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Published: 2011-03-07 03:53:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 1893; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 29
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March 11 - I shaded pretty much everything except the arm and the lights. I also fixed up the body to be more like Optimus and also fixed the head. I'm hoping the head looks better now.--------Original Text----------------------------------------
The Biggest spriting project I have ever done (even bigger then Queen Koopa and the Egg Stalker ), I am going to make this sprite of Optimus Prime!
Pretty much got inspired to make him after seeing this video . This will be done in two phases.
Phase 1: Basic outline of the shape and colors - I used my Human base as the base (ironic, isn't it) and took an image from Google to get the basic look.
Phase 2: Shading and touch ups - This will be the most difficult part of this project for me because shading is usually my weakest part of the project, especially in a big area like this. I'll also do more touch ups on the body to make it look better (example, the head doesn't look like Optimus's normally).
Kind of got lazy with the other arm, but I may make one after this.
Though I may be open if anyone is interested in trying to shade this themselves, as my next attempt at this will be the Weekend.
3/9 Update: Had to change the title to Optimus Prime so I can show the date of update. Gaia offered to shade it but I still wanted to make an attempt before he started.
I started the shading with the right leg first. I also fixed up the shape of the foot. I believe the wheels and the thing on his side is the best looking of the shaded as I'm not sure how the shading of the other part of the half looks. I definitely need an opinion on it before continuing.
March 10 - I hopefully fixed up the right leg and tried an attempt on the left. I also fixed up the left leg so it looks connected to his thigh and also added some more details. Also, has done his attempt at Shading . And I think it looks better then my own.
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The sprite is impressive overall, but that leg looks pillow shaded. Is he standing in the headlights of an oncoming car?
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As I said, try to make him look metallicy. Any particular section looks that way or is it all of it?
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It does look metallic, which is good. I'm only having trouble placing the light source (looks as if it's coming directly from the front, which as you know is a style usually not used in pixel art). Also, is his leg meant to be blocky or cylindrical? It looks cylindrical from the lighting, but the form of the rest of the sprite makes it look like it should be blocky. The little white grill thing on what would be his tibia is nice.
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It's supposed to be blocky. So I need to make the shading not look Blocky?
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No no, it's the opposite. The light in the center with it getting darker to either side makes it look cylindrical, like Mega man's boot boot, or something. I'd suggest taking cues from real-life rectangular metal objects. A quick google image search can help alot. ( [link] )
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So my recent attempt isn't good?
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Hmmm, I must not have reloaded the page. Sorry about that.
Recent one looks WAAAAAY better. The right toes still look a little funky due to the perspective, but it is a vast improvement and looks kind of awesome.
Good job.
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being a fan I'll say this.... what yeah got so far is a good out line. The foot being shaded only tells me you need to use a little darker shade of blue on the light blue areas but so far your doing great can't wait to see the next stage.
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His head looks like it's melting. Try to make it a bit more blocky and squared.
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Noted. I think you're the third or 4th to mention about the head.
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The head looks like he's looking upward and slanted back instead of looking foward.
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I noticed. That'll be fixed up hopefully in Phase 2.
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Everything looks great except for the eyes. They look a bit oddly shaped.
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I thought so too. That will hopefully be fixed up during the second phase.
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Optimus' head is a bit stiff, and possibly looking the direction that is meant to be looking down, because of his height.
Since Mecha's my strong suit here, I can pitch in here with the shading. I can possibly copy off the shading from the famous Cybuster mecha (one of the few characters/mechs who helped held and make the SRPG genere) sprite from one of the SRWOG games.. or copy off the S3K machinery, since they have diffrent shading.
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That'll be cool. I would say the S3K since they are the one I am more used to.
As for Optimus's head, unlike the rest of the body (and like the arm) I sprited over an image and tried to fix it up. Didn't turn out right, but that is what the touching up would be for.
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