Let's use some "real" art.

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Jun 28 2008, 12:56 am
I've been thinking about how the graphic should look for my latest project and I got the crazy idea of drawing/painting it (by hand) instead of using pixel art. I think pixel art looks to "solid" while drawings got much more "flow" into their lines, do you people think this could work or is it just a waste of time? :/
Jun 28 2008, 1:34 am
Of course, that wouldn't be as easy to fit in 32x32 tiles. So multi-tile everything?
Jun 28 2008, 1:38 am (Edited on Jun 28 2008, 1:47 am)
In response to Kaiochao
Yeah ^^' (Maybe a bad idea but whatever ._.')
Thinking of having 64x64 pixel for a person.
Jun 28 2008, 2:54 am
In response to Syltmunk
You would have to do a lot of redrawing for movement frames, but if you're up to the work, I say go for it.
Jun 28 2008, 3:25 am
In response to Kaiochao
Okey, Then I will give it a shot :D
Jun 28 2008, 8:11 am
Whether that style of graphics will work or not depends a lot on the type of game you're hoping to make. If you wanted to make one of those hokey room-by-room adventure games, then it could work pretty well.

Bottom line, if you're drawing stuff by hand, you probably want to be drawing as little as possible. So games that will require a lot of animation or multi-frame objects of any kind are going to be a pain in the butt to do with hand drawn artwork.
Jun 28 2008, 1:14 pm
In response to Foomer
I'm planning to do a RPG (like zelda, or any game you do with RPG Maker), won't have any battles so only animation needed is walk ^^'
Jun 28 2008, 1:27 pm
In response to Syltmunk
Zelda has battles, though..

Aside from the childish contradiction... I look forward to seeing your game. Hope it looks as good as you lead us to believe :P
Jun 28 2008, 1:31 pm (Edited by moderator on Jun 28 2008, 2:03 pm)
In response to Kaiochao
Haha, me too ._. (Really afraid this will get messed up after some hours of hard work >_<)

Maybe I should report back to this thread when I got some screenshots so we all can see what it will looks likes and hopefully (if it's good) more people will join into it :P
Jun 28 2008, 1:46 pm
Good idea but wouldn't that be hard?
Jun 28 2008, 2:11 pm (Edited on Jun 28 2008, 2:16 pm)
In response to Poal
Well, I will mainly do my art on the computer with a "tablet".
This is an example of an tree I might be using ^^' (A little roughly made thought ._.)
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3250/treegjb7.png

EDIT: Okay, that image was very rough >.< But it's the basic style I will be using, just to give you a idea of what it will look like :/
Jun 28 2008, 3:06 pm (Edited on Jun 28 2008, 4:50 pm)
In response to Syltmunk
....
Jun 28 2008, 3:11 pm (Edited on Jun 28 2008, 3:19 pm)
In response to Flame Sage
No, but thanks for the "offer" :)
Jun 28 2008, 6:47 pm
In response to Syltmunk
I think that looks perfectly fine; assuming everything keeps the same style, it would actually look pretty good.
Jun 28 2008, 6:59 pm
In response to Syltmunk
Syltmunk wrote:
Well, I will mainly do my art on the computer with a "tablet".
This is an example of an tree I might be using ^^' (A little roughly made thought ._.)
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3250/treegjb7.png

EDIT: Okay, that image was very rough >.< But it's the basic style I will be using, just to give you a idea of what it will look like :/

This looks interesting, I've seen a few flash games with graphics like this. It comes out amazing visually, unfortunately, these games have never been more than click to advance games because the workload is intense. Good Luck on it though, i hope i get to see the finished version :D
Jun 29 2008, 7:08 am
In response to Syltmunk
Wow that's <s>bright</s> nice.