/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.6122172]

Previous thread >>6021806

> Rules:
- Resize your images before posting!
- Binary art allowed if its low resolution.
- Converted/Photobashed images are not allowed.
- NSFW allowed.

> Resources
How do I learn pixel art ?
Where do I learn those things?
What software do I use ?
Where can I share my work ?

Check this out
https://pastebin.com/BK9s37m7

# TOOLS
http://graphicsgale.com/
https://www.getpaint.net/
https://www.aseprite.org/
https://www.piskelapp.com/
http://grafx2.chez.com/

# TUTORIALS
https://2dwillneverdie.com/tutorial/
https://lospec.com/pixel-art-tutorials
https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299
http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24744
https://saint11.org/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/
https://twitter.com/Sadface_RL
https://bandygrass.tumblr.com/
https://lospec.com/pixel-art-tutorials/pixel-logic-a-guide-to-pixel-art-by-michael-azzi
or pirate above on the z-library

# COMMUNITIES
http://pixeljoint.com/
http://pixelation.org/
https://dotpict.net/
https://www.spriters-resource.com/
https://spritedatabase.net/

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[Anonymous No.6122285]

>>6122184
That looks fucking amazing, the entire scenery and mood of SM is pretty kino.

[Anonymous No.6122729]

>>6122172
you didn't copy the subject nigga

[Anonymous No.6122747]

>>6122729
I'm retarded

[Anonymous No.6122769]

>>6122747
It's okay anon just d-d-jj jdfhhuaha aaaaaaaaa just don't do it next tiiiiiime anonooooon

[Anonymous No.6122779]

>>6122172
Pixel art is based
>>6122178
>>6122181
>>6122184
Nice

[Anonymous No.6122792]

>>6122172
>newfag to ic
Why on earth is this board NSFW when it has threads like this? Shouldn’t there just be a 4channel and 4chan art boards instead

[Anonymous No.6122856]

My first animation and one of my first ever sprites in general. Please critique as harshly as you'd like, bonus points if you make me cry.

[Anonymous No.6122863]

>>6122856
Looks good

[Anonymous No.6122870]

>>6122792
Learning how to draw and drawing naked people go hand in hand.

[Anonymous No.6124015]

Used a size too big

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[Anonymous No.6125429]

Some pixel foods

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[Anonymous No.6126680]

>>6122856
looks mediocre.which all things considered is really good for a first animation.
fix your perspective,
work on timing (buildup, climax, and resolution which in this instance would be the mimic being about to open its mouth, the opening of its mouth, and finally the mimic closing its mouth)
fix the reflection on the gold
i spent a little bit of time editing a little mockup edit your gif to try and show you what i mean because i can't articulate my thoughts very well.

[Anonymous No.6127830]

>>6126680
thanks for going to the effort! really helpful to compare them side by side. I can definitely see how your version makes more of an impact/gives the subject more character.

[Anonymous No.6128806]

Try to salvage this boring portrait with a small animation. What do you guys think? What should I focus my practice on?

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[Anonymous No.6129589]

>>6128806
Hard to tell, what are you looking for? If you want more variety I'd push the palette a little bit, either more values or playing a bit with hues (like in the shadows, add some cool for contrast to the lights), doing a couple of iterations to see if you find another palette could be an option, but overall looks pretty good.

[Anonymous No.6130483]

Do you guys know how I can get my references to be 1:1 to each other?
Thank you very much.

[Anonymous No.6130485]

>>6122172
Why is pixel art so comfy and pixel artists such chads?

[Anonymous No.6130520]

>>6130483
This is the basic idea.
Count how many real pixels fit on one the scale up pixels, and then divide accordingly.
common numbers are:
3px divide 33.33%
4px divide 25% (vid rel)
5px divide 20%
If the picture is too big, first do 50% and then count.

[Anonymous No.6130568]

How's Pyxeledit?

[Anonymous No.6130769]

How's this look?

