Castle Paradox

Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

Good outline/design Inspiration, but... uses pillow shading...
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Inspiration · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:21 am Post subject:

That's a great tutorial!
But now Roberta looks a little...bloated. Neutral

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Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

One great part of it that a lot of people (including me in the past, and your re-draw) miss is:

"The lighter tone should be applied to surfaces facing towards the light source. The darker tone should be applied to surfaces facing away from the light source."

In other words, you have to imagine the orientation of each plane in the drawing, and color it accordingly -- don't simply, as so many people do, color the sections closer to the light source brighter than the sections farther away from the light source, the way each surface is *facing* is what matters. But that takes a lot of practise to get right admittedly.
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Inspiration · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:44 am Post subject:

Um. I don't really understand that, but I went ahead and just kind of recolored it.

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Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

It's tricky, but think of an object as reflective, as if it were made of a bunch of mirrors (some flat, some bent, all around the object like a skin). The mirrors that are facing directly at the light will be brighter than the mirrors that are not facing the light, because they'd be catching and then reflecting the light that's pointed at them.

So, the idea is, it doesn't matter how close the mirror is to the light, what matters is whether the mirror is facing the light (and will reflect a lot of light), at an angle from it (and will reflect less), or not facing it at all (will be in the shade).

Real objects do actually act like mirrors: what we see when we look at something is what light that object is reflecting.

So, the way you re-colored it is still basically pillow shading except that you moved the center of the pillow to a different place besides the center. It looks better than it was, but it still doesn't work like how light is reflected.

But I don't want to give the impression that I'm an expert on pixel art, I'm pretty bad at it. I'm just talking about the science behind it.
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Inspiration · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:55 am Post subject:

No, no.
Science is cool.

I'll just try to work out this light thingy with some future sprites. Raspberry!

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Joe Man · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject:

I fear to know what she looks like facing front.
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Komera · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 711

What's that white dot floating next to her head? I mean aside from "a white dot".
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

That's probably the blinking draw cursor that may still linger if you scroll the mouse away fast enough.

Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

The drawing cursor?
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