next »

[jctwood]

This looks really wonderful and I hugely appreciate the use of large ascii text to get readable headers in the minimap sublime uses! What are you building the game in?

[Muzz]

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate it :D!

Sketch of one of those initial characters. Tons of problems that i'll have to fix when it isn't 3 am.

[tieTYT]

here is a little explanation image while I'm working on backend.

Is this your concept art or someone else's?  Is the game's art yours or someone else's?  I ask because there's a clear difference in quality, it looks like two different people made each. 

[SolarLune]

This looks like it could be really really interesting and cool. Nice work on it so far - sounds like quite the idea!

[Muzz]

Is this your concept art or someone else's?  Is the game's art yours or someone else's?  I ask because there's a clear difference in quality, it looks like two different people made each. 

Nope it's all me.

I think you underestimate a mans laziness sometimes.

Thanks SolarLune!

[tieTYT]

Wow, pretty cool that you have that range.  I think I could draw that concept art, but I can't draw your in game graphics (yet?).

[Muzz]

Oh right i thought you were referring to the shitty gameplay example image. That you are referring to the illustration vs the pixelart makes more sense.

Technically that concept art piece is far more complex to draw than the in game art. It seems weird to me that you are implying that the in game art is better than that concept image i drew  .
Everything in-game is optimized around being fast to draw. 2 shade lighting, no dithering and no outlines as pixel art outlines are the time consuming part.

But when you drop out lines suddenly that productivity boost is offset by having to be super aware of what colours and values you use as things will blend together if you are not careful.

[lai-studioguts]

here is a little explanation image while I'm working on backend.

Is this your concept art or someone else's?  Is the game's art yours or someone else's?  I ask because there's a clear difference in quality, it looks like two different people made each. 

The concept art is also a work in progress, I'm understanding? I think the shape on her jacket is outstanding, and I'm going to assume that the roughness elsewhere are just works in progress.

Being a good artist with concept work informs the improvement in sprite work and vice versa, but sprite work and concept art work also showcase different skills and talents of an artist! I would say that our artist has the opposite problem, where he's very comfortable with concept art and sketches, but when working with sprites--it's still taking a lot of practice making them look nice.

[Raku]

Something about that character's design- specifically the face- is really nostalgic to me, I like it!

[tieTYT]

Oh right i thought you were referring to the shitty gameplay example image. That you are referring to the illustration vs the pixelart makes more sense.

I'm still not sure we're talking about the same thing  I'm referring to the doodle that looks like it's drawn on paper.  

EDIT: I'm just saying it's very interesting to me that you doodle like I doodle, yet your artwork is 1000x better. 

[Muzz]

Haha thanks!

Tie! Ah right i get you now. Thanks . I can doodle at a higher quality but i think i just wanted to make it look like a quick white board drawing.

Lai, yeah I hear you there, sprites are a very specific skill set, and even a lot of traditional animation knoledge doesn't pass across, as most of what we do with sprites is snap instantly between poses, and extremes without smooth inbetweens.

Mostly finished here:

[Muzz]

[Muzz]

Hey guys.

Im going to be starting hopefully what will be daily art streams.

Pop in and check it out, feel free to ask me about anything to do with art, making games, spriting. general internet drama. (well except THAT drama... that's off limits.)


I should be live for hopefully 4-5 hrs

http://www.hitbox.tv/muzz

[jctwood]

Those facial animations are wonderful!

[dez]

LOVE the style.  I will be watching this.
How deep of a game are you thinking of making this? 
I mean as in this is just a quick fun thing,  or is this game a metaphor or does it have a particular meaning?

[Muzz]

Thanks guys!

Dez, this game will hopefully end up pretty deep, i've got a lot of ideas about how to both make this a funny and meaningful experience. It is just a matter of feature creep with how it goes.

This is what i've done so far on the stream.

[jctwood]

These explosion animations are sweet!

[Muzz]

Ok here are the final results of the stream.

Im tired and clocking out. .



Happy with how the stream went. Basically i just talked a lot about animation techniques and how to make your explosion effects feel nice and snappy, while listening to some good tunes.

[Scylla]

This is looking pretty good! Awesome stuff!

[Muzz]

Thanks man!

Im live streaming again. Should be for another 5 hours or so. Going to be doing some character animation.