Back blade looks too big.

I made the back blade smaller by 2 pixels(is that enough?) and changed the shading a bit.

What else can I do to improve it?

Crushing_Maniac wrote:

I made the back blade smaller by 2 pixels(is that enough?) and changed the shading a bit.

What else can I do to improve it?

I'd suggest a whole mess of AA, contrast, and color shifts. I dunno what it is about Byond, but I see a lot of safe, light, dull outlines. It's ok to get a little darker even on things that are supposed to be lighter (As long as it's not true black). I cleaned up your outline a little bolder with darker (non gray/black) colors. One thing I noticed about the actual Bankai is that it's very shiny. Which means more extreme darks and lights closer together. And on top of that, AA to smooth everything out.

AmonR wrote:

Crushing_Maniac wrote:

I made the back blade smaller by 2 pixels(is that enough?) and changed the shading a bit.

What else can I do to improve it?

I'd suggest a whole mess of AA, contrast, and color shifts. I dunno what it is about Byond, but I see a lot of safe, light, dull outlines. It's ok to get a little darker even on things that are supposed to be lighter (As long as it's not true black). I cleaned up your outline a little bolder with darker (non gray/black) colors. One thing I noticed about the actual Bankai is that it's very shiny. Which means more extreme darks and lights closer together. And on top of that, AA to smooth everything out.

Gah! Beat me to the edit. Freaken sick (pretty nice original piece as well). It almost seems like most of the time people on byond are afraid to use colors with higher differences. You usually only use low contrast when you're turfing.