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I've been thinking something like engineering, but I know that's been used in MMO's before, maybe something either based around that OR maybe something to do with weather, using the weather to open up a whole new spectrum of weapons, for other skills like farming and sailing would be a good way to train it up.... Very unique, and yeah, just a thought.

I think you could fix up the corners of the towers abit more, diagonal bits don't even seem to hit the right points on them. The tree's leaves could be darker, as with the tanks, or atleast show the difference in distance and maybe allow them to show abit of angle as well. As for the battle ground I suppose it is, then allow some mayham (Not sure how to spell atm) but yeah allow some action in between, to show there is warfare happening, someone being shot, someone getting ready to shoot. The actual characteristics between everything need to show more, because at this moment in time it just seems like some tanks rolling back into camp, if this is happening, then it's not the most interesting plot, but otherwise you can work on fixing up the colour's on everything, make it more realistic, and yeah. That's all my advice for now.

Umm as the title says, it's just a pixelated tree, I drew it up last night, only took an hour. It was made pretty quickly like I said, so it isn't the greatest, but I have been needing to fix up drawing tree's so tried it out anyways, and since I haven't posted here for a while since I've been at Uni, thought I might as well. The background isn't that special, just wanted to focus on shading a bunch, and I thought the colours would go easier if it was drawn as if at night time, since I mostly wanted to focus on the figure of the tree and it's shading anyways. Okay I'm rambling on so here's the picture :roll: PS: Add the guy in the corner for fun lol.

He's stating that it's not really a "pixel art" due to the fact you didn't place each individual colour in each spot, which is obvious because of the amount of colours used. You must of used something like blurring or something to change multiple pixels at once, which takes away from the fact of it being a pixel art. Also yeah, Png saves the quality, so if it has had the same quality saved, then theoretically he's put on the entire 300 pixels by himself, which if he really DID do that, then he really could of used a heck lot less and probably made it look more effective. Point is he didn't put on all 300 pixels himself, thus it's not a pixelart technically.

The feet seem too small, he needs knees and his hands look a tad odd. I like the style you have done everything in, just as said above could use some fixing up in a few areas. I am not all that great with shading, so I won't give you any criticism there, just the anatomy part of it could help alot.

Hard to tell what angle this is on, since the top shelf has either things about to fall off of it, or it's on an unusual angle to everything else, whilst the bottom shelf only shows a side view.

Love the background, it will be good once you have put in the detail for the actual characters, but I think the rocky edge looks a tad odd at the moment, just how smooth it is I guess. Other then the night sky is one of the best I've seen :D

Your a freak, didn't think you'd be able to get it twice either but I guess it is hard not to get chosen when you keep throwing the best arts they have at them. Congratulations, but seriously... your a freak... Stop being abnormal! :shame:

Lol thus that one was made 1 year ago, and the second one was made this week...( I really shouldn't of posted the old one, but ahh wells) Glad you approve of my current work anyways, thought the contrast was okay, guess not :? :lol:

Okay don't really want you all to bother CCing on this one too much, simply because I made it a year a go for my old laptops wallpaper and just felt what the heck I'll post this one coz the characters pretty cool anyways lol. This was before I knew anything really about pixeling but yeah. (Fair few mistakes in it as well shhh!) WALLPAPER PIXEL Okay yeah, this one is a more proper one, made it during the week, it's meant to be of me, just was practicing anatomy and light (Which is mostly just hitting the shirt but yeah) I don't think I fully completed this one simply because I didn't really finish shading the jeans but oh well Enough chat from me here it is:-

I like the backgrounds in a few of those, probably just adding in minor details, or work on shading on characters abit more, I don't know, but experiment with different effects by going outside your current boundaries (Things that can provide more shading on the characters for instance, or working with light sources more) Keep up the good work anyway.

