what It's just always how it's appeared to me. A sarcastic smirk, if you will; it adds to his overall attitude quite a bit, in my opinion.
<!--quoteo(post=190214:date=Apr 24 2008, 09:30 AM:name=BlazeHedgehog)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BlazeHedgehog @ Apr 24 2008, 09:30 AM) Minus one pixle doesn't look right. Minus three pixels and now we got the classic sonic moutless look therefore he is smirking. @ Tweaker: I'm going apeshit from insomnia. Sorry for letting it spill out onto the boards.
Ok people, I want to confess I've always been working on low res drawing and frame animations. I for that never touched Illustrator, neither flash. However, due to a full immersion thanks to the passion to see "Sonic" once again since '90, here he is. Welcome back Sonic! It's in HEAVY WIP due to difficulties in letting all details and heights flowing, but I wanted to share it.
I always saw it as a smirk too rather than simply a one pixel :O expression. I definitely agree with Tweaker that it would compliment his attitude, as Knuckles was portrayed as the villian. It's not simply that black pixel that determines his expression, if you look at it from a distance I think you can clearly see a smirk due to the shading underneath. Additionally if a scowl were to suddenly change into the following expression and then back into a scowl again, I think that it would truly look odd. The Knuckles is coming along very well indeed though, fantastic work Blaze. Vincent, that's looking awesome so far
Not too bad! But yeah, as you said, the lighting is very inconsistent on the head. In addition, it might also be better to consider some in-between frames, since the animation is quite jerky considering the size of of the art. Still, this is pretty cool. I suggest working on rolling next so a basic player could be implemented in some sort of test engine build without appearing as an invisible and/or garbled mess. :P
Damn Tweaker, do you even go to school? You always on the internet... Vincent, that animation is awesome as hell though. I wish I had a better eye for detail though, as I don't see anything wrong with it.
<!--quoteo(post=190221:date=Apr 24 2008, 03:55 PM:name=Vincent)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Vincent @ Apr 24 2008, 03:55 PM) [/quote] I love this. Seeing it in-game would blow my mind.
Vincent, very cool on the slow-run animation. Things I see: - The lighting on the head does need a bit of adjusting, meaning it needs to be more consistent between frames. - The stomach looks like it changes color too much. - The legs and shoes look pretty good. - There is a somewhat obvious jerkiness to it. I think this is because the head looks like it's switching between just the two positions and I know you used the same head position for several frames because the tiles are repeated. However, we may want to alter the position of the head in a few of those to make it smoother. This of course adds more tiles, but I don't see why that should be a problem from the programming side of things. Great work all around!
Actually, you'll notice in the original that the lighting is rather strange too; When turning away from the camera it appears that the light source has just shifted behind sonic, then goes back towards the top-right when he turns back towards the camera. Also, his second "spike-wad"'s lighting in some of the frames looks a bit odd; I'm not quite sure how to explain this one though. Tweaker, a build could be made of upscaled sprites, then the sprites would be gradually replaced with the new ones. That said, I know we're not going to concentrate on things like this until the game is mostly done, but it would be a good idea for the future if the game could have replacable graphics; that is to say, if someone made tiles for it, they could use upscaled original pixelgraphics to get essentially a vanilla sonic 2 PC port.Â
<!--quoteo(post=190221:date=Apr 24 2008, 03:55 PM:name=Vincent)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Vincent @ Apr 24 2008, 03:55 PM) [/quote] :O Nice work, that looks awesome.
<!--quoteo(post=190242:date=Apr 24 2008, 12:10 PM:name=Zenor)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Zenor @ Apr 24 2008, 12:10 PM) [/quote] Not bad, but it seems like it might be better a bit further back, and using a tad rougher of a curve. It looks less sarcastic at this point and more "hey guys, I'm totally not intimidating at all! ^____^"
I could make a joke. I just wish I could see the animation with a less choppy frame rate. That said, it does look like the original to me, right down to the odd lighting.
<!--quoteo(post=190221:date=Apr 24 2008, 10:55 AM:name=Vincent)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Vincent @ Apr 24 2008, 10:55 AM) It's in HEAVY WIP due to difficulties in letting all details and heights flowing, but I wanted to share it.[/quote] After looking at the animation, I definitely agree that it could use some in-between frames.
For the lighting on it, I would suggest maybe blending the colours of the highlights a bit more - as it does look a little odd seeing the colour go from a blue to light purple very quickly.
<!--quoteo(post=190250:date=Apr 24 2008, 05:34 PM:name=Blast Processing)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Blast Processing @ Apr 24 2008, 05:34 PM) It's in HEAVY WIP due to difficulties in letting all details and heights flowing, but I wanted to share it.[/quote] After looking at the animation, I definitely agree that it could use some in-between frames. [/quote] And I seriously hope I'm not the only animator on these forums, because I'm not doing it! =P (Not being a jerk with that one. I'm a better straight-ahead animator than I am an inbetweener.)
I still prefer scowling Knuckles. Considering what Knuckles was in the Genesis games (villain-become-friend), I think it fits to have him frown a bit.
