Topic: Gaia's Stuff

[Night]

The hair doesn't have enough contrast. Try darker colors? ^^;;

[Gaia]

The hair doesn't have enough contrast. Try darker colors? ^^;;

That's because I pluck from official colors to make up the contrast, and her hair seems pretty bright on it's own without a lightsource.

Posted on: December 04, 2010, 10:13:03 PM

...Yep. It's basically what the filename says.

Posted on: December 09, 2010, 03:39:39 AM

Not too proud with the shading, eh.

[Sakura Leic]

I like the helmet but I don't think that position is even humanly possible.  The fingers look all weird and the body or legs look way too short.

[Gaia]

I like the helmet but I don't think that position is even humanly possible.  The fingers look all weird and the body or legs look way too short.

It was supposed to be a kickboxing robot, and I tried to add decals on the hips, but eh. I was never skilled at drawing anyway.

Posted on: December 21, 2010, 04:05:50 AM

And a Robot Master of mine gets a hefty revision.

[MrBaryl]

That looks like the juggernaut [sonic slicer].

Doesn't look like Megaman stuff.

[Gaia]

A SF2010 screenshot mockup, yeah.

And please note I discovered this game as a rom. It was bloody hard.

Posted on: December 23, 2010, 10:43:19 PM

Scanty is now complete, aside from mathematical problems I had caculaiting the height and longness of her hair.

Posted on: December 28, 2010, 01:18:16 AM

Alright, here is the first batch of my Mega Man Zero sprites I've been doing. One enemy, one NPC, and two major characters. More should come soon.

[Sakura Leic]

Zero seems a little scrunched up and looks more like the Model ZX megaman and he might be a bit too bright.  Something looks wrong with the Pantheon head but Ciel and the Resistance Solider looks perfect.

[Gaia]

I'll get to Zero's pallete soon, as it seems I missed one key ingredient to his shading: his second darkest shade. I must've left that out by mistake, I'll add that soon if I could figure this one out.

Oh? Do tell, I'd like to know where I went wrong with the pantheon head so I could fix that along with fixing Zero's "scrunchyness".

About the Resistance Soldier and Ceil I sprited the style to mimic MMZ's spriting style, because for the life of me I can't seem to sprite it that well, so I went with the idea of "Modern Genesis: S3K", took it elsewhere (If that works with the Sonic 3 and Knuckles style, why not?) and so here it is.

Let me tell you, it will be a LOTS easier spriting custom characters here, plus with the addition of being able to fit with the MMZ backgrounds as well. Heh.  

[Sakura Leic]

I think what you need to do is give the Pantheon a little longer neck but when I look at the original sprite compared to this one they both look akward so I don't know.

[Gaia]

I just recently fixed Zero's shading and posture issues (hopefully).

I think what you need to do is give the Pantheon a little longer neck but when I look at the original sprite compared to this one they both look akward so I don't know.

A longer neck? Will do, but for now, need sleep (Staying up until 3AM for New Year's is not what I had in mind). @.@

Posted on: January 01, 2011, 08:16:53 AM

Made final changes to each's pallete and gave the pantheon a little neck room as Sakura suggested. Now looks like I'm done with this batch.

Posted on: January 01, 2011, 09:04:07 PM

Set 2, Set 3's featuring the Big 4 and Set 4 will be featuring the antagonists for the rest of the series (Craft, Weil, Elipizo, and Copy X's Armor form). Set 5's gonna be the Caravan. Then movin' on to the NPCs, figured they need some time to shine.

Posted on: January 02, 2011, 03:32:21 AM

Set 3's done, with the Big 4 at hand.

[MrBaryl]

Are you resizing those? seriously?...

and the Guardians don't look so different.

[Gaia]

I'm only doing that to make MMZ spriting easier (for me, anyway), as you know I can't sprite in the style well.

Posted on: January 03, 2011, 03:09:04 AM

This is what I've been doing (plus the TSR event) for the past few days. I still need to get the bloody thing done, and by that I mean proper organization of the sheet, missing frames, and pallete of effects. Then after that I might possibly upload the completed version of it onto DA.

Posted on: January 19, 2011, 04:14:31 AM

Had some minor changes onto the sheet, but oh well. 

[MrBaryl]

Had some minor changes onto the sheet, but oh well.  

Dude, It's 8-bit Megaman style and I can't see his face, if the helmet is supposed to look like that then at least make it more noticeable.

The teleport frames are actually wider than the guy.

[Gaia]

Well, not exactly.. The style is actually diffrent, since for the life of me I can't seem to get it right unless I edit a base. 

