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I got bored yesterday and decided to attempt to make some custom Puni sprites. I was originally aiming for MLSS (which I'm horrible at making), but they didn't quite turn out like I planned. They're still pretty good, IMO, but I figured I'd see what you guys thought. C+C would be greatly appreciated.
I wasn't able to make any front or back poses; I tried this morning, but they came out horrible. Oh, and here's the icon I made in case they do get accepted.
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They're good, just need better AA and selout and they're ready for submitting imo.
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I've never tried anti-aliasing before, but is this what it's supposed to be like?
I looked it up on Wikipedia, and that seemed to be what they were talking about.
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that's good for large images. That, my friend, looks more like pillow shading. Try using only one shade if your trying to AA with a background, and only add a shade to the corners.
(11-07-2009, 11:47 AM)Baegal Wrote:
The one on the left is pillowshading, where you simply keep outlining layers. It turns out really bad.
The one on the right is shading with anti-aliasing, as well as normal shading. Anti-aliasing is adding shades to the corners to make to colors blend nicer. the gray around ML3 sprites are examples of anti-aliasing with the background.
Sorry, I'm not to good at explaining things... :{
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Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks.
I'm gonna try to make the AA a little better now.
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The Feet look slighty to big, try decreasing it by a pixl or two?
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To me, they look a little weird when their legs are any shorter. But, I'll give it a shot.
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I think he means by line weight. It looks like that because of how dark the AA'd color is
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Sorry it took so long to update this. Is this a little better? I tried making the shading a little darker to see if it would accent the sprite better. I'm still not sure if I did the AA right on it, though.
Weirdest thing; I can give advice, but I have a hard time using it when it's given to me.
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you're getting there. I also think you should make the AA'd color a little lighter to contrast w/the black.
Also, I would the puni rounder, and if not, more shading, to make it seem round
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Better?
I originally had it a bit rounder than it is now, but it looked a little too fat.
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Awesome job with the Puni.
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Thank you.
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AA wise, yes. My only complaint is you need to make the shading more rounded. Maybe around the tail
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11-19-2009, 10:18 PM
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How about that?
By the way, thank you for all your help.