Pixel Base For a Video Game
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Category: Pixel Art
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Printed Date: 30 September 2025 at 3:32am
Topic: Pixel Base For a Video Game
Posted By: darkdemonrad
Subject: Pixel Base For a Video Game
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 10:44am
Here is my current outline for the base of a video game i'm making. It needs to look semi-realistic. I started with the 64 by 128 base and then shrunk it to 32 by 64. I need it to be this size, however I need suggestions on how to make it look better in it's shrunken state, keep in mind realisim is a must.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 10:46am
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Nothing will help your goal more than coloring WITHOUT lineart.
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Posted By: darkdemonrad
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 10:52am
| I'm just making an outline, I know the proportions are wrong but i don't know how to improve it. I know how to color for the most part. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 10:55am
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Maybe the biceps are too big for the chest. The proportions seem fine otherwise : /
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Posted By: darkdemonrad
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 11:02am
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I'll fix that, then shade him.
So you all can gawk at my horrible shading.
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Posted By: darkdemonrad
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 11:38am
 I fixxed his arms a little in the big one then resized. Comments on his current appearance.
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Posted By: darkdemonrad
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 12:16pm
 Now i'm toying around wtih a new size, this one is still 32 by 64 like it better?
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Posted By: darkdemonrad
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 12:56pm
 I think we have a winner
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Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 4:30pm
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Take out the lines. Line art is a base to work from, not a paint-by-numbers gig. You can shade so much better if you have the extra space generated by assimilating the outline's area into the sprite. Also, increase contrast by using dark colors next to light colors. Though some have fallen horribly ill, the application of contrast has never killed anyone.
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Posted By: InnerRayg
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 7:02pm
Seems to me like you've got quite a bit of space in the crotch area...I don't think at that scale your guy should be so well endowed. If it were my sprite I would work on moving the legs a bit closer...not really the whole thing, but some parts of it. Also, I think maybe you should realize you can't always have perfect realism with this small of a scale...I think some things, like smoothing out the large amount of muscle shapes in the arms, would actually make it look more like a real person.  My example, using your lineart. Needs colors, as said before, but I think you get that by now. |