Spaceship artists anonymous (sprite art thread)

[railslave]

A few of us have issues with art, mine related to color and turning everything into a man eating vagina.

(Off the top of my head)

Also, a few off us will never back down or give up !!!!!!

I wanted to make an encouraging thread for everyone to share their progress and get some feedback.

The constructive crit thing NEVER works, so i guess you post here and await your hate mail... but even in THAT, there is always useful information; Oh if your going to rip people apart have your own ship ready to deploy!

This year (2014) i personally, really want to get into straight pixel art, and mecha in particular; my new years resolution, all the way.

This thread may also serve as a showcase for traveling devs such as NG:DEV!!! WHO snatched the young Rozyrg at birth. Be nice to keep everyone in one place and attract more art types.

Here are my three entry ships into this thing, bare in mind im working in extreme color limitations (Amstrad cpc)

and Im not mechanically minded.





Im trying to ween my self off my graphics tab tbh.
Go wild!

Be nice to have some video tutorials!

I personally think it would be alot of fun to set about trying to completely wipe the floor of the post before(and it would set a new bar) , but not everyone's that competitive

[Cagar]

Your poll is missing:

Generic war / ship dodonpachi theme

Which I would vote. And this is not sarcasm

[railslave]

Your poll is missing:

Generic war / ship dodonpachi theme

Which I would vote. And this is not sarcasm

I expect its missing a few things, im not the authority on the subject.

On another note; i found one of the game changing things i did to advance was to study stuff such as chrome.
Basically making everything shiny will buy you some time (while you learn more stuffs)


Not amazing at all , but shiny at an Extremely low resolution

Didnt advance much from there tbh.

Another thing that has proved to be very helpful is to make parts separately (wings, guns ect), at the detail you would usually reserve for one sprite, ...

then go all Voltron on them for extra originality, especially effective when they are all unrelated.

[nasty_wolverine]

Do everything Toaplan or Raizing did. You can never go wrong. And, stay away from loli's no matter what people tell you.

[railslave]

Do everything Toaplan or Raizing did. You can never go wrong. And, stay away from loli's no matter what people tell you.

Defo where i want to go (Technosoft actually) , but in the light of all these abstract , programmer art indie games, spear headed by geometry wars in some ways , the doors have been blown wide open.


Perhaps the polygon limitations of the psx highly influenced this new wave.


In fact, for the professionals it would be suicide not to stick to blender and go in this, not exactly impossible direction


cool speed paint nasty wolverine just linked me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rysww6VCHAg

[Alec44]

Hop i give a try :
(high speed made 10 mn)






feel free to use it.... or not ^^

[railslave]

Thats realy cool!! , its surprising how hard hori stuff can be to imagine up (at least i think so)

I set the bar as low as thunderforce 2 hori ship and failed.. thats bad!!

about the closest i got to some thing half decent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh42K6rhUMc sort of whip rush/zerowing

guess having no mirror option is a challenge

[Udderdude]

I noticed nobody voted for Cho Aniki yet, so that's my third vote .. :3

[Ebbo]

~ The evolution of FB enemies ~

enemy_fireballs (now with 100% more walking)


miniboss_c


boss_a


I wonder how many times I'm going to actually redraw these things before the game gets done.

[railslave]

~ The evolution of FB enemies ~



I wonder how many times I'm going to actually redraw these things before the game gets done.

You know the thing i love the most about those??, i felt like i learned something just by looking at them , very cool. Extra points for being too cool for color!!

Clever how you did that within the limitations.

[Udderdude]

For those lacking inspiration, this site can generate blob-like thingies and if you use your imagination you can re-draw on top of them to make some enemy graphics .. http://img.uninhabitant.com/spritegen.html

[railslave]

I noticed nobody voted for Cho Aniki yet, so that's my third vote .. :3

Someone needs to do an Ecco the dolphin/ Cho Aniki fusion (hmmm am i the chosen one? )

[railslave]

I guess i cant put this here.

Im pretty happy with how i did this snake, yeah snakes in shmups , remember them ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWHsXeEWGFQ <<<<<0:36

Looks pretty cool with the sine wave pulsing all up in it.

I dunno why it took me so long to stick snakes in, expect ALOT more of them


Also some of those formerly mentioned small but shiny ships

Whys the player move like that ? touch screen.


This is for a infinite shmup thing im making.

[Kaiser]

The only thing that needs an improvement are the curves. (The marks are for turrets)

[railslave]

The only thing that needs an improvement are the curves. (The marks are for turrets)

Thats very cool, youv'e come on so much in the past month!! + your game certainly has its own charater, no matter what anyone says.

Keep going, i think the curves are very cool actually leagues ahead of the earlier stuff.
This is for the train im guessing ?