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Title: Fox main character for crits
Post by: Phoenix on Tue 05/07/2005 14:13:54
Iv been planning some short games called "The Secret Tales Of the Forest" Kind of a Whinne the Pooh setting but looks at the darkside of the forest kind of thing. Anyway this would be the main character a Fox, from the city but after his uncle dieing he inherets his cotage in the forest which makes him reveal the secert life of his old quiet uncle Willaim.

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/fox.gif)(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/fox.gif)Any critz please and paint overs welcome ;D
Title: Re: Fox main character for crits
Post by: Setsuna on Tue 05/07/2005 15:04:51
Very cute, and this is a great idea for a game.
I think i wouldn't change anything, but i'd like to see it animated,really, nice art!
Title: Re: Fox main character for crits
Post by: Darth Mandarb on Tue 05/07/2005 15:26:48
I can see that there are different colored outlines, but they are very similar colors.

I would suggest making a little more contrast between the fills and the outlines.  He looks rather muddled together as is.

I like the character and the game idea sounds pretty interesting.
Title: Re: Fox main character for crits
Post by: Damien on Tue 05/07/2005 16:13:22
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/DrunkyDuck/Help/fox.gif)(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/DrunkyDuck/Help/fox.gif)
A great sprite you have there. I made a small paintover, hope you don't mind.
Here's what I did:
-added more contrast between different levels of shades,
-added some highlights,
-made darker tones more blue, and highlights more yellow

Color count: 11 colors + transparency. The edit was made in mspaint.

Hope this helps you.
Title: Re: Fox main character for crits
Post by: Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens on Wed 06/07/2005 01:56:14
My main issue is that it doesn't look like a fox to me facially.  The problem is that I'm not very good at drawing animals, so my edit probably won't help much.

1.  I redrew the face from this reference: http://www.ferenzi.com/maddie/misc/image/oldpictures/fox.jpg while keeping it cartoony and larger than the body.
2.  I altered shading of the body to use more contrast

(http://members.cox.net/veradin/fox.gif)
(http://members.cox.net/veradin/fox.gif)
Title: Re: Fox main character for crits
Post by: Phoenix on Wed 06/07/2005 19:18:02
Thank you for replys and very good paint overs ;D
Setsuna Im happy that you like my sprite and you think it is perfect as it stands but personally I tought it could have some more into (thats why I posted it)
Darth yes I see your view, actually I wanted it to be like that but when it was posted it does look too as you say muddled.
Damien Thank you for your paint over, its very nice and I like the colours but i feel it has taken away the cartoon quality of the sprite but it is still a nice sprite!
Prog Once again thank you for that great panit over!(Reminds me of a sonic char actually)I understand where you are coming from and will update the sprite with more contrast and make more of a fox's features. Also that colour is much better than the orange I was using.

*Watch this space for an update soon*
well i was going to update my sprite before I went on holiday but I forgot ;) so keep watching this space for a week or two lol