Hi, I'm new here although I roamed around from time to time.

I'd love any tips on how I can improve this. I'm trying to learn new shading and texturing pixelart techniques other than my usual 3-5 color depth manga style shading (last pic).

I want a really rich environnement but keeping the overall clarity. I'm having trouble here finding a way to have a good contrast between front and back row while keeping good harmony. Also the sun is a major theme in the game, so I'm afraid that lighting the front view doesn't make sens with having a darker front view and light backgrounds.

Hope I'm making any sens. Would love any kind of suggestions!





Edited by Mabi - 24 May 2013 at 12:59pm

Thanks, sorry I'll fix for PNG soon.

The orange were a quick contrast switch to test dark background. It's pretty hard to get good color palettes. The water indeed not retouched, I plan on animating it and actually animating every herb, trees, etc.

As the light beams, they are 45degree rotated objects in the game. I'm thinking of adding gradient to it but I cannot make it pixelated for technical reasons.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to squeeze some time for the weekly challenges.

edit: the only one I can get into png for now..


Edited by Mabi - 24 May 2013 at 4:36pm