My Life, in Pixels.

Smirnoffka · Jul 2010

Hey everyone

I'm starting to have a little time freeing up and I thought I'd so something different, and loving retro arcade games as I do, I've decided to make an animation of me in pixel art form! So to start, here is the basic sprite of me

And Big

I'll be slowly adding stuff to this thread as I go along.

Cheers!

Rens · Jul 2010

Flight suit up!

AshleyTayles · Jul 2010

Rens wrote: »

Flight suit up!

Been watching How I Met Your Mother?

Smirnoffka, very nice! I've always enjoyed looking at pixel art, can't wait for you to start the animating!

Ninjas · Jul 2010

Nice work!

Smirnoffka · Jul 2010

More

Me in Flightgear

And ready to fly!

More stuff to come late.

r_fletch_r · Jul 2010

It got a tom cruise buzz going in it

, needs more goose.

MoP · Jul 2010

Heh, nice pixel-art!

I think the shading on the flight helmet could be better though, aren't those things pretty shiny? A tight white highlight off to one side would really help sell that, I think.

Walruz · Jul 2010

Just curious, you do it first in big size and then scale it down?

Smirnoffka · Jul 2010

Hey, thanks for the crit there MoP. The helmets we use are actually a gray matte, but I was having trouble with the helmet shading.

@Walruz Nah, I find its just easier to do it at the actual size, and zoom in a lot. This way I can place individual pixels and don't run into any issues in scaling. Also, it allows me to quickly see what it is going to look like actual size.

Smirnoffka · Jul 2010

I cant tell if I like this helmet better or not..

achmedthesnake · Jul 2010

"higgggghhhhhhwayyyyy to thhhhe dangerrrr zoneeeeee!" ahem.

great pixel work, maybe do an idle or anim?

Mark Dygert · Jul 2010

Cool stuff, loving it!

What about trying a 3/4 or side view, like in a side scroller?

BradMyers82 · Jul 2010

Really neat man. Much respect for the pixel art!

I'm with vig lets see you get crazy with this, side views animated gifs.

GoGoGo!

Smirnoffka · Jul 2010

Next piece was quite a bit harder. Its my car, still not sure if I'm happy with it or not.

If you can identify the car, I'll give you my hat.

And larger version

Let me know what you think!

Zipfinator · Jul 2010

Looks like a Subaru!

tanka · Jul 2010

Actually, it looks alot like my car, a Subaru Impreza late 90s model. Although mines a sedan, not a station wagon/hatchback.

Smirnoffka · Jul 2010

Hmmm, damn. Its supposed to look like this...

Cept 2 door version.

Smirnoffka · Jul 2010

And a silly animation. I have spent WAAAAAAY too much time on this today.

e-freak · Jul 2010

yeah it was kinda obvious to be a bmw.

makecg · Jul 2010

nice stuff

Lamont · Jul 2010

Looks nothing like a Subaru. My first thought was a BMW. Subaru wagons have a way different shape.

Add the side markers/signals, add the trim/lines and panel cuts, as that's what makes a BMW a BMW.

Smirnoffka · Jul 2010

Ah, forgot the indicators! Thanks man.

tanka · Jul 2010

Lamont wrote: »

Looks nothing like a Subaru. My first thought was a BMW. Subaru wagons have a way different shape.

Add the side markers/signals, add the trim/lines and panel cuts, as that's what makes a BMW a BMW.

Heh, well I'm no expert on cars.. Anything with 4 wheels looks like my car. :P

Crash · Jul 2010

Smirnoffka: Don't know if I like the deithering you did on the car. It seems that you have plenty of colors in it, to avoid just that.

Smirnoffka · Jul 2010

Yeah, I'm the same crash, wanted to try something different with dithering, but I can't just decided if I like it or not. It does, I think, give some sort of a retro feel, but like you correctly pointed out I probably have enough colours to do without.

I dunno.

BunnyJen · Jul 2010

Smirnoffka wrote: »

Hmmm, damn. Its supposed to look like this...

Cept 2 door version.

I knew what it was straight away. 2 door version is better too

butt_sahib · Jul 2010

Man i love pixel art :P

My Life, in Pixels.

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