That background is adorable; beautiful colors and a strangely pleasing scene. The hedgehog is really cute, too.

As for the animation, it's amazingly effective for only two frames. He really looks like he's scrunching forward a tiny bit at a time. Within the constraints, the only thing I would criticize is the inconsistency in color between the two frames. In one frame he has a middle area full of the single pixels with a light shade of tan, but in the other frame that entire area loses all the light pixels. It just doesn't make much sense visually and looks more like an oversight.

Overall, good job, I really like it.

I'm almost willing to agree with you on the quill movement, Jaonso, but it just seems to drastic for me to justify the change that way. I considered the very same thing before I posted, but in the end I'm pretty sure it would look better if the light pixels were shifted around instead of being replaced by darker pixels, but I'm definitely no expert.

Howdy. I'd say the biggest issue is how much the hedgehog blends in. Try upping the contrast of it, adding strong highlights and shadow, to make it stick out. Same with the apples, though they're not quite as bad.

The more frames you can make the better the animation in fluidity. The least amount of frames that still carry all the needed movement the more interesting and technically better the pixel. I wouldn't add any other frame here because you achieved the objective using the most minimal possible frames. A feat worthy of praise.
The BG update is wonderful and helps the hedgehog stand out.

Thank you for the wonderful words of support!

Very good points EyeCraft, but really, it works well as is for what its meant to be, imo.

its dark, but more warm too.. way better I think.

Hello Marilii,

Sorry, I could not resist.



He is having enough when eating one apple
and moves on a little bit slower.


I think you have a problem when
dear Harry moves along the trees as he
has almost identical colors.
You could use an outline or you might
want to change the colors of the
trees.

I like the darker background much better!
But maybe you should have a look at the
way the branches are drawn at the moment
It looks like all the leaves are BEHIND the
branches. I made a little (bad) edit in the
animation so that it overlapped a little bit.

I hide the apples in the tree a little bit
behind leaves, as yours looksed like they
were put on the tree with glue
(No offense intended!!!!)


Hopefully you can use some of my comments.

I for one thing had a chance of working on
a little animation with more than 5 frames for
a change Ok, it was just a thirty minute edit!



Good luck with your project!


Kind regards from


M.E.

Weird,we one's had a hedgehog in our garden,and we called it Harry.

Aww, I think this is really cute. :) Good job!

Wow dude, that's fantastic.

Nice stuff! The progress you've made is really great. I really like the hud.

This is probably too late, but here's an edit regarding the tree;



There was alot of noise on the trunk and roots. Take the time to AA and make sure you aren't getting any heavy shadow against heavy highlight cuz it'll scramble things most of the time.

Fiddled with a few other things. Ignore any colour change that happened in the backdrop, that was a side effect of my changing foreground colours and such. Or not, its up to you.


Edited by EyeCraft - 13 July 2007 at 9:37am