[Cobalt]

I think the problem is with the eyes' yellow being too close to the white. You could either darken it or give the eyes an outline [preferebly with the red, since using the black would make it waay messier]. It might also help if you make the face 1 pixel longer. Aaalso, I think his legs look weird on the standing and shooting poses. Otherwise, it is fine.

On the other sprites, I like that bald dude with what I think is a scarf. Are you going to sheet him [or any of the other ones, for that matter]?

[Gaia]

I could try to darken the yellow, because I think that the red would be tricky (because of the gem being a pixel above the eyes, I might have to redesign the character entirely) to pull off, but practice is good, so I'll take the differently colored outline challenge first, if that doesn't work I could try dumbing down the yellow by darkening it.

Making the face 1 pixel larger would mean I would have to resize the body entirely to fit. That can work. This is not an actual Mega Man style but an origional.

Yes, that's a scarf for baldy. Just that I need some help working with a full-black body to help make things more noticable. For the rest of the dudes, I have like 5/10 sheeted, with one's sheet being in progress. I could use them for a comic, but I'm crap with 8-bit backgrounds (foregrounds, specifically).

Posted on: February 05, 2011, 07:03:37 PM

Name: Slug Mech

Designation: DMN-001 Super Vehicle

Primary Weapon: Gatling Spreader Gun x2

Utilities: Dash Component, Hovering Equipment, Spring Mechanism, Spring-Loaded Legs, Autopilot Pre-Programming, Automated Force Feild

Background: The first slug to come off the production line, this individual Vehicle is a mecha who's only purpose is to serve as a type of "combat suit" for it's consumers, a cheaper alternative to the high-priced tanks, as the previous wars has taken a toll on supplies to produce the tanks. Aside from the fact that it may be slow; it can be fast if a skilled pilot can handle the speeds both the Dash and Hovering components have, and is well aware of his/her surroundings. Albeit the alloy used is a bit stronger (more or less, the alloy stripped from wrecked Mars-Folk flyers) than most alloys on Earth, it's not as durable, as the cockpit takes up most of the mech, as it is one design flaw that can be overlooked by the Force Feild it is equipped with in this day and age.

Sooo yeah, some of you guys got your standard RMs, I pretty much have these, as they are easier to come up with and make.. sooo yeah. ^^


Posted on: February 06, 2011, 12:25:26 AM

Name: Slug Walker

Designation: DMN-002 Super Transport Vehicle

Primary Weapon: Gatling Spreader Gun x1

Utilities: All-Terrain Legs, Autopilot, Docking Compartment

Background: This type of Super Vehicle is made for nearly all-terrain purpose transport, as used to transport weapons and other goods, which is also good enough for escort missions. Although it was made for scout missions, it can hold it's own 1-on-1 with an enemy with slight damage. Most of the time in the feild of battle, it can be seen holding off hordes of enemies in the front lines as cover fire due to it being able to take more hits than a normal scout vehicle. Aside from this, it is pretty shaky against missiles, as two hits can send it to the scrap heap in no time, so that's why it's seen with Slug Mechs to accompany them; as unlike Slug Mechs these aren't equipped with force-feilds. Aside from all of these, it is one of the more customizable ones that the consumer can see fit.

Posted on: February 06, 2011, 11:41:45 PM

Yeeeep, pretty much a revamp of one of my older characters.. Basically.

Posted on: February 14, 2011, 03:26:36 AM

Yeah... Yeah.. Nothing else much to say..

Posted on: February 19, 2011, 05:02:11 AM

Yep, this looks like another 8-bit piece. Expect more of this, because I suck at other bittages. 

Posted on: February 21, 2011, 01:54:52 AM

Yeah, it's Vixy.. woo.

Posted on: February 21, 2011, 03:13:33 AM

Yeah, basically.

Posted on: February 21, 2011, 03:16:47 AM

This is Stocking, Hair gave me a bit of trouble, but yeah, here she is.

Posted on: February 21, 2011, 03:45:34 AM

And here is the followup, sadly. It turns out it was a show being narraited by various members of it's cast.

Posted on: February 21, 2011, 05:36:13 AM

Oh the joy of taking the RP of Busy World of RPM's chaos even further. 

Yeah, if I could figure out how to romhack Puyo Pop/Dr. Robotnik's, we have ourselves a romhack~

[Mirby]

I must stop your attempts at the dectuple post, for that is mine and mine alone. Also, nice work here.

But upon counting, you have the hendectuple post.

