THD Original Rpg Pixels,animations and Request!?

[thanewdude07]

HI again!

I've been inspired by my friends improving so much on in my absence that I have been working around the clock to do the same as well.

Kinda long summery here of my thoughts .

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I've been back drawing everyday for the pass month and looking at tutorial in attempts to improve myself as artist so I thought it would be good idea to return to my pixel art home XD. To be honest I didn't want to return empty handed mainly cause for some reason I don't like being around art when I'm not producing any cause it makes me feel weird for whatever reason its dumb I know. Also I'm like that with anything I'm serious about if I don't have time to do it. It kinda hurts my artist soul not to be able because of life and grown up crap. I REALLY HATE leaving projects unfinished its just not healthy for growth and etc.

Yusuke is one project that I must finish. I'm just not inspired to draw over bases anymore. Even if i could finish him in a few weeks which I can. Its just not there anymore. I want the last few animations and everything to be all original and fluid and everything. Heck I wanna redraw some stages along with a bunch of monsters in the background and the whole nine yards. So In order to do everything I wanna do, I MUST improve.

I'm moving at a good pace now so yay!

  I'm currently working on my own personal goal of improving all around. So I'm putting together my own rpg sprite sheets and tile sets and everything else I can think of all by me.

With that said I'm currently working on making a crap load of rpg pixels for this game I plan on putting together.









This is my original Character Hunnie Valentine and She is who I'm focusing on now

Right now I am still playing with her design but the palette and the dress is there to stay.

For The game I would like to have  eight way directional movement so That's my focus right now.

So far I have 4 Directions covered ( counting flipping the image!)







Finishing up the down-left walk right now



Redesign her two companions

Hoppie and Floppie



Floppie yapping



Much more to come.

There a few people here that always pushed me to do much better than just making edits or conversions and I thank you for that.  It's good to be back everyone Hope you like them.  and if you're interested in there backstory  click the spoiler below.

Honey Valentines bio (so far)

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She is a princess and she has the power to grant anything a state of consciousness with the power that comes from her crown that is connected to her soul. She is very open for attack when using this power and that's where her guardians come into play!

She has slippers on her feet not be cause she is lazy or sloppy but because these two Floppy and Hoppie are Hunee's imaginary friends who started to become real.

Floppie and hoppie

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She first meet them as two bunny slippers that she believed to be magical but, in fact they were signs of her powers awakening.

Floopy is at times loud and loves to play pranks, He generally looks out for Hunnie in times when she is too trusting.

He adores to protect her.

Hoppie is the happy go lucky part of the pair. Extra cutesy and always keeps Hunee's spirits up when she is down.

She loves to sing and see the best in any situation.

Floopy and Hoppie don't always agree but they always agree on protecting Hunnie!

[thanewdude07]

Bump!

I broke my own rule

This one has 9 frames!




I'm gonna go back and edit the side walk a bit once I'm done.

Next one I'm heading to is up left .

[AlexSin]

Maybe her chest shouldn't be seen as much, it's like her upper body has a different perspective from the lower body.
No, maybe it's just an impression: but just to be safe:


The hair also moves back and forth, but it could just move one way.

[thanewdude07]

No your right about the chest definitely.

I was thinking it should go to the left and right more so than up and down so that's something I will play with today.  But the head should be fine as is. Here is the reference sprite i was peeping at.




full sheet

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http://www.spriters-resource.com/fullview/9337/]

notice from this angle you should always see both eyes both legs and the arms and shoulders depending on the movement.

[AlexSin]

Yeah, but the camera isn't positioned in the same angle, it's more of an overhead camera... how to explain?
Look at these:
(your sprites)
the camera sees the four direction sprites (left, right, "up", "down") more at an eye level, right? Just consider the four directions for now.
Look at the example you posted:
http://www.spriters-resource.com/fullview/9337/
the camera now is positioned at a higher y position. Think about it in a 3D kind of way.

Also, the example's head () is slightly tilted.
However in your reference sheet (the eight direction spritesheet in the first post, look at the main four direction sprites), her head isn't tilted.

