Hybrid's new art thread...because I can!

[bonesquad]

What the hell?

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://www.con-trast.com/

[Justin]

same thing happened to progressive boink. a recessive virus that springs once you access your site's ftp.

we got rid our ours. check your code for anything strange.

[Hybrid]

yeah I found that out yesterday morning. Turns out there was a hidden iframe on all my php pages. Luckily that was only about 5 pages and it was easy enough to track down. I submitted my site to google for review and everything was good by night time.

Man that really sucked.

[Hybrid]

I'd like some feedback on the background in this piece. Hell, any feedback is always good. I think it may be a little sloppy compared to the character in front.

http://www.con-trast.com/gallery/content/illustration/2008-2009/09_autumn_aegis.jpg

[bonesquad]

Hmm, I quite like the 'sloppy" autumn background. If anything, the problem is the character in the front isn't sloppy enough. So you're right, it is quite the con-trast, but isn't that the point?

Or maybe it's just her right arm/shoulder creeps me out for some reason...

[Hybrid]

Maybe it's the mechanism in her arm or maybe it's just me failing at perspective. I really like crisp, clean characters. You may appreciate the drawing I did of a robot running through snowy mountains. Right now I'm working on sprites for the actual game (finally). I always planned on doing it in 3D and having a programmer put my gameplay ideas into motion. Well I'm sick of waiting and I like 2D more anyways. It's a shame too because Unreal 3 just went public and it is pretty snazzy.

Spriting is hard.

[bonesquad]

It just looks like it will fall off at the slightest tug, you can see the space between the arm... which creeps me out.

I still like the contrast between the two.

[Hybrid]

Working on sprites that I planned on putting into a fighting game. Here is my first effort at a stance for the main character.



Maybe it's because his design seems bland to me, but I can't get into drawing him. Pixel art is very different than your regular digital painting. Animation especially feels different. Right now the animation is a little stiff. Any impressions would be great.

[bonesquad]

I can't stop staring at that floating green dot... scary shit man.

I like his boxxy brown t-shirt.

He needs a gimmick. The rolls of toilet paper around his arms and coming out of his jacket just don't work for me. I really have no idea what makes something pixel art, but his dance move is decent. Though his finger snapping seems a bit to 70s disco to me.

[Hybrid]

It now has 3 more frames of animation and is a lot smoother.

The toilet paper remark is offensive and hurts deeply.

The green dot is a reference point for all the layers.

Finger snapping? There is no finger snapping...

[Thomasiothegreat]

Damn...nice job, Hybrid! A fighting game, eh? You should add my alter-ego, THE GREAT THOMASIO to it! Woot!

[bonesquad]

I only made the paper comment because that green dot just annoys me so much...

Is this just hand-2-hand fighting (like VF), or will there be weapons (like SC) and/or projectiles (like SF)?

[Hybrid]

God looking at this sprite now makes me glad I revised it so much after becoming horribly depressed over bone's comments (you wish). I went and looked back at some older drawings of Zetch and changed some things here and there. Now he looks a LOT better and as soon as I get the crouching animation done, I'll post it here.

This game is basically street fighter. Some characters have projectiles, some characters have weapons. As of right now I don't want any running or air dashing. You could say that my copious amounts of SF4 playing have made me appreciate a more precise fundamentals based game. Though I still love Guilty Gear. We'll see what happens.

[Hybrid]

[bonesquad]

AHH! THAT DOT'S STILL THERE LAUGHING AT ME!!!

What is he dropping when crouched? A nice smooth animation, but that stance leaves him wide open to a counter attack...