Building buildings. Opinions needed.

Posted by blue213 on April 10, 2007, 6:11 a.m.

Hay guys. I've just gotten some lovely artwork off one of my pixel artists for Blastforce. However, I'm in need of some opinions. I seem to have mixed feelings.

I'm after a SNES, anime-like feel to the art. Look at these screenshots for an example.

http://www.fantasyanime.com/animerpgs/pssm_shots.htm

I've gotten two versions of the same building, but I can't decide which one is better. Help?

Please give opinions. And DO NOT use these in your own games!

http://64digits.com/users/Firefly/b1.png

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5439/buildingzw5.png

Many thanks. Plus an internets if you do reply.

(Also, more artists needed. PM me or leave a comment.)

Over,

blue

Comments

deepermeaning 17 years, 7 months ago

First.

blue213 17 years, 7 months ago

The first? Thanks for the opinion. It doesn't really have that SNES feel, though. Does it?

blue213 17 years, 7 months ago

Yeah, I guess. I really need that style. How would I go about making it look more SNES-ish?

eagly 17 years, 7 months ago

Cut down the number of colours?

But really, the first one does look much better.

blue213 17 years, 7 months ago

Hmm, yeah. But if you look at those screenshots of that other game I provided first, somehow they've managed to do it. Without making them have too many colours.

bjozzi 17 years, 7 months ago

wow this is a great piece of art i think this is a REALLY well done graphics…

blue213 17 years, 7 months ago

Thanks, but it's the work of my artist. All credit goes to him!

But which one do you prefer?

RetroVortex 17 years, 7 months ago

I like the sprites, very clean and colourful! [:D]

although the first one is pretty cool the second one can be used with a lighting engine to emulate/surpass the coolness of the first!

Episonage 17 years, 7 months ago

First one's the better :D

eagly 17 years, 7 months ago

Oh, I was talking about the Sailor Moon game graphics. Hah.

The other stuff, well basically Snes graphics use only a few colours and dithering. Dither them, and get rid of those photoshop/paint shop filters. Very un-snes like.

=]