Tiny things

Just had a few thoughts while working on some of the things for the project outside uni, first of all I forgot to mention in my previous post that it is not a solo project, it is a joint venture with a company called Pawky Designs based in the Hive.

It's a student company, and is owned by the guy that made My Magical City (see www.mymagicalcity.co.uk) which won an award (I forget the name..) with a prize of £10,000 while it was in the concept stage which is what funded it to get where it is now.

I will shortly be starting a business in the hive myself if possible as well: I've got an application form ready to fill out but I'm not sure how I'm going to go about it since at current I would need to be in the hive on 1-2 weekdays a week for 12 weeks starting in june, which is clearly not ideal for job seeking and making money over summer! I may have to stoop to the level of call centre work again as the flexible hours and generally high level of pay could make it worth my while to stay up here in Notts.

The new project is slightly similar to my magical city in that its going to be using (true) isometric pixel art, which I've done a little of in the past:

Note that the above is not truly isometric, as it uses an angle of 26.565 degrees instead of 30 as it should be. This is the standard you will see on the web however made by people such as eBoy and Gunstar Red as it gives very clean lines.

I've never been one for copying however, and while it may be slightly easier to work in false-isometric, I'm all for us making our own style!

I've started to make a few pixel people (and tv's apparently) which you can see below:




Fubar body:

Much improved: