Knights' Era - Art trials

dontano · Post by **dontano** » November 14th, 2007, 5:34 pm

I made some sprites for my incoming Knights' Era. They're few for now, but I wanted to post them the same to see your opinion. Here's the zip containing 5 images (Javelineer, Little Vanguard, Soldier [stance, defense frame and attack]). If you want to know more about my era-on-work check my topic in the Faction/Era contribution section.

scienceguy8 · Post by **scienceguy8** » November 14th, 2007, 7:27 pm

Can't see the file. Could you repost it?

Dragonchampion · Post by **Dragonchampion** » November 14th, 2007, 7:27 pm

????
Where is it?

dontano · Post by **dontano** » November 14th, 2007, 7:38 pm

Oooops... here it is.

Post by **thespaceinvader** » November 14th, 2007, 7:45 pm

It's a good start, but you could do with better outlining and much cleaner shading. Also (this one's big) you should pay close attention to this wiki page about how to animate units. The one you've done so far is very static. Pay particular attention to the section about only moving the active element.

Post by **turin** » November 15th, 2007, 3:11 am

Most people (including me) won't bother to check out your images if you post them in a .zip. You need to upload the files themselves as .pngs. Unless you don't want much feedback, of course.

Post by **irrevenant** » November 15th, 2007, 10:17 pm

Your art is off to a pretty good start. It's a more dynamic style than the Wesnoth standard (the Wesnoth rule is that units should look like they could hold that position for hours - 'cos they are!) but that's fine for a UMC. The Vanguard looks a bit big, but if he's a L3, that's probably okay. Compare him to the size of similar units from the Loyalists faction.

Even though I looked, I second what Turin said re: posting the actual .PNGs. It's a lot more accessible for people to see and comment on.

dontano · Post by **dontano** » November 16th, 2007, 6:16 pm

Ok, I'll try to do my best. I putted a temporarily "magenta" (that it doesn't work for now) on my units and, of course, I'll eventually put the effective one. Lol, they look like the empowered version of Loyalists

I'm also starting to create more anim. frames to the soldier (2 attacks for ex.) to make the animation less 'static' (I readed the Art tutorial: thx Shadow Master). Let's see how they work...

dontano · Post by **dontano** » November 19th, 2007, 1:50 pm

Here's the upgraded version of soldier's attacks. I used just 2 well-placed frames (-150 to 150 and 150 to 300) and they seems to work good in my opinion. I'm starting to see a bright future in the Kingdom of Wescopia!
I also modified the Little Vanguard (and, irrevenant, is a lv2 anyway not a lv3) in sizes and I added an attack frame plus the defense animation. As for the Javelineer, I erased the javelin he was holding because I think it's more suggestive with a single bow.
Here are all the little vanguard files with the javelineer, and the soldier-attack2 png.

dontano · Post by **dontano** » November 19th, 2007, 5:27 pm