Hello guys, since my last post I've been thinking if I could keep the bar up for other sprites for a game I'm making. I posted the alien mech suit animation and I was pretty pleased how that came out but I don't think I really enjoyed making it. So I've been doing some research on the interwebz looking for some simple style I could emulate that would not take that much time to draw and I found work of Paul Veer which I must say I really like. So inspired by that I made this man right here:

9 colours including bcg, will be used in 2x zoom

I'm also trying to restrict myself more by using DB16 pallete which is totally new to me. It would be nice if you could give me some feedback. Thanks a lot for your time!

Edit:

What about these cows? At first I did the one on the left, but it's too small I guess, so - udder + horns it could be a bull. What do you think?

Edited by Sorsy - 06 June 2015 at 8:10pm

I like it. Only one problem I see, those dark pixels on bright area do stick out in a bad way.

Also, in this case, you can upload them in 2x, since you'll be using them in that scale in game. And also because they are little.
P.S. if you want to emulate Paul Veer (though your tiles are good without it), use continuous dark outlines.

Edited by Finlal - 25 March 2015 at 4:05pm

I'm not sure what's going on with the bull's head. I really love the cow, though, especially the little ear bob. Cx

Every sprite is lovely.
Any world BG previews to show?

In jumping sprite try to add 1 frame of the guy ducking before the jump.
Edit: Also, if he flies with jetpack, not jumping, you may add some effect behind him, like fire or gravity-waves or something.

Edited by Finlal - 28 March 2015 at 4:03am

Did a very quick little edit for you on the nose ring. Slightly brighter/lighter yellow seems to mostly fix it.

To me it seems unnecessary to add a color to the palette if I will use it just once. For now I made it dark blue and it seems ok.

Don't know about feet, DrTripwire, will look into that ;)

Today I tried my luck with a background but right of the bat I'm not sure what colours to use. For example in the mech suit I used pretty much all of the dark colours I had and now I'm afraid that he will blend in if I make the background dark. Logical thing to do seems to use different palette, any thoughts or advice on that?

Edit: Also what about dithering in game background? Should or shouldn't I use it?

Edited by Sorsy - 31 March 2015 at 9:17am

Well, I really don't know what to do with that nose ring, Iscalio. Any thoughts?

Today I finished first try at background. Very simple and I was trying to make it not too intrusive to help the enemies stand out.

Ok, thanks Iscalio. I was confused what you were confused about :) Just a normal internet confusion I guess.

Today I finished a boss, maybe even final one. I want him to have some kind of flying device but when you shoot him down, he will walk.

I though I could maybe show some more in-progress images so I saved some separately.
First I drew a rough outline. I knew I wanted to make a four legged robot so that was where I started. First four legged entity I animated was the cow in this thread so I thought I would challenge myself a bit.


It was not that easy to figure out how the legs would move but they just alternate the movement: when front-right goes forward then the back-left goes also forward. I guess it could have saved me some hassle if I would try and google something, but I had fun.
So knowing the pattern I knew how the legs would move and I thought it would be much easier to animate one leg separately so I did just that and then used frames when I needed them.


I tried moving the cockpit side to side but I wasn't satisfied with that...


So rather than changing yaw I changed roll. Maybe it would be cool to combine those but I won't go into that.


Then I edited it so when the robot was switching from four legs to two it would bob down a little like it's more weight on less support. And then "just add" colours.


I'm pretty happy with it myself bit I'm also curious what you guys think! :)

wow gj with the bg and those tubes
looks neat

Hello guys, I have some more sprites for this game I'm making. This one is a planetary lander consisting of two parts. What do you think about it? I'm still not sure about the second stage's design. I guess the cannons could fold out of the hull rather than just come out out of nothing...



Also I'm not gonna post this one in my gallery as is right now but if so is it against the rules to post this? I mean I did all the animations but the movement is programmed in-game and I just screen-grabbed it. What do you think?