Hi All,
This is our New Game's Cute Characters.


As I just have little knowledge on the Pixel Art, I would like to get feedback from experts like you all.
This is a small game aimed at Kids and Younger Audience.
The more cuter the character looks the better for us.

1. How would you rate the characters in the image, your order of preference
Eg: 1.Pink, 2.Violet, 3.Green 4.Purple 5.Blue - (No.1 being the favorite or Cutest and No.5 being the least Favorite and Ugliest)

2. How is quality of the pixeling in term of polish and finish and how is the Style.

3. Any suggestion regarding any characters to make it look more appealing or more attractive, any unique or useful ideas to any / all of the characters are most welcome.

4. Finally we have a small problem, the BG is very smooth and vector style, and the characters are proper Pixel Style and NOT Anti-aliased, so how can the characters be made to match the BG or how to make it Anti-aliased or more smooth.

Hope to make the characters to look as appealing and attractive as possible.

Thanks all for your valuable feedback and Suggestions :)

Note: Please do not use these Characters as these are our Concepts that we will put in the Game that we are going to release soon. And we don't have money to make new Characters or Concepts if you use these :(. So a request to all pixel experts here please don't use these characters, as we don't have money to make New ones. It will be helpful if you can give feedback. But if you feel you can really change the look and feel and make it really smooth to suit the Bg and maybe polish it for us, then maybe I can seek your help for polishing of the whole animation set of all 5 characters but at very very small rate, as I have already spent a lot on these :(. But we can provide In-game Credits if we use your service / edits / characters :).

Amoto.

Edited by amoto4640 - 01 August 2012 at 7:48am

Thanks Jeremy,
Regarding the Watermarks, we are just a small group of 3 guys self developing and producing our own game with a minimal budget as we are not loaded. We are just getting pixel work from an external Artist as that is the only skill we lack and unfortunately the last time I posted on of a game forum to get a feedback on the animations and that character concept got ripped off.
I just heard about this place and I saw all the good work done by You all, so could not resiste getting a feedback :)
Btw regarding Pixeling, I can understand a bit, if not much like I said I'm not a Pixel artist. Cause I study a bit of Pixelart I can understand basics and how a good pixel art looks etc.

Regarding your Edit, it is really gud. Looks more rounded and the lighting highlights make it look more polished.
I get the point regarding the clusters and banding.
what does AA mean?
Regarding the shading I could get a bit of what you said if not completely.

Thanks for the Feeedback :)

I placed the characters in order, as they are cute to me:
1. green
2. purple
3. blue
4. pink
5. violet
Here are draft versions (if someone will clean them from the watermark to thank you very much, I'm going to do green and purple)

Light-no shade-no AA-no 7 colors
I will not hurry.

For you it was not boring I show unfinished AA + change in colors
(when I do the shadow color will change again)

I doing a little bit of correction in the ears of all the characters now.
And the triangular monster to do her hair in the style of Marge Simpson :)






Чтобы вам не было скучно покажу недоделанное АА + изменения в цветах
(когда буду делать тени цвета буду ещё раз менять)

По чуть чуть делаю исправления в персонажах ушки у всех теперь. И треугольному монстру надо сделать причёску в стиле Мардж Симпсон :)


Я расположил персонажей по порядку, как они мне симпатичны: 1. Зелёный 2. Пурпурный 3. Голубой 4. Розовый 5. Фиолетовый
Вот черновые варианты (если кто нибудь почистит их от водяных знаков тому большое спасибо, я пока буду делать зелёного и purple)
Не буду торопиться.

Edited by Yuran - 14 August 2012 at 11:26am

M-m-m)) Thanks for a clean one.
While I will update my first post and add there new rough works on the shell and do when they're all here. Are there any suggestions about the minimum number of colors (green character 17). If you animate - then the set of colors will take longer time to work.

М-м-м )) Спасибо за чистеньких.
Пока буду обновлять свой первый пост и добавлять туда новые черновые работы, на чистовую сделаю когда они будут все в сборе. Есть ли пожелания о минимальном количестве цветов (зелёный персонаж 17). Если анимировать - то из за множества цветов займет большее время работы

Yuran your Basic characters looks Nice :)
Just to give you a quick idea on what each critter can do
- Each Critter can open its mouth and eat something.

This was the original edit of Square Character, then it was later changed to Violet.
Similarly all Critters has Eye Blink, Antenna Move, Happy, Sad, Appear/Disappear and Jump Animations.
Jump Eg:


Also each critter has a Gender.
- Square is a Male Critter*
- Circle is a Female Critter
- Star is a Male Critter
- Pentagon is a Male Critter
- Triangle is a Female Critter
*Square Critter can be made a Female if it can be kpe the original pink color and can be made more cuter.

Amoto.

Edited by amoto4640 - 02 August 2012 at 12:43pm

Hi Yuran,
Nice work on the basic characters :).
Please do only 1 Frame for all the Critters with Polish ( Light, Shade and AA).
Please Don't do any Animations. Then I will get back to you.
Because we just want to see how polished it looks with the BG and then only we will decide to do all Animations.
So Please don't do more than just 5 idle FRAMES.

Thanks
Have a Nice Day.


Edited by amoto4640 - 03 August 2012 at 9:49am

Nice edits Yuran :)
hehe the green one looks cool :)

[offtop]I have any problems with the entrance to the main site and forum ... In this post I will update when I come to my work :(
Oh, the house worked all :) Maybe DDoS attacks have been on the server. so nothing would not anything work.
;)
[/offtop]

У меня какие то проблемы со входом на сайт и форум... По этому буду обновлять пост, когда буду приходить на работу.
Ой, дома заработало всё :) Возможно были ДДос атаки на сервер. поэтому ничего не могло работать.

Edited by Yuran - 08 August 2012 at 10:25am

The question about the colors - what will be the background?
PS -up :)


Edited by Yuran - 11 August 2012 at 7:16am

Hi Yuran,
Im sorry I'm traveling this week with only little access to Internet, so I will come back to my studio next wek and reply in detail. The blue critter is nice.
WIll message u next week once I come back to my studio.
Take Care.

Hi Yuran sent a PM, please chk any update on the above single Frames?