07-31-2009, 09:32 PM
(07-31-2009, 09:03 PM)EpicWes Wrote: Actually, pixel art should be smoother than normal spriting, because it is larger and has more room to add details. No one said this wasn't accepted, but people are saying there are ways to improve it. Its fine if this is your style, but these are merely suggestions to make the art look better. And there's no arguement about these being better than some other pixel arts on the site. There have been topics about th e quality standard of the pixelarts and man have been removed. Many more need to be removed, but just have not been yet. And CeeY's comment could help, if you would listen to constructive criticism. He said it lacked depth, meaning as it is, it is too simple-looking. To fix them, you could add depth to make it look better, thus improving your art.
Also, upon closer inspection, I noticed some problems with the art itself. One of Jirachi's arms looks like it has no shading at all. Umbreon should have nose and mouth. Drapion looks like it has different lightsources coming from both sides inwards on its arms.
Ok, even if you said exactly the same thing as CeeY said, you said it in a way that actually helps me. See, I'm a spriter at heart, so I'm used to working with very few shades to try to make a good image. it's part of my style and it works for me. Umbreon really can't use more depth since it's color is black anyway. Also, in pretty much any scene you look at, you can't see Umbreon's nose, and only if its mouth is open can you see it. Drapion, I admit that it wasn't all that great. I'm not that good at shading all those different angles and the scene it was taken from had multiple light sources since it was in a hallway with lights from mutlple angles.
As for the comments about using AA to smooth the art, in some cases, using anti-aliasing in the wrong places gives the impression that the shading is blurry. I like having smooth, yet crisp edges in the shading. I may be able to do some work on the outlines, as well as possibly the shading on Jirachi (note that the scene Jirachi came from, the light source was coming from the viewer's perspective, perhaps sightly to the viewer's right. The scene was from the Jirachi movie when Jirachi was flying around teleporting in the candy Max had asked for. The point of view was from the ceiling, looking down at Jirachi flying around, so the shading is more on the other side of Jirachi, where you can't actually see, and aside from the crown part, Jirachi doesn't have any shiny parts of its body to reflect the light source.)