your tanks are shaded diffewrently.. ithink we should keep to the styleof PJ mascott

As Art Director, I really have to disagree with you Souly. Look at any other pixel game. A wide variety of people work on one game and work with the style that has been chosen for the game. If you were to go into a job with the attitude that everyone should do their own style, you wouldn't last long. We all have to meet in the middle somewhere.

Everyone: I think it would be best to leave the colours until the sprites have been chosen. This will make it easier for simple edits and colour variations. I think you'll all agree. If not, send me a banter to pixelblink at pixeljoint dot com and I'll make sure it goes into the correct Trash... I mean... banter folder... where it will be read most certainly... jk

Hmm. It's an interesting topic of discussion, with the final word falling at Pixel Blink's decision. Personally, I feel Brian's penguins should remain in their typically Brian state.

They already match the cartoony style and I LOVE the animation of the penguin popping down into the tank. I've never been too fond of Brian's simplistic 'black outline' style, however I'm very impressed by the animations. They fit perfectly.

I think that the tanks need to be redone though. Their shading doesnt reflect the smooth feel and texture of metal, or match the style of the penguins. Avoid using dithering when shading metal, especially for something that will need to be animated eventually. My only other tip would be to study the design of a tank. Sure, keep it cartoony, but I think d-p's tank design looks far more convincing, although the shading is still not really desirable.

These are just a few things I though worth noting, hope they were helpful.

d-p

While I think these are wonderfully done, I don't think they reflect the toonish nature of the game. Too realistic in otherwords.

Brian the Great

Of course the BtheG level should be focused on your penguins! These are really good and are pretty much what I have in mind. One thing I'd like to see is an edit with some simpler colours. Not so texturized in any case. Also, this guy looks kind small in comparison to PJ.

Dioxygen

Not quite sure what this is

Larwick

Snowball is cool. Needs to be sped up and tweaked a bit. This is pretty cool though. Maybe we could make it so as it rolls it builds up into a gigantic snowball that'd crush him?

JJ Maxx

This could be BtheG's weapon I think... one at a time though instead of all three at once.

iSTVAN

Very cute and very close to BtheG's style IMO. Colours are looking nice and crisp. This looks like a good size for them to be in comparison PJ himself

Anyways gang, it's a good start to this level. Now I would like to see some more variety in sprites. What happened to the rest of the animals I mentioned before? How about some wierd lil snow creatures?

Lol, i completely forgot about the snowball. I might have a crack at the biggenising idea soon. And yeah, when i saved it the slides were at 0.05 seconds long each, but it slowed them down to 0.1 when it was saved, if they cant be faster than that i'll have to re-do the animation or something ... well, i'll re-do it anyway, cus of above and cus there were quite a few shortcuts made.

Yetis? Bouncing, evil, living snowballs?