I decided to make a duelyst charcter after seeing the toturial of Adcrusher ^^

First of: The disign....and then i move onto the animation in another thread...

Whatcha think? I wanted it to look kinda like Sylvester Asimov from Terra-formars...

You can say ,,its a buffed Ironman...just russian...and has crab hands''...

I see...

Yea i shoud reove some...some bits are just there because noisy pixel where created when i moved and spined things...

I am on my way !

BTW people...anything wrong with the disign? Wrong proportions or akward detail thingis?


little update...added another grey color and here is a flying form....the engine thingis shoud pop out in the animation...

jet-engines...because i wanna have a flashy attack animation later on :P

I'm flattered!


Okay I hope you don't mind if I made you an edit:


My advice would be to keep it simple. I like the gold trim and everything, but the base character isn't quite right yet, so it will be easier to remove it for now and add it in as a last step(You might even find that you don't need to add it in the end anyway).
One main issue I have with the design is the difference in his arms.I realize that this is probably a conscious choice to make them so vastly different, but consider making them the same length, but one arm "buffer" than the other. Maybe with more armor or something. Changing the length of the arm doesn't quite make it look stronger, just that he's got something wrong with his arms .

I'm not sure how much like Duelyst you want this sprite to be, but in Duelyst all the sprites recede backwards. What I mean is, they're stanced so the left side of the sprite is closer to the viewer, while the right side is further away. So the foot on the right should be a little higher than the foot on the left, and the arm on the right should come down just a little bit higher than the arm on the left.
You'll notice in my edit I switched the arm placement because having the "strong" arm on the right was hurting the perspective. Since the arm was further back but also bigger, it was hurting the illusion of the sprite receding back. Moving the bigger arm to the left side of his body will help reinforce the perspective of the character.

Okay for the shading, I would imagine an imaginary line down the middle of him (well sorta to the right-ish middle). I can see you're already doing that with the pelvic plate. But as a general rule, keep everything to the left of that line bright, and everything to the right of it dark.

As for the fire, you should try to keep it in bigger clumps. It looked a bit like sparks coming out of a metal cutting saw, instead of a strong,stable source of fire.

Okay I hope this helps! I'm glad my video helped inspire your work!

Ah okay! The crab claw thing is fine, but I'd still move the claw arm to the left side in order to give a better sense of perspective.

As for the jets, I'd just keep in mind that they're a secondary part of his design. In the previous version they were sort of fighting for attention, so maybe just tone them down a bit.

Good luck! Looking forward to seeing your improvements

Donezo ^^

Whatcha think?

EDIT:

I see...well then i stick with bigger plates...

Looking good...i think i am makinga pasue until someone has something to say ^^

Idle first...very tired this week so i didt tackle the attack animation yet but any comments on the idle? Shoud i make the lights blink? Another frame? Legs shoud move(maybe) but how?

Okay got it!

Lets tackle the animation...i hope i dont fall to sleep...