Our New Game Characters Feedback
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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 09 June 2026 at 3:43am
Topic: Our New Game Characters Feedback
Posted By: amoto4640
Subject: Our New Game Characters Feedback
Date Posted: 30 July 2012 at 10:51pm
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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. |
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Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 31 July 2012 at 12:07am
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There's no reason to have watermarks; they won't truly deter anybody and just make it difficult to see the pixels. At the moment I can see that there is a fair amount of banding around the mouths and other outlines. They have varying levels of contrast (compare the highlights on the two blue characters), so it's a bit difficult to compare them against each other. I'm not a fan of the color ramps approaching pure white, it makes things look quite plastic. Here's an edit, tweaking colours and clusters, changing banding into AA, etc.  Since you're (mostly) mirroring, you should make extra-certain that your shading can't be misinterpreted as pillow-shading. To help that you should try to avoid radial gradient-type shading (itself a form of banding), instead make lighter colours and shades change distance from each other, i.e. make the buffering midtone of differing thickness in different places (it's hard to explain, sorry). |
Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 31 July 2012 at 12:45am
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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 :) |
Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 31 July 2012 at 2:43am
| @Jaremy Oops sorry AA was anti aliased got it :), yep the bands look better and more antialiased.... |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 01 August 2012 at 4:03am
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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. |
Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 01 August 2012 at 6:29am
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Hi Yuran,
You can edit and polish the characters as long as you don't use them for personal use as these are Game Characters from "Funlevels" games and this is for our next game release. Other than that you are welcome to edit /polish the Character to make it look cuter :) Here are the characters without the Watermarks. 
Note: All rights of these characters are reserved to Funlevels, use of these characters else where will be considered an infringement. Amoto. |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 01 August 2012 at 7:03am
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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 |
Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 01 August 2012 at 7:32am
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Yuran, I ve updated the whole set without any watermarks in my reply....
Regarding colors anything between 15-20 would be good. The lesser the better but as long as it looks very polished and cute I'm not much worried about the colors. Your green edit looks nice though the eyes makes it a bit scary for the kids :), but I like it.... Also Jeremy's edit of the Violet Character looks cool, maybe the way he has antialiased it; it looks more rounded and the kids might like it.... The story behind the Characters: Each character are of different shapes as they do something with the shapes. - Violet Color character is Square shaped. - Pink Color character is Circle shaped. - Blue Color Character is Star shaped. - Green Color character is Pentagon shaped - Purple Color character is Triangle shaped. Blue color character does not look like a star, because the corners in the bottom near the leg are rounded and not pointed. Amoto. |
Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 01 August 2012 at 10:59pm
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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. |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 02 August 2012 at 4:01pm
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That's it, sex purple Critter I have not solved (it is kind of mean, his eyes a little touch up and will be male or female, then I will give both)
With animation, everything is understandable;) When I make a simple light and shade, and then try with a storyboard movements ... 1. grabbing object falling and ingestion (chewing) 2. Positive emotions and bad emotions (a pair of versions, I think) 3. simple movements If any of the Critter for a long time standing still (like the worms Armageddon) Вот-вот, пол фиолетового чудика я не разгадал (оно среднего рода, глаза немного подправить и будет мужской или женский, потом дам оба варианта) С анимацией всё понятно ;) когда сделаю чудикам простой свет и тень, потом попробую с раскадровкой движений... 1. хватание падающего предмета и проглатывание (жевание) 2. Положительные и отрецательные эмоции (по паре вариантов, думаю) 3. какие-нибудь действия если чудик долго стоит на месте (червячки армагедон, вроде того) |
Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 03 August 2012 at 8:33am
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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. |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 04 August 2012 at 5:27am
 Up :)
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Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 04 August 2012 at 12:55pm
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Nice edits Yuran :)
hehe the green one looks cool :) |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 08 August 2012 at 1:14am
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up ;)
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Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 08 August 2012 at 1:18am
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[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. |
Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 08 August 2012 at 8:02pm
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Yuran, yes same problem here, I could just log in now only to see the edits. It is coming out nice :)
Any updates yet :) waiting to see the Purple Critter :) and the Green one. Btw just wasnted to tell you that The blue Critter is more like shaped but in my original post my old artist made its tummy straight. Just to give an idea I made a quick edit, don't know whether it came the star shaped I was thinking, but yeah just to give you an idea. 
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Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 11 August 2012 at 7:12am
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The question about the colors - what will be the background?
PS -up :) |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 14 August 2012 at 11:27am
| Update blue mohnster form... |
Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 16 August 2012 at 3:30am
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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. |
Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 23 August 2012 at 9:28am
| Yuran Sent you an PM please check it.... |
Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 16 September 2012 at 11:16pm
| Hi Yuran sent a PM, please chk any update on the above single Frames? |
Posted By: amoto4640
Date Posted: 10 October 2012 at 1:02am
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Hi All,
Anybody interested in taking up the polish of these cute characters? As Yuran is busy and not to be seen nowadays on the forum, if anyone is interested in taking up the polish from where Yuran left it 71%, please take it up. It should be only in the style of what Yuran has done till now in the 71% of his completion. Like mentioned in the in my first post, I can make it a Paid Job for the animation of all 5 characters. But we can pay a small amount, but we will give full credits to the Pixel animation in our game. Reply immediately or pm me if interested. Or you can mail me at funlevelsgraphics@gmail.com AmotoFL. |