Castle Paradox

junahu · Last edited by junahu on Thu May 27, 2004 3:22 am; edited 3 times in total

The smaller graphic is supposed to be a child in an oversized shirt, but I got carried away and now the creases have dissapeared. The size of the picture doesn't help either.

oh, and shadows are supposed to be blue. I read a tutorial on it somewhere.

LET THE DISCREDITING OF MY ART SKILLS COMMENCE!

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The shading on this one looks wrong, especially since the person's shadow is depicted by a square of colour
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Kenji Murasame · **Shizuma** Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 103 Location: ON TO

You know, with sprite work it's usually a good idea to magnafy it by a few times (4x, or 8x), otherwise it's pretty hard to judge.

By my perception it's looking cute.

junahu · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 3:11 am Post subject:

Whoops. Sorry, I forgot to do that. I'll do that now. Oookay...

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Kenji Murasame · **Shizuma** Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 103 Location: ON TO

The punching guy is pretty cool. ah. It's all fairly decent sprite work.

What's it for?

junahu · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 4:10 am Post subject:

...? They're not actually FOR anything unfortunately. I'm just learning to become a better sprite artist at the moment.

I wasn't really thinking much when I drew these (you can probably tell) and I obviously have a long way to go to match any of the better artists here, but I'll keep trying.
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MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 4:43 am Post subject:

if you really want to improve your art i really reccomend that you try converting, say, 8 bit sprites to 32 bit or 16 bit, etc.
(or in the opposite order.)
also interesting is to take one sprite and convert it to another game's style.
ex: take a sprite of simon belmont and make it in the same style as ryu in sfa3, etc.

junahu · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 5:15 am Post subject:

I'll try that.
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djfenix · Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 359

Regarding the shadows... they dont necessarily have to be blue.

The colour of the shadow is the inverted colour of the light. Suppose you have a light that's bright yellow, even almost white, which is the light we usually get, then the colour of the shadow would be slightly purplish. And if you have a purple light, you'd get a yellowish shadow. Since you have a blue shadow, then the colour of your light would have to be orange... and a pretty deep orange to get such a clear blue colour.

If you dont know what inverted colours are... here's a list
Blue - Orange
Red - Green
Yellow - Purple
Black - White

Since most light sources are pretty bright, only a hint of the shadow colour is seen. And if the light source is weak (like a red light from a dark room), the rest of the area would be too dark to see the actual colour of the shadow. Therefore shadows appear black.

Hunter Green · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 10:15 pm Post subject:

Holy shit wiz, your sig is too big.
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junahu · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:35 am Post subject: