Art feedback

[troflip]

It looks good... it should have some kind of idle animation, or at least head movement maybe. You did a lot with a few pixels though!


I'm trying to figure out how to draw better (or more varied) cliffs. The examples below are "import bitmap to pic" undithered EGA from some I found on the internet. Wish I could draw something like that...

[MusicallyInspired]

That's quite an effective palette with those light pastel colours!

[troflip]

Yeah, it works really well with pastel-y desaturated colors.

Here's another I imported from some game I forgot the name of...

If nothing else, it gives me ideas for palettes that might work well..

[OmerMor]

Super Cauldron

[MusicallyInspired]

Quite gorgeous! For those first screens I actually thought at first glance it was an SCI1.1 background and that you were playing with colour cycling for animation of the waterfalls.

[troflip]

Beginning of my attempt to make cliffs that look something like the stuff I posted earlier... not satisfied with anything yet...

[Kawa]

Heh. Already got me beat~

[Collector]

Came across this in my Facebook feed from Steve Ince. Not that it is a solution directly in the Pic editor, but it could be used to make a tracing image or to scan in for an SCI1.1 Pic. https://www.facebook.com/Anatolyreza/posts/10208954828525634

[troflip]

I thought about implementing something like that in SCI Companion... wouldn't be too hard, I don't think. I haven't bothered yet because it's mainly useful for scenes where most objects are aligned along 3 axes (generally human constructions like houses and such, which I am not doing much of).

[MusicallyInspired]

Nice! It's still valuable to make sure everything is lined with the vanishing point/horizon line. In SCI you can easily make vector guidelines and then erase them again when they're not needed. Even natural and organic looking objects can be placed and sized appropriately.

[Collector]

In SCI you can easily make vector guidelines and then erase them again when they're not needed.

You could, but what is nice about how he did that in the video was how easy and quick it is to use on the fly. Short of that though, vector guidelines would be a reasonable way to to it.

[MusicallyInspired]

Did something else yesterday. Using Thrawn as a base I made another character from the story, Captain Pellaeon. I like how it turned out. Imperial uniforms have a slight green tint to them I think but I figured straight gray was close enough, otherwise I'd have to alter the main 64-colour palette which I don't really want to do unless I absolutely need to. I could try, though. Might make for an interesting vibe throughout the game. I added a comparison pic for the closest resemblance I imagine Pellaeon visually. I picture Pellaeon a bit older than in this image so a full face and a bit more body weight is the look I was going for in the sprite. And also the original (but slightly refined) Thrawn sprite which was used as the base.

[troflip]

You captured the mustache really well.

[MusicallyInspired]

That was honestly a real challenge. It took me a while to accept that I had to add a third pixel on the side views that "curls" it downward as I thought it might look too much like a handlebar moustache. But in such low resolution it really isn't so bad.

[MusicallyInspired]

Slight subtle edits to the front view to try to make him appear a little older by making him a bit beefier, but not overweight which was a tricky balance to strike.