The Critique & Feedback thread
Valdred, with the sharp artwork I wouldn't go with a soft gradient (or most any gradient) for the background personally. I always thought illustrations over gradients clashed. If I'm alone on that, then never-you-mind. The colors aren't too dark, they help pop the art like a weasel chasing a monkey around a mulberry bush. I have no idea what a mulberry bush is, by the by.
Yin, your animation is smoother than mine to be sure, but I think your sprites would benefit without the pillow shading. Your armored rider's light sources are contradictory, the front leg shows a light source from in front, while the weapon has the reverse for example. This is common when pillow shading. The cactus' animation is a bit jarring at parts - below the chin, on both sides, as well as the sudden darkening in shadow on it's left arm by the tongue. Only because the dark shadow vanishes for frame.
Guardian, why does deviantart go to DA, as well as photography and poetry? It would be far better to simply cut it all as a DA link, or keep it all on one site. If I go to a site, a common thing I'll do the first time there is open several links in new tabs just for look-a-bouts, and I ended up opening 3 of the same thing XD. Tsk, tsk. As for facebook & twitter, it's very popular to condense them to a 'follow' link set. While I don't think it's good or bad to do it that way or yours, it's just popular, and quickly becoming a norm. Though I like that you didn't do what a lot of people do and put in an icon/button (the Facebook F button, for example) and just jam it in there in a section that is otherwise just text.
And yes, the background is very grainy.
Yin, your animation is smoother than mine to be sure, but I think your sprites would benefit without the pillow shading. Your armored rider's light sources are contradictory, the front leg shows a light source from in front, while the weapon has the reverse for example. This is common when pillow shading. The cactus' animation is a bit jarring at parts - below the chin, on both sides, as well as the sudden darkening in shadow on it's left arm by the tongue. Only because the dark shadow vanishes for frame.
Guardian, why does deviantart go to DA, as well as photography and poetry? It would be far better to simply cut it all as a DA link, or keep it all on one site. If I go to a site, a common thing I'll do the first time there is open several links in new tabs just for look-a-bouts, and I ended up opening 3 of the same thing XD. Tsk, tsk. As for facebook & twitter, it's very popular to condense them to a 'follow' link set. While I don't think it's good or bad to do it that way or yours, it's just popular, and quickly becoming a norm. Though I like that you didn't do what a lot of people do and put in an icon/button (the Facebook F button, for example) and just jam it in there in a section that is otherwise just text.
And yes, the background is very grainy.
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