Haha, your mockup looks a bit like mine:

• The sky gets lighter toward the horizon, rather than darker.
• Your clouds should be bigger and more identifiable as clouds.
• Try not to use straight ramps. Hueshift a little. See the dirt? It goes from orange to brown to a more red brown.
• The world is lit from above. Your character is lit from the right.

Hm, how about it now?

And here is another screenshot, with the re-done tiles.



Sorry for the double posting.

EDIT: Here is an enemie I did for the game. Its not very good or anything  and I still gotta animate, but I want to know if any of you knows how to improve it and stuff. For the walking animation I ll make it put its head forward and widely open its legs or something.



Edited by lucas_irineu - 14 June 2008 at 4:09pm

Thanks for all the tips. I ll be trying to re-do the graphics, with better sprites and stuff. But I am not adding a snout :P

By the way, I was wondering... I am not a very good pixel artist, you see... And if instead of making the graphics better, I made them simpler? Like old games and stuffs? Just an idea that got trough my head.

EDIT: Did some quick edits, I dunno if I am on the right path or if its the other way around, could anyone help me? >.<



Edited by lucas_irineu - 14 June 2008 at 6:15pm

I edited it a little bit, is it better now?



Edited by lucas_irineu - 14 June 2008 at 6:34pm

Okay, edited the bucket, the lighting and the outlines. As for the style, I am trying to do something a bit old school styled, but with a little more detailed graphics.

EDIT: Re-did the raptor I posted earlier, can anyone tell me if this looks better?

EDIT2: Improved tileset, with better clouds, and no skinny poles. Some changes on the colors, as well as making the sky less contrasted.

That thing is one of these plataforms stuffs that float on the air, and the things under it are for a vertical plataform thing. The things next to it are for a single tile plataform, both vertical and horizontal. Dunno what I ll use them for, but if I need them they will be here. lol


Edited by lucas_irineu - 15 June 2008 at 11:30am

Indeeed, long life to Ludwig Mies!

They look a little lumpy. Give them a flat bottom and sculpt bottom lumps from there. Their colors ar a bit drab as well, its OK to use white because the background is blue. Shade with a light blue or cyan. Look at my mockup for further reference if you need it. 

Edited by BlackDragon - 15 June 2008 at 12:02pm

What should work exectly? The colors, or the clouds?

You'll never improve if you don't try, try again!

I don't know the logistics of games, but it would improve his pixel skill by restricting him to a color amount.
16 colors isn't too bad.

Tarenken, that is right. He will have to think about what colors to use in shading/highlighting. And yes it will give an old school look as well.

Ok. I still think you should make your palette before moving any further. Start with black, a mid-grey, and white. Grey is a neutral color so it can be used in just about every color ramp. Then think of how you would shade each color in the spectrum: Red. Shade with purple, highlight with yellow.

Edited by BlackDragon - 15 June 2008 at 1:31pm

Post it and we'll see what you need.

Great! You're making progress. Add orange, a MID grey (inbetween the two that you have) and other shade colors. Try to go for ones that don't

Cool. I'm making an edit now, but my dad stole the computer I was working on :P

Edited by BlackDragon - 15 June 2008 at 2:35pm

Alright.

Aw what do I keep saying :P

It might be good to organize your palette in "rainbow order" like mine so I can see it better :)

I used no MSPaint colors! These were all original, including the greys. If you used any, which I didn't check to see if you did, then I suggest you make your own, again.

Edited by BlackDragon - 15 June 2008 at 4:12pm

Edited by BlackDragon - 15 June 2008 at 4:30pm

!!!

Edited by BlackDragon - 15 June 2008 at 4:50pm

Perfect.

So, your sprite. There are a few shading issues I'd like to point out:

The bucket is symetrical but the shading is not. I think the eyes messed you up here, you tried to get around them. The belly seems pillowshaded. The arms should almost be lit up fully, remember your light is coming from the top!

Edited by BlackDragon - 15 June 2008 at 5:59pm

Tried to use the skin tone and the pink as shade for the belly, as well as making the light from above. I think it looks better now. BTW, as for the bucket, I want to make it with straight lines.

And thanks Metaru.


Edited by lucas_irineu - 16 June 2008 at 1:11pm

Not for the head, for the bucket :P In the first drawings I did of him, long ago, the I used a bucket for shading reference, and it was a straight bucket. I liked how that bucket looked :P
And yep, the uneven lineart on the bucket is intentional. But I think it did not came out very well. I ll try to fix that along with the shading, maybe even try to make the bucket not straight, see how it comes out. About the black outlines, I ll be trying to fix that as well.
And dont worry about making edits less often. Its actually not that good when someone does like, the perfect edit, and you are afraid to do the same thing. lol

Hm, thanks for the links.

Removed the brown, changed the belly a little like you told me to, as well as the bucket's bottom, I dunno if its good, cause a bucket that gets bigger on the top and smaller on the bottom would not be a good bucket for a normal bucket's purposes but I think its a better bucket to put your head inside it :P