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05-17-2011, 02:56 AM
@Klod:
I totally agree, the issues you've raised are issued I've been struggling with for a long time.
I've never really been artistically inclined, (Don't choke on your morning coffee now.) and I've only gotten where I have through passion and dedication. As such, it shows in my work.
I don't have the same strong stylistic sense as alot of spriters in this forum do; Apoc is one of them obviously, and a few others like Chishio as well. These guys have my utmost respect and envy, and have always been a great reference to learn from.
I have always been more technically inclined when it comes to design, and as such I feel that my skills are better put to use designing complete characters that -play- well, though I suppose at this point you only have my word to take for it.
I hope when I finish Frozen, I'll have done a decent job out of it and you'll be able to appreciate it for yourself. But then again, seeing as Apoc and Chishio don't have alot of released characters either, its a little bit difficult to make any good comparison.
The only point on which I disagree is the colour palette. Like Marshall, I think its a matter of personal preference, plus a little bit of experience and reasoning.
LF2's colour palette, at first glance, looks bright and vivid. Which it kinda is. However, in the past when I matched colour for colour in terms of colour saturation and brightness when creating my characters, they kind of stand out like a sore thumb in-game. I never figured out why, but some of my peers at the time suggested that maybe because the level of detail in the sprites are higher, they draw more attention to the sprite, and when that happens the colours need to be a bit less bright else it'll be a little too piercing to look at in the long run.
For that reason, with the passage of time I learned to use more pastel-like colours, or muted ones.
However, there -IS- still ways to make the colours on my sprite more appealing without actually raising the saturation and brightness values... which I'm still trying to learn.
I totally agree, the issues you've raised are issued I've been struggling with for a long time.
I've never really been artistically inclined, (Don't choke on your morning coffee now.) and I've only gotten where I have through passion and dedication. As such, it shows in my work.
I don't have the same strong stylistic sense as alot of spriters in this forum do; Apoc is one of them obviously, and a few others like Chishio as well. These guys have my utmost respect and envy, and have always been a great reference to learn from.
I have always been more technically inclined when it comes to design, and as such I feel that my skills are better put to use designing complete characters that -play- well, though I suppose at this point you only have my word to take for it.
I hope when I finish Frozen, I'll have done a decent job out of it and you'll be able to appreciate it for yourself. But then again, seeing as Apoc and Chishio don't have alot of released characters either, its a little bit difficult to make any good comparison.
The only point on which I disagree is the colour palette. Like Marshall, I think its a matter of personal preference, plus a little bit of experience and reasoning.
LF2's colour palette, at first glance, looks bright and vivid. Which it kinda is. However, in the past when I matched colour for colour in terms of colour saturation and brightness when creating my characters, they kind of stand out like a sore thumb in-game. I never figured out why, but some of my peers at the time suggested that maybe because the level of detail in the sprites are higher, they draw more attention to the sprite, and when that happens the colours need to be a bit less bright else it'll be a little too piercing to look at in the long run.
For that reason, with the passage of time I learned to use more pastel-like colours, or muted ones.
However, there -IS- still ways to make the colours on my sprite more appealing without actually raising the saturation and brightness values... which I'm still trying to learn.
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