Need opinions & advice on a character

Flashback · Tue 01/08/2006 20:45:17

Hi, I am a scripter who has no artist for my game so I am in desperate need of help.
I have done my best to draw this character but I really need your opinions on it, cos you guys seem to know everything and I'm a rubbish artist!

Enough talk here's the character

Evil · Tue 01/08/2006 20:48:50

Well, you should mention this is just a paint-over.

You could be more consistant with the black lines. Some frames they go away around his legs, and his hat doesn't have any at all. You have some shading, but it's not contrasted enough to notice.

Indie Boy · Tue 01/08/2006 20:54:09

the walkcycle template I see.
I see you nefer used black outline on the hat so why on everyhting else? I would be nice for the out lines to be a darker colour of the colour its outlining (as like the hat, although you used a lighter colour.
Also you can hardly see the nose try and use a colour that stands out more for the nose, And the eyebrows are half a pixel size same with the eye so I take it you resized the original template thats a nono in my book it makes it look bad IMO. Also a wee tip dont save as .JPG it adds other pixels that wasnt there before

Flashback · Tue 01/08/2006 21:27:28

Thanks for your opinions guys, I've updated the walk cycle so here it is.

- Made the shading more noticeable.
- Added outlines where previously there were none.
- Tried to make the nose more noticable (It was startin' to turn a bit orange like he had fake tan or something, so I stopped)

The only reason I used JPG was because the server I used for hosting didn't accept bitmap so I used PNG this time.

Rix, I really needed to resize him because he was so small when I put him in the game.

pslim · Wed 02/08/2006 02:33:29

Aside from its being a paintover of Mr Colossal's example walk cycle, is there any particular reason that the pixels are doubled all over except for the eyebrows? Which size did you want him to be?

I would personally recommend going 320x200 if you're not comfortable with your artistic skills. Fewer pixels = less hair pulling, usually.

Flashback · Wed 02/08/2006 13:30:42

I've updated the above image, you'll see that I have made the eyebrows bigger.

cpage · Wed 02/08/2006 20:57:30

Now what I would suggest since all the lines are doubled is to do a pixel resize down 50%

Khris · Thu 03/08/2006 05:04:44

There are still "little" pixels at his nose and eyes.
It's absolutely necessary that you decide which resolution to use.

If you want to show a bigger version of your picture (which is usually a good idea with lowres art), use the width and height properties of the img-tag:

Code: ags

[img width=740 height=180]url of original 370x90 pic[/img]

Because of this, it's not necessary to resize the pic in a gfx prog before posting it here.

Eric's char is suitable for a lowres game (320x240), if you really want to use a higher resolution (which I would advise against), use the 740x180 pic you've posted, and use thin lines that are one pixel wide instead of two.

MarVelo · Thu 03/08/2006 16:46:34

this is what everyone is talking about removing black outlines/double pixeling.