[Anonymous No.6130770]

>>6130769

[Anonymous No.6130796]

>>6122172
is there a way to maybe make some pocket change from pixelart? like commissions, making assets to sell on asset stores or any other route?
shit is rough rn

[Anonymous No.6130833]

>>6130520
tyvm anon, I fixed it with an alternative route however.
I used the gigantic archer guy as the opening file, and then I increased the canvas to match the pokemon ref canvas and it all worked out.

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[Anonymous No.6130926]

>>6130925

[Anonymous No.6130927]

>>6130926

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[Anonymous No.6132237]

>>6130796
Commissions, game assets, merch. Pixel Art is more versatile and loved than we give it credit for.

Merch might come as a surprise; but because of how it can be scaled cleanly without losing quality (hard edges), it's good for it. Just mind the CMYK output.

[Anonymous No.6132376]

how much does a pixel art commission cost nowadays?
can anyone give me a rough idea

[Anonymous No.6132382]

>>6132376
Dude just get a job

[Anonymous No.6132396]

>>6132382
i dont want to give up my neet lifestyle buddy

[Anonymous No.6133339]

[Anonymous No.6135671]

Some tiles i was working on

[Anonymous No.6137863]

Finally something worth showing off.

[Anonymous No.6138481]

...I seriously can't believe this took so little time to do compared to the other one.

[Anonymous No.6138488]

First attempt at making pixel art. watched a 10 minute aseprite tutorial and made this in about 20 minutes...would love to do cool landscapes someday and pokemon style villages.

i hate that it turned out very "furry"esque but oh well

[Anonymous No.6139797]

>>6138488
(me again)
second attempt at making pixel art. trying to learn isometric basics and geometry shit.

[Anonymous No.6139823]

this is golden age of pixel art imo
any other sites for game pixel rips?
this one is from the mystical forest zone. I randomly dreamed about it cause I used it when I was about 12, 15 years ago, and it's still going.

[Anonymous No.6139826]

>>6139823
Just use spriters resource, it's the biggest hub for game rips at this point

[Anonymous No.6139833]

>>6139826
thanks man this is awesome, I've not been into this for a long while
is it delusional to think I could get a job as a pixel artist? doing commissions and whatnot? I can already draw, and I could blow the dust off and get back into it. maybe join a game jam and offer to do some pixel art for experience

[Anonymous No.6139869]

>>6139833
>is it delusional to think I could get a job as a pixel artist? doing commissions and whatnot?
Not at all, you just need to fine the right place for it. Unfortunately I'm a brainlet at networking, but if you look for places that would want your work for a game or maybe even animations since that use to be a thing for sprite work in the past, I'm sure you'd find something.

[Anonymous No.6139929]

>>6139869
I was hoping some anons with experience would pitch in, that spriters resource has a subforum for jobs, also looking on itch.io... just gotta actually decide on what to make to start some example work

[Anonymous No.6139993]

>>6139929
i only have experience with commissions and i can assure you are not going to make a living out of that, so your best option would be to try to get a job on a studio. But i have no idea how to do it. If you want some spare money my recommendation is to go hard on twitter. That is where most of the audience is, places like spriters resource or pixeljoint are a waste of time, is also a good idea to post your links on game dev communities (discord). There is also places like fiverr but idk.
The amount of money you can make really depends on how appealing is your work, and in general it can take a while to make anything at all.

[Anonymous No.6140144]

>>6139993
Guess I'm posting everywhere, thanks anon
Starting this portfolio is making me realise I am creatively bankrupt. I have no big projects in mind to make chars/environments for and I'm just relying on random prompts and pinterest pics

[Anonymous No.6140275]

Final one.

[Anonymous No.6141435]

First go at animating something quite happy with how it turned out but could probably do with some improvement. Any Ideas where to start?

