Go ahead /v/, show me what you got.
here's a score pickup for a shmup I'll never actually make
My magnum opus
made it for a friend.
Something I made a while ago
Not gonna lie i am not too good, but my sister is MUCH better.
>>381362513
cute!
>>381361273
i like it. clever idea.
>>381361047
What program do you make these in
>>381361047
>>381362416
These are both really nice, you two really understand pallets and the like, very impressive.
I'm an artfag and yet I cannot into spritework for my fucking life. I'm just gonna hand draw all the stuff for the game I wanna make just like Lab Zero.
>>381362742
there are a bunch of different programs good for pixel art. anything from photoshop to stuff that's made specifically for it like graphicsgale.
have some more of my crap, this was based off a metroidvania i had an idea for, it went nowhere do with what you will. OLD concept is in the left corner.
>>381362595
glad you think it is but like i said my sister is MUCH better, how better you ask? Well she i making the sprites to freedom planet 2 that's how good she is.
>>381361047
Old as fuck
post all your shit to https://opengameart.org/ artfags.
I need more shit for the game I'm programming because I'm not an artfag like you.
Make sure to license your shit CC0, CC-BY (not -SA). Fuck you if you use anything GPL. If you wanna be a cool kid just write in that it's BSD or MIT license.
Abandoned project. Designed to look garbage. I love sprite art but am no gud... I made faces to go with some of them if anyone wants to see
I know its shit
>>381364434
That's nice
>>381364876
This was the top left dude.
>>381364434
Reminds me of SNK shit
I used to sprite custom items for Starbound.
These are arranged in some arbitrary way (brand, perhaps?) and two of them used a trick to make some pixels misaligned for more detail.
>>381361047
A sample of my sisters work.
A custom made Tyrant Greedy Sprite
>>381365101
It's metal slug inspired.
>TFW shit at drawing so you gotta use vectors
WIP shmup junk
>>381361273
I like how it looks nothing at all like the pickups in the Donpachi games.
more of my sisters dynamite work.
http://picsandpixels.deviantart.com/art/Birthday-Birdie-585140898
>>381364434
snapback is way too quick, needs a few frames of it whiplashing forward or else tone down how far back it flies
I made one of a crying feels guy raging so hard his tears turned to blood then his eyes exploded and engulfed his head in fire
But I'm phone posting and didn't save it ;__;
POMF
>>381361047
the only thing I've done that I recall
>>381368607
Whoops
>>381361047
>>381368562
i want to fuck your loli
>>381368562
Not bad.
>>381366494
no it's totally different, mine's a circle instead of a pentagon!
How do you create sprites?
>>381370567
paint programs, or Sprite programs, like GraphicsGale
>>381364876
>>381364995
What's the story behind this, I'm guessing the MC is the crusader killing everything that is non-human. Would play.
>>381368831
is that a male or a female?
>>381370778
Is there a specific one which just downscales your artwork automatically?
>>381361047
>>381368562
dino run developer, dat you?
>>381370891
not sure i don't really do anything but bored freehand paint.net or MSPaint shit.
>>381370891
the zoom out button
this might not be the right place to ask, but I am hoping someone can help me out here, What is that unreleased game, where the protag has a large cone on his head, and has surprisingly violent spritework? I'm discussing sprites with friends and need to bring this up, but it's name escapes me
>>381370891
>>381361047
>>381361047
https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/898/change-old-pixelated-sprites-to-hd
>>381370943
Nah, this is Virgo Vs The Zodiac.
That's Virgo.
>>381361047
The full version of GraphicsGale is freeware now, I haven't used it much myself but supposedly it's one of the best pixel art making software.pic is not mine by the way.
this is old and bad animation
>>381372484
>>381371518
This just reminded me of those old sprite comics I used to read.
Was it Fred and George or something? Forgot.
