help with sprite

[AllThatGlitters]

Hello, I'm new here and would like some tips on a sprite for my game. She is supposed to be 16 years old and look fairly realistic.





I would appreciate some tips on her arms, feet, and some of the shading.

Edit: Sorry about the .bmp, I fixed it now.

[Domino]

I like your character so far. Really cute.

But, you'll have to remember not to post Bitmaps on the forum.  Save your images as a jpeg, gif, or png file and then post them.

Welcome to the AGS forums. 

Shawn

[Darth Mandarb]

The shading is actually not bad ... the problem is that with shading like this you need to design each room with specific light sources.  The light should always be coming from her left side because she's heavily hi-lighted from that side.

I always try to shade so the light source is a little less obvious ...

Something like this:

- changed the shading
- altered the eyes
- altered the neck
- altered the dirty pillows (side view)
- gave her a flatter stomach and rounder ass (side view)

Granted the breasts look much bigger in the front view, but this was just to give some ideas!

Hope it helps!

[InCreator]

So, I - trying to do as Darth did - edit as little as possible, but help as much as possible - to make it easier for you to go on - did a paintover over Darth's paintover...

Most things fixed on side view and then matched to front one.

* Fixed foot stance to more relaxed (basically I just used select & move tool in MSPaint and moved rectangles of pixels here and there)
* Modified sneakers a bit, especially on front view
* Changed lipstick colour - no teenage girl uses so strong colors
* highlighted cheecks/ corrected head shape/ fattened neck on front view
* Messed a little bit with jaw and nose on side view
* Made hands longer on front view
* Messed with these big boobs Darth drew , to match size on both images
* Made clothes more loose, and messed here and there


2x:



You have a pretty nice start. Don't stop now!

[nihilyst]

Hm ... don't know, but her head seems a bit blown up.

[AllThatGlitters]

This is what I've come up with so far.





Thanks to InCreator and Darth Mandarb for your ideas.

I'd still like some C&C's on my sprite.

[stuh505]

hello allthatglitters,

looking good so far. 

* I think her feat look a little bit too short in the side view
* her mouth looks too big, this can be reduced by using pixels on the edge which are halfway towards the color of her skin...this could especially be done in the side views where it looks like she has a pacifier attached to her face
* it looks as though her breasts on the frontal view are connected into one large flat breast.  correct this by adding a little shading inbetween (just a hint), but mainly by bringing the highlighting from the top more over the two mounds than in the center
* her hands look sort of like short little crab claws, not sure what to do about that
* in the side view, her arm looks very stiff.  try letting her arm rest in a more natural (slightly bent) position and perhaps letting her rest her hands in her pockets