Another practice BG (New Style)

Damien · Sat 27/03/2004 10:09:26

Here it is:

I've been having problems with adding a texture to the walls, could I get some suggestions with that please?

I know it lacks detail, but as the title says, this is just a practice BG. Also, when I finish with the texturing, I'll add shadows and highlights.

Here are steps of making the BG, if anyone's interested:

1.Drew it on a piece of paper
2.Traced and colored it using mspaint and IrfanView
3.Added some texture using burn/dodge tool in Gimp

Thanks in advance.

Darth Mandarb · Sat 27/03/2004 12:00:50

All-in-all a good sprite!

I took a stab ...

100%

200%

I added some shading and altered the eyes a little bit. I also thickened the legs and added some boots, but they can be removed of course.

I would further suggest doing some alterations to the shoulders. He looks like he has a REALLY long neck! But I didn't want to change it that much!

Keep it up!

~ d

Eggie · Sat 27/03/2004 12:26:39

I think he looked better when he was weedy, Darth.

Damien · Sat 27/03/2004 13:08:26

Thanx Darth, that helped a lot!

I'll post the new version of the character when it's done.

Phemar · Sat 27/03/2004 13:20:59

Darth, you must seriously absolutely adore shading, I bet this subject just jumped straight up at you...

Back to topic: I like your char alot, Damien, althought I do thing Darth's one is better. If you do like this skinny one better than I suggest adding boots like Darth did.

Anyway, Cheers!

Damien · Sat 27/03/2004 14:47:20

Here's the update of the first character, thanx to Darth:

The second character I've been working on

Female character I'm not satisfied with:

How to make her look more like a woman?

Phemar · Sat 27/03/2004 14:56:16

Sorry about the quality, just wanted to show the boots shouldn't be skintight.

Damien · Sat 27/03/2004 15:03:16

Yeah, thanx I haven't noticed that, here's 2nd version:

x2

Moox · Sat 27/03/2004 16:29:18

What i did was:

made her 1 pixel skinnier
moved up nose
Changed eyes
removed 1 pixel off neck and extended the hair onto the dress
fixed arms

version2

Same as above, but different arms

Kweepa · Sat 27/03/2004 18:57:37

I tried to make her look less like a cross-dressing gorilla.
(No offence! I like the character styles!)

Lightened her eyebrows and moved her hair away from her eyes a bit.
Added pink to cheeks.
Lightened her lipstick a bit.
Changed outline of chin from grey (stubble) to pink.
Narrowed shoulders.
Raised hips and thickened waist slightly.
Raised and thinned arms. (Not entirely successful - I think her upper arm is still a little long.)
Narrowed and lengthened neck.
Opened neck laces a bit and toned down breasts.
Added handkerchief

She still looks like a slightly older woman - maybe you can play with the face shape and the arm outline a bit to improve that.
I didn't bother to put back the dark red outlines on her shoulders.

Hope that helps.

Darth Mandarb · Sat 27/03/2004 19:49:02

Oh well ... thought I'd make an edit anyway!

I could be wrong ... but it seems like you're going for a more 'Shakespearian' era look. The dress looks more 'Colonial American' to me. So I made some alterations ... Of course, your second male sprite looks more colonial American to me too ... hmm

* I changed the dress quite a bit
* narrowed the shoulders
* altered the head/face
* slimmed down the hips (dress)
* moved hands behind back for a more feminine stance
* added a belt
* shaded the boobs

Ahh .. what do I know?

~ d

Kweepa · Sat 27/03/2004 21:45:55

Aah - much better than mine!

Phemar · Sun 28/03/2004 05:55:24

I must say, if you combined Darth's body and Steve's head you'd have a near perfect character!

P.S. How do you change the subject of your topic?

Damien · Sun 28/03/2004 16:10:04

Thank you all, for your replies and edits, they've been a lot of help to me

, I'll post the new version later when i finish it.

QuoteI tried to make her look less like a cross-dressing gorilla.

Ha ha ha, when I first read this I laughed my ass of

!

Zor:You edit the first post, and change it's subject.

Moox · Sun 28/03/2004 16:54:35

Hey Zor, heres a combination of the two

Damien · Sun 28/03/2004 18:56:40

And here's my version:

And a new character for you to criticise, yay!

Kweepa · Sun 28/03/2004 23:32:25

Cool. I'd:
make his face a bit more contrasty - I guess you'd have to darken his beard a bit.
put some light and shade on his lap so you can tell he has one - it's a bit hard to make out what's going on there.

Damien · Fri 02/04/2004 23:18:05

Walkcycle I've been working on:

x2

What do you think?

Darth Mandarb · Sat 03/04/2004 00:28:34

Frame 4 needs a little tweaking ...

The leg stays too far back, and is generating that skipping effect.

I tried an edit ... but my GIF proggy keeps messing it up. You get this:

~ d

earlwood · Sat 03/04/2004 01:53:09

Nice Sprites Damien..are you remaking Colonel's Bequest?