Some works with pixels (and testing 3d) | :) (update 06: New work[18-01-2015])

[aikex222]

Hi, Im creating this topic so I can show some of my work with pixel art
and get some feedback about them.

2d

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Those are from a school work I'm doing.

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[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/WSNnskw.png[/imgzoom]

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old:

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[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/9Exctiw.gif[/imgzoom]

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new:

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[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/6nn5TkW.gif[/imgzoom]

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[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/fJuv1km.gif[/imgzoom]

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new pixel art:

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space car:
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/FYkQU7v.png[/imgzoom]
Lost Civilization:
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/TKcqONS.png[/imgzoom]

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WIP

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This was for a main menu i was trying to do in ags for the mags of november >_< but i still have much to learn about programing so i guess it's no gonna happen xD
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/ipPv8Ph.png[/imgzoom]

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Which hat do you prefer
1:

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[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/BLUUT3V.png[/imgzoom]

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2:

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[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/GxCm8DT.png[/imgzoom]

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Some extra stuff:

This is the paper from the first scene and it says:
    "Wanted Brave person to face the most haunted house in the world"

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testing 3d

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https://skfb.ly/CCUE

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More work still to come.
So hope you like it and get help to improve my work

[Wicked]

Awesome work with the art I love it, I wish I could do pixel art

[aikex222]

Thanks
And why not try do it?

[Wicked]

i tried once it didnt look right to me, probbaly my skills at the time , maybe one day ill try again but yes keep up the art I wanna see more

[selmiak]

I wish I could have done such nice things in school and call it schoolwork

[Mouth for war]

Really nice old school style you've got going there

[aikex222]

I wish I could have done such nice things in school and call it schoolwork

xD thanks

Really nice old school style you've got going there

thanks, now got to improve on the background and start practicing characters and animating them. >_>

[miguel]

These bloody Portuguese talented people! Hmph!

[Wicked]

ack  making characters good luck buddy

[aikex222]

These bloody Portuguese talented people! Hmph!

xD i wasn't expecting to find another portuguese here so soon.

ack  making characters good luck buddy

T_T yeah i know how you feel xD this is the best i can do now

[Cassiebsg]

Nice pixel art!
Good luck with the school project, I also wish I had such cool projects when I was in school...

Hoping that we get to see the final result and of course, what grade you get.

xD i wasn't expecting to find another portuguese here so soon.

So soon? miguel's been here for ages! See, his mustache has even become grey!

[Adeel]

These bloody Portuguese talented people! Hmph!

xD i wasn't expecting to find another portuguese here so soon.

In Portugal, if you don't meet another Portuguese on AGS Forum soon, you get your testicles cut off! Miguel just did a favour on you! You must be wondering what Portugal and Testicles have to do with each other.  But fear not, dear fellow AGSer, for miguel will teach you the ways of the true Portuguese men.

OT: I'm not much of an artist myself so I can't offer you any criticism. I can, however, distinguish between good and bad. All I can say is that you're very talented. If I could do, even a fraction of what you're able to do, I'd consider myself quite blessed! Keep working, practising and working on it. With time, you'll get even more better.

[aikex222]

Nice pixel art!
Good luck with the school project, I also wish I had such cool projects when I was in school...

Hoping that we get to see the final result and of course, what grade you get.

xD i wasn't expecting to find another portuguese here so soon.

So soon? miguel's been here for ages! See, his mustache has even become grey!

haha then i'm hoping miguel can be very helpful :p, well and of course anyone that use AGS better than me xD and hoping that i can become helpful some day

In Portugal, if you don't meet another Portuguese on AGS Forum soon, you get your testicles cut off! Miguel just did a favour on you! You must be wondering what Portugal and Testicles have to do with each other.  But fear not, dear fellow AGSer, for miguel will teach you the ways of the true Portuguese men.

OT: I'm not much of an artist myself so I can't offer you any criticism. I can, however, distinguish between good and bad. All I can say is that you're very talented. If I could do, even a fraction of what you're able to do, I'd consider myself quite blessed! Keep working, practising and working on it. With time, you'll get even more better.

unfortunately what I got as artist, don't have to create script or create stories >_>
scripts are like chinese to me xD and stories, i can have some ideias but i'm horrible to develop them.

[Darth Mandarb]

Love the style!

I have two suggestions:

1) NITPICKY: If you could post the images in their original aspect (using the forum to resize them) that would be preferable as it makes edits MUCH easier!

2) CRITIQUE: There should be much more contrast in the shadowed areas when the lightning flashes.  I did a paint-over (quick and dirty and totally shits all over your palette but you'll get the point!)



Probably should be even darker (and applied to more than just the foreground elements) but I don't have that much free-time!

If this was my own work I might also shift the palette (in the shadowed areas) to be more in a blue range but that's not really necessary as it's only visible for a brief second when the lightning flashes.

[miguel]

And now we are 3.

Contrast is the key, Darth speaks like a true wise Portuguese man but free from the anatomic transformation it occurs to wise Portuguese man.

[aikex222]

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Love the style!

I have two suggestions:

1) NITPICKY: If you could post the images in their original aspect (using the forum to resize them) that would be preferable as it makes edits MUCH easier!

2) CRITIQUE: There should be much more contrast in the shadowed areas when the lightning flashes.  I did a paint-over (quick and dirty and totally shits all over your palette but you'll get the point!)



Probably should be even darker (and applied to more than just the foreground elements) but I don't have that much free-time!

If this was my own work I might also shift the palette (in the shadowed areas) to be more in a blue range but that's not really necessary as it's only visible for a brief second when the lightning flashes.

