As a girl, I'm having a really hard time picturing myself with abundant facial hair... so long wookie, blue wormhead it will be

http://www.pixenli.com/images/1399/1399398856077511500.png

Using 10 of DB 32 palette for now, 75x75

Voltali, do an animated lip bite and collect ALL THE TROPHIES!

Great job btw.

I started something, looks slightly more like Elrond than me though. Twi'lek was pretty much the only choice, i dont have any facial hair and im pretty young so yoda was out of the question. having no hair looks weeeeird.

Oh no, there's going to be a lot of Twi'leks, aren't there? Haha, at least I'll be a sith one, but only because I can't be a Darth Maul-ian.

WIP...80x80 at 14 colors.

Great, @tyrant,  my kudos. There's really talented people here.
Please, forgive my insolence, but if I may make a humble suggestions... the shadow that the hood casts on the face feels a little too dark, and the eyesbrows may look better a little more arcuate before smiling and as straight as shown when smiling.

@Vuelos, I think the wookie option is way more challenging than the other two, it's definitely more difficult to translate anyone's features to a wookie... and nice first attempt!


Edited by dyluck - 08 May 2014 at 2:06am

Looking nice!I'm not really a fan of the colors but otherwise looking sweeet! Do you cook meth by any chance?

@CELS; I certainly don't have a horizontal line across my face :) I'll do as you say. Actually I added my facial features (bald, wide head, sleepy eyes, facial hair, glasses) to Yoda and what came out is just like my uncle :)

My uncle:


@Siikikala; you're talking about Breaking Bad right? I have only seen the poster but all my friends say I'm almost exactly like Walter White :)

I just took a selfie (I didn't refer to the photo):

the floppy cheeks adds age so i guess that's why it looks more like your uncle. Young looking yoda might look weird too though.

Every bald guy with glasses and a goatee looks like Walter White.

This is really great. The face is particularly impressive, and I think you did a pretty good job with the dithering.

I think the animation would be even cooler if you looped the first bit a little while longer, where she has her eyes closed, as if meditating. It's not as if people will get bored watching this within 0.7 seconds and leave before the show starts. I like a tiny bit of suspense, even for short animations. :)

I'm assuming that stuff on her fist is force lightning, but to me it reads more like smoke. Very erratic and flimsy smoke. Perhaps you could make the lightning move a bit slower, and perhaps divide it into a thick line and several thin lines branching off the thick line. The thick line would move slower, and the thin branches would move more erratically.
I also think you could use some of that orange on the thick line, to give it a nice glowing effect, and make it look less like smoke. I know force lightning is supposed to be blue, but bright yellow and orange works better for contrast in this piece, right?

Finally, I realize this is probably due to a lack of space, but the digit bones (proximal phalanges) do appear rather short to me, even given the perspective. And her palm seems to conceal the rest of the fingers, which is a bit weird to me. I'd expect to see at least a little bit more of her pinky, at this angle.

Don't have time for an edit. Maybe later.

Edited by CELS - 09 May 2014 at 12:14am

@CELS- Thanks! Yeah, I'm not so good at effects animation. I had a look at some other pixel art/sprites with animated electricity for some pointers. Hopefully it reads better now. Also, edited the hand and added a couple more hold frames at the beginning.


-80x80 at 14 colors...

Thanks! And I gave it a shot:

-still 80x80 at 14 colors

edit: har har wrong image adress...

Edited by tyrant - 09 May 2014 at 9:36pm