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SideView Characters (cartoony?)

Author: 
arkalain
Monday, July 29, 2013 - 00:06
Art Type: 
2D Art
Tags: 
Character
side-view
Fantasy
License(s): 
CC-BY 3.0
Collections: 
  • 2D::Sprite::Sidescroll
  • Character - Static - Art Collection
  • Platformer/Sidescroller Characters and Enemies
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Here are some characters from my first experiments when I first read SpriteAttack's awesome blog.

Orc & Knight have some (ugly, really ugly) animations...you can see how ugly they are here

 

Hopefully, someone can find a way to do something nice with them

Attribution Instructions: 
please credit arkalain and link to my OGA page
File(s): 
greenorc.svg greenorc.svg 359 Kb [336 download(s)]
combatmage1.svg combatmage1.svg 21.3 Kb [206 download(s)]
combatmage2.svg combatmage2.svg 20.8 Kb [187 download(s)]
healer.svg healer.svg 16 Kb [125 download(s)]
knight.svg knight.svg 195.2 Kb [228 download(s)]
ninja.svg ninja.svg 23 Kb [203 download(s)]
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SpriteAttack
joined 11 years 4 months ago
07/31/2013 - 03:47
SpriteAttack's picture

Nice start... I noticed a few things though that might make it a lot easier on yourself arkalain. A) disable scaling outlines/ strokes when working on the animations. B) using more 'corner nodes' adds more sharpnes to the elements [eg. orc's belt, orc's wrist guards, etc.]. C) avoiding too saturated colours - especially with the healer and the ninja - but also the orc. 

I also looked at the orc animation and to me it makes more sense keeping him in place and copying the whole image - with grouped limps, body, head, etc. - in one layer and adding the changed animation frame in another layer. It makes it easier to see the changes from one frame to the next. 

Keep up the good work!

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arkalain
joined 10 years 5 months ago
07/31/2013 - 17:58

I would really like to get better at doing art assets, but honestly without any kind of backgorund it seems as it would take way too much practice to get decent at this :(, so not sure I will keep trying to do it.

Still always love to read your tutorials !

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