[Anonymous No.6141497]

>>6128806
Anime face silhouettes don't usually distort when they're talking or emoting

[Anonymous No.6141626]

>>6138481
this idle animations look awesome, my only criticism is the way you draw faces is not really appealing. I'm not sure if it is the shape of the eyes or the colors, but something don't look right to me. A simpler approach looks better in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.6141648]

>>6141626
Thanks for the complement, and criticism, much appreciated!. The reason for the face is because it's trying to fit in the PPG/Z style into what is ultimately a very cramped , Jump Ultimate Stars inspired sprite style. While your approach looks cool too, I'm just trying to say on model to the source. Which again, can be rather challenging with the sprite style I want to go with. But thanks for the feedback, I might have to give it another pass through.

[Anonymous No.6141876]

Anyways, here's three new sprites. Kinda like them but using Mania's color palette completely doesn't really feel right with my preferred taste for these sprites imo. It's not bad, I think I just want to try a different color range.

[Anonymous No.6143665]

How does it look?

[Anonymous No.6143945]

>>6132032
Is that a self portrait?

Pretty sure hcone was a salaryman

[Anonymous No.6143948]

>>6130769
>>6130770

Sprite and char portrait look cool.

The animation looks like the duck is walking backwards, but maybe that's cause it's 4 frames

Try 6 frames on a down-up-up-down-up-up motion.

[Anonymous No.6146911]

bump

[Anonymous No.6146932]

I am /beg/er than /beg/, but I decided to draw one monster girl a day for a month and take it from there. It's not great but I don't hate it. I'll spare you the first 3.

[Anonymous No.6146944]

I am /beg/er than /beg/, but I decided to draw one monster girl a day for a month and take it from there. It's not great but I don't hate it. I'll spare you the first 3.

[Anonymous No.6147057]

trying to make a phone background akin to that "the worst is yet to come" pink sunset pixel art. Any advice? I know I need to add more rastering, etc. I kinda cheated by using the function in paint.net.

[Anonymous No.6147155]

>>6146911
I like the colors

[Anonymous No.6147181]

Balls fighting

[Anonymous No.6147853]

>>6139797
>makes grid
>completely ignores grid
lol

[Anonymous No.6147861]

any glaring mistakes?

[Anonymous No.6148231]

>>6147861
dead gen :(

[Anonymous No.6148321]

>>6147861
If this is not bait, well let's start for the beginning. Learn how to draw.

[Anonymous No.6148327]

>>6148321
suck my fat cock and give actual critique

[Anonymous No.6148339]

>>6148327
how do you even give a critic on this? we need context, what even is that thing? what are you using it for? What the hell is he doing? like, is just and ugly blob what do you expect

[Anonymous No.6148350]

>>6148339
what? am I supposed to draw each frame fully rendered for your viewing pleasure before I consider posting? no posting WIPs?
I fucking hate /ic/


its a man with a gigantic fist thats too heavy for his scrawny body dropping it on the ground and then trying to pick it back up, how fucking hard is it to figure that out?

[Anonymous No.6148352]

>>6148339
>anon has never made an animation in his entire life nor looked at animations being made

shame

[Anonymous No.6148386]

>>6148350
>how fucking hard is it to figure that out?
very, there you go that's my critic.

[Anonymous No.6148393]

>>6148386
jesus christ, it must be hard to make art with that heavy of an inability to fucking figure out context clues. you must look at a silouette of a bike and get confused as to why theres a bunch of fucking black spaghetti on a white page

[Anonymous No.6148902]

>>6148231
Head looks like a cock. If he is trying to pull up his fist, then the upper arm should be scrawnier. The fist should pull down his upper arm and shoulder, rather than extending his arm to be straight. If he is trying to pull up his whole arm, there should be more strain coming from the shoulder or upper torso, with less bend at the elbow.

