Two characters for C+C

[Nine Toes]

Here's two characters.Ã,  Nothing special.


This is a janitor named Sully (go figure).


This is Sully's supervisor, Richard.

Just wondering what everyone thinks so far.

At the bottom of Sully's sprites, you can see a few alternate sprites, I was playing with hair styles, trying to make it fit in with the era the story is set in (1969).

EDIT: ...changed // to .Ã,  Sorry.Ã,  Brainfart.

REEDIT: Removed the background.Ã,  Not enough to show.

[Gilbert]

Heh just noticed you removed the background, I have some comments on it anyway.
I won't comment on the emptiness, as you had mentioned about it already, I think it's a good clean style and I like how the fence was drawn. One obvious problem is that the ground looks really flat, which can be caused by the lack of side walls and that the ground being too broad. My suggestion is:
1. Though gradients are evil sometimes, they may help, seeing thay you have gradient shades of colours for the shadows already, I suppose it wouldn't hurt adding some gradient for the ground, like this quick hack (you can actually use less colour count for it for a more retro feel). And/or:
2. You can also make the ground passage narrower, so it wouldn't look like a sheet of paper hanging around.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

The sprites are very well done.  The only thing I would suggest is breaking up the straight line on the side view by giving them butts and curving the back in slightly. 

[Sam.]

very nice sprites, all i would say is alter their stances a bit, it seems very clear (IMHO) that they were just drawn from the same template sprite. Other than that, nice work!

[Nine Toes]

Thanks for the critique so far, everyone.

ProgZMax - Actually, as I'm writing this, the side view is obsolete.  I have started making a walkcycle, and I'm using the diagonal view as frame 0 for the walkcycle.

Zooty - I'll try to alter their stances a bit.  Because, yeah, I drew the first sprite, and then I made the Richard sprite using the first sprite as a template.

Here's the background again.  I wasn't sure what Gilbot was suggesting, so I'm just re-posting it, and maybe someone can show me (I looked at his quack hick link, and I didn't see any difference...  ).

[What a loser.]

Wow, nice job on the fence effect.

[Gilbert]

Here's the background again.Ã,  I wasn't sure what Gilbot was suggesting, so I'm just re-posting it, and maybe someone can show me (I looked at his quack hick link, and I didn't see any difference...Ã,  ).

Check the gradient on the ground, to increase the effect you may use a gradient of higher contrast, or narrow the passage.