I like the chunky-ish frame.

CC48, what is it you tell everyone about pillow shading?

Is that humor? My sarcasm scanner is.. Unsure.

ba-dum pshh.

The sad part is that the pillow is actually a bit pillow shaded

But it's a pillow, so it's actually somewhat appropriate, assuming it's a soft, uniform pillow.

Contrary to popular belief, you should not shade pillows with pillow shading.

Trying my hand at the Techion (Whitebots) Logo. I personally think it sucks.
If you couldn't guess, its a WIP.



With or without gradient, and other critisism?
EDIT: Please note, look at those pictures in a new tab or on some other colour, because you can't see the border here. And your really missing out

I'd say without. I think the simplicity reflects better on their style.
Be sure your anti aliasing is applicable to the background color for any actual applications though. Those white pixels along the edges looks bad.

More logo outburst? I did this long ago, i don't know what the ronin Logo should be so...

I know this isn't the Sprite Help Thread, but I wanted to give some critique...

The contrast is very low. The brightness of the mattress ranges from 208 lum to 166 lum. The brightness of the bed frame ranges from 34 lum to 120 lum.
Your brightnesses should range from around 40 lum to 180 lum.

The design is boring and unintuitive. The only additional detail is the indent in the bed frame. It would be simple to add in some details, like making the blanket a quilt, etc. The mattress is very bright compared to the bed frame, so it doesn't quite fit in.

The pillow looks flat. This is mostly because of the lack of contrast. It looks like it doesn't cast a shadow or have shape, so it looks flat.


Here's my edit:


The contrast is decent. The bed frame's brightness ranges from 34 lum to 160 lum. The mattress's brightness ranges from 80 lum to 208 lum.

The design is good. Almost every object has additional details, and they fit together well.

The pillow looks like a pillow.


If anyone needs help with pixel art btw, you can probably catch me on IRC some time.

Yep I knew about the AA, it just happens that those little bits are very transparent-white-ish, so I missed them. Like I said, its a WIP. There's also a border around the whole thing, but its hard to see.


Seems a little harsh and Holier-than-thou, but I don't see any flames. A harsh critique normally makes them improve A LOT or send them away crying, never to try again. Either way, it gets rid of bad art (not that CC48's art is bad, quite the opposite, just globally across-the-internet-wise bad art)

Also, it looks like there is a halo above the pillow.

I'm usually not that great at adding detail to sprites when I don't have a referance (you can call it lack of imagination). I appreciate the critique, and will keep in mind the stuff you said. I don't like the striped pillow, though, and the outlines on the edges of the blanket look too heavy. Or maybe that's just because the frame's outline is too light...

My current mental spriting checklist:

Shape
Color
Shading
Outline -- I always forget this one
Detail -- new
Contrast -- new

Oh and how do you measure lum? I'm guessing it is a unit of contrast, right?

Luminousity is the brightness.

Oh, didn't know lum was short for luminousity.