DragonDePlatino [2017-07-07 18:41:39 +0000 UTC]
Cool stuff! I've never stopped to think about the lack of mech-piloting protagonists. I guess relying on technology is seen as a sign of laziness (e.g. Eggman, Dr. Wily) so protagonists rarely get mechs.
The sprite itself is pretty cool. Very visually-distinct and it totally carries the vibe you're going for. I would probably pull back on the amount of dithering, though. There's so much of it that it clutters this sprite a bit.
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Cyberguy64 In reply to DragonDePlatino [2017-07-07 19:07:22 +0000 UTC]
Thanks a lot!
That reasoning makes sense. It's the kind of reasoning that gets us Mad Scientist villains like Lex Luthor or the good Doctor fighting characters like Superman and Sonic the like. Of course, when you've got super powers, you're not really exerting that much relative effort either, so in the end there's really not that much difference. Probably why a lot of people end up seeing the brainiac as the underdog.
I see what you're saying about the dithering. I'll try to draw back a tad. I was trying to use it as a fifth color, the way newspaper cartoons have that particular kind of dot shading to add more depth. It also seems like shifting the dithering between frames gives me a stronger feeling of motion, like Sub-Pixeling. It also helps to imply texture.
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