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[Greatness942]

Yeah, those look awesome! How did you do sprites that big, Stef? I need to find an efficient way to make a higher quality Cthulhu.

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[stefman]

We all know that there's no limits for perfection if you'll take a closer look to those big things, they all are very simple shaded and could use more detail. As for your Chtulhu, there are two ways to improve him. First, try to make his pose a bit more natural. Second, shade him properly. Shading is used to define shape of the object, and therefore a properly shaded sprite is almost always looks better.
It looks like all shading tutorials on PW forums are gone, so it may be worth to create another one from scratch, if anyone interested.

[snow dwarf]

We all know that there's no limits for perfection if you'll take a closer look to those big things, they all are very simple shaded and could use more detail. As for your Chtulhu, there are two ways to improve him. First, try to make his pose a bit more natural. Second, shade him properly. Shading is used to define shape of the object, and therefore a properly shaded sprite is almost always looks better.
It looks like all shading tutorials on PW forums are gone, so it may be worth to create another one from scratch, if anyone interested.

I would, if I knew how to shade properly

[Urist McScoopbeard]

I finally got fed up and switched to Photoshop--I can finally rotate things again! Salvation!

[snow dwarf]

@Greatness942, I see you finally figured out how to upload. What was the problem?

[Greatness942]

Instead of doing the .png file URL, I was giving the imgur one.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

The Spritesheet begins! Spoilered are some fun tests for the army's style. Basically, the concept is the robots just fling themselves at people--literally.

Phase I: Individual robots, chilling, attacking, being wounded. <-- Where I'm at now obvo.

Phase II: A modular robot horde. My inspiration for this comes from this stage of Castle Crashers:

Spoiler: "big picture, you have been warned!" (click to show/hide)

... So, there'll be some segments several robots in length and several deep--the trick here is that instead of making dozens of robots, Ill simply be using silhouettes for those not in the rank nearest us (the viewer) to give an impression of a many ranks deep column.

Phase III: Specials. They're not great with guns. Flailing limbs and poor motor control means the best they can do is wave around their guns while emptying the clip... Which they'll do here. Perhaps a Tankbot kind of unit. Those are my only two ideas right now, but ill work in a third.

Spoiler: "el robotos" (click to show/hide)

Like I said, just a couple of fun tests, but they'll be a lot of whacky movement, flailing, falling, and throwing themselves around. Thoughts?

[snow dwarf]

Nice sprites, if they are your first PW sprites than amazing. A suggestion for the background is to chose a natural blue color, which is mostly the color your sprites will appear on.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Thanks--they are indeed my first PW sprites. Is the blue color thing for viewing or practical purposes? Because my background is on a separate layer and I can just remove it whenever!

[snow dwarf]

It's both for viewing and practical, because you will see how the colors will look when you see them on a map fighting. By the way, would you like to join a match that I will be starting sometime soon?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

If my army is at least partially complete sure! When were you thinking of starting?

[stefman]

Count me in! I want to refresh my matching skills and overcame curse of stalling matches to death.

[snow dwarf]

Count me in! I want to refresh my matching skills and overcame curse of stalling matches to death.

If my army is at least partially complete sure! When were you thinking of starting?

Awesome, counting Grateness and Asgarus who is another guy interested in PW, there is four of you so I guess you can manage together a good timing. I personally won't be playing, because I'm involved in a lot of shit already, but I will PM Asgarus.

Edit: Decided to post my first sprie sheet here, the Orocks. On the right, as some of you remember, are how they looked in the beginning. However I'm not planning on continuing them yet.

[Greatness942]

Okay, going through a little conundrum. I am terrible at hands and feet, and trying to draw Cthulhu is taking a lot of attempts. That, and the dimensions of stuff like his cloak and his hands and feet. So, until I start doing great improvements, I am going to replace him with a different entity. Why am I saying this? Because I am going to show it off, and it's best to let you know just what you're looking at.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Spriting continues. A little mob test--not perfect, and perhaps TOO organized but you get the general idea! Hopefully this gives a much more complete idea of what I'm going for.

On the to do list:

Phase I:

-- Idling poses

-- MORE movement poses

-- damaged Idling poses

-- damaged movement poses

EDIT: -- attack poses

Phase II:

-- probably an additional four normal mob sections

-- damaged mob section(s)

-- attacking/lunging-forward mob section

Phase III:

-- Killbots, these guys with guns - wildly incompetent.

-- Tankbot, a bigge,r slabbier version of these guys - more a moving wall than a robot.

-- A.I. Core??? Still not sure about this last one, but an A.I. Core could work to help regulate playing mechanics for this army.