Progress :



Current Objective:

Metal texture on shoulders

Hey nice sprite!
I originally wasn't going to post this edit, but I figured I might as well.


You're technique is pretty good. The sprite is clean and the values are well picked.(Although the darkest shade could stand to be a bit darker.)

That being said, you could work on your line weight a little more. I saw you changing the outline colors in some areas, but push it a little further. His shoulder pads are reflecting tons of light, the outline around them should be very light as well. Also, don't be afraid to put more things in shadow. On the original almost everything has the same amount of light hitting it. The pelvis is underneath the robots giant shoulders and chest, and would be very dark because of this.  The shoulder pads don't quite make sense. They don't feel like they wrap around his shoulder, but rather are just disks glued to the front of his shoulder.

It's looking good, I'm looking forward to seeing your progress!
-Adcrusher

P.S. CLAW HAND!

Fiddled with arms a little bit, still have to shade them




Edited by Xevil - 28 October 2014 at 10:43pm

Was going for sort of an intimidating look, or an enforcer of the rules lol

Been a while, 12 hours shift work leaves little time for hobbies lol

Changed the feet to look more like feet
Gave the shoulders a dark outline instead of light, I think it looks better
Did some shading
De-boobafied the chest a bit

I'm not sure if I should cut another shade out or not, I may have too many different levels of brightness in it

I could also use an example of how the forearms could be shaded, as I'm stuck there

-edit- I just realized I made the stomach too bright for how big his chest is


Edited by Xevil - 22 December 2014 at 2:28pm

I think you've made a lot of really great progress since your first attempt!

I hope you don't mind, but I made a rough pass at the position and pose on the arms. Maybe it will be helpful to see a different perspective on them. I don't know that I have the time (or skill) to shade / color them appropriately, but I've tried a slightly more dynamic look. The arms are open and "at the ready". This pose would display more of the inside of the arm as opposed to your previous look that shows the knuckles / backs of hands.

I also moved the arms in closer to the torso and slightly lower.

Please let me know if the idea is unclear.

Great pixeling!



Edited by PowderedCrab - 17 April 2015 at 8:00am

Did some more work on this, I think I am getting a better grasp of colour and shading now, giving me a little more hope I can do this lol



Updated first post with 1 picture as well

edit: Probably going to lighten the outline on the shoulders a bit

On such a small scale I'm finding it hard to make it look metallic, I tried looking at metallic pokemon sprites but couldn't take anything from them I guess

Should I de-saturate the colours more to make it more gray and less blue?, more of a metal colour

Alright thanks, i'll try that, cant believe i didnt think of snes games as references lol

Its all looking nice.
Use hard white highlights on all to bring the metal up a notch.

With metal you don't want to blend and smooth try the harshest color breaks possible.
The noobtorial thread has a bit on this :)

Ahh yes, I found it

hopefully I can apply it haha

thanks