[Anonymous No.6148907]

>>6141435
I would personally remove those action lines. Makes it float a tad more at the peak of the jump

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[Anonymous No.6149920]

>>6148393
You see the difference is that looks like a bicycle and your thing looks like shit

[Anonymous No.6150122]

>>6147861
>>6148231
Yeah, he needs to stop jacking off so much

[Anonymous No.6150291]

>>6148902
nigger
>>6149920
another blind retard using AI to read pictures
>>6150122
he will jack off in front of you


almost time to actually render instead of these placeholder colors

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[Anonymous No.6150413]

>>6150291
Ok, here is some real advice if you still want some. Overall, I think the biggest problem is the arm being too consistent. The arm should be exaggerated to flex and bulge outward. I also feel the shoulder is slightly too stiff for the movement shown. Finally, and this is my personal recommendation, right at the end when he is about to drop his fist, it should waver a bit to show that he is having a hard time lifting his massive arm.

[Anonymous No.6150663]

>>6150320
Good job.

[Anonymous No.6150685]

>>6150663
Thanks.

Also, does any anon know any games with similar artsyles to Rabi-Ribi as I can't find it's sprites on anywhere.

[Anonymous No.6150906]

Question, do you guys displa your pixel art on CRT?

[Anonymous No.6152935]

>>6135671
>>6137863
I love these. So pretty and comfy-looking.

[Anonymous No.6153721]

>>6122172

[Anonymous No.6154574]

So what do think of these two? I would like any advice on how to improve the fur.

[Anonymous No.6155340]

figuring out how to do fire

[Anonymous No.6155691]

This one is still unfinished but I really like how its coming out. What do you guys think?

[Anonymous No.6155702]

>>6155691
Slightly better arm

[Anonymous No.6157090]

>>6155702
Man this thread moves slower than molasses. Well here is my finished piece, feel free to give your own criticisms.

[Anonymous No.6157384]

>>6155691
>>6155702
>>6157090
Yeah it's pretty slow here...
But I think it looks pretty good, on my screen though the shading on the bushes in the back seem to me too desaturated next to the very saturated darkest green in your palette.

I decided I'd try to show you what I meant by tweaking it myself. Not sure if this appears the same on my end the same on others (it better considering I bought a new monitor just to circumvent this) so I hope you see what I mean here.

[Anonymous No.6157387]

>>6157384
Oh and I forgot to point out I also tweaked the yellow in the middle to shift towards the purple shadows to make them harmonize better, which I think made it pop more.

[Anonymous No.6158003]

I'm trying a new style, does this look alright?

[Anonymous No.6158007]

>>6157387
Yeah, I didn't quite notice it at first but yeah the yellow you used for the new one is better than the original, Thx man

[Anonymous No.6158063]

>>6158003
i think it needs a little more contrast, and the pants don't look right to me, i try to change them, but they still look bad

[Anonymous No.6158185]

>>6158007
NP. I know color/hue shifting isn't something everyone uses/likes but in cases like that I think it just makes "living" characters feel more alive to me imo, so just keep that in mind when shading your sprites

What program do you use to sprite in btw? A nice feature to use is a proper Grayscale toggle to make sure your values are correct, which is how I began to learn how to spot inaccuracies myself even in color. I have it in Photoshop, but I'm sure other programs have it as well.

[Anonymous No.6158668]

nvm.

[Anonymous No.6158742]

>>6158668
Oh great this asshole is back again

[Anonymous No.6159779]

different one, nevermind.

[Anonymous No.6160374]

https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/147614.htm(recent thing I did, can't upload 2 in one post)

regarding this obvious catJAM/ratJAM copy I was wondering if it's considered pixel art or oekaki. I tend to like doing low detail higher resolution animations/images because they allow small details and changes. not sure if I can upload it to pixel joint guilt free, you know.

[Anonymous No.6160395]

>>6122792
don't be such a pussy. drawing nude people is part of the journey.

[Anonymous No.6160404]

>>6160374
have you tried posting on Instagram or twitter, so you don't have to worry about what some retard thinks your art is or isn't.

