Esjitu's Sprites

[esjitu]

Okay, I redrew everything but the head (which I did shrink a little), it's more upright now, less chubby...the hands are still driving me crazy though How's this?

[Marko]

Hi.. I love your style.. Those pixel drawing are awesome.. Isn't LF2 proportionality but still i won't complaining to see character in this style.. (or maybe new game).
No criticism. keep up with making char.. And listen Pf, YinYin... they are more experienced and they know the best way how to help you.

I was talking general.

[mono]

Jan 29, 2013 0:43:26 GMT 2 Marko said:

Hi.. I love your style.. This pixel drawing is awesome.. Isn't LF2 proportionality but still i won't complaining to see character in this style.. (or maybe new game).
No criticism. keep up with making char.. And listen Pf, YinYin... they are more experienced and they know the best way how to help you.

i dont think that he made that KOF pixel sprite, because he said that he wants to make lf2 sprite with pose like that.


@ontopic
good sprite, keep up

[esjitu]

Jan 29, 2013 6:26:26 GMT 2 @mono said:

i dont think that he made that KOF pixel sprite, because he said that he wants to make lf2 sprite with pose like that.

That's correct, the pixel sprite is from one of the Neo Geo Pocket KOF games I was using it as a pose reference. I do have pixel art in my art thread, though

Isn't LF2 proportionality but still i won't complaining to see character in this style.. (or maybe new game).

Yeah, as long as they look LF2-esque I don't mind if they look exactly like Little FIghters, mostly as long as they're proportional and I can get better at my shading then it's okay to have some of my own style. My intention is to eventually have a whole game with all original characters (I have a partner who will do the data changing while I do the graphics, so we can split the effort) anyways, so it's okay if they don't 'match' the original characters, in a way...as long as they come close to that style

[mono]

are you this guy?
www.lf-empire.de/forum/user-2140.html


I knew i saw it somewhere else


its yours right? or not?
you are old member from lfe, you was active in 2009 ?

[esjitu]

Hahaha, you're right back then I also wanted to attempt creating basically the same game I'm thinking of doing now, but I wanted to use the pixel sprite edits I had made instead...I did get that character partway programmed as a Davis replacement, but I lost steam with it and abandoned the idea for the project. So now I'm reviving it with a partner, and decided to go all-out and make LF2-style sprites for the characters instead of using the pixel ones. So yes, I did post on LFE a bit back then, and it's the same character...you have a good eye/memory!!

[mono]

Your latest sprite made me to remember it. Btw, nice design.
I have some good memory for some thing, but not for school:)
good luck.

[esjitu]

Thanks Mono

I've now animated him. Here he is, and I'm going to put him in my opening post as well.

[esjitu]

I got a little bolder and decided to do a walk cycle...was very time-consuming but I feel like it was less difficult than the breathing stances because I already had a lot of 'parts' to work with and a lot of it was rotating, moving, tracing and redrawing parts in new poses...the LF2 walk cycle is also very different from what I'm used to (usually the 2nd frame gets reused as the 4th frame in 4-frame walks) and seems a little jerky when it goes from frame 4 back to 1 as a result...but I guess this is how it's supposed to be. I was careful about following Woody's original pose, and I don't feel like I got anything particularly 'wrong'...but something about the legs going from the 4th back to 1st frame looks jerky to me. Maybe I need to fix frame 4 somewhat...

I made two versions, one with animated hair, because something felt like it was missing. But the hair looks too busy after all...so much about this style produces different results than with pixel art it feels weird for me to not animate the hair but I think the version without it comes out looking better in the end. You be the judge...here's both.

[YinYin]

the cycle is
0-1-2-3-2-1-0-
not
0-1-2-3-0-

it will probably look great if you animate the right sequence

[prince_freeza]

impressive sprites bro, you simply are progressing in no time.
i especially love this one:



nice breathing animation first of all.
also, nice sprite, well proportioned.. could use some fixes tho. and a better contrast for the skin color palette.

keep it up

[esjitu]

the cycle is
0-1-2-3-2-1-0-
not
0-1-2-3-0-

it will probably look great if you animate the right sequence

Lol, I had no idea...you're right, YinYin, it looks much better. Kinda messes up the way I had the hair animating, but since I wasn't crazy about it anyways, I'll just go without it for now.



And thanks PF, it's good to know I'm not completely terrible at this

[Arcane]

yo that breathing is pretty interesting and nice

and yeah nice walking circle, keep up the good job man

[esjitu]

So...after YinYin pointed out to me the way that the walking frames are read, I realized I have no idea how to go about animating frames I've finished other than to guess XD I assume it's indicated in the data somewhere, I just have a hard time wrapping my head around that. So, I decided the best way to test these frames out would be to just replace the sprite sheet of the character in-game and test (in this case, Woody, since I'm basing my frames on his for basic movements). So after making a backup, I overwrote woody_0 and woody_0_mirror and decided to test out my breathing, walking, and now running animations in-game. I'm pretty pleased with the results so far...so instead of manually making an animated of my frames, here's what it looks like in-game!!

youtu.be/5mtaZLPvLNM (ignore the terrible video quality, obviously it looks better in-game than it does from my screen recorder)

(for bonus points I replaced Davis' sheets to have Lemmy's breathing animation )

[mono]

I see you have done some progress.
nice walking animation, do you like to make these frames like over draw everyone or just rotate?
Could you teach me how to make sprites? because seriously, I cant do it anymore, i tried and it sux.
I cant make normal sprite-_-
i think this is the end for me.
@marko, go home for your self