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LavaClaw

09-30-2012 07:29 AM

LavaClaw's Pixel Wizardry

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Attachment 6411
A bow I made the other day because I was bored.

Attachment 6412
A dagger I made, gani'd it too but no point in putting the ganis in here.

Attachment 6413
A head I recently made, I did the hair and realised I suck at drawing faces so Storm did it for me <3

I guess i'll post more when I find more. Also feedback/ways to improve is much appreciated.

Dylan

09-30-2012 07:32 AM

Nice work :3

Talon

09-30-2012 07:34 AM

Not bad. The bow is impressive.

Remorse

09-30-2012 07:36 AM

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Posted by Talon (Post 206381)

Not bad. The bow is impressive.

LavaClaw

09-30-2012 07:37 AM

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Thanks, found a few more.
Attachment 6414
I love tigers.

Attachment 6415
I edited the scimitar thing in the EC shop, this was a while back so it probably isn't my best work.

Attachment 6416
The rose I made for the valentines shop earlier this year.

PoeticFolly

09-30-2012 07:39 AM

I love you.

fsh	09-30-2012 07:53 AM

Looks good except the tiger's stripes look a bit funny.

And

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Posted by PoeticFolly (Post 206387)

I love you.

LavaClaw

10-01-2012 01:22 AM

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Love you all.

Found moar, some hats I made a while back.
Attachment 6423
Attachment 6424

Feedback?

Dylan

10-01-2012 01:30 AM

make new stuff! :3

Motrox

10-01-2012 01:30 AM

On the goggle the side view lens doesn't match the front view lens.

LavaClaw

10-01-2012 01:31 AM

I will soon, i'm just dumping the stuff I find scattered around my PC.

@motrox, i'm not seeing it?

iSilver

10-01-2012 01:52 AM

Quote:

Posted by LavaClaw (Post 206376)

best title ever

LavaClaw

10-01-2012 05:22 AM

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Attachment 6427

A water-style sword, wasn't too sure how to shade the metal though.

Dylan

10-01-2012 05:32 AM

moar contrast :3

LavaClaw

10-01-2012 05:34 AM

Quote:

Posted by Dylan (Post 206806)

moar contrast :3

Thanks, i'll give it a go after work.

PoeticFolly

10-01-2012 09:13 AM

Quote:

Posted by LavaClaw (Post 206712)

Love PoeticFolly the most

FTFY
I remember wearing that melon hat when I was an admin. I loved that thing, hahaha.

LavaClaw

10-01-2012 10:42 AM

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Added more contrast and made a spear version of it.
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@PoeticFolly yeah I remember you always wearing it lol

Dylan

10-01-2012 10:44 AM

The amount of colors used could be reduced, 19 is a ton for a lil sword. :P

LavaClaw

10-01-2012 10:48 AM

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Posted by Dylan (Post 206938)

The amount of colors used could be reduced, 19 is a ton for a lil sword. :P

What is the point in reducing colours though?

Dylan

10-01-2012 11:08 AM

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Posted by Cure

You may find that pixel artists often advocate a low color count. You might assume that this is just a tradition leftover from the olden days of pixel art, back when video game consoles could only display a certain amount of colors.

If modern computers can easily display hundreds of colors, why shouldn't you use them all? In truth, using small palettes isn't an outdated tradition of pixel art, and there are very logical reasons behind this practice.

Cohesion- When you're using less colors, the same colors will reappear throughout the piece more frequently. Since the different areas of the work share the same colors, the palette ties the piece together, unifying the work.

Control- The smaller the palette, the easier it is to manage. You may, and probably will, want to change adjust a color later on. If you've got 200 colors, it's going to take you a lot longer to make the adjustments, because by changing one color you've thrown off its relationship with the colors neighboring it on its color ramps, and adjusting them means changing the relationships between those colors and their neighbors! You can see how this quickly adds up to a lot of work. With a smaller palette, the effect of changing a single color is more substantial, and there are less micro-relationships to worry about.

LavaClaw

10-01-2012 12:30 PM

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Thanks Dylan, makes more sense now.
I used 8 colours on this sword, the blade itself looks a tad plain, any ideas?

Attachment 6441

Dylan

10-01-2012 12:42 PM

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Posted by LavaClaw (Post 206952)

Thanks Dylan, makes more sense now.
I used 8 colours on this sword, the blade itself looks a tad plain, any ideas?

Attachment 6441

I did a bit of an edit and added more contrast/hue shifts to the colors.
http://i.imgur.com/RBfxS.png

LavaClaw

10-01-2012 01:04 PM

Oh that looks great, the shiny effect especially.

Flux*

10-01-2012 01:36 PM

Wow Cool Stuff LavaClaw :)

Bas!	10-01-2012 01:42 PM

wowow nice job!!:D

XENA*

10-01-2012 03:02 PM

Nice!

BillyBob

10-01-2012 05:19 PM

Water sword is sexy. Same with steam punk goggles. Nice work (:

cache

10-01-2012 09:12 PM

Quote:

Posted by LavaClaw (Post 206798)

Attachment 6427

A water-style sword, wasn't too sure how to shade the metal though.

Use blue to shade metal

callimuc

10-01-2012 09:20 PM

awesome! go to loki and get part of the gfx team rather than the pr team!