>>381372893
no idea
>>381372893
Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff? :^y
>>381364990
luckily this would be accepted in mc community as there are pancakes present in the game
>>381374237
>>381364990
If we're talking minecraft skins I made dig dug skins a few years ago, Steve was Dig dug, Creepers were Fygar, and I think Zombies were tall Pookas, I also changed some of the block textures like rocks and sand to ones from dig dug.
What's the point of spriting if it's not worth using if its complete shit?
>>381375409
i ask my self that daily.
>>381372484
>>381372580
needs more contrast
>>381372893
That's the best Megaman strip ever made.
http://www.bobandgeorge.com/
>>381371870
>Google it
>It's time. TO PURGE SOME HERETICS
Well that's one way to get hooked
>>381364434
looks like he's takin it doggy style
>>381362804
Thanks, been meaning to get back to spriting again. I also post some of my shit on /ic/ as well.
>>381361047
whys he skating?
some more of my sisters work, since she is much better then I
>>381379478
you're a great fan of your sister work, i see
tfw too late in the thread to be noticed
>>381379635
we both would, like to make games one day, but all i am is a writer, and she is an artist, we have no programmer. Right now she is working on Freedom Planet 2, and I am writing a the story for a cute namco esque game.
>>381371427
STOP
>Want to do pixel art
>have to learn how to draw
>sucks at drawing
>>381380210
Idle animation for a game I'm working on
done for a friend named ZetaPlays
did this for a Unity-course, but never finished it beyond a demo-level and some basic gameplay-elements
>>381379924
that's fine, try to probe when ludum dare is around
you should find one there
WIP
Daily reminder that 99% of amateur sprite work could be vastly improved by just a little bit of hue shifting and some higher contrast
And this isn't an elitism or shitposty thing, it's a legitimate quick tip that can give a lot of improvement without much effort
http://i.imgur.com/mYyyIu2.png
http://i.imgur.com/tDF7iKM.png
>>381379478
Does your sister have a blog? I would love to check her stuff
>>381381921
im still learning it, rule of thumb seems to be blue for darks and yellow for lights but then you have like colors from diff light sources, or how im supposed to make sense of the blues/yellows mixing with the base color (green in that example)
drives me up the wall. here are some king bobombs i drew, first time coloring. the hues are not shifting, but in one i threw in some purples and it looks amazing. gonna do it again.
Something I did a while back
>>381383956
Those look cool as fuck.
>>381383510
no but she does have a DA , she don't post much since fuck heads kept jacking her cool sprites. PicsandPixles
SO IF YOU WANNA see her work look up Sonic Overture, Utopia, freedom planet, and Patafion's animations.
>>381384073
Thanks anon!
>>381383779
When light dims, colours start to disappear. Reds go first, blues go last. That's why nights appear bluish.
Also, shadows are never truly devoid of light. Direct light doesn't touch them, but diffuse light bouncing around still hits them. This light has the colour of the surroundings, we call it ambient light. Often, this light is often blue, because the sky is a regular part of the surroundings.
These two reasons make blue the standard for shadows, but this doesn't have to be the case. If you're sitting in a red room, they will be red.
As for light being yellow, that's because both the sun and most household lightbulbs give yellowish light. The sun is actually white light, but travelling through the atmosphere makes it seem yellow. Obviously, this is again just a common colour, if you're under blue lamps, the light will be blue.
Hope that made sense.
>>381384615
Dude I loved this entire post. Thank you.
>>381380445
I like the armor, the weapon, the theme, but that face looks like something from a bad webcomic. I don't know how, or what to do, but just fix that face.
>>381385025
Good.
>spend half a year drawing sprites and planning my games story
>realize I don't know shit about coding and I'll never get anywhere in mspaint
I'm trying to write a tv show now, there's still hope for me, r-right?
>>381385025
>>381385346
you really got me thinking: my understanding of light has been pretty impersonal. light for lights sake, but now that i know yellows come because of the sun, it makes it feel like in all the things ive painted with light being yellow and yellow affecting the base color, I was unintentionally including the sun in my work, and thats crazy to think about.
