07-10-2012, 11:07 PM
I won't read through all that because I am dealing with my own projects but guess what
First of all, I did aim the criticism at you. But why? Because you are responsible for this project, thus any problem this project has will be directed to you. This is how leading projects work. I have led several community projects and that's how it always worked for me. If a partner of some group fucks up, the leader will take responsibility for that. I, as a critique person, won't even care about who made what. I am here solely to point the wrong things so they can be corrected.
Second, if you took my criticism as an attack, you seriously need to rethink browsing tSR because that's how 90% of the people around here gives criticism. I wasn't being blunt. I was being direct to the point. If you felt offended by that then well, tough luck, it's not getting any 'softer' than it is. My advice is as helpful as your fluffy version, and if you can't see my point in the way I wrote that, then you should post them at somewhere like dA: you'll get plenty of 'omg amazing' comments.
Third, sticking to style "handcuffs", as I'd like to call them, is a dumb idea. It's a handcuff because it's keeping you tied to visuals that don't make sense at all. That small one-pixel speck is not making the sprite better. It is instead making him look like he's made out of plastic. Mario is not plastic, therefore that technique is unnecessary. Tridimensionality is achieved by shading accordingly, not by tiny specks. Same with the 'light gray' instead of... white. This brings the whole style down and it makes the sprites look severely handicapped. It's "up to you", though. You can either have a clean, sharp style or an aged, illogical style.
The point is, I am not trying to attack you or your project, but it sucks to see such potential being wasted on blurry and cluttered sprites. I also am fed up of people who can't accept a """""harsh""""" (inside a lot of quote marks because it wasn't even harsh at all) criticism without going 'you could at least say (insert euphemistic version of the same exact criticism)'.
I'm glad that you accepted the changes starsock and I did, but there are much more flaws you should take care of.
First of all, I did aim the criticism at you. But why? Because you are responsible for this project, thus any problem this project has will be directed to you. This is how leading projects work. I have led several community projects and that's how it always worked for me. If a partner of some group fucks up, the leader will take responsibility for that. I, as a critique person, won't even care about who made what. I am here solely to point the wrong things so they can be corrected.
Second, if you took my criticism as an attack, you seriously need to rethink browsing tSR because that's how 90% of the people around here gives criticism. I wasn't being blunt. I was being direct to the point. If you felt offended by that then well, tough luck, it's not getting any 'softer' than it is. My advice is as helpful as your fluffy version, and if you can't see my point in the way I wrote that, then you should post them at somewhere like dA: you'll get plenty of 'omg amazing' comments.
Third, sticking to style "handcuffs", as I'd like to call them, is a dumb idea. It's a handcuff because it's keeping you tied to visuals that don't make sense at all. That small one-pixel speck is not making the sprite better. It is instead making him look like he's made out of plastic. Mario is not plastic, therefore that technique is unnecessary. Tridimensionality is achieved by shading accordingly, not by tiny specks. Same with the 'light gray' instead of... white. This brings the whole style down and it makes the sprites look severely handicapped. It's "up to you", though. You can either have a clean, sharp style or an aged, illogical style.
The point is, I am not trying to attack you or your project, but it sucks to see such potential being wasted on blurry and cluttered sprites. I also am fed up of people who can't accept a """""harsh""""" (inside a lot of quote marks because it wasn't even harsh at all) criticism without going 'you could at least say (insert euphemistic version of the same exact criticism)'.
I'm glad that you accepted the changes starsock and I did, but there are much more flaws you should take care of.
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