Arcade Royal

Hi my name's King! I'm a pixel artist, wanna be game dev, general nerd and friendly person. Posts will be mostly pixel art, reblogs will be whatever I find interesting. :)

[jonroru]

One of my favorite trilogies, the Cornetto Trilogy of Edgar Wright with the magnificents Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

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And the BG sprite for today is that completed tree from last week.  TBH I’m not quite happy with the main bulk of this, and really felt I was only catching on to how to do it towards the end when I was filling in shadows and things. You can definitely see the shadows and crevices around the borrom and right hand sides have a lot more texture than the more out-ward popping green bits.  I think, if I were to start over again, I would have a much better approach to doing it - however, that’s an exercise for another day! 

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I realized I forgot to post monday’s character sprite! A high-rez rendering of one of the original characters from my project. I posted an idle sprite for them some weeks ago, and this was originally going to be an update to that to the 48x64 resolution that I’m wanting my sprites to be; however, in the end it wound up being more like a character concept sketch. 

I really wanted to capture the feeling of staring down their nose at you, which meant I needed to put the face above the level of perspective. But my sprites are intended to be top-down, so this really wouldn’t work for that! Nevertheless, it was a healthy exercise, and I’m quite happy with their expression in this piece. 

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So my fanart sketch for yesterday ended up turning into something much bigger, and I’m still working on it! That said, here is a WIP capture from it - obviously, I’ve been struck with the latest Splatoon pop idol sensation as much as anyone else!  We’ll continue working on this, but wanted to give people something to enjoy in the meantime. :) 

[theskywaker]

i have a new favorite character

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I really love Marina’s design, oh no she’s amazing.  Cool to see pixel art of her already! 

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And the UI pixelwork for today is a draft/WIP of some icons for various actions, with the theme of falcon talons. From left to right, these are: “Attack”, “Item”, “Magic” and “Defend”. I’m going for a sort of shining-force-esque animated when highlighted/hovered over. Clearly, I only had time to do two of the actual animations today, but it was still a valuable learning experience.  Since I feel it’s relevant when I post incomplete WIPS like this: I do have a vague notion of a game that some of these assets and things are building towards, but at the moment I am not really working seriously towards that - rather, my goal at this point is to improve my pixel art to the point of some reasonable competence. I do this after work, and so don’t always have time to complete ever piece I work on, but as long as I learn something, I count it as a success; posting the work at the end of the day, even when incomplete, really helps me with that. 

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I realized I totally forgot to pose my BG pixel art from Tuesday yesterday! This is a WIP tree! The trunk is in a pretty good space, but obvs the foliage is incomplete. I tried two different sort of strategies for filling it in, but I’m not especially happy with either of them at this point - there are things to be learned!  Still, I feel I did a good job on the trunk though it took me quite some time to figure that out 

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The character sprite for 7/3/2017 is a new character, yet unnamed. These are some keyframes for a simple idle animation for her. She’s a battle cook, and will destroy you. 

[level2select]

Watch your step! Cave Exploring as part of a previous Pixel Dailies’ theme.

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I realized I was supposed to post this yesterday, but forgot to! The fanart sketch for Friday is another one of Benten - but she got a haircut! This is maybe a tad spoilery, but not badly so. I really liked the end of Eccentric Family S2, and the emotional payoff w/ Benten halfway through the episode just destroyed me. 

I actually streamed this sketch session, which was really fun and which I’d like to do more of! Also, this is a narrow clip from a larger piece of ard which I hope to finish at some point. I think I’m improving at things, though I can always get better. 

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Hi all,  Wednesday’s UI pixel work is some prototype cursors, though I’m not actually terribly happy with most except for the flame on the bottom left. The idea here is that the cursor is a spirit or some sort, sort of Knights-in-the-Nightmare style, and so these are supposed to be wispy/ghosty things. 

The top sprite’s colors on the outer expanding ring are screwed up because I did the transparencies wrong, but I have no time to fix it tonight, and so it ships as it. The trials of doing daily challenges :) 

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Tuesday’s background asset art is a limited tileset for some grassy terrain. TBH this was actually much hard than I expected it to be - the end product is pretty simple and underwhelming, but I had to give lots of iterations.  I tried using a bunch of handier shortcuts like brushtools, etc, but it always ended up looking band, so ended up hand-foliaging (I kept the spray-rool effect for the earth, but TBH I don’t like how it looks, will definitely need to be updated).  Still, for a first attempt at background assets, it needs work, but I’m not ashamed of it at least :) 

[konjakonjak]

Iconoclasts, my game, STILL coming soon. I want to give you a date, but ffff

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I’m seriously looking forward to when iconoclasts comes out! I remember playing a demo back when it was just at thing on Konjak’s website, along with Legend of Princess, years ago! Please support this game when it makes it, it’s had years of love and passion poured into it :) 

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The Character Sprite for monday, 6/26 is another draft of my princess character. For this draft, I tried going with a wider, chunkier style, with more of an emphasis on distinct lines and a slightly more top-down perspective.  Somehow, her expression changed from my previous draft - she looks very angry in this pose, even though I didn’t mean for her too! I lost the thigh-slit dress and replaced it with loose-fitting pants, sort of trying to channel a marle-from-CT look, but I’m not sure how I like that either. I may try another dress where she’s in a full-on, floofy princess dress, because the gap between that and her personality might be a good contrast? 

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Updated Schedule

Hi friends!  I ended up having to take some time off work these past several weeks to help my parents out with a big move that came up unexpectedly, which is why the art has been being posted lately!  I’m working again, but to help keep things more manageable, I’m dropping the daily aspect, and going to be working the following schedule instead. My goal here is to focus my work more on original creations and gamedev-applicable skills, while before I’d been doing mostly fanart-style pixel sketches.  Mondays - Character Spritework Tuesdays - Background/Tileset Spritework Wednesdays - UI/Asset Work  Thursdays - Nothing - it’s a day off!  Fridays - A Fanart Sketch (1 hour time limit)  Saturdays - My Choice on a week-by-week basis, whatever I feel like (also a flex day, if things are bad and I need a break)  Sundays - Another day of rest I’m starting that schedule this week, so will post some character spritework here in a bit. Thanks for bearing with me folks, and I hope you’ll like what I post!