Level Up! by Zanzlanz on Newgrounds

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Level Up!

Happy PixelDay2018 Newgrounds!!
This is my take on the concept of leveling up. Plus a snake!

Here is a process image of the steps that got me to the current state:
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/draw/ee66cdfa135ce8197e4567c9b06ce442

Taking advantage of being a programmer, I wrote a little program that created the spirally thing surrounding the dude in the middle. Of course I had to do the shading by hand, but I can't imagine drawing the form of it without the program.
Here's the program: https://zanzlanz.com/dump/2018/CircleThing

I later converted the original program into shader code if you wanted to see some spinny things:
- https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4tXBRH
- https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4tXfR8

I also wrote a program to make the flat ground layer, since I wanted the lines to be more perfect.

Anyway this was really fun, and I'd love to do more stuff like this in the future. And since I've been working on a chiptunes album, I think I should use this as the cover art.

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SolidSnakeOnAPlane

2023-11-16 15:55:44

Cool

KhaosKitsune617

2023-11-16 13:10:12

snek

Zanzlanz responds:

🐍

DarkJazmin11

2018-12-02 14:20:44

Pixel art is a hard thing to do

Zanzlanz responds:

I really love working with pixels! I have very little practice using brushes with texture and stuff, so it would be an extra investment to learn more traditional-style art.

Similarly, I had to learn edge techniques and usage of colors for pixel art, so I guess I steered to the style I spent the most time on :)

TurkeyOnAStick

2018-01-23 14:34:13

Happy Pixel Day!

First impression is that I really like the complexity of your dithering throughout the picture, especially on the radial gradient around the outside.

I love that you wrote code to assist with the drawing, as you’ve got some great structures (and dithering!) that is ridiculously tricky otherwise. That looping border and it’s shading is really well formed. I hope you push further with coding+illustrations, as the output is really refreshing and good quality.

Oh, and the frog’s sweet!

Zanzlanz responds:

Hey thanks so much TOAS, for the kind review and for scouting me as an artist here on Newgrounds! That was an unexpected and exciting surprise for me. :D

I totally would love to continue generating stuff like this with code - especially into pixel art since I think it can be integrated more naturally than other mediums. I'll definitely keep trying to think of ideas with that!

Happy Pixel Day! (And again your octopus is ink-redible!)

Urichov

2018-01-23 14:13:07

I see that "snek" tag. G frickin G.

Zanzlanz responds:

Hahahe, thanks! I'm glad someone appreciated that tag!