Unit Art

Skizzaltix · Post by **Skizzaltix** » December 20th, 2006, 1:57 am

Just my doodling... Should this be moved to another forum?

Behold, the oithwum. I guess it could be a creep or a monster in some dungeon or other. I am working on the blurriness.
Any comments and or critiscism, is more than welcome!

Skizzaltix · Post by **Skizzaltix** » December 20th, 2006, 2:44 am

Did something about the blurrines, and added a shadow. but it still looks... Wrong to me. Especially the shadow.

wnsk · Post by **wnsk** » December 20th, 2006, 8:57 am

The second one definitely is better, but it doesn't look very menacing (if such was the intention). Maybe a crawling posture might make it look more dynamic.

Skizzaltix · Post by **Skizzaltix** » December 20th, 2006, 3:17 pm

It's not meant to be menacing... But you're right, it does look kinda... Flat. And unemotional. I'll work on it, but I don't think this is going to go anywhere big, I'm fooling around in the hopes of improving my art. But thanks! I may end up redoing it in the future.

EDIT:
Is this better? Most of what I did was just anti aliasing, but I did change the head a little.

Sabata · Post by **Sabata** » December 20th, 2006, 3:42 pm

Hmmm... interesting, you need to work on shadows.

Skizzaltix · Post by **Skizzaltix** » December 20th, 2006, 4:04 pm

What should I do to the shadows?

Post by **Blarumyrran** » December 20th, 2006, 4:10 pm

Skizzaltix · Post by **Skizzaltix** » December 20th, 2006, 4:55 pm

Hmm... Okay, that's pretty much what I did except for the keeping everything the same opacity. I'll do that. Thanks!

EDIT:

There, I did it. Does this look better?

Sabata · Post by **Sabata** » December 20th, 2006, 7:43 pm

Skizzaltix wrote:There, I did it. Does this look better?

Its better, here is my "oithwum" whit shadow, dont know if it better or not... but i liked your monster how about some leveling and animatins

Skizzaltix · Post by **Skizzaltix** » December 20th, 2006, 9:04 pm

Hmm... Yeah, your's is definetaly better. I'll get it and work off of it, thanks!

Okay, animations and leveling...
Well, first I'll think up some stats to give myself something to work with:

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Oithwum
level=0
moves=4
movetype=scuttlefoot (Needs something better than this...)
ability=dig (Ambush only for dirt)
attacks:
wrap
3-3
impact
slows

So then...

Sabata · Post by **Sabata** » December 20th, 2006, 11:36 pm

I liked the ability "dig" nice

My idea is that you should make move frame, it would be better, and i saw that you didnt changed shadows in attack and defend frame... i did it but i dont know if it would be good in game, need to test it.

No need to fell bad about shadows they are not so important as art itself.

Skizzaltix · Post by **Skizzaltix** » December 21st, 2006, 12:10 am

Oh, thank you.. I'm always forgetting about the shadows

Hmm... Yeah, move frame or two would be good. I'll get to work on that.

EDIT:

Okay, here's a move animation thingy:

Sabata · Post by **Sabata** » December 21st, 2006, 11:14 am

Nice and it has a shadow!!

I think now oithwum is completed, i am going to test him in game, but how about level 1 any idea??

Skizzaltix · Post by **Skizzaltix** » December 21st, 2006, 11:12 pm

I don't know about a next level...

Would you test him? I stuck together a file for him:

romnajin · Post by **romnajin** » December 22nd, 2006, 1:14 am

The snake having ambush to make up for his relative lack of strength is a good idea, however it seems like grass would make a better terrain than dirt for this ability, due to the fact that snakes actually do hide in the grass, and they could do this much more effectively than burrowing into the ground.