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8-Bit advice.
8-Bit can be pretty hard sometimes. Only three colors you know. I'm attempting to Donkey Kong characters in 8-Bit but they don't seem quite... right. Any advice?

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04-16-2010 05:29 AM
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RE: 8-Bit advice.
Perhaps you could use a somewhat darker shade of brown? it's kinda hard to see the red. Other than that, I don't see anything that looks terribly off.

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04-16-2010 05:47 AM
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RE: 8-Bit advice.
Yeah, I'm not really so good at 8-Bits myself, but I also suggest using darker brown. Another point for 8-Bit spriting, is that there is only a single pallete, there is only one red and one brown colour, a red from Mario's cap and a brown from the body of a Goomba, however, I copied your sprites and tested them with the lighter and darker red and brown colours and they stll clash, unless you want the Kongs to be really light or the hats to be yellow or something I can't help. Although, Mario didn't have his modern day colours in 8-Bit so maybe you can give them lighter and darker colours. Just a thought Tongue

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RE: 8-Bit advice.
small color edit based on this nes palette I usually use
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other than that it looks pretty good

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04-16-2010 03:48 PM
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RE: 8-Bit advice.
Well, that one works pretty well, although wouldn't donkey kong series sprites be bst suited with a SMB palette, since those two series are closely related

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RE: 8-Bit advice.
Ugh, the contrast. I preferred the original palette to that one, but either way, the lineart/anatomy looks really good.

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RE: 8-Bit advice.
Yeah but I was wondering if it would look better with some lines separating the limbs.

04-17-2010 04:01 AM
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RE: 8-Bit advice.
There's not really room for doing that within the color limitations, unless you were to make the skin one color or such, and the outline a seperate color. Personally, I like it the way it is now. Lots of NES games had little distinction between body parts.

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RE: 8-Bit advice.
i dont think it needs an outline, at all.
04-17-2010 10:59 AM
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RE: 8-Bit advice.
An outline? Nah, hardly any 8-bits have outlines and if they did, they usually die into the black background of the games design Tongue

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RE: 8-Bit advice.
(04-16-2010 05:29 AM)Koopaul Wrote:  8-Bit can be pretty hard sometimes. Only three colors you know. I'm attempting to Donkey Kong characters in 8-Bit but they don't seem quite... right. Any advice?

[Image: 8bitdonkeykong.png]
Not bad. Although later NES games like the Megaman series had sprites (like Megaman) with 5 colours. I'm not entirely sure if Megaman was the only character in his series with 5 colours in his pallete, though.
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RE: 8-Bit advice.
(04-17-2010 04:04 PM)PokeGyroid Wrote:  Although later NES games like the Megaman series had sprites (like Megaman) with 5 colours. I'm not entirely sure if Megaman was the only character in his series with 5 colours in his pallete, though.
That was accomplished through having two sprite objects for the player - in the case of Megaman, the face was a separate object that was placed behind the rest of the sprite.

I think Koopaul is trying to avoid using that.

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RE: 8-Bit advice.
Good. I tried some AA to make it look a little better:
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RE: 8-Bit advice.
i dont think it needed AA at all either.
04-17-2010 07:32 PM
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RE: 8-Bit advice.
no, nether did I :/

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