Some backgrounds and characters for C&C

dxtr · Sat 20/12/2003 00:24:05

Hi people,

here are some backgrounds and characters from "Il pirla solitario", a game I'm curently working on with two other Italian AGSers. When it'll be done i sincerely hope we can arrange a faithful translation and let some of you enjoy the game.

So here we go:

keep in mind that these ar half-resolution JPGs, the game willbe 640x480 hi-color.

The main char.

His friend Cain (he's a burnout James Dean lookalike)

The Detective

A Police Officer

bye

dxtr

Domino · Sat 20/12/2003 01:52:38

both backgrounds and characters are well done. I really like them alot, and can't find anything wrong with them.

Those character's seem to come alive and have some personality to 'em.

Great Job!!

BG

Chicky · Sat 20/12/2003 14:03:08

WHOA! those BG's are really amazing and the characters are even better! i really wish i could get the high-res cartoon style that you have there its amazing

keep up the good work

Privateer Puddin' · Sat 20/12/2003 14:06:29

The detective reminds me a lot of the FBI agent from the Beavis and Butthead movie, apart from that, its all good

Darth Mandarb · Sat 20/12/2003 15:37:58

Quote from: Privateer Puddin' on Sat 20/12/2003 14:06:29
The detective reminds me a lot of the FBI agent from the Beavis and Butthead movie, apart from that, its all good

Cavity Search!!!

The BGs are great.

The characters are very nice.

Have you tried animating any of the characters yet?

I'd love to see how they look in the backgrounds as well!

Keep it up!

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dxtr · Sat 20/12/2003 16:24:35

Well, thank you very much!!!

You know, we are working hard to bring out the game within a reasonable time, but i've found that time itself is now my nÂ°1 obstacle. I can only work at the game after my "real" job is done, and this is mostly in the evening when i'm already tired.

The other difficulty is that many decision are taken "on the run", we never sat down and made a pre-production stage (actually we never met in person...) so there will be a little lack of consistency in some of the graphic.

Anyway i'm just starting to animate some of the characters and while i did some test with photoshop, I've now found the tool i was missing and that is GraphicsGale. Let me say that this software is great and reminds me a lot of the old times on Dpaint on the Amiga and my first years on Autodesk Animator. Obviously i find the software in this forum (i spend most of my daytime at work secretly lurking here :-) ) so a big thank you goes to the community!!

As for the Detective, Yes! He's based on the Beavis & butthead one. The two guys writing the game had him in mind so i took it him for reference.

Bye for now but i'll post some anim. whene they're ready

n3tgraph · Sat 20/12/2003 19:11:41

whoa that stuff is feckin cool!

keep it up!
I have no comments at all

Wormmaster · Sat 20/12/2003 19:24:49

COOL!!!

You are Master of Paint!!!
I've also called for Master of Paint...
But you're thousand times better than I

.
Keep up good work.
And remember...
Always trust yourself!!! 8)

Ishmael · Mon 22/12/2003 15:31:50

Erhm, I didn't read the whole topic, but to me those don't like they're made in paint... atleast I couldn't, thus I call myself Almost-Master-Of-Paint... No, wait, I don't... I just like to draw simple graphics with paint, most of them good enough for me...

People, forgive him.

Ginny · Mon 22/12/2003 16:04:13

I think he might've meant paint in general, like paintings, cause these bgs really look painted..
Those backgrounds and characters are splendid :o
And not only that, they have personality! Lots of it.

Ishmael · Mon 22/12/2003 16:44:27

Well, he was called Master of Paint because of his Paint drawings...

Rincewind · Mon 22/12/2003 18:04:12

I don't really care which program these were made with - They are incredible all the same... The characters would definately fit in a LEC-styled game, the DoTT/Sam & Max-period.

Keep up the good work, and don't hesitate to show us more of these...

dxtr · Mon 22/12/2003 20:22:21

As a thank you for all the positive feedback, i made this animation.

I went for the south walkcycle because i felt it was more difficult than the side one and wanted to get it out of the way quickly and to practice a bit on GraphicsGale

I have two gripes:

when the forward foot hits the ground it's a bit jumpy, i should add a frame before but i'm going for a "John Travolta" strout so maybe it fits.

The eyelid movement... without he looked like a Terminator, but i still don't know.

As for the software thing, i did everything in photoshop. I tried to scan some hand drawing but in the end the coloring and various tweaking took more time than drawing with a tablet.

bye

jannar85 · Tue 23/12/2003 17:31:59

Looks really great!

You have to translate it into english yes!!

P.S - I took a peek on the full page, sorry

Darth Mandarb · Tue 23/12/2003 23:42:07

Quote from: dxtr on Mon 22/12/2003 20:22:21The eyelid movement... without he looked like a Terminator, but i still don't know.

This jumped right out at me ... I think it's necessary to put it in there, however, when you make the character in AGS just stretch out the animation a little, repeating the frames 3 times with out the blink, then the fourth repeat use a different frame with the blink.

When making GIFs you want to keep down the number of frames, but you don't need to worry 'bout that within AGS!

It is a little jumpy, but once you said the thing about Travolta it looked better

Keep it up!!

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Nine Toes · Thu 25/12/2003 02:10:01

Holy crap! These sprites and backgrounds are awesome!

The walkcycle looks awesome too... (even though it kinda looks like he's doing some odd variation of the "Thriller" dance).

Neole · Thu 25/12/2003 10:25:10

Wow great work! Love both the characters and backgrounds. He could blink half the time, he's blinking too fast right now.