YOU BEAT ME THIS TIME GAIA, BUT NEXT TIME WILL BE DIFFERENT!! *vanishes*

[Gaia]

A...am I improving a bit? o///o

[ST Jestah]

Just a bit.

Need to work on your hands mostly. And the position of the elbows, the forearms look a tad too short and it makes the arms look distorted.

Also I'm not sure what he's holding. Is it a gun, or a cross? If it's a gun. is the barrel shaped like a cross? Or is it a key of sorts?

[Gaia]

So..

- Increase forearm and elbow positions? Got it. But fist, tell me by how much? I have my trusty rulues at bay.

- I tried to do an SMG. God, I suuuuuuck at weapons positioned like that ('cept swords). I need to work on weapon detailing more.

- Hands have always been a [sonic slicer] for me. As soon as I get the poportions down, I end up sucking on the hands again. WHY.jpg.

Also, I think I have the style down enough to co-exist with the sprite style. Yeah, thanks for the help.

BTW, I follow this drawing method, but "more rounder" and body more "human", rather than "robot":



Posted on: March 28, 2011, 01:15:42 AM

Here are the sprites that are based off the drawing. And yes, this is a work in progress.

[ST Jestah]

So..

- Increase forearm and elbow positions? Got it. But fist, tell me by how much? I have my trusty rulues at bay.

- I tried to do an SMG. God, I suuuuuuck at weapons positioned like that ('cept swords). I need to work on weapon detailing more.

- Hands have always been a [sonic slicer] for me. As soon as I get the poportions down, I end up sucking on the hands again. WHY.jpg.

Also, I think I have the style down enough to co-exist with the sprite style. Yeah, thanks for the help.

BTW, I follow this drawing method, but "more rounder" and body more "human", rather than "robot":

-Just by a bit. It's just that the forearms look too short and the rest of the arm looks stretched out. I'll send you a PM explaining what I mean.

-Well you could always google some images of SMGs positioned in that angle. There might be some tuts in DA as well.

-We all have a kryptonite. But as they say, practice makes perfect. And a decent attention span in my case.

Aside from the huge legs and overall bulky appearance, that's a good way to practice cartoonish human anatomy. Course I would still suggest to look for a few more guide lines with a more slimmer physic. But then again, I assume you made your own with the latest pic, so that might not be necessary.
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As for the pixels, the guys seems to have one arm a bit larger than the other. Do love the skeleton work though.

[Gaia]

- Which arm? His right (our left) or the left arm? Also thanks, the Skeleton way is just one of the many ways I roll when spriting. Plus I'm going for the Summon Night route with this style (the GBA trilogy, not the later titles).

- I could do that, it would save me the trouble looking for a weapons book and save me money too.

- Nice use of kryptonite there, but I've been battling hands for years, in a sense, it's "Bats vs the Joker" in my case.

It's a win-win scenario for me, because I like to experiment, plus since I draw a bit often thanks to my 5th, 6th, and 7th period classes, I always have a bit of free time to draw at school. Sometimes at home when the comp. doesn't take up most of the time. So yeah.

And luckly for me having a Formspring account, I can ask Mr. Wyatt for help too. This is what he said:

[spoiler]You draw a mitten shape, then you draw in an arc for the knuckle line, then divide the area below the knuckle line into four french fry shapes[/spoiler]

[ST Jestah]

-Right, of course since I'm not sure if your going for bulky arms look or scrany limbs, I'm not sure which one needs to be fixed. Gotta check the Summon Nights sprites to see what you're going with. Plus you can add some detail and put some fingers in there. (at least 3, not counting the thumb, though the thumb could be a pixel wider).

Personally, I would go with the bulky arms, since he'll most likely be fighting a lot and one needs bit meaty arms for dealing a good beating. In which case, fix the left.

[Gaia]

Guess what's gonna be my first-ever Pixiv upload tonight (excuse the shitty anatomy on the pixel art, I somehow applied my traditional works to my pixel art)!



Posted on: April 02, 2011, 02:45:17 AM

Yeah, like I totally revamped the RMZ+ Pantheon sprite.. Although I'm not too happy with the results somehow.. 

Posted on: April 08, 2011, 05:24:33 AM

Apology for the shitty quality, this was taken on my DSi and the scanner's being hogged ATM. But basically it's a sketch dump of anatomy practice.

Posted on: April 08, 2011, 06:47:39 AM

You don't know HOW DIFFICULT it was to pull it off.. *faints* 

[MrBaryl]

Looks really good but X and Zero have the same face, I assume X would have bigger eyes.