[Anonymous No.6160569]

lol my pixelart is trash i just downscale larger images until it looks like a crude version of pixel art

[Anonymous No.6160571]

>>6160569
woops wrong fella

[Anonymous No.6160663]

>>6160569
Turning a good drawing into pixel art is not particularly hard, but you need to keep in mind what are the characteristics that make something look like pixel art. Only reducing the resolution is not enough because there are to many colors, you need to do both. To which amount is a matter of taste, but is always better to try to aim for a specific style. Like, " i want this to look like it's from metal slug" or something. And you still need to clean up the sprite after transforming it.
On this one i use 4 colors and made the resolution smaller, and i think it is fair to say that it looks much more like pixel art even without the cleanup.

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[Anonymous No.6161371]

>>6158668
>>6159779
Last one for now, nevermind.

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[Anonymous No.6161564]

>>6160663
dude nice, and ty for the advice. ive used a few pixel conversion programs before and have been unable to utilize them effectively. i appreciate ur feedback and will take this into account moving forward.

out of curiosity, what program did you use to accomplish what you did to my lil buddy?

[Anonymous No.6161649]

>>6160760
Nice pallette

[Anonymous No.6161794]

>>6161564
Most people use photoshop, and there are tutorials on YouTube. But in my opinion there are better tools now SLK_img2pixel is free, and it lets you pick a color pallet which is pretty nice, the only problem is that it crashes a lot and is kinda hard to use. I made this one with Pixelover, is pretty similar to SLK_img2pixel but it does not crash on my system.

Also stay away from the dithering options, is always better to add a color that to use dithering on these programs. The dithering they use is too complex for any human to pull off, so it looks fake.

[Anonymous No.6161906]

Three more sprites incoming. And yes, I know I left off her bracelet here.

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[Anonymous No.6161995]

nvm.

[Anonymous No.6162191]

So I am working on new dryad. Does anyone have pixel art of fantasy fruits and vegetables that I could use as a reference? The most creative thing I could come up with are blue bananas

[Anonymous No.6162338]

>>6162191
Maybe look up Mexican, Jamaican , Hawaiian and Japanese foods if you wanna look for exotic commodities .

[Anonymous No.6162400]

>>6162191
There's this youtube channel weirdexplorer whose goal is to eat every fruit in the world. Just look at his popular videos and you'll probably get some ideas.

[Anonymous No.6164248]

Hello, friends. Greetings from /fag/. How do I into pixel art? Pic related is my first attempt. I used Krita and tried the pixel brushes. My biggest concern is picking colors that go well with pixel art.

[Anonymous No.6164256]

>>6164248
Also, how to make bigger pixels, if that makes sense. I still want to have that block-y aesthetic while maintaining the higher resolution.

Pick related is my regular stuff. Is there any way to comfortably convert it to pixel art?

>>6122178
>>6122181
>>6122184
>>6122792
>>6125429
>>6129570
>>6128947
>>6132032
You guys are insanely good!

>>6130770
Really cool portraits.

[Anonymous No.6164264]

>>6161649
>>6164256
Thanks, Honestly my advice is just to buy/pirate pixel logic as I'd probably say it's the equivalent of the animator's survival kit, but for pixel art.

[Anonymous No.6164269]

>>6164264
Will do. I've also downloaded img2pixel, per >>6161794 's suggestion.

[Anonymous No.6164279]

>>6164256
>You guys are insanely good!
Thanks! I wish you are too.

[Anonymous No.6164823]

>>6164269
There seem to be some interest for this, and if it bump the thread i don't mind.

Here are 2 examples, left has 8 colors and is 500 px tall, right is 16 colors and close to 250 px tall. Which one looks better is not really that important. What is significant is which one looks more like pixel art and why. Even tho left is also limiting the resolution and amount of colors, most people would not call it pixel art. Here lies the importance of references, if your work don't look like it belongs on a group that has other drawings made by pixel artist, you need to try again.