I hope I explained it well.

[thanewdude07]

Hmmmm I Think I see what you mean alex.

I will change the perspective of the head a bit along with the boobs and see how it comes out.. Then I will switch gears and work on a scene.

[thanewdude07]

Update!
Sky treasure WIP



Well I felt like putting together a scene and roughed it out so far. First part of this that I aim on finishing is the water by adding texture and shading to it. So far so good!

[AlexSin]

I don't know if you've seen this, but here:
http://uszatyarbuz.deviantart.com/art/Pixel-art-tutorial-shading-textures-examples-470364911
this guy collected many shading examples, there's also the water texture.

[thanewdude07]

Good looking out bro! I will be using this!

I have another water tutorial  as well! This is going to be a excellent learning process

[thanewdude07]

Okay still playing around with the water but i was in the mood for some more human figure practice

So I'm taking a old character from a chibi style and making her into a normalized person XD

Here is my progress so far also I plan on animating this



She will be casting a spell

[AlexSin]

Wow, a total change, that's pretty good!

[thanewdude07]

 the first version i did of Saheri back in 2013



And the next two are Other two version I played around with .



Here are my steps more or less XD



Hope you like her!

[Kienay]

Personally, I find the new version to be a vast improvement. And it got that nice retro-feel to it.
Also really love the design.  Looking forward to see some more of your work.

[thanewdude07]

Personally, I find the new version to be a vast improvement. And it got that nice retro-feel to it.
Also really love the design.  Looking forward to see some more of your work.

Thanks!! I'm here to improve!

Right now I can't help but kinda bounce all over the place when it comes to what i want to do next. I will take a week or so of just working on what comes to me then lock down on some animations.

Here is the next pose! I want to play around with a sort of chibi style for whatever reason. I want it to be similar to this videl I did a while ago



This will be Hunnie She actually is a princess that uses two pistols!

[thanewdude07]

I think this might be her battle stance when encountering a baddie


I kinda suck at guns XD
Took a while cause I'm still working to develop this style a bit but I'm happy how it came out so far.

Let me know what you guys think!

[hatter]

If you want an example of gun shading, maybe this can help?



I mean, I based my firearm's shading off of Diepod's RE1 Chris sprite, so maybe it can help too?

[thanewdude07]

Thanks for that reference I will definitely use them!

[AlexSin]

She kinda looks like she has noodle legs.
The viewer's left foot seems to look broken because the slipper is looking to the left while the knee is posed like that.

Regarding the use of the sprite, well... by that sprite alone I would picture her to be forgetful (she's forgotten something at home), it might be the gesture. What I suppose would be better is a more ready, prepared stance, or even a scared, surprised one!

For the weapons, just imagine them as rectangles/parallelepipeds... obvious I know, but what I mean is make things simple first. They don't look bad, just not drawn in the right angle.
I don't know if these can be helpful, but Alessi and Hol Horse in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (the Capcom arcade game), Jill Valentine from MvC2, Birdy (assist of Sabertooth in the MvC series) have guns, you could study those for the shading.

Be sure to have a consistent lighting for the sprite and you're good to go.

[thanewdude07]

Very good point about the leg! I broke my bae's foot! 

I got so caught up in working on the face of the bunny that I forgot to face the sprite the right way XD.

I Also Think the pose could work better for taking cover actually after playing around with it some more...


 
Here is a quick wall Threw together using a old tile XD



Also Redrew the gun after looking at Hol Horse 's jojo's sprites.

[thanewdude07]

Quick progress update.

Working on drawing this animation using my self in a video as a reference so far so good. Note/  I have it up right until contact then replaying the other frames for recover so far. In the finish animation there will be a follow through then recovery.



It's actually a uppercut for "Yusuke" I really wanted him to have this uppercut so i do I took a video.

I did my best to dress like Yusuke excuse my silly looking outfit XD

But on the 4th frame



me performing the upper

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kinda threw off the next frame so i added another to smooth it out but on frame 5 isnt helping the way i want it to so i will be redrawing and adding another... Just thought I could post what I'm currently up too.

Stay posted