lol, you really want me to add that huh? >.<
I am afraid of it looking a bit like a yoshi with a bucket on his head or something, but I ll try it. Just gonna have dinner first :P

Thanks for the help. I also changed back the edges of the bucket, thought it looked kinda like a flower pot >.<

It shows. But what I had in mind what doing it was something as impish as a goomba, you see. A though looking dino is not something that could be smashed by just jumping at it. So my idea was to make it a bit more harmless, and maybe do a raptor later. Like a though enemy on later parts of the game.

Well, in that case its good. Still a couple suggestions:

• Lower his nose's angle juuust a tad.
• Make both his legs appearant like BucketHead's are. He looks a little off-balance.
• Round out his belly. That one pixel is bugging me.
• Have his tail curl up or touch the ground. Or even shorten it a bit. It looks a bit unnatural hanging there like that.
• You may want to shade him in that red and give him designs in black or a different color.

Edited by BlackDragon - 16 June 2008 at 6:34pm

I see, thanks. Just finished this, I dunno if its better or worse, I am afraid the contrast may be too low on this one.

EDIT: Reshaded the raptor as well, still did not added the stripes. Dunno if its better now.



Edited by lucas_irineu - 17 June 2008 at 9:43am

Thanks for all the help, tried to make the shading better on the sprite, here is it.

I dunno about that. Everyone seems to be saying its better to show part of the head instead of the bucket  totally covering it, so it seems to be the right thing to do. I ll be trying to change the sprite in order to show more of its head but I still dunno. Perhaps if I can make it look good I ll keep it.
EDIT: Been trying to change it. I dont think I can do it. Like, I was thinking, and it do look better withouth the bucket covering its head but I dont think I can sprite it. Aint good enough to =\


EDIT2: I ll be puting this project on hold until I get a better understandment of how Game maker works. I know enough to make a basic plataformer but I am not familiar enough with it for the more advanced stuffs I wanted to do for this game. As to avoid creating too many topics, I ll be posting all my WIPs in this one, even though I think they wont be about this game anymore =\ Thanks for all the help though, you guys helped me to improve a lot in this short period.


Edited by lucas_irineu - 17 June 2008 at 1:24pm

You are right. But what I cant do aint the dino, its the bucket. Like, I can make a bucket, but I cant make it look good enough to fit the head.
Some fancy plataformer stuffs. Like, grabbing on a cliff's edge, and other stuffs. But dont worry. On the meantime I ll be working on simpler projects and try to learn from them, until I am ready to go back and work on this game.

Right. This is not pixel art or anything, just some concept art I am doing for the lil guy. The game is stoped due to coding difficulties but I decided I ll still be spriting for it .

I totally like the new design!

The new sprite it great! A big improvement over the old one
Made a little edit again (color and shapes)

My edit still has some issues but I hope it helps in some way


Edited by dragonrc - 19 June 2008 at 9:53am

You are right, it would resemble yoshi too much. But those things are usually solved with just minor tweeks.


But my edit was just for guidelines anyway, to show you what could be improved on your sprite. Like the bucket, the colors, the length of his arm and the feet. This is for a platformer, right? With your current feet making a walk animation would be harder than it should be.


Edited by dragonrc - 19 June 2008 at 10:00pm