On the subject of cleaning drawings and achieving the rendering. I did some clean up on the bottom right to illustrate this. As you can see, i removed some anti aliasing on the circle, and the green pixels on the pants. Still there is a lot to be done, like joining or removing single pixels, fixing some curves, and you can still remove one or two colors here but i'm not really that fond of this drawing to keep working on this.
As it was mentioned before, pixel logic is a book about rendering pixel art, so the recommendations there are going to apply when you are cleaning up your pixel art (i have no idea why some people are trying to push it as a drawing manual, but i digress).

[Anonymous No.6166099]

>>6164823
>would not call it pixel art
Nta but i dont understand why? Will it become pixel art if it was 250px instead of 500px?

[Anonymous No.6166499]

>>6166099
The reason is audience expectation, go to dotpict or spriters resource and look at the art posted there, this is what people expect to see when you use the term pixel art. We are not that different from something like the Anime Study General. They are aiming for a specific aesthetic that looks genuine, and we are too.
That is why i'm giving you pointers for making the drawing look like pixel art, this is the general for pixel art.

Personally i like the left one more, but i would not call it pixel art, and avoid posting on pixel art communities so people don't get pissy.

[Anonymous No.6166520]

>>6166499
ya im starting pixel and its confusing on what is and isnt, honestly i assumed u only need a pixel brush for it to be pixel art at the start

[Anonymous No.6168197]

I started doing a perspective series on the redline cars without knowing the least thing about perspective except drawing lines to one point so I'll probably look it up before the next piece.

[Anonymous No.6169565]

>>6122172
Hi. I was referred here by /agdg/
I'm wondering if anyone here knows cheats for pixel art making. In particular, I've heard an artist on twitter talk about posterization and other cheats 90s developers used to help mass produce tile assets. Personally speaking, I'm a lone talentless dev with no fucking money and an ideaguy in general so I'm hungry for any way to get my content into game format for less work. I understand, based on what he was saying, that the results aren't really the same as "twoo pixel art" but the stuff he did was very impressive, here's an example of his work.

[Anonymous No.6169568]

>>6161906
>>6161909
>>6161910
based kaoru. the world needs more oreonna.

[Anonymous No.6169590]

>>6168197
This looks inappropriate

[Anonymous No.6169591]

>>6169590
you try being locked in an animation studio for 7 years.

[Anonymous No.6169618]

>>6169591
Did you animate inappropriate things?

[Anonymous No.6169724]

>>6169565
A couple of post above you can see examples of the kind of look you get, they could work for a title screen, a visual novel or some retro cut scenes.
That picture was not made using that method. Because you need a good drawing to begin with making the pixel art directly is way faster than turning drawing or photos into pixel art, especially for traditional side scrollers, isometric views, or top down games.

[Anonymous No.6169756]

>>6169724
I've been trying for 30 minutes to fight twatters gay UI so I can find the tweet but in general I'm not sure you are correct here since almost all of this guys art is top down tileset stuff. I know you probably wont be using it to turn the average photo into a magic tileset but I have to imagine he actually uses it in his process somehow, maybe by using imprecise brushes and cleaning it with it? I have no real idea. In any case this idea isn't impossible for me to get any use out of. In fact if anything my tileset ideas are probably the best case scenario for what this technology can offer, which is why I need to diy anyway, no one else is offering a tileset like what I have in mind. That said It's not like I'm discounting your advice outright either. I'd be more inclined to take it hook line and sinker if you could describe a useful way this guy is using this workflow to help him create stuff like this, even if it's limited in scope. this kind of stuff is almost everything that guy has in his portfolio it wouldn't make sense to shill it so hard if he wasn't using it somehow.

