Yeah, I don't know what this is. It was just something cute I came up with last night and decided to animate tonight. I see so many things wrong with it now though that I could improve, so I probably will improve those. Needs a bit of tweaking, but for now I am too tired and sleepy and require rest.
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 64 x 82px
File Size 6.2 kB
I used an old old old old old program called The Games Factory to animate and draw him. I really love the way it handles pixel work. Then, after all the frames were complete, I turned each one into it's own separate .gif file and animated them in Macromedia Fireworks. There are much cheaper gif animators on the internet. I just can't remember what they are right now. XD
Despite the small scale (which is never really a bad thing) I like how fluid the animation is, and they way you slightly anti-aliased the curl in his hat to look smoother. This'll sound odd, but, this is what Lemmings would be like if it was a higher resolution, and you controlled elves around instead. The design has that soft, malliable feel.
Hehe, it does look sorta Lemmings-ish, doesn't it? I honestly didn't have any plans for him when I made him. I just was like "I wanna make a cute pixel art character thing. A green thing." And then this popped out and I animated it. I wanna do more animations for him now.
I just did it all in pixel form. It's on a small scale, so it doesn't really need to be drawn out beforehand. I just made it up as I went along.
Good pixel art tutorials? Hmm... I used to know of a bunch, but it's been years since I last saw them, I dunno if they're around any longer. I'm sure if you just do a Google search for "Pixel Art Tutorial", you should find some good matches, like this one I just found (and hey, an old friend of mine made that, go fig)
http://www.natomic.com/hosted/marks/mpat/
It's a lot of fun once you get into it! It just takes some time to learn the little tricks.
Good pixel art tutorials? Hmm... I used to know of a bunch, but it's been years since I last saw them, I dunno if they're around any longer. I'm sure if you just do a Google search for "Pixel Art Tutorial", you should find some good matches, like this one I just found (and hey, an old friend of mine made that, go fig)
http://www.natomic.com/hosted/marks/mpat/
It's a lot of fun once you get into it! It just takes some time to learn the little tricks.
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