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Try SketchUp. It's a 3D-prog, but you'll get quick and nice results without having to read the manual for days first.
Create the scene, then switch to wireframe and export this to an underlying layer in your favourite Gfx-prog.

Here are two threads with SketchUp pics:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=23348.0
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=22532.0

Right, sorry, guess the s confused me

Here's the bg:

err... you usually have your arms that way?

Indeed, yes, my arms tend to look like natural, human arms.

and he looks too happy and his eyes are too white ! (and his arms are too thin)

I didn't know that you couldn't handle a paintover/constructive criticism.
It won't happen again. (And I mean that.)

Here's Eric's Tutorial:

http://kafkaskoffee.com/tutorials/walkcycletut.shtml

Here's a paintover:

2x

-adjusted shape of head, shoulders, torso, arms
-reshaded clothing
-changed face & hair

With a relaxed standing pose, the finger tips are almost exactly at crotch level.

To make the body fit the muscular arms, you could widen his chest to shape it more like a triangle.

I'd keep the outline, as the char is drawn in a comical style.

But give him a forehead, and flatten his shoe soles.
I'd lower the shoulders a tiny bit to fit the relaxed pose, atm it looks a bit like he's shrugging.

If you want to use him in a game, I have to second the low-res argument, just resize him to one half to one third and paint over it in another layer.

I have tried SCUMM VMÃ,  that dont work

What exactly doesn't work?

I didn't have any problems with ScummVM ever. I've played everything from Loom, DOTT to TheDig & CMI with ScummVM, DOTT of all should run fine.

Don't even start fiddling around with DosBox unless you're absolutely sure that for some reason, ScummVM won't work.
(Install latest Gfx & DirectX drivers, download latest ScummVM, try again.)

It's pretty difficult to do a paintover cause the resizing messed up the pixels.
Upload the original sprite and use the forum's bbcode to zoom in.

Code: ags

[img width=x height=y]url[/img]

Fluke, why don't you get a deviantart-account and link to it in your sig?
That way, even more people can admire your made-in-a-few-minutes-timekillers, and you won't completely ruin your already bad reputation here.

Tuomas, to see the light, please click here.



I used the original distances of the upper drawer (A1, A2 & A3) and connected them by a line (VP1) to the original vanishing point.
Then I chose a second vanishing point (DVP) on the horizon (H), in this case the bottom left corner of the pic, for my diagonals to meet at.
The first diagonal I drew (D1) intersects A2 and A3, from there I went down to the original VP and got VP2 and VP3.
The next diagonal (D2) starts where A3 and VP1 intersect.
So, D2 provides me with the y-coords of the next two horizontal lines.
And after adding those, I get the start of D3, and so on.

I hope my explanation isn't too messy, it's a very simple method after all

I'm not too good at drawing shadows, but here's the way to determine their shapes:



Quite sloppy, it's late

This should've been posted in the "Completed boring Powerpoint presentations"-Forum.

The download doesn't work for me, the server seems to be down
Any chance of somebody mirroring it?

Edit: nm, server's back up.

You mentioned photographs? How about designing model landscapes with clay and odds'n'sods (a la Wallace and Gromit) and taking photographs of them.

"The Neverhood" did this, too.
It's quite a cool adventure game, although it's puzzles and gameplay aren't exactly its strong side.

The proportions aren't quite right.
Look down at yourself, e.g. the elbows are at bellybutton level, and the wrists at crotch level.
And the chest muscles aren't below the shoulders, instead they rather blend into them.

To post a walking anim, save it as *.gif or *.swf, both can be shown by most browsers.

I can't wait to hear why you call this "3Dish".

Sorry about quoting the whole post but i doubt a few lines of text is gonna take up too much bandwidth

Okay, then forget that and don't do it because it's completely unnecessary.

The door, desk and bed are still out of perspective.
The light switch is still behind the opened door, and it's too big and too high.
The doorstep is still way too high.
Try to spend a little more than 10 minutes on your next paintover, after you've read the various helpful suggestions in this thread, which you seem to simply ignore.