A background (just the one)

[Mr_Frisby]

I hardly ever post crap on these forums but I have got the urge today.
I do that thing, you know where you have a great Idea and you get into it only to discover something else and then you go on to that  and then to the next thingy ect . . and I never finish nuthin'.
But lately I have mellowed out and by george I thinks I gots a style - anywho long story short I'm making a game called pocket fluff about a freinds fanzine.



What do you think - it's not finished but there you go.
(it's more for the character than anything else)

[WanderLady]

Hi Mr_Frisby,

I've enjoyed all the art you've posted. Even if you don't make a game, I'll just imagine one from your pictures.

EDIT: A small thing---the characters left shoe just seems to be missing some pixels

[MrColossal]

quick little comment right now...

the top of the window looks odd cause it's so off perspective with the ceiling and his face looks really light but maybe that's cause i'm not at full zoom viewing him

all i have time for now be back

[TheYak]

That perspective thing is odd (the window top ought to be parallel with the ceiling's line) unless you meant it to seem warped.  I love the style but it looks a bit like a 256-color drawing reduced to 16-color without diffusion.  Some of the colors are a little hard on the eyes, there's a lot of banding and many saturated colors.  

I like the style, setup and think it looks nicely adventure-gamey..  could just use a little neutralizing.

[ravenfusion]

That's one nice pic, the style seems very original to me. It's got a nice professional feeling to it but the only problem seems to be a little lack of perspective, if you fix that up it'll look great...oh, and fix the left shoe on the dude.

[Evil]

Wow, it looks good. Yes there are some perspective issues but nothing major. Despite how good this loooks there are a few spots where there needs to be more contrast, mostly the face, window shade, and the window shade ring shadow on the wall. And the empty shelves on the bookcase seem out of place. Maybe move some toys from the second shelf to the bottom.

[OneThinkingGal and ._.]

Very nice!

The only comment I have is that thing spilling out at the bottom breaking the border looks kinda odd, but you might be going for that effect.

Lovely lighting effects.  ._.

[Moresco]

Yah I see that too and I gather it's to showcase an exit? That's what the light is? Light from another room? Just wondering.  Looks sweet though, I really dig a game that looks like that.

[Cerulean]

I think the thing about that exit is that it's where I wouldn't expect a door to be, unless the room were a big triangle. And the presence of the foreground object sort of knocks down any idea that there's a wall following the bottom edge of the picture. I would suggest something more diagonal coming from the unobstructed corner.

Aside from that, I really like the style.

[Mr_Frisby]

Thanc for the feedback - You guys are right about the window - I'll play around with it for a while.
With the other stuff, the light is a doorway but will be animated  - you know door opens light floods in ect. (the colors are just there so I don't lose the palette.
And there will be arrows to signify exits ect .
I will post this again when its finished so you can see what I mean.
Thanxs

[WanderLady]

Just to reiterate what Cerualean said(because I'm not sure you caught it, as you didn't mention it.)

The angle you've drawn the room doesn't allow for the door to be in that spot(unless it is a quadrilateral type shape and not a straight-up square or rectangle).

If it is a square, then something like this:


Sorry, if you did notice it. I thought I'd bump it back in case you didn't. I just thought it was a good catch by Cerulean.