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ALTER!!! Das ist ja mal mega-geil!

Ahem... I mean, DUDE!!! That's awesome!

That's a question I was going to ask: will Dominic Armato be Guybrush also in the TellTale game? I like very much his voice and interpretation!

He is voicing Guybrush in the Telltale series as well

There isn't much halos near the edges so its not just sharpen filter?

It IS just a the normal sharpen filter applied after downscaling to 320x240... no magic here. 

What different resolutions? The only difference is the smoothenes (aka anti-aliasing). I think both styles are great, the smoother as well as the more pixelated / sharpened one.

Uhm... his backgrounds are at 640x480, while his sprites are at 320x240 (at least pixel-wise)... I'd say that's two different resolutions (EDIT: I see that there are a few images in this thread where both sprite and background are at 320x240... the ones I referred to didn't... so, misunderstanding I guess )

I didn't say that I don't like his styles, but simply praising his work isn't very constructive, right?

I just think he could make sprites and backgrounds a little more consistent in style.

I am by no means an artist, but I've played my fair share of adventure games and I've made certain observations I'd like to share, although I know that the discussion is mostly about design-rules right now (or better put: not going on AT ALL right now).

Anyway, I feel that your character style and your background style do not fit together that well right now, which is mainly due to the different resolutions. Still, even when scaled down, the background look somewhat smoother than the characters. I've tried to mock-up something that might work, which I've based on the style of the "Monkey Island 2"-backgrounds. They were hand-painted as well, but they were sharpened up a bit to match the pixelated design of the sprites:





To me this looks a bit more consistent... but as this is my first post, I don't expect you to care