Hello there;

I am a newbie here to learn and fine tune the pixel arts and this is my first post:



So a little bit about the brain bot; This concept was referenced from Wild Wild West, starship troopers and wolfenstein.

In addition to the stats, this bot has the ability to shoot its hands to grab the foe and stick his needle in foe's head to suck his brains out.

Now I havent done this in like 15 years and currently started pixel arts again for game dev purposes. I will try my level best to fulfill this before the deadline.



This is the final version that I have submitted but as far as the general art work goes, CnC is welcome and appreciated.

EDIT: I did not do the animation because I am almost out of time.

Edited by nitewalkr - 18 January 2015 at 7:50pm

I much prefer the sketch. The pixel version is rather hard to read, for example the arms being covered up by a leg (also, size/placement of elements seem to be different to the sketch) and the head is very much hidden too.

Technicall it's not too bad for a first go/after long hiatus, but I feel your materials are a bit too similar and flat. Work a bit more with highlights and contrast.

Can you elaborate on that a bit more please?? I feel really newbie in pixel arts after seeing what was posted right before me. How can you use high res concept as your base object for pixel arts? Using Photoshop cs 5 ext and Pyxel Edit here.

I wasn't insinuating drawing over the sketch, actually. Just pointing out that some important elements that are well visible in the sketch, are obscured in the sprite.

Anyway, scaling down and colorreducing wouldn't be an issue - provided you use that as a base to build on. What is important is that you take control and hold responsibility over every last pixel in the endresult.