in more wrinklage of the clothing. Keep up the good work

I made another one The problem is, now I have different number of frames: this one - 10, walking right - 7, walking front - 8..what should I do?

Edited by Killar - 31 July 2013 at 10:45am

wow it's been a while since I updated anything...I hope you are interested what's going on so I can say that we are not dead, we are making game slowly but it won't be RIP anyway.
This is not related to animation but related to the environment where the hero walks. As you can see, it's kind of creepy and fleshy but we like it! Stay tuned)



Edited by Killar - 17 November 2013 at 9:32pm