[back then] La naissance de Funky Funghi

Suite à une requète de Lazycow sur Pixelation, je pixelise une première version de mon "Boppin' Toadstool" mi-février 2009.
C'est la retouche de Surt, ci-contre, qui va donner l'étincelle. Matthias lance le nom de "Fungus Fred", que je transformerai en "Funky Funghi".

The first Funky Funghi I drawn on my Nintendo DS was the one below. It wasn't named "funky" yet. His colors are inspired by the avatar of someone on the Pixelation forum, his overall look tries to be close to the one of the "bopping toadstool" in the comic. The pixel art you see on the right is not by me, but by Surt who will mentor me once again.

Parce que la version que j'avais postée au départ, c'était pas franchement spectaculaire.

Mushroom needs contrast and lots of it.
Eye's don't much work for me. Are they meant to be sunglasses? If so you might want to add the temples to make it more clear, even if there's nothing for them to hold on to.
Some squash of the face during landing might give it more character. -- Surt

J'essaie donc de rajouter du contraste, cf. ci-contre, mais ce n'est toujours pas convaincant. Et en postant sa version retravaillée (en haut de post), il ajoutait.

I played with it a bit much, but I think it should demo a better contrast level at least. I removed the blue from the sunglasses as I think it only confused things. I think solid black works well enough, or a simple specular highlight as in the edit. -- Surt

So I posted two more versions: one (just above) with just Surt's comments, trying to add more contrast, but not yet able to adjust the shape (that needs the NDS, not just tweakings in Gimp), and the one below after I've seen, printed, pixel-studied Surt's edit over the week-end and came up with something that was mostly kept as-is for the game, even so far.

Cette version, je sais que je l'ai collée dans mon carnet-agenda de l'époque après l'avoir imprimée pour pouvoir revenir dessus au fil du week-end. Il y aura encore un peu de bricolage autour, mais le lundi suivant, le plus gros du boulot est fait. Pierrick apprécie. Tant mieux.

Ce post n'arrive dans le blog qu'en 2025. il sera resté un brouillon depuis le 12 février 2009. La première mention de "Funky Funghi" sur le blog aura attendu jusqu'au mois d'avril 2009.