[Anonymous No.6169764]

>>6169724
>>6169565
>>6169756
fucking finally found it
>@zaebucca
>Blending modes, posterize, lots of copypaste and edit (from my own original stuff, ofc), restricted palette violation, tile-breaking, nearest neighboring on ps, auto-dithering, indexing, (rare desu) tracing
>Basically i don't do pixel art anymore, pixels are just a byproduct by now
>...
>Anyways, I feel like polish is needed to some extent, or else it's just random brush strokes and dead color values!
basically he uses some kind of workflow and I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to understand it. I know he also uses practice and skill, and the last comment definitely means he doesn't use unprocessed images, but the style I'm going for would definitely benefit. I may be an ideafaggot but I know at the very least I'm picking a style uniquely suited to my lack of talent.

[Anonymous No.6169823]

>>6169764
This is really interesting. I need to try a few things but if i find a way to recreate it, i post a guide later.

[Anonymous No.6169909]

>>6169764
I guess it works.
First, you need to find a picture of the front of the building, then use SLK_img2pixel/Pixelover for reducing the size and picking a pallet, and lastly you need to draw the rooftop.
Is it faster? maybe? The biggest problem is that it looks inconsistent, so my guess is that most of your time is going to be spent on that.

[Anonymous No.6169936]

>>6169909
this kind of work flow seems of limited use for me, but it does give me ideas on what I can do using photoshop or something. i'll probably end up doing just what you did but to a bunch of stuff like these as a test at some point.
I'm not really going to be doing much with buildings to start. Maybe I can also do it with crystals? I have a feeling it wont work out too well but the tree looks kind of okay if in need of editing.

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[Anonymous No.6170983]

I've been trying different styles for a paperdoll style to be used for all humanoid type characters in my game. I really like how the right one is since it can fit more details, but some other opinions would be helpful.

[Anonymous No.6171005]

>>6170983
I like the size of the one on the right but prefer the colors and style of the one on the left.

[Anonymous No.6171025]

>>6170983
The one on the right is definitely more unique and memorable in my opinion, but the one the left has a more interesting perspective and pose, reminiscent of an RPGmaker game. Depends on the context and style of game.

[Anonymous No.6171055]

>>6170983
Left is like something I've seen in a Square RPG, the right is Mario and Luigi RPG.

Both looks good in their own ways.

[Anonymous No.6171251]

>>6170983
too fat

[Anonymous No.6173792]

Fixed up an old animation

[Anonymous No.6173805]

>>6173792
Dude this is so good. How do you approach these animations? what do you use for reference and stuff

[Anonymous No.6173961]

>>6173805
> How do you approach these animations?
I usually just go frame by frame and just break it down to having good flow and adjust the pixel placement until it looks clean enough in motion. One advice I recommend is just reusing as many parts from each frame as much as you can, as in, the face or the feet, whatever isn't moving as much, reuse those pixels and when you need to adjust, then adjust. It allows me to get the general flow down while the more intricate parts like the legs and arms get more focus as I redraw them in the right positions.

>what do you use for reference and stuff
The general size of the sprite were heavily based around Jump Ultimate Star sprites as those were my preferred size for humanoid sprites when I first began doing these.
The actual pose is inspired from Sakura from Street Fighter. As I felt it was a fitting stance for my character in question.

[Anonymous No.6174119]

>>6173961
Thank you for the insight, i'm going to try this out.

[Anonymous No.6174363]

>>6174119
Np. Good luck on your journey into sprite animation.

[Anonymous No.6175577]

I am very much a beginner in all things art so I tried some frogs having fun learning it all

[Anonymous No.6176733]

Wip for a project i'm working with. Not sure about the grass and stones, but I like the rest.

[Anonymous No.6176740]

>>6176733
>for a project I'm helping with
Fixed. Is not my project, I'm just giving a hand

[Anonymous No.6178355]

[Anonymous No.6180874]

updated the piece I posted above. Are the details good? Should I add more? What should I change? Trying to make a phone wallpaper.

[Anonymous No.6180881]

>>6176733
I think you should simplify them. Have you ever read the studio miniboss pixel tutorials?