>>381385649
There're just so many software nowadays where you don't have to know shit about coding to begin
>>381371319
>piskel
Madman
>>381385649
There are lots of coders out there looking for collabs
>>381385649
FIND YOUR WAIFU
CLAIMING HER
Thanks for all the sprites idiots, I'm stealing them and putting them in my game
>>381385718
Think of light as a billion tiny lasers coming out off light sources, that bounce off surfaces. They bounce best off smooth surfaces, poorly off rough surfaces. Every time they bounce, they take the colour of the object they bounced off.
Pretty simple.
Never been good with shading, been used to a game that has fucky perspectives.
How best to improve besides practice?
here's mine. might add shades to help with form but I'm inexperienced
>>381386292
wow gonna be some really clashing art work, hope you can code for shit. fucktard.
>>381386374
stop, i can only get so erect
>>381386375
Specify?
>>381386375
Loomis
>>381386468
Sunlight at sunrise/down is red, because coming in from the side, it has to travel through more atmosphere.
>>381386395
>>381386395
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>>381361047
Hey guys, if I fucking suck at actual drawing, should I try picking up pixel art?
>>381386395
--
>>381386941
Your pixel art will not be much better than your drawing.
>>381386665
Explain the lighting on emojis then you big nasty man
>>381387098
W-why not?
Once, I replicated Kuribo's Shoe from SMB3 in Paint. Does that matter?
>>381387118
That emoji is shaded like a translucent ball. The white highlight comes from light bouncing off it's smooth surface, and the light at the bottom comes from light entering the ball and bouncing around inside to become yellow and exit out the other end. This is called subsurface scattering.
Unf.
>>381386751
>>381386916
>>381387002
thanks bud
>>381387171
Cool, can you make your own from scratch though?
Um I don't think you guys got the memo but sprites and spriters are outdated technology. Games don't use sprites anymore. We've moved on from Game Boy Advanced.
>>381387403
No problem. Never let the light come from straight ahead, or you'll get "pillow shading".
>>381387514
its fun and art. Just like its antiquated to use paint , when you can use digital art programs.
>>381387476
Never really tried.
Last pixel art thread I was in, anons were encouraging others to start even though they had never done anything like that before.
>>381370789
>>381370789
Pretty much.
>>381387623
The easy trap for beginners.
>>381387665
Of course you should start if you want to do it, doesn't mean you'll be good at it without practice. Drawing is a very similar skill.
>>381370789
It was to be a remake of an awful game I made that was like... VERY libelous
Same story beats, but everything else remade with the experience I took from developing the project to make it all as good as the endgame of that one
>>381361047
sure, why not
i'm devving a game and like picking colors only to throw palette limitations out the window moments later because i'm a huge asshole
>>381361047
i made this
>>381387895
Do you think I should take up drawing as well? Would that help?
This is all I've managed after ten thousand hours of practice
>>381388086
Certainly, if you want. Just know that it's hard and will take you a couple years to get decent at, which can be demoralizing.
>>381388350
I kinda just want to try my hand at pixel art though. Is it possible to become good at it without being able to draw IRL?
Not mine but i know how to rip sprites, kinda
>>381388417
No, because if you become good at pixel art, you'll become good at drawing.. it's just a different medium.
>>381388581
>No, because if you become good at pixel art, you'll become good at drawing
Don't you mean the other way around?
>>381388442
Paul Robertson?
>>381385649
do this faggot >>381364867
give us your art
>>381388660
I mean both ways round. You need to understand light, shape, and colour. This knowledge is universal, no matter what medium you use.
Moving a brush, pencil, mouse, finger, that's the easy part. The knowledge is the hard part.
>>381388924
>I mean both ways round. You need to understand light, shape, and colour. This knowledge is universal, no matter what medium you use.
What if I sort of get that part already but can't move a brush to save my ass?
>>381383956
ive seen you posting this for like 3 years, it's time to stop
>>381389221
>>381389221
You don't just need to get it, you need to internalize it. You need to understand it so well, that you can simulate real life in your head and onto your canvas.
