Detelamane Journal

TwinHamster

Why yes, I tweaked Den. Again.
However! This tweak has been letting me work so much faster.

With the previous 20 pixel high sprites, it was kind of hard to make different character models and clothing was a pain.

But now, I've shrunken the sprite models by quite a bit while letting them retain their details!
In the past week, I've been making infinitely more walkabout sprites than the previous zero sprites from many other weeks.
I guess it's because smaller sprites need less coloring. Or something.

If I manage to keep up the pace, I'll definitely have enough material to finally start up that update blog that I've been saving for quite a while.

TwinHamster · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject:

I missed this game way too much.

I got to work on setting up a cut-scene, deciding who would get a portrait (everyone) and drawing immediately needed faces.

I initially sketched a few faces based on interesting FE7 portraits and then drew my own based on the features of those sketches.
Except for Crull, Chrono Trigger's Frog was a big reference for him.

They seemed incredibly eerie to me (especially the frog), but I thought that I could fix them through the pixel-edits.

So far, I've only made them for Den and Jonas:

I actually liked how these came out, but both characters seem way too old.

There may be more stuff to come!

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Jonas' cranium could stand to be a bit bigger, but you really shouldn't if for stylistic reasons.

Den's mask looks like it's made of rubber though.

These are looking great. Keep it up!
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LongeBane · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 312 Location: Tomorrow

That's odd, your sketches look very crude and unsightly. But... somehow they translated much better into pixels. Good work.

LeRoy_Leo · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:

Personally, I think the crudeness served the purpose much better than a detailed sketch would have. The point is to quickly "whip up" some character designs that are just good enough that the artist can visualize the finished product. Good work.
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TwinHamster · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject:

Yeah, the sketches weren't much more than molds.
Also, I'm done molding these!

Now I guess I can work more on the actual game.

TwinHamster · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject: News flash!

I enjoy maptiling in the OHR now.

Moving tile around with the Caps Lock key is fantastic.

However, I would really like some sort of feature that would shift every color in the tile one value lower or higher.
And this new default palette is still great.

Blue Pixel · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:16 pm Post subject:

Wow. Those maptiles are amazing. That grass, those rocks, those tiles, its all so... so.... pretty!

even with my recent advancements in graphics its nice to know i still have room to grow, seeing something this amazing just shows me how far this program can take me.
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TwinHamster · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:51 am Post subject:

So every once in a blue moon, I decide it's time to work on my projects again.

I dabbled in Darkavern a little bit, got a little bit done, and then decided to work on Detelamane some more.

Returning to see what I had made, I was pretty sickened by the faces I made. Some were fat, some were tiny, none of them seemed consistent.

So I decided that scaling down/tracing was probably not the way to go.
After spending a little time reading about face proportions, I think I've found a nicer method:

(This default palette is just about godly for everything!)
(I can't wait until I figure facial expression out so that they don't all look like T_T)

Eyes never made sense to me, so I decided to just leave them out.

But yeah, I've got the works on a dungeon, plot and whatnot.

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

The new portraits definitely have more solid proportions, but I still prefer when they were all looking in different directions and had awkward expressions.

Though the 4th portrait (not counting the guidelines) has the strangest forehead.
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TwinHamster · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:39 pm Post subject:

TwinHamster · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:32 am Post subject:

It's been too long since I've made a monster sprite, so it felt great when I made four.

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Those are good monster designs.

I think they could use a color value ramp with more range though. A lot of details aren't really showing up because the dark colors blend together so much.
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TwinHamster · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:10 pm Post subject:

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

As for adding character to the faces, my initial thought is that you could probably get away with adding an extra pixel or two to the mouth, since that's where a lot of the differences lie between the various expressions. Maybe some skin creases? I'm sorry, I really don't know anything about visual art...
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