Pixel Art Heavy

Huze · January 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">rate</div> What is your rating on my new pixel art avatar?

CatCop · January 2004

8/10
Why it didnt get a 10:
It wasnt in an action pose
It wasnt shaded

Good job!

chis1 · January 2004

hmm 6/10 seems kinda plain, but its kinda "cute" if you get me..

ZERG · January 2004

6/10

Lack of shading and looks flat. Not to mention lack of a really cool pose!

JediYoshi · January 2004

Since i can't do pixel art anyway I'm just gonna say I love it.

Huze · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Delta-Snipe @ Jan 16 2004, 11:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> 8/10
Why it didnt get a 10:
It wasnt in an action pose
It wasnt shaded

Good job! </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
well, i lightly shaded it, it's hard to see.

As for an action pose, well that's coming.

Akalamanaia · January 2004

8/10
Its quite nice but as said pose and shading, but otherwise in my opinion it is good.

RPG_Jssmfulhud · January 2004

I won't rate it with numbers, but I'll say it looks neat. I never did pixel art (and doubt that I could) so I'm always amazed by these little things. Good work. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

ZeroByte · January 2004

Hey! Another pixel artist! Try visiting the <a href='http://web1.t43.greatnet.de' target='_blank'>pixelation forums</a>, there's a great community of pixellers over there. That being said, i'll go into the actual crit'ing of the piece.

I think the details you drew into him are pretty good, although the pose is too rigid to really make it look kick ****. If you don't want to edit the pose much, an idea I can give you is to put the heavy into an attention position (as in the army kind of drills attention) and remove the hmg. Also, the HMG seems to be held in an awkward position.

As for the shading, I recommend to try to go for more contrast instead of less. At 1x view, the shading is really not apparent. It was still kinda difficult to discern it from a zoomed in view. Also, your colour management can really use some work I think. I used my handy dandy <a href='http://zerobyte.servebeer.com/palette/?source=http://mywebpage.netscape.com/GreenBaron6/heavyav.gif' target='_blank'>palette analyzer</a> and I see that you're using 71 colours in it. Kinda overkill for pixel art. Also, a lot of the colours seem redundant to me because they're very close to each other in shades.

TacoSurelog · January 2004

I think it looks awesome. I love good pixel art.

Fam · January 2004

Personally, I don't see the need for miniscule pallettes in pixelart work, unless it is being developed for a specific medium with a limited pallette.

Huze · January 2004

Well, heres the "action pose"

I only had a reference of the front though.

<img src='http://mywebpage.netscape.com/GreenBaron6/haside.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

I can animate the gun, but i left my muzzle flashes on my other computer <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

I don't like this one very much, he just looks odd...

Liku · January 2004

He's left handed, that's why it looks weird.

Huze · January 2004

And, while i'm at it heres an ak47 to rate
<img src='http://mywebpage.netscape.com/GreenBaron6/ak472.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Huze · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Liku @ Jan 17 2004, 04:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> He's left handed, that's why it looks weird.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
So you mean just flip it around like this?

<img src='http://mywebpage.netscape.com/GreenBaron6/haside2.GIF' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

RPG_Jssmfulhud · January 2004

Ooh, I like it! This one's even better than the first one. The action pose is good. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Liku · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hi! @ Jan 17 2004, 02:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Liku @ Jan 17 2004, 04:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> He's left handed, that's why it looks weird. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
So you mean just flip it around like this?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Thar she blows!

Cr-ck · January 2004

10/10

lerky1 · January 2004

very cool <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>
10

Aea · January 2004

Since I'm a bad critic, consider it in the range of "good."

esuna · January 2004

As not to start a new thread, i'm gonna semi-hijack this one with a bit of pixel art i was doing last night. The smoke from the cigarette was going to be animated, but i really just couldn't be bothered. This was originally intended to be my forum avatar, but i'm not too sure right now, i might redo the body.

<img src='http://www.btinternet.com/~diesirae/pictures/esuna.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

CoolCookieCooks · January 2004

redo his chest bit :/

Jezpuh · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (esuna @ Jan 18 2004, 12:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <img src='http://www.btinternet.com/~diesirae/pictures/esuna.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Boobies!!

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