Learning to move a brush takes weeks at most.
looking for critiques
1/?
>>381389643
Huh, alright, anon. I'll keep that in mind.
>>381389873
squishy but cute
>>381389221
https://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm
This is my favorite basic art tutorial, I don't wanna scare you. Read it, use it, make sexy pixel art. Godspeed.
>>381372330
>Aseprite still isnt freeware
>>381389873
2/4
How the fuck you sprite nerds so good at walking animation? I know about the contact>pass through>contact but it fucking sucks in 3D.
>>381389873
3/4
don't have this in gif form, only sheet
>>381389959
Cool, thanks anon.
>>381390374
4/4
>>381390326
watch the world learn to replicate, adapt, and you will get gud, as they say.
>>381362416
Cool colors mate
>>381390326
Pixlart is simple. The more detail something has, the more the mistakes stand out.
Do pixel artists really make their stuff in microsoft paint?
Thats amazing.
>>381390913
Only newbies I imagine.
>>381390913
my sister does, and she is really damn good at it
>>381381312
Reminds me of hyper light drifter, looks pretty rad.
I just wanted to make a cutie
>>381392173
Megu?
What are some games with great pixel art that can run on a toaster?
>>381393848
Shovel Knight
I've only done it twice, so I'm not that good
>>381393985
I still have to play that game, actually.
>>381388505
lrn2croppls
>>381389873
very cute
Really, really old thing I did.I wonder if anyone remembers this project
>>381394814
Pretty interesting seeing your old work to be honest.
>>381365283
Which ones are the custom ones? The snippet at the bottom says they're all ripped from the original game.
>>381365283
Your sister is super talented, how did she pick up spiriting?
>>381394958
I've gone too far back
Here are some characters from my little game.
Warning: it's a tadspooky
>>381395524
aaa
Laugh at my garbage. Note that there's currently a unfinished sprite in there.
>>381394623
sorry i got bored and din't finish the sheet, the size was meant to hold the whole animation array.
>>381385649
THAT'S MY CHARACTER
I'M THE TRASH MAN
>>381395137
the ones in the cyan background, where he looks more beat up like the Japanese screenshot of the ending for Ristar.
>>381395170
when she was 12 her first sprite was me pausing sonic 3 & K and drawing out each and every frame, then she would "translate" it to computer in MSpaint. She now Works for Galaxy Trail making sprites for Freedom Planet 2. And also works on sonic Overture and other fan games.
>>381394278
Reminds me of Bahamut Lagoon
>>381395491
This is that puzzle game, right?
>>381385649
Why learn to code when the shitty game whose art style you're ripping off was made in RPGMaker?
>>381396940
It's styled after one of the FF mobile games.
Was happy with the contrast and lighting on this, from a few years back.
>>381397367
oh, never played Brave Exvius
>>381397671
It's pretty neat, though the drop rates for good party members is awful and it's grindy as all hell.
But there's a good FF game under the gacha shit.
>>381397678
no furshit faggot. PERIOD!
>>381363170
how do you make it select the sprite you want from the gird, especially without selecting the pink and greenblue
>>381397825
math and chroma keys
>>381397816
Do you not like the pixel art...
How do i stop sucking?
>>381398076
practice and study
>>381397816
hownew.ru
>>381361047
>draw a platypus
>call it a duck
m8
>>381397825
i made these by hand dot by dot the squares the pink squares in the back ground are meant for making sure i don't make the sizes to big. I did it wrong since i suck.
>>381398248
you wanna get banned for life, fag-O-tron?
>>381368562
looks good, id just add a small inbetween frame to make it smoother, or less pause on the impact
How do you guys do it?
Draw high res and resize?
Draw it pixel by pixel?
>>381398632
>Draw high res and resize?
If you do this, it's not pixel art
>>381398632
pixel by pixel
>>381398658
It was a common thing by pros in the 90s. Capcom did it a lot, as did the Earthworm Jim team.
