First offering: Pippin the Mage

Schattenjager · Sat 16/08/2003 22:20:01

Here's my first image I have to offer to the critique
And now without furthur ado. A front view of Pip

This guy is brought to you by MSPaint. I use a little bit of Photoshop to scan in my lineart. But the redrawing of the lineart and the coloring is all done with MSPaint.

Tell me what you think.

Now here's some animating cursors for my game

look

open

pickup/use

talk

walk

Some color definition was lossed in my making the animated gifs. But you can get this gist.

And with his full bipolar range of emotions!

8/18/03 added front view and front face emotions

Hobbes · Sat 16/08/2003 22:37:21

Looks very crisp. The detail is amazing. Well done!

My personal taste for Elves is for their ears to be less pointy (think Legolas, or Spock for that matter). But I think that's up to you.

Schattenjager · Sat 16/08/2003 23:17:22

<My personal taste for Elves is for their ears to be less pointy (think Legolas, or Spock for that matter). But I think that's up to you. >

I'm a big fan of the outragiously huge elf ears from manga art. For some reason you can get an 'attitude' with really big ears depending on where they project out of the head. I really like that. My elven characters tend to be fairly wacky looking anyway.

Archangel (aka SoupDragon) · Sun 17/08/2003 00:36:12

Jesus chri... ms paint? but it... but you... the...

Schattenjager · Sun 17/08/2003 00:59:23

I've been using MSPaint ever since Windows 3.(I forgot). I'm most comfortable using it since I get crisp pixels exactly where my paint tool is suppose to be and I love MSPaint's zooming. Call me an MSPaint junkie.

I've also had some practice making pixel portraits for a GBA game that, unfortunately, fell through.

This was one portrait I made for the game.

Offhand, does anyone know of any application that makes animated gifs outside of gifconstructionset? I'd like to post some of my animated cursors for my game.

MadReizka · Sun 17/08/2003 08:35:50

Reminds me about anime/manga.
But still, I like it.

I see you have been using JPEG? It has blurred the images.

Rincewind · Sun 17/08/2003 10:53:59

Oh, very nice pictures - I can tell you've been doing this for some time...
And since I love manga/anime, I'm very pleased with the choice of style...
More big ears to the world.

Apart from the bad .jpg-quality, I can't find anything that looks really wrong. Maybe his pants looks a bit out of place, but I'm not sure...

Evil · Mon 18/08/2003 00:39:19

... Wow, only thing I have to say is "MAKE A DAMN TUTORIAL!". I love this. I Really wish I could do this kind of stuff. Amazing!...

Schattenjager · Mon 18/08/2003 01:19:09

I basically just follow almost the same method as shown in the tutorial made by Eric at his site Kafka Koffee
http://sylpher.com/kafka/tutorials/chartut.htm

......Wait a minute. Eric goes to SVA? I go to SVA too. It's a small art world after all.

LOL!

MrColossal · Mon 18/08/2003 02:09:17

haha

the keyword is went... I graduated this year.

what do you major in? i always thought i should put some posters up saying "Hey, i like adventure games, I also make them... LET'S DO IT!"

but alas, i didn't.

i enjoy the sprite but gimme a gif of it! no jpegs, bah.

the pants could be fixed up and i rather like the legs.

this is the second SVAer from adventure game creation... the first was a kid named mike from the Old SCRAMM boards. how curious

eric

Schattenjager · Mon 18/08/2003 04:12:24

Ah. Go figure. I graduate this year. I'm a computer art major. Yes I'm the poor student that has 'CAC' labeled on her student ID. So basically I'm doing pixel art while I SHOULD be working on my 3D models for my short film. *right*

If you thought my jpgs were fugly, you should see my animated gifs.

I need something better than gifconstruction(fugly) set for my animated gifs.

Alright I'll make a gif of my sprite and post it. I had forgotten Photoshop had a nice export for web feature. Talk about rusty.

I think the pants need cargo pockets,

Kristin

MrColossal · Mon 18/08/2003 04:37:42

schatt:

did you know a kid named Cody? he graduated too, or Kyron and... his girlfriend, she has a name i can't remember.

we were all working on a game boy advanced game

and hey, i was illustration, i had DIC

eric

Schattenjager · Mon 18/08/2003 06:50:46

OK. DIC is worse.

As you can see. I posted a gif of Pippin up above and some cursors I put together yesterday.

n3tgraph · Mon 18/08/2003 08:07:58

very nice picture schattenjager

Another dutcheeh

Gilbert · Mon 18/08/2003 08:21:32

All the graphics are nice, we want more!

But the talk cursor looks a bit scary to me

MrColossal · Mon 18/08/2003 08:30:40

i edited hope you don't mind.

The I thickened the boot on the left of the image and I changed the pants. This is what i ment at least.

as for the cursors, i have no crits for them, they look real nice. They may be quite big depending on the res of your game, 640x400 [if in fact you're doing a game with these sprites and not just practicing] and i think it's interesting how the door strobes at a different speed than the others.

and if you have photoshop then you should have imageready. what version of photoshop are you running? image ready is an AMAZING program and i do all my animation in it.

eric

Schattenjager · Mon 18/08/2003 08:47:50

Quote from: N3TGraph on Mon 18/08/2003 08:07:58

Another dutcheeh

Actually I'm from the US. I just happen to be a Gabriel Knight FANATIC.

Thanks Eric for the pants help. Granted I'm going to have to compare them side by side to see the subtle changes. I'll probably track down another gradient brown color so it'll match all of the other three toned parts.

I'm working with Photoshop 7. Ya know what's sad, I just literally 'found' Imageready. It's been hiding on me for the past several months.

I'm currently working on Pippin's front view. Problem is that he's becoming more bulky then I like him to be. I'll have that up probably tomorrow.

Kristin

n3tgraph · Mon 18/08/2003 10:14:03

US?? with the name Schattenjager? lol

for those who don't understand, Schattenjager means something like

Treasure Hunter

great changes Eric. I think I will like this game style, altough pippin looks more like a street fighter character then for an adventure game...

It will work without a doubt!

Al_Ninio · Mon 18/08/2003 10:18:07

As far as I know from playing GK, shcattenjager means "Shadow Hunter".
But anyways, back on topic.

That character sprite is very impressive, can't wait to see more!

n3tgraph · Mon 18/08/2003 14:34:06

hmmm, don't get me wrong or anything, but I AM dutch, and I think that I'm pretty sure that maybe I know the difference between

schaduw & schatten

schaduw = shadow
schatten = treasures

oh well - I guess I am completely off topic