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[beestings]

So heres my mock up and palette. I think the real issue is that I hate dull colors and stupid me upped the saturation on my cpu and I just set it back to default because it messes up the actual saturation of things. anyway I tried to adjust the color scheme a little too much so theres that, if you have any advice for that that'd be great

-also, any comments on the whole look oevr all? Any changes I could make? Feel free to edit whatever.

[Eigen]

They are pretty vivid and lovely but I don't think showing them off on a white background works best. What colors will the backgrounds be in-game?

[beestings]

They are pretty vivid and lovely but I don't think showing them off on a white background works best. What colors will the backgrounds be in-game?

hopefully light blue with some white clouds (possibly super light pink), everything looked off to me though so I hadn't added it in yet

[Chris MacAdam]

Ya I agree that you should post here with a BG, even if it is just a solid light blue or pink like you mentioned.
Something that you drew with one BG in mind, might look wrong with another BG.

From what I can tell though these sprites are pretty good! I would say maybe try to add some more texture to the grass and dirt tiles. unless you are going for a real flat look with them.

[Sgt. Pepper]

That palette looks nice, would you mind sharing the RGB or Hex values of the colors?

[ryansumo]

They are pretty vivid and lovely but I don't think showing them off on a white background works best. What colors will the backgrounds be in-game?

Agree with Eigen.  You need to know how your sprites interact with the background in terms of color before we can offer any advice.

[beestings]

here it is a little bit updated and with a background

EDIT: another edit..

[Eigen]

Played around with the colors a a bit, they were definitely too bright. Also you might want to consider using less shades for your characters, especially on the head. You don't need a highlight color, it only creates a pillow shading effect.

[Catghost]

definitely consider cutting back the amount of colors you're using, since these sprites are fairly small. otherwise the colors you picked are pretty harmonious apart from the high saturation. especially for those darker colors, even if you're going for a stylized look shade will tend to be less saturated. mid-tones and transitional colors benefit more from higher saturation than the surrounding colors, which I tried to incorporate into your original colors.

[beestings]

Thanks for the constructive criticism!! Heres my latest edit:



I'll probably keep it low res (ie the bigger picture will be closer to what it will look like during gameplay)

Some of the colors are virtually the same, with slightly different hues and saturations.. Though I know that this is typically not desirable but I kind of feel like it adds just enough to separate the player and forground/background just enough.

Really like the shaded background Eigen suggested and hopefully it'll have a nice parralax to it (it moves slower than the forground for a nice effect

any more comments? I'm still not really happy with the animations either (shown in the first post I made)I'm super new to animating so any advice would help!! Though, I'm intentionally making it slightly less realistic--my goal is to have a really smooth animation that just creates a player and world thats fun to run around in. I really enjoyed just running around games like Far cry 3 and Super Mario Sunshine--the mechanics work so well and feel awesome to use but I think a big part of it is the animations.

[beestings]

Its been challenging to work at such a small resolution(am I using that term right?), but I think I've managed to make decent characters. The blond woman has her hands on her hips, the red head is holding a cup of coffee, the shortest one (boy with stripe shirt) is my attempts at a child.. the girl furthest to the right has on a dress(or something similar) that splits on one leg and the black guy on the end is wearing a hoodie... Any thoughts? I think I want to lighten up all the new characters I've made though I can't with my current pixel program (Pixen). Also, this is intented to be played in a large screen (same res, but zoomed in so it fills a large portion of your screen).

[Zorg]

I love your characters and the colors!

But i'm unable to read some details; some thoughts:
- the blond woman has her hands on her hips - yes.
- the red head is holding a cup of coffee - yes.
- the shortest one (boy with stripe shirt) is my attempts at a child - definitely a child.
- the girl furthest to the right has on a dress(or something similar) that splits on one leg - yes.
- and the black guy on the end is wearing a hoodie - i did not see the hoode and the guy could be a girl.

The left arm (?) on the first character looks wrong to me and you should add a darker pixel below all chins, imho. I created a small overpaint but please bear in mind that i'm a pixel art newbie!

[Artylo]

I'd separate the art into three layers of saturation.

• Background

- Least Saturation

• Foreground

- Medium Saturation

• Characters & Interactive Objects

- Normal Saturation
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That way, the platforms and ground will be pushed forward from the sky background (adding paralax and shadows can add to this), the characters will be the main focal point, but also distinguishable from any regular foreground objects/platforms.

Seeing that you're going for minimalism, be really careful not to pillow shade your sprites. One regular and one dark shade is enough most of the time.

[beestings]

threw together the player's first "starter" appt. The lighting I added in upped the saturation and contrast a little so I'll probably adjust that later.. I'm struggling to pice it together with code via unity2D.. kind of a pain, but I know I just have to sit down and figure it out.