Mind, i'm talking about drawing, resizing and tracing, not just shrinking the drawings and calling it a day.
More of my sisters work being applied by Mr. Lange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Redgb7XshCM
>>381399365
like a pro
>>381399365
can I marry your sister?
>>381399413
Here is a lot of her work, in Sonic Overture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baF8PHSL-pM Most of the art in this was made by her. And in case you are wandering her DA is PicsandPixels.
I am trying to make her the star she is supposed to be, not stuck with.. well some loser like me.
>>381399494
Nah but she does enjoy it when people love her work, she works hard. Hell she worked hard to get from where she was to where she is today.
>>381399771
Tell her I think her work is great and to keep it up.
>>381399890
OH she will, right now she is working on both Overture and Freedom Planet 2. The latter gets her paid.
Is it any good? It's my first time making pixel art.
>>381400331
It's a start.
I was able to tell it's Reaper at a glance
This IS pixel art it just looks that good it could look digitally painted. http://orig06.deviantart.net/49f0/f/2017/051/7/0/he_s_acute_ie_by_picsandpixels-dazq1sz.png one again more of my sis's amazing work.
>>381400331
Cool. Scary movie was pretty great.
>>381401028
>>381401206
>not being able to tell the difference between a joke and bait
>>381401315
>implying i have a iq over 20
>>381391161
Mr Lange is that you?
>>381401619
Nope i am not him. I am some idiot From Newgrounds and Youtube. Just my sister deserves recognition she is damn damn good at what she does.
>>381397671
Is that fucking Chain of Retribution?
Great fucking game.
what she calls a random page, its basically a way to get art block out.
>>381403125
>cool spot
god damn I miss cool spot. I had the PS1 game and some fuckin fag stole it and i've never been the same. I haven't worn my shades since that day either.
Lots of impressive work in this thread, keep it up guys.
>>381403248
keep in mind what i am shearing are scraps, her best work she does for the games she works on.
(why i am not posting my garbage, cause its just that...garbage)
I'm trying to learn
looks awful, i think. The things you guys can do are amazing.
>>381403360
Looks like mutekiken. It can be improved for sure though. Why the small size? Just what you ended up at?
>>381402274
Does your sister have a page
>>381403568
DA http://picsandpixels.deviantart.com/ i have asked her to get other things but she just doesn't.
Yes i am shilling the fuck outta her, i don't care she deserves it.
>>381403736
>I already watch her
oh okay
>>381403859
Mystical, no?
>>381403557
Kind off. I didn't realize that it was too small until i tried making the eyes.
>>381403969
mistakes happen, dude you can remake it, unless that's the style you want.
>wasting time by making sprites
Anyone else here an ideas guy who just comes to these threads to get a good laugh?
Sonic GIF of awesomeness.
>>381404169
I was in here before you >>381387514
Tried to make a Kleer for Doom once, but I didn't feel like doing a bunch of frames.
>>381404212
fuck... i messed up here it is!
This game never got off the ground because of a number of reasons that are all really just a bunch of excuses for my own laziness.
>>381404169
idea guy here... we are worthless with out any other talent, just sayi'n
>>381404276
would've been cool, i love seeing other mobs adapted into old doom games.
>>381361047
>>381404364
Shoddy attempt at making a paper mario partner
There are no nips, don't ban me
>>381404710
>>381404813
a little blocky but its a start, my first sprite was so bad i deleted it and did something else, so keep at it.
Don't die, I want to see more anon's art
here's an old one
resprited this secret boss from contra hard corps ages ago, it was fun imagining what a higher color range could've looked like on him.
>>381405546
Is that the DJ from warioware
Old version of a secret agent MC.
The art for this game is pretty much the only pixel art I've done.
>>381387403
>>381407192
Didn't get very far before deciding 3D would be more my speed.
>>381406012
His name is Jimmy T.T stands for Thang
Super Robot Wars Eternity
Christmas 2015 demo coming Christmas 2018
>>381408169
sounds cool, wish i could get my ideas out as well.