Castle Paradox

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Just use Imageshack. It will take you A MAXIMUM OF ONE SECOND TO USE. There is NO REASON NOT TO USE IT.

Chaotix · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject:

Damned xs.to.

that is my hoster. That must be why my avatar looks bad. Any idea of a good new host?

I will check out Imageshack tomorrow. I need to go to bed. Schools in a few hours.

Well, 8 and a half hours. Talk to you all tomorrow. I hope to have image shack, and a better sprite by then!
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Imageshack isn't a "have". It's a "use". You feed it an image, it spits out the path on its server. Now you have an image that can easily be used with [img] tags. It takes about 1 second at most, and you can check it out right now without losing any sleep whatsoever.

Chaotix · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject:

I have used the ogrgfx thing, and it brings him out as the color pallet 1. How can I make him come out his proper color?
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TMC · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:18 pm Post subject:

If I recall, use the scroll bar at the bottom of the screen to change palette.
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Chaotix · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject:

opps. I never noticed it...

I will post a better version of the sprit, and host it on imageshack!
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Chaotix · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject:

How is this one?
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Calehay · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:41 pm Post subject:

I'm not quite sure what the character is doing. Particularly the legs are hard to read. Are the legs just straight lines, or are they like normal human legs that are bent at the knee? I'm making an edit at the moment that should help give you ideas about that (I'm not anywhere near good with pixel art, but it should give you some ideas.) but I won't post it until you tell me if it is okay for me to make an edit.

EDIT: One of the biggest things that I am noticing, even in your design, is that you're not thinking of the character as a chestless body, but as five balls. with that, you aren't really putting things in areas that's easy to read. Try this; create a silhouette of a character in the flying position that you want. Then, using your design, place the 5 parts of the body in their approriate design.

Another thing that you might consider is changing the pose. Since he is flying, you have to make sure that it looks like that. Right now, it looks like he's just standing on really crooked legs. Maybe you could have him a bit rotated, or maybe keep him oriented and raise one leg. The shadow will be crucial if you keep him in this orientation, as it will tell us how far he is from the ground.
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Chaotix · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject:

His entire body will be covered in flames. THis is just here to se if I did things right.

Feel free to edit...
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Calehay · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject:

Here is my first edit. I removed the flame because I wasn't quite sure what to do with, but this is mostly dealing with the pose. I did this one before remembering that you wanted the character to be floating but there's other things to point out.

Firstly, you'll notice that I made the hand balls much smaller. Even in your original sketch, the hand balls were smaller than the head, and it was much easier to read. In your new one, there is such a small difference between the size of the head and hands that it's really hard to make a distinction.

The other edit is the eye. One problem that I had is that the character's eyes are stretching across the entire head, which reall doesn't make any sense. I probably should have reduced the size of the eye like in the other edit, but you can get the idea. The pupil was just for me to keep track of the character, so I'm not suggesting that you add a pupil.

Also, you'll notice I did some (extremely bad) dithering, which I'm not even sure I would suggest that you do. Like I said before, it's such a small sprite that it really doesn't need it. If you'd like to study dithering on small objects and want to stay in the OHR realm, Friend's games are very, very good in that respect (and practically all artistic respects, truly worth study.)

Also, you can see the silhoutte thing that I was talking about.

This is a horrible, horrible pose, but hopefully it gets you thinking. What I found wrong with your previous one was that the legs seemed to not display any sort of bending and were just straight lines. What I think would help your design would be if you added a block to represent the thighs. I didn't make a distinction here, but I think that it will make it look better.

As you can see, my horrible, horrible dithering really mucked up the legs, so I still suggest that you don't do it, or at least not as much as I did.
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