Trying to get my scorpion to look good in all 4 direction, any thoughts so far?
Posted Oct 1, 2022, 11:15 AM UTC
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Nice style. It looks good.
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Style looks good but the eyes front on look a bit goofy
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It looks good.
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I think it looks great! If there was one thing I wish I could do better, it is art. Nice work.
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Wow nice artwork!
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Wow nice artwork!
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Looks amazing! If it’s for a game maybe add the 4 missing directions in between the 4 you already have.
If I’d comment on anything is that the pinchers are tilted differently, and appear to be slightly smaller, in the front frame.
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Would love to have 8 directional sprites, but that would just mean that I'm never going to release anything in my life. The amount of work for that would just be astronomical. But I'll definitely do some more pincher tests :)
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Like your human and your scorpion, so the rest is just constructive input.
Maybe it is just the style but it almost look more like a pokemon.
I agree with rate the front one need a bit work. I googled "close up scorpion pictures" because I was not sure how they actually should look. It seems bigger pincers and more of a mouth might help?
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Good artwork, front facing sprite needs more eyes
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Looks great to me 👍
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I agree with other commenter about the front view.
I’ll just say the side views are a little to convex. They look a little torpedo-ey.
You could probably just drop the middle three shells a little (so that the height difference between the head and first panel is the same as that between the first and second panels).
You could also try lowering the head and flattening the back.
These are nitpicks. Your models look great.
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I don't mind nitpicks, you're never going to get better if people don't point out the mistakes. That being said, I sort of like the convex shape, the art style isn't aiming to be super realistic so the exaggerated shape looks pretty fun in my own opinion, but it's totally fine to disagree also!
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Looks pretty damn good. Suggestion: The front view is the one that needs the most work. Increase the size of the pincers and change the eyes.
I agree, the front one just feels really weird compared to the others. Pincers are semi easy to fine tune, but the eyes are just constantly wrong, no matter how many iterations I do. You can only do so much when you're working with pixel art.
How about black eyes? Also: Scorpions have two eyes on the top of the cephalothorax, and usually two to five pairs of eyes along the front corners of the cephalothorax.
Wait that’s so cool I didn’t know they had that many eyes
I didn't even think about black eyes, probably way easier to have them not look goofy! My mind kinda just assumed that since the white eyes looked fine on the left/right ones, there must also be a way to make them look good from the front.
Eyes would look better lower and possibly spread apart.