The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art

    Chapter 5

    Poses

Posing your people can be an interesting challenge. If you have a wooden manequein handy then your life will be a whole lot easier. If you don't have a wooden manequein, use a nearby friend or relative to pose how you want, study them and try to recreate it in your scene using your isometric person. A person running would have legs bent in the running fashion. All you really need to do is imagine yourself and how you would perform the pose or action. Making the character seem that they are performing the action by sometimes over-exaggerating their movement is the best way to get your point across on the virtual canvas.
Words and images copyright 2004 - Rhys Davies