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it's just pixelation, there aren't too many rules to art and if there were double pixels would be in a suggestion box no one checks anyway

check out full throttle again evil, the cutscenes are full of double sometimes triple pixels all stacked up and nice

i think bruce's father's shirt could use a darker outline, they kinda blend on my monitor

it could also be the glaring white behind it all

eric

You can't imply that countries have some kind of debt in blood to one another either.

that.... is a gorgeous statement

if you can say france is pathetic cause it didn't help when the US helped them in the 40's than can't we also say that the US is pathetic for training the Taliban or for putting Saddam in power or for the slaughter of native americans. If we're going to go back 50 or so years to World War 2 and dredge up things countries did, why not go all the way?

The soldiers from the Revolutionary War must be spinning in their graves.

ooooh that looks real nice

how are the pixels being unfriendly? If i've told them once i've told them a thousand times to play nice. If they tease you just don't pay any attention! They'll get bored and leave you alone

now i can see her face and the skin colour works very well i must say

very nicely done, she looks really solid and there

is it a 3d model painted over or just painted by hand?

either way it'll be nice animating and also a pain, hehe

eric

petteri says he made it

and do you want this damned 3d animation or no?

i hate to say it but listen to nothing that dagooh just said

i guess it's personal and personally he'd not want to play an "unattractive" main character but i don't see anything that makes this sprite unattractive. She looks real good and has a lot of character to her

she doesn't look generic or boring. she does however look like a JPG

could you post a GIF version for us to look at? they're clearer and show the actual pixels

her skin may be a little too light. as in the shading may not be contrasted enough with her normal skin tone. everything blends together for me at the moment.

the skin works better before the dress had a texture cause it seems kinda vectory and cute like Cruise for a Corpse-ish. but the texture is nice and i'd rather the texture than nothing. so my suggestion is mess around with adding darker darks

eric

why is jess so happy?

so you're telling me you just started over again and it worked?

jesus christ i hate you trapezoid, that was the scariest picture of carrot top i've ever seen

and good lord here i go again photoshopping dave gilbert again.. this is the 3rd time it's like i have a secret crush on him.. or at least want to see him harmed, judging by these entries i keep making


eric

no sorry Petteri, it's trapezoid

restraint. very important that people restrain themselves, as minimi i believe brought up

nothing can ruin a character more than comedy thrown in for comedy's sake. Like in Mourir En Mer, the game starts off wonderfully, tortured soul with one thing on his mind.

Then as soon as he gets out of the house he's using cell phones and walking around and talking to people like he's just another guy, what happened to his tortured soul? why is he putting rats on burgers?

Oh there it is, at the end of the game all of the sudden.

Actually, I don't believe that those puzzles were put in there for comedy's sake, they probably were just puzzles that came to mind when creating it, and it was a MAGs game, no? So it's understandable.

But it still proves a point.

Some of the most interesting characters from a game were probably the people from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. Gorrister being my favourite. These people had fears and physical handicaps that they could NOT overcome easily. The ape man [i forget his name] he could barely walk and could barely manipulate his surroundings. How's that for a character in an adventure game. He can't talk he can't move and he can't pick things up. That's all you do in an adventure game. We learn these character's backstories little by little and sometimes we have no idea at all what is going on. Gorrister pines for his lost wife but we barely know what happened. The doctor's life was full of experiments and tests and crimes against humanity that we will never know, we are just told about them in the game. Even AM and the other computers, we have the smallest hint as to why they were created and what happened but they are strong interesting characters that drive the story on. [can you even turn that damned golem on? i've kissed it like 30 times and i never do that on the first date!]

The restraint in IHNMAIMS creates the characters and makes us interested. There could have been long dialogues and slide shows about the creation of AM and all the problems that happened. It would have been interesting but not have given off the same feeling of being alone and confused in this world, just like the main characters.

Dot.Hack is an RPG where you are told you are playing a MMORPG and interacting with other people playing the same MMORPG and you get email and talk to people and learn that people who are playing this game are getting sucked into it or something, i've never played. I just thought it was interesting that you sitting at your playstation is part of the story. cause you are playing a game.

The same with Uplink, an awesome "hacker" simulator. you sitting at your computer writting down IP addresses and doing repetative tasks and tracking things and deleting your logs is all part of the game. There is no forced character developement in this game but you can choose for yourself to either join the main story or stay out of it and just freelance, and if you join you can be good or bad or neutral and it's all up to you.

i think i digressed my digression

lovely post Goldmund

eric

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for many years i have been complaining about the state of movies today

back in the day every other movie was about aliens coming to earth and teleporting a bunch of dinosaurs to the wild west and then the cowboys have to best not only the dinosaurs [while befriending a few] but the aliens too!

now it's no surprise that these movies are the best thing in the world ever don't even question it...

but when is the last time another movie like this has come out?

...

exactly

well, thank goodness for this

http://lostskeleton.com

hehe, i'm not screaming against it nellie

it's just curious

and i think it relates to a thread in the critics lounge too where people are saying that a hero should look this way and not this way

just popped in me head and i wondered why

very nice, do the cuffs on his pant legs shift around on his shoes? for standing straight that is

and i like the face just fine, the lips are his lips and that's how they are

keep on rockin' in a free world

eric

oh yea, i've been meaning to mention

how come garage gothic and the captain [two gay males as i see it] and mods both assumed that the second sprite was gay?

when i drew him he was a male counterpart to the female character i was drawing at the time, he was straight as an arrow and very much attatched to the woman he was drawn for

what i find funny is that at the same time this was said we were saying how stereotypes in games and in life are stupid and that people shouldn't do it

just cause he's got a little slant in his hips doesn't mean anything but he's got a slant in his hips

explain yourselves

eric

yufster? did you even get this?

i got noir off the interweb i think

i didn't know how to download a cd, can i just print it out, cut it out and put it in my cd player?

i use a tablet some times, not for the actual art but for sketching a scene or laying out an animation

why?

if someone doesn't like your game cause the art is different from a LucasArts one

screw them hardcore like Quick Draw McGraw

no one is here to condemn your game [unless you're vel, for some reason that is beyond me.] and everyone is eager to get any game they play

i enjoy the art very much and look forward to whatever you do

the first background in the lab is really nice

eric