Pixel-Art Megathread: It's not programmer art it's *retro*

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neurotech: Apr 22, 2004; Deep in my dreams and I still hear her callin'
If you're alone, I'll come home.

I'm working on a pug sprite for Starbound:

Can anyone offer any comments? I've been staring at this little guy for hours and need some input from some 'fresh eyes'.

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neurotech: Apr 22, 2004; Deep in my dreams and I still hear her callin'
If you're alone, I'll come home.

HelixFox posted:

Pixel pug pals

Haha, this is great!

DancingPenguin posted:

I think it looks pretty awesome, do you have any backgrounds for it to see how it fits?
Ignore my comments, I am a programmer.
By the way, are the programmers by any chance goons as well?

I think so? I believe Tiy posts in the thread sometimes.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2013 00:26

neurotech: Apr 22, 2004; Deep in my dreams and I still hear her callin'
If you're alone, I'll come home.

Thanks for all that, guys. Extremely helpful!

# ¿ Dec 10, 2013 02:13

neurotech: Apr 22, 2004; Deep in my dreams and I still hear her callin'
If you're alone, I'll come home.

Thanks again for the feedback. I've done some shading to contrast it up a bit:

I'm going to switch to GraphicsGale as Photoshop is doing my head in with animations.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2013 00:32

neurotech: Apr 22, 2004; Deep in my dreams and I still hear her callin'
If you're alone, I'll come home.

Shoehead posted:

I messed around with some Starbound sprites today. It's fun as heck, I wish I could do more than make sprites and add recipes.

Any shots?

# ¿ Dec 14, 2013 04:56

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