Mmmkay, ratings are obviously bad, anyway I think you should think about actually looking at the pictures, do you see where the mistakes could be, if so then fix them up... Look at the curving, the fact that the legs have different lengths, adding things to the background maybe and pretty much making everything look more smooth... I've got to say if you want to pixel, you should put more patience into it, try doing one for an hour atleast and making everything, the shape first off look good, if your not sure how to improve the shape then look at a bunch of other peoples works first, and understand how the structure of things, as well as special added details is added. I probably wouldn't recommend shading yet, but it will help in the near future once your get the actual shape of your objects corrected. Anyways you can find guides at the top of the page, in the announcement The Gallery Rules, FAQ and Resources Check it out, and hope you get better :D PS: Enough with the flames guys, just give him the advice, and hopefully he'll spend more time improving

Thanks, yeah I'm working on an idea atm to link them together, but heading off tomorrow which seems to happen alot half way through whenever I get into these modes... Ahh wells I'm having fun with it all, so I doubt I'll stop, but I did just get back from Uni, so best go see everyone that I haven't seen in a while first. I'll do the colour more at the end as well, just simply so I can work with it better at the end probably, and decide how detailed I want it in my final one anyways :D

Yeah made a new version kinda, just been trying stuff out... Not really a storyline or anything like anyone wanted, but a little more detail and adding ideas bit by bit, then I'll put them all into one big animation I think.

Coolio thanks Terl, yeah I'll start thinking more into storyboards and stuff now I got the basic understanding on how to use it all.

Lol fair enough, nah I wanted something simple for my first animation... Also I actually kinda wanted it to jig from side to side whilst it moved it's head... As for the messy edges, I'll fix them up with AA once I get some colour onto it, just wanted to post initial guy coz I was happy for that much.

Woo just made my first animation...I know it's not a big deal but I was actually struggling to work out Macromedia and what all the buttons meant and stuff...Anyways here it is, plus it's pretty small sized. Just something cute, nothing too special :P Updated Versions

How does that at all mean Jagex is getting lazy because you edited their amulet from the in game characters one? Oh, and it isn't too hard to work out it was the ammy that you have changed when the name of the picture is "ancientmageammycomparison" lol :-k

With the right arms thumb, maybe make the bottom of it look more distant, because it kinda looks like it's meant to all be part of the thumb where as I think anyway it's meant to be just the fatter bit at the bottom. As for what was said the black needs to be changed if your using a black background, it's way too hard to tell between the two which is taking away from the person's shoulders. Give some more grip to the wand probably wouldn't hurt either. Also making the guy look a little older, I'm not sure how you'd accomplish this, it seems hard but yeah that would make it look pretty good. I like the contrasting and the detail so far, just those things would make it great.

Yup will do, I have to agree they look terrible. But yeah just got the basic idea of them out there for people to see atm, kinda like my first path lol. Don't expect an update though for a few days, like I said, heading back to college in 2 days and so yeah going to be busy packing tomorrow and meeting everyone again when I get back.

Looks good, just two questions though, what sort of website is this for? and the Rik is there just so people know your making it for now right? like a "Sample" thing... Silly questions I know, just wondering Anyways as for the banner, the v2 looks best imo so far, the 2 bottom ones seem too um smudged/blurred (I don't really make these sigs at all...struggle to work through all the buttons lol) I guess and the blue definately shows that alot more. Hope that helps, maybe try gives the sprites more of an "auro" around them, I think that's what your kinda going for, but yeah it's blurring the actual characters too much, it would be good with the quote "The Power". PS: Mostly don't put effort into cc, just prefer to learn from others work, but you commented and helped me so what the hey :D Thanks again

Thanks, yeah I tend to do alot more 2d then 3d drawings, this is probably the closest I've been to 3d, I love drawing cartoon guys. Just been stuck making a game (Thus my avatar guy) after Terley's post and getting this new program, it's fun as but yeah getting addicted to mucking around with it. I'll be back at college soon and working on this again anyways. Soz for anyone watching this topic at all and me being very slow going on it all.

Cool thanks :)

Rik so far you have been the most useful critic here, thanks loving your comments. Also yeah I'll work on the shirt colour more, oh and I am lazy lol so yeahhh...

Update: * Just fixed the sky * Started abit on the path so people wouldn't complain about it being straight and * Didn't do much with the head even though it's the main problem, but I felt like doing other things atm, sorry everyone. Struggling a little with the AA, but yeah I'll check out some guides I think for that. Hope you like the update and please, like I said before, don't complain a heap with the head, I know it's a big thing but I'm noob at it and everytime I try to fix it it turns out worse, but I'll look into the proper shape as well another time. Heading into town for a few days, Anzac day and all so yeah, looking forward to the comments.