Is that some kind of shooter where the protagonist wears a jacket that's roughly 4 sizes too small, unzipped so that his silky smooth abdominal muscles show? /e unfiltered http://i56.tinypic.com/voy3bd.jpg
it's 4 planes (of two triangles each) with a "look at camera" tag in c4d. In the 3d engine they will be billboarded. Similar settings exist in all 3d packages / games although under different terminology's. Very handy for balls and so on.
Not only that, but there is no situation in which the whole dozen or so wood planks will be seen in a single shot - save yourself some texture work and do 4-5 planks on a 128x128. The actual wood texture looks great, though.
That steampunk soldier doesnt look too greatly optimised, i can see alot of areas where polys can be taken out. For example the legs are only 4 sided but the arms are 6 sided, you could take them down to 4 or 5 sides without losing much silhouette. The circular parts on the side of the head can also lose a few edges as the…
I can't see how thats 125 tris, or using a 128x128 texture...? It could be done with about 50 polygons maybe, and it shouldn't be a 1:1 texture at all, totally a 1:4...? Hmmmm... Care to post wires and the texture?
I just finished this for a small contest: Wireframe/closeup I couldn't get 5 spokes to look good at that resolution, so 4 it is. First time I ever try this superlow stuff btw. It's pretty easy and fun :p
Delko & Tennis, great stuff guys! really had a longing to do some proper pixelart lately, so today I doodled up this guy here :) I bet you know who he is :) 4 frame animation
OMG you need some <3 and we missed giving you here are ideas 1) seams! fix them 2) some ambient lighting 3) edge quality needs more finesse 4) more subtleties to hide edge
Here's a hot rod I made took me around 4-5 hours.. Wireframe(Tris:1162)(tex:512) and a NES (Tris 1094)(tex:512) @ Jonas: Man, that is awesome.. @ gilesruscoe: nice coloring.. @ Sauron: nice animations..
That being said, do you really need more than one pixel borders? In the image you posted you might, but that's about 4 or 5 times the size it would be on the DS. I imagine a single pixel might be wide enough?