LavaClaw

10-01-2012 10:52 PM

Thanks everyone for the comments

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Posted by cache (Post 207074)

Use blue to shade metal

I did lol

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Posted by callimuc (Post 207075)

awesome! go to loki and get part of the gfx team rather than the pr team!

Thanks, I don't think i'm quite that good though. Plus, I'd rather not have any commitments around my pixel art just yet.

cache

10-01-2012 11:23 PM

damn, didn't look at your latest sword x)

LavaClaw

10-02-2012 10:21 AM

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Made a set of Minecraft inspired tools.
Attachment 6457
i got lazy with the hoe rofl

Dylan

10-02-2012 10:37 AM

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Posted by LavaClaw (Post 207394)

Made a set of Minecraft inspired tools.
Attachment 6457
i got lazy with the hoe rofl

Nice, you should practice some AA :p

LavaClaw

10-02-2012 10:38 AM

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Posted by Dylan (Post 207400)

Nice, you should practice some AA :p

I keep trying to anti alias but it always turns out crap :<

EDIT: Tried anti aliasing the metal on the pick, turned out better I guess.
Attachment 6458
There's the comparison.

Kondie

10-02-2012 10:27 PM

Keep an outline, but don't make it too dark. Also, AA is for the inside so that the borders are softer. You seem to have done it to the background, and if it were used as a sprite, that wouldn't work. Other than that, nice work.

LavaClaw

10-02-2012 11:04 PM

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Posted by Kondie (Post 207587)

Thanks, yeah I thought about that but on the tutorial they did it to both sides of the line so I thought it was okay. The pick still seems kinda rigid though, what am I doing wrong?

Kondie

10-02-2012 11:53 PM

On the left here is your original and on the right is my remake of it.

http://i.imgur.com/ANoAt.png

The major difference would be that I softened the outline, but kept it so that it wasn't too dark. I added highlights on the border where necessary to give it a metallic shine, but I never brought the inner highlights close to the edge so that it didn't contrast a lot and give a rigid look. I hope this helps. :) (The reason it may still look rigid is that it's a small image and AA doesn't really help on edges like that. I hope it helped you somewhat though.)

LavaClaw

10-03-2012 12:12 AM

Ah okay, makes a lot more sense now, the remake helped a lot. I'll see what I can do with this on my next piece of work. Thanks :)

Dylan

10-03-2012 12:57 AM

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Posted by Kondie (Post 207587)

You can use AA on the outside of the sprite if the background It'll be on always stays the same color.

Kondie

10-03-2012 04:50 AM

You should assume that your sprite will have a dynamic background. The tileset isn't going to be one color after all...

LavaClaw

10-03-2012 05:48 AM

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Attachment 6477
Made a pumpkin sword with some blood splattered on the bandages and blade. Tried smoothing the edges of the pumpkin with Kondie's technique but I didn't manage to get it smooth enough, Is it just the size of the graphic making it appear rigid like last time? What else could I improve with this too?

Dylan

10-03-2012 06:03 AM

Could reduce the colors, 26 is a lot. I played with the pumpkin. :3
http://i.imgur.com/RUcvu.png

LavaClaw

10-03-2012 06:05 AM

Quote:

Posted by Dylan (Post 207863)

Could reduce the colors, 26 is a lot. I played with the pumpkin. :3
http://i.imgur.com/RUcvu.png

Its hard to have less colours and anti alias and add all these nice shading effects though :'(
I see what you did to smoothen the edges of the pumpkin too.

Dylan

10-03-2012 06:22 AM

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Posted by LavaClaw (Post 207864)

Its hard to have less colours and anti alias and add all these nice shading effects though :'(
I see what you did to smoothen the edges of the pumpkin too.

9 colors :p
http://i.imgur.com/ZCjsk.png

Tricxta

10-03-2012 06:30 AM

Quote:

Posted by LavaClaw (Post 207864)

Its hard to have less colours and anti alias and add all these nice shading effects though :'(
I see what you did to smoothen the edges of the pumpkin too.

It's not hard, you just have to be resourceful and disciplined. I find shifting hues when shading helps in recycling of colours.

Talon

10-03-2012 06:41 AM

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Posted by LavaClaw (Post 206937)

Added more contrast and made a spear version of it.
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@PoeticFolly yeah I remember you always wearing it lol

Reminds me a hell of a lot of this sword:

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Was actually JUST looking at it before I saw this post.

LavaClaw

10-03-2012 07:14 AM

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Quote:

Posted by Talon (Post 207880)

Reminds me a hell of a lot of this sword:

Spoiler

Was actually JUST looking at it before I saw this post.

Wow that's completely unintentional.

EDIT: Talon inspired me to make something like that. This started off as a shoulder plate which I turned into a hat. I think I need to add more contrast though.
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LavaClaw

10-03-2012 10:49 PM

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Me and Storm finished this off. The side view looks a bit funky and i'm not sure what's causing that though. I'll add the rest of the views later when i'm done editing it.

Jester Lapse

10-03-2012 11:06 PM

the sides look off because in the front view the plates are parrallel to the orb/gem thing in the middle but on the sides you moved them down to be ear flaps

LavaClaw

10-03-2012 11:26 PM

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Thanks Jester, Better?

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