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ahh i looks a thousand times better, >_> i guess contrast isn't my strong after what happen here xD
and about the size i didn't know when upload that AGS forum had a option with zoom. I'll re-upload them with the original size

[Wicked]

that does look awesome. and nice character I would try to look at his shoulders and test a couple of different ideas, other than that pretty good stuff.

[aikex222]

that does look awesome. and nice character I would try to look at his shoulders and test a couple of different ideas, other than that pretty good stuff.

It was just for testing AGS xD so i'm not really worried about him
>_< but surely i need to practice characters

[Wicked]

your doing great , sorry I was just helpins

[aikex222]

Update 2 - 09 November 2014

* Reupload the 3 first images with the original size
* Add some detail for the 2nd and 3rd images

[Mandle]

Absolutely beautiful!!!

[aikex222]

Absolutely beautiful!!!

thanks
if it wasn't for tips of Darth Mandarb i guess i would never remember to put contrast when the thunder appears

[Wicked]

the last picture of one frame has the front totally blacked out when the lightning strikes, when the shadow is cast  think about what is proturding and not flat and then allocate what you feel should cast lighter shadows on.

[Lasca]

I might be wrong here, but I actually find the reworked gifs a little strange. I do agree about adding more contrast, but the blackness when the lightning strikes does feel a little odd. I could be a little tired in my thinking, but the darkness doesn't get darker when you add light, does it? My point being - if you want that kind of contrast and "blackness" when the lightning strikes, you have to have the same blackness when the lightning isn't striking. Or atleast I think that the way it should be. Am I making any sense?
Otherwise your images look really great! Love the designs and colours!

[Adeel]

I might be wrong here, but I actually find the reworked gifs a little strange. I do agree about adding more contrast, but the blackness when the lightning strikes does feel a little odd. I could be a little tired in my thinking, but the darkness doesn't get darker when you add light, does it? My point being - if you want that kind of contrast and "blackness" when the lightning strikes, you have to have the same blackness when the lightning isn't striking. Or atleast I think that the way it should be. Am I making any sense?

You're not alone, Lasca. When I saw the the reworked gifs, I couldn't help but feel the same thing.

[Darth Mandarb]

When lightning flashes the area that receives the light suddenly gets a LOT more light than it previously had.  This causes the areas that don't receive the light (from the lightning) to appear much darker than they had before the lightning flashed.  A good example of this would be to hold an object in front of a window that has direct sunlight, but has the blinds drawn, in a room with the light on.  The ambient light (in the room) will make the object visible but if you open the blinds that object will appear black/silhouetted by the much brighter light source from behind even though it's lit from the light in the room.  It's not that it suddenly lacks the ambient light, just that the much brighter light source drowns it out.  It's probably a tad over-done (for dramatic effect) in movies/tv/games but the principle is the same.

[Snarky]

True, but I also agree with the view that the non-lit frames would benefit from being darker (and a bit higher contrast). They currently look a bit washed out and not really night-timey.

In an animated screen, you don't have to show the whole thing in every frame: the whole sequence works together. So, for example, it would be perfectly fine to leave the castle as a black silhouette (with light coming from the window) in the "dark" frames, and only show it in detail when there's a lightning flash.

[aikex222]

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True, but I also agree with the view that the non-lit frames would benefit from being darker (and a bit higher contrast). They currently look a bit washed out and not really night-timey.

In an animated screen, you don't have to show the whole thing in every frame: the whole sequence works together. So, for example, it would be perfectly fine to leave the castle as a black silhouette (with light coming from the window) in the "dark" frames, and only show it in detail when there's a lightning flash.

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I'll test that out when back from school

[Denture Alley Lurker]

Some animators put a completely black frame followed by a b/w frame with the lightning and the highlights it causes. In away to prepare your sight for  the contrast change the lightning makes. I made one quick and dirty, to try to simulate their point, in JASC Animation Shop. It needs some adjustments of individual frames display times.
[imgzoom]http://www.mediafire.com/view/7cmzg8e4rj86gek/Animation2.gif[/imgzoom]
Hopefully the image link shows up.

[Monsieur OUXX]

Additional critique to darth Mandarb's one; regarding the castle shading when the lighting strikes: The castle should actually be almost all black since the lightning falls behind it. That's less work for you.

[Wicked]

I wanna make a comment where maybe it would look would be the moutain and the house would be dark until the lightning strikes  have a longer lighting flash and it reveals a part of the house  then back to dark

[aikex222]

I wanna make a comment where maybe it would look would be the moutain and the house would be dark until the lightning strikes  have a longer lighting flash and it reveals a part of the house  then back to dark

did that just now xD

Update 03 - 22 November 2014
    - House on the mountain updated;
    - Add a new pixel art;
    - Add WIP.

[AprilSkies]

That is PURE ART!

[Wicked]

friggan sweet

[Monsieur OUXX]

That's really nice. I likes. Now hurry up and make an awesome game with that awesome set!

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

If you want the lightning flashes to look better, instead of doing on/off flash effects, have it light up and then quickly darken back to the original.

[Monsieur OUXX]

instead of doing on/off flash effects, have it light up and then quickly darken back to the original.

Out of curiosity: I don't understand what you mean. Some progressive fading?

[aikex222]

Update 04 - 30 November 2014
    - ADD 2 new WIP (Need help to choose which one use xD)

and if someone could tell me how i create a poll would be fantastic

[Cassiebsg]

Which hat do you prefer

I like the first one better, unless you're placing your game in England, than the second would be more fitted.

[aikex222]

thanks for the opinion.
Well i didn't think on the location, since is going to happen all in a restaurant

[aikex222]

Update 05 - 28 December 2014
    - 1 New work (see "new pixel art");