phew :)    

Thanks for nice comments! :)

Noet, fixed.

jal, what do you mean :\

:)

Sorry, I've got a fast reply.

Nevermind :)

The best kind of challenge imo :)

Woah. That's something I would never think of looking at silhouette. Impressive pixels here.

That's pretty close to what I see in that silhouette :) I just think of a pony head instead.

How is that even possible - top of the challenge, not in montly top 10 while 2nd and 3rd both are right there :)

OMG that's so nice. It's like an another world behind the glass. Really a gem here.

Mmm that shading!

Thanks everyone :)

@schminitz, yeah, he's on my watch list, crazy lovely style.

@Nevercreature, not really sure, it was one a year so far and now 2 in a row! :)

What manupix said.

Yeah, I was sure it was some kind of tribute to fool's doggy. Still very nice and fun to watch :)

"Tweak them until you have a nice feeling" is an option. Some random base color, than darker for shadows, brighter for highlights with a slight hue shift - that's pretty much it. Then I just tweak it till I like the way they work together.

Thanks again, guys :)

piiichan, It took me about 2-3 weeks to create background tiles and all the transitions, about a day for every castle (I should note I had great concepts for each of them). Something like that. That was my first RPG tileset but I was examining a lot of tiles on this site, HOMM 2, 3, Warcraft.

Kasp3r, That was my favourite game for a long period of time :)

Thanks again for comments! :)

Yuran, right on target. Who isn't :)

Danori, start selecting with marquee tool, move cursor until you reach same pixel row you have on the other side, do the same moving down until you note same line on top, boom - you've got the tile :) I don't have a permission to share them but there's no problem to get them out of this image if you really want to.

Thanks for the comment, Adarias. The way I put it together is not really the way it looks in-game, I just wanted to drop in as much as possible to showcase what's been done :) Probably gone over the top. Normally it's not that detailed, 2-3 tile types for a large location and you can't find screenshots of the game with more than 1 castle - http://www.lordmancer.ru/images/mobile_ready.gif

Still I agree with the reading issues. No mockups were made beforehand, there were separate "characters" and "tiles" tasks and the only things I had in mind to make characters stand out was the outline and the shadow.

Thanks for the other comments, guys. Always appreciated.

Yep, quite often.

Hell no! :)

That makes characters look funny though ;)

Pyro has that blue lightsource as well :)

Mrmo Tarius, hehe that's nice. Now I see that the head of the solly is too large :D

Gecimen, he was also compared to James Hugh Calum Laurie and Woody Allen :) I'm not the creator of the character anyway :)

Thanks for the nice comments, guys!

Faceless, thanks for pointing on problem places.

st0ven, thanks, really glad to hear it from you. Interesting, I was thinking about the welcoming girl on your site while working on this - I thought I should check the way you worked on the trouser creases. But I was too excited to show it up as soon as all the parts were animated :)

dumbo, there's no idea behind it :) Just another dancing character from my favourite game.

Peelz, yeah it need work. I animated hand before the body movements and then I was adjusting the position of the hand and actually failed here :( Thanks for pointing that out.

Cyangmou, thanks for your comment, I always enjoy reading thought out comments like this one. Lighting on the legs is too contrast, probably that's the problem. Electric baclighting didn't add anything in my opinion so I removed blue pixels. 6 to go, yep. Never planned to complete them all though but I like the way it goes - 1 per year :D

Really cute one, enjoyed it.

Heh you've got me. Thank god i read comments before posting :D