Orcs walking around - Help with a character sprite
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Topic: Orcs walking around - Help with a character sprite
Posted By: Kashlavor
Subject: Orcs walking around - Help with a character sprite
Date Posted: 11 May 2014 at 10:35pm
I'm looking in to making some enemy sprites for Hammerwatch. So far I have
and I'm working on filling in all 8 directions plus the walking and stabbing animations. Does anyone have any good advice for workflow on drawing a sprite from multiple angles? Ways to keep it consistent and still work at a reasonable speed? Also any overall suggestions for how to improve my pixeling, still very new to all this. Heres the walking and stabbing 
and a piece of art from Hammerwatch itself (not mine) as a reference for the sort of style I'm trying to blend with. 
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Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 15 May 2014 at 5:58am
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I think it looks pretty good. I'm not a fan of the stabbing animation, because it's too... dull. Working with such tiny characters, I think it's better to exaggerate the movements.
Whenever I stab people, I like to throw my whole body into motion, using my hips and using my opposite arm to create a countermovement. Maybe even move my legs a bit. |