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Now I understand. Thanks for that. Anything else that I should do before I start to animate him?

MilkAndCheese: Aw, but that's what makes it so much more attracting to me. I love the Harry Potter books and I know what you mean about magic being overused... but isn't it popular because a lot of people like those kind of stories in first place? I'm a girl, I need magic, hot guys, romance and drama! That's what I live on, lol!

Don't get me wrong I love Harry Potter too (although I'm not too keen on the hot guys) it's just that it seems that every second game has magic in it.

Maybe It's because I played the John DeFoe series all day yesterday. Probably.

Ok I edited him slightly

+ Arms slightly extended
+ Stubble increased
+ Changed colour on shoe
+Changed hands
And I changed the eyes and mouth colour.

I like the character and all but the story is just getting a bit old (no offense). Instead of having magic and what not why not make it she plans to pull some kind of prank on them, but the prank goes horribly wrong and they all, or a few of the preppies end up dieing.

But maybe it's just me that thinks that the magic story lines are used too often.

Other than that, everything else seems good.

The views doesn't match (the jacket, pants and shoes aren't lined up, as far as I can see).

What exactly do you mean by this. Forgive my slowness. When it comes to graphics, I don't know all that much.

Well me and my brother (who doesn't have an account here) are working on this character for a game. This sprite was mostly done by him. Before we start animating him we want to know and C&C you have.

Also if you could have a guess at how old he looks and what sort of person he is, it would be helpful. (I know it's hard but it helps me to understand how other people see him).

1) Use more consistent outlining colors. The way it stands now you seem to have just arbitrarily decided the outline color of various things as you drew them.
2) Don't use Photoshop to add noise. Used sparingly it could be used to add a little texture to certain surfaces, but you shouldn't have used it so liberally. I see it on the walls, ceiling, door, filing cabinet....As this is your first attempt at a background I'd say best to just avoid this method altogether.
3) Shading. You haven't used any. This isn't as high-priority now until other things are fixed, but you should definitely keep it in mind that you do need to add some shading, especially given the fact that the only available light sources appear to be the windows.
4) Perspective. Perhaps most notably the filing cabinet and the window sill appear misshapen. However, if that is supposed to be a man laying torn-in-half on the floor, you also have other issues. For example the fact that the man would have to either jump or use some type of stool to reach the door handle (if he were still alive of course). This isn't so much to do with the background itself, rather the sizing of the characters, however you included this character as part of the background, so I figured it was worth mentioning. On that note however, the door handle does seem too high. Try comparing it to a door in your house and you'll probably see what I mean.

1) Okie dokie.
2) Well originally I had no noise in there and it just looked plain and boring. When I added it it made the room seem more real.
3) Hmm yes now that I think about it I really should learn to shade properly. I've tried before but I just plain suck at it.
4) The man is dead (you wake up to find him there). Yes now that I look at some doors I do realise how low down the handles actually are.

Thanks

Hi,

I'm new to these forums (I just signed up) but I recently made my very first background and I was wondering if people could tell me how to improve it.



I made it in MS Paint and then touched it up in photoshop.

The game is a short one and this is the start room and basically you have just woken up in there and don't know who you are or where you are.

Thanks