Good game character?

pxlpfctpxlpfct Member Posts: 37
edited April 2012 in Art, Graphics, Music and Sound
For the past 2 days I've been doing Spriteattack's tutorials for my game. This is my main character, he's a little kid. Do you guys think this is high enough quality (art, not res) for release?
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  • alimpo83alimpo83 Member Posts: 188
    I guess the level of quality you want for your all character is the one you display on his eyes. you need to add more detail (shades=vector shapes) on legs, hands, shirt and hair. The only thing i really don't like is the mouth, a bit too simple. But keep up the effort! You'll get there :)
  • pxlpfctpxlpfct Member Posts: 37
    Thanks!
  • EatingMyHatEatingMyHat Member Posts: 1,246
    Looks like a short olive-oil, in a good way :D
    I agree with @alimpo83, you might want more details, but it all depends on the art style of the game.


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  • MoonMouseMoonMouse Member Posts: 75
    Looking good! As @alimpo83 said, I'd add a few more details to the hair and such. Apart from that, I think it may be a good idea to change the color of his nose to match the skin tone a bit more, as the red color kinda makes it look like the poor guy has a cold ;)
    Also, maybe try seeing how the character looks with eyebrows.
    How this helps :)
  • pxlpfctpxlpfct Member Posts: 37
    Refined it! Also, added in a Half Life 3 t-shirt because I couldn't think of a logo.
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    Also, updated original post with this too. Thanks everyone!
  • PsychoticStudiosPsychoticStudios Member Posts: 101
    edited April 2012
    I like it :D ! I am not a fan of having the nose be red like MoonMouse had said.
    But I do say you're character has amazing fashion sense =D>
  • SpriteAttackSpriteAttack Member Posts: 524
    Great start @pxlpfct - I agree with @PsychoticStudios on the nose issue and would also alter the proportions a little bit to bring out the big head characteristic more:
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  • pxlpfctpxlpfct Member Posts: 37
    GAH SPRITE ATTACK WHY MUST YOU BE SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!
  • pxlpfctpxlpfct Member Posts: 37
    Also, I'm planning on animating it so how do I animate the kind of legs that @Spriteattack did?
  • pxlpfctpxlpfct Member Posts: 37
    edited April 2012
    How's my blatant rip off of Spriteattack?
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    Still wondering, how do I animate it for a sidescroller?
  • PsychoticStudiosPsychoticStudios Member Posts: 101
    edited April 2012
    Still wondering, how do I animate it for a sidescroller?
    You could have the image you have now
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    be his non moving pose (sighing animation or something)

    then create another sprite which is more of a side perspective of him

    like this image,

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    Then animate how you would if looking at him from this pose.
    (Spriteattack's animation tutorial http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2011/11/character-animation.html)
    Hope that made sense. :-/
  • NmdogdudeNmdogdude Member Posts: 174
    How I do animation in photoshop is to make a character, then save, then rotate the legs/whatever, then do save as "file name-2", then highlight all the documents and drag them into the animate behavior. then give that animation a behavior of moving/accelerating in a certain direction.
  • pxlpfctpxlpfct Member Posts: 37
    Bam! Animated! I like it, what do you guys think?
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  • Braydon_SFXBraydon_SFX Member, Sous Chef, Bowlboy Sidekick Posts: 9,273
    His head isn't moving to much, and he is looking right at you as he us walking? Might want to change that. :)

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  • DreamLabDreamLab Member Posts: 2,127
    Bam! Animated! I like it, what do you guys think?
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    Looks great! Maybe add a blinking animation?
  • LeonardDeveloperLeonardDeveloper Member Posts: 4,630
    Take away the drawing on the Tshirt it makes it look like he's front facing
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  • SpriteAttackSpriteAttack Member Posts: 524
    @pxlpfct - great work - sorry... I am in the wrong time zone and caught some Zs otherwise I would have answered earlier...

    I would move the head a little more - have the eyes facing the direction you are walking - reduce the width of the chest and scale the logo's width down. You might also try and not move the shoulder forward so much but make it more of a swinging motion.

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  • pxlpfctpxlpfct Member Posts: 37
    Thanks guys! Will redo tonight and tomorrow, I'm at a family thing now.
  • pxlpfctpxlpfct Member Posts: 37
    I think I finally nailed it. Thanks guys!
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    With the logo I moved it to the right and clipped it to the right so it would give it more perspective, does it look ok or should I eradicate it complately?
  • arkonllfarkonllf Member Posts: 118
    Wow that looks awesome!!
    Love the art and the animation, with what program did you create the animation?
  • pxlpfctpxlpfct Member Posts: 37
    All done in Inkscape. If you want to do something similar google Spriteattack vector tutorials. If you don't want to do that here's the short version:
    Make arms and legs into 2 or 3 segments
    Move rotation point to the end so it'll rotate like in real life
    Rotate to pose
    Copy and paste into new layer
    Change opacity to 25%
    Rinse wash repeat
    Export
    Shamelessly stolen from Spriteattack :)
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    He should blink from time to time to just add that little extra touch
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  • pxlpfctpxlpfct Member Posts: 37
    edited April 2012
    Added in blinking, don't feel like posting
  • Braydon_SFXBraydon_SFX Member, Sous Chef, Bowlboy Sidekick Posts: 9,273
    He should be looking in front, not to the side. Look at SpriteAttacks image as a reference.

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