Changing the Base Skin: Giving the Tournament Robot a Face

[Hallan Parva]

Korby's sprite with solid arm colors like Musashi/Ceridran's designs would probably look nice
personally I'd make 'em all cyan to evenly spread out the colors on the skin, but that's just me

[MusashiAA]

I really advise evenly distributed and solid colors for the design, as it would make any color scheme incredibly evident and accentuate the simple and base nature of the skin. That's why I said: arm and boot pieces blue, torso and waist cyan, forearms and legs black. Just as how I insist on no goddamned shoulder pieces, I insist on no goddamned striped trimmings a-la Quint: keep it simple.

[Hallan Parva]

the solid-colored armor is reasonable
I like the shoulder pads though, they're neat
helps add a little something to its design

[Ceridran]

shoulder pads are a nice nod to NormNavi

[Geno]

While I see that making the design as basic as possible is an important design choice, it's also good to keep the refrence to NormalNavi intact. Making them too basic will start making them look too much like someone's megaman edit OC, instead of a nod to BattleNetwork

also i think the male/female variants are already perfect

Some of the more recent edits, especially Korby's edit, look pretty good
Though, the 1 pixel wide eyes look... off. Maybe because they look fine on Astro's, Turbo's, and Galaxy's tiny heads, but not too good on a big ol' megaman size head

[fortegigasgospel]

While I see that making the design as basic as possible is an important design choice, it's also good to keep the refrence to NormalNavi intact. Making them too basic will start making them look too much like someone's megaman edit OC, instead of a nod to BattleNetwork

also i think the male/female variants are already perfect

Some of the more recent edits, especially Korby's edit, look pretty good
Though, the 1 pixel wide eyes look... off. Maybe because they look fine on Astro's, Turbo's, and Galaxy's tiny heads, but not too good on a big ol' megaman size head

I'd also say thin out the upper portion of the leg armor a little bit, Normal Navi have thin legs until it reached the feet. While we are making it look more classic series yes I'd feel it might be worth a try to see if that might make the design more accurate while still looking decent. Of course keeping the coloring as is and not more in tune of the navi though.
Maybe
Shoulder pads = yes
Upper arms and legs = Black
Arms and legs = Blue
Hands and feet = cyan
Torso = Blue with a Cyan gem on front and cyan piece on back
Head = Korby's last one maybe?
We ARE basing it off this thing here remember, and it already has a rather bland generic look for the series.

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[Max]

Korby's newest one is fine and dandy but I'm still in favour of bigger arms (and flat-colour gloves) like half my edits

Keeping the big boots is a must for classic style, if you want to move his waist upward and make him less chest that's fine by me but he's as NormalNavi as he needs to be right now any more would be pretty stupid

[MusashiAA]

We can't have Maestro be a transliteration of NormNavi, BN designs are very different from Classic designs, which is what we're trying to do here. No skinnyness, no excessive trimmings, no shoulder pads you guys suck, needs to be

as blank slate/boring as possible(...), similar to Mega Man's, which is extremely simple

[Max]

There's nothing non-classic about his shoulderpads (nearly every RM has them and his are quite like Crystalman's) or black legs (every robotmaster ever)

you just have to reach a compromise which is why i'm trying to make his arms bigger and flat colour and then i think he'll be fine
mega's jumpsuit is pretty much a huge no in my book i m o

[MusashiAA]

I'll give you that shoulder pads have been an established design thing in Classic since forever, but Mega Man-like characters don't have said things. I'm fine with black legs/arms, but having those 2 balls on his shoulders kinda defeat the purpose of having non-covered body parts IMO.

Also yeah, I can't hide it anymore: that body design should be slightly different, the arms and forearms could be slightly bigger. And yes, flat colors pls.

At this point, I'd say Korby's latest design is pretty close to being fine by me, I guess that helmet design is just going to stick . Just bigger arms, no cyan trimmings in boots/arms, and maybe fully cyan body with a black outline to separate chest from waist.

[Max]

I'll give you that shoulder pads have been an established design thing in Classic since forever, but Mega Man-like characters don't have said things.

Bass


I think if he keeps cyan shoulders and cyan boot bottoms he doesn't have to have a cyan chest either but you know
just need korby to wrap up a final design or something and we gucci

[Gumballtoid]

I just want his animations to be really pronounced, like "Hey, I'm the new base skin, but I still walk like Mega Man so you can tell I'm the base skin." I'm thinking his limbs should probably be big enough to accommodate that.

He should be on the simpler side, but at the same time he should be a little more interesting than Astro Mega Man. He ought to look like he came out of the first Mega Man game, I guess.

[MusashiAA]

Bass also has Wily's hair shape as part of his helmet, so that's as silly as you can get.

But yeah, I guess Korby's last design is kinda ok already. Gumball is right tho, his limbs ought to have the right proportions to fit Mega Man's walking and firing animation style. I'd say he should look like he came out of MM9 instead (har har v5): a very simple and neutral design, but still kinda "modern" for the day and age he was built in.

[KeryoWolfe]

I have to go back to Riu's design. I am heavily in favor of the main character being the gender of your choice. I also think that the "Other" gender should be the faceless version, as to add a mystery element to it. and to round it out, I think Dr. Light should ask A La Pokemon if you're a boy, a girl, or something mysterious...

[Russel]

v5 has Maestro as a new base skin.

Moved to closed.