Thanatos-Zero Sprite Workshop

[Thanatos-Zero]

I'm mostly lurking today so crits themselves may come in short supply or half-assedness, so I'd rather comment on this,
I understand this peeve I've seen others buckle under it and I had a few months silence because of it (albeit that time I spent getting better at spriting so when I return I may better understand the crits I was getting)

This forum seems to run on tough love, but thats good, its not always easy to tell someone whats wrong with their work in a nice way (most specifically when theres a lot wrong with it) the tough love thing or "brutal honesty" allows us to disregard the possibility of sounding like an asshat and saying what needs to be said.

I always fall back on the ever true, if its on the internet its free for everyone to witness and by extension to judge, if you post something anywhere on the internet, be ready for it to be witnessed and judged.

You are welcome. It is good to have such a board consistent of honest graphic designers, which aim for the top, while they also help others to reach that place of perfection. As for giving criticism, you can be friendly while you can unleash all the criticism.

Example: "A really lovely sprite, but it has so many flaws, which hide its beautiful interior. Let me help you to point them out, so your child will walk on a magnificent path. *Criticsm*. Those are all the flaws I could point out.
Now use the advice I have given you, so your little child can bloom to the beautiful flower I have seen in it.^^

Anyway to give crits your modified pallet is worse than the original because it doesn't have shades, some seem to pretty much glow, I think you need to try and get the different colours to match each others light-dark curve.

So it still needs to be darker, I understand. Hopefully it won't get too dark by modifying the colours. You could tell me which part of the palettes needs better contrast. I may have an idea which palettes needs further modifying, but I want to avoid unnecessary trial and error, if you know what I mean.

EDIT: as for the mech I like the body but the legs and the feet are quite ugly, the tear drop smooth feet don't conform to the rest of the sprite which is based more around hard surfaces. and the problem with the legs it reads as if its flexing but its a metal pole so it doesn't quite make sense.

I wanted to try out something different, as I didn't want to have an near identical copy of the first one. It is too bad, that the legs and feet do not have your approval. I will come back to you, when Justin3009 restarts the project.

Edit:

Look at it this way,

I don't like how taking a vaccine punctures you with a needle and how it hurts.

People have to face the truth, that they are possible wrong and needs to be adviced to find the right path.

you might be saying "what is this fatass dude saying I am talking about sprites what do needles have to do with this"

I understand your metphor. I am not so ignorant as I appear to be.

Thing is, not everything that is correct is the way you want it to be. You know that vaccines are good for your health, and how not taking them might make you vulnerable to diseases,even if they hurt like hell. Same is with honest criticism. Arguing that 'Not everyone of Sprite.INC likes your approach on beginners and oversensitive artists' is a dumb excuse to be honest; we are not going to make a harmless needle just because you can't take the pain of it.

You will be surprised, that needles won't hurt if you distract them from focusing on the possible pain itself. The vaccine or the truth can still be delivered in a different way.

Being honest is needed to be an artist. By giving your actual thought on the sprites, you can realize your mistakes and get better at doing sprites. After all, we don't want you to commt the same mistakes over and over by saying 'wow you're great keep it up!!!!'

just my two cents~

Honesty is important, but you can deliver your messages in a more friendly package. It shouldn't be so difficult to be honest and friendly at the same time. What you messages should portray is this kind message in a nutshell: You are a nice and good person, but your graphics suck and we want to help you to get out of this quality, since we like you.^^

You won't make the needle blunt this way, but distract the patients from the pain itself, while they realise from themselves what is wrong and learn from the lection you gave them in form of the vaccine.