Smash's Skins and Misc. (Probably the Final Lemmings Update)

[FTX6004]

Why is the download link Captain Falcon?

(1000 Posts! Wow!)

[SmashTheEchidna]

Because copy/paste is being stupid today.
Fixed.

[SmashTheEchidna]

I'm probably gonna go back and release (yet another) update to Gizmo's skin. I can't remember off-hand what, but there was something about it that's been bugging me. Like an inconsistency somewhere. Also I fixed MegaGizmo's walking so he has the bounce in his step in other rotations.


But that's just a heads up above the actual reason I came here this morning. I brought something up about him elsewhere, which I wish to share with you. (or you could just skip to the bottom if you don't wanna read all this.)

My series, from which Gizmo is from, has been a long one. When I first brought Giz here to MM8BDM, he technically had just turned 16, but was based off of his appearance in a project of mine in which he was 15 years old. In present times, he's 18.
Point is, I'm giving a handful of my characters some design updates to reflect their aging along my story-line. That goes for Giz, too.

With this new design update, I'm considering making a new skin for Older Gizmo. I probably won't make one for MegaGizmo though, (as it would be kinda pointless considering the only thing that'd change is his voice and size.) Once I have a design down, that will be the next skin I make.


tl;dr
Gizmo's growing up. New skin in accordance.

[Loppyq]

I cant wait for Silver. His taunt should be. "ITS NO USE" That would be the best thing ever.

[SmashTheEchidna]

Eeehhh....I don't think Silver's gonna be showing up anytime soon. I have little to no inspiration to work with him at this time, and I have other skins I want to work on.

Like Gizmo, as mentioned above. And below, for that matter.



I kinda like how it came out. I didn't want to go too far into a "New design" of sorts. After all, he's just a little older, not a completely different person.
The Megaman colors at the bottom don't seem much different than the original colors, mainly due to the blue on him being very similar. There isn't much cyan showing but I'm probably going to try and fix that by putting something on the back of his shirt.

[Korby]

the new version looks almost impossible to read from far away
what exactly is the black spot anyway

[SmashTheEchidna]

Yeah I guess I should have elaborated first on what I was basing the outfit on first. =/
Basically it's part of his shirt, as seen here.

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I left some details out of it since I couldn't really get it to look quite right with them, such as the zipper.

[Kapus]

W-Why does he have spiked knuckles in that dollmaker picture?

Anyways, the older sprite looks nearly identical to the original, aside from being slightly taller. I don't think this really warrants a new skin.

[SmashTheEchidna]

I forgot to mention that they were to represent the Claw Gloves.

But that aside, do you have any suggestions to improve the sprite or overall design?

[SmashTheEchidna]

I've been very bleh towards working on pretty much anything, these days. I'm trying to fix that. I kinda tried with Gizmo back there, but I kinda failed at making a new design. I'll be honest; the main reason I wanted to make an older Gizmo skin was because I wanted to use a new set of voice clips for him to show that he doesn't still sound like a kid at the age of 18. Not the best of reasons, I know. If I can get a look down for him that isn't too similar to his current one, then I'll go ahead and make the skin anyway.

But that's not really the main reason I'm posting here. Looking back I realize that a few of my older skins could use some updates. MegaGizmo being one of them.

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Not a big update, but I went and slimmed down his buster. It was pretty huge, and it needed some adjustments. I actually did this a long time ago for his side frames, but that wasn't in 8-bit.

Gizmo isn't the main one I'm worried about though. I'm looking even further back, to my very first skin. Darkwing Duck.

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Looking back at this, I did a pretty crappy job in some areas. Back-R's cape clashes with the side and Front-R, but Front and Back, are just inconsistent as heck. How did you guys even let me release this?

Soo, I'mma be working on that.


I've only started on the front frames, so far. And I believe this is much better. Though on second thought, perhaps his knees could use a bit of work in a couple of those sprites...

So yeah, that's what I've been doing today. I also started work on a brand new skin, but I was set back when I lost the spritesheet for it. It completely vanished off the face of existence and I don't know why. I didn't get very far but starting over still demotivates me.
oh btw I'm actually ripping the sprites and making a sheet out of them.

[MEGAMANX123]

guts wario...best fusion ever

[SmashTheEchidna]

Thanks. I was kinda hoping to talk about what I'm working on, though.

Anyhow, I think I'm about finished with these rotations.



The last two are going to be a real pain since I might have to pretty much redo the whole thing.

EDIT: I almost forgot that I wanted to try resizing the front sprites. He's much taller there than in his other rotations. Here's what I got, showing all the edits I made from left to right.


It's not perfect, but...

[Kapus]

He's still not quite level in the sprite on the far right, and his arms look a bit worse. His arms look best on the sprite to the far left.

Try to study the pose on the front/right sprite and picture how it would look from the front.

[SmashTheEchidna]

[latereply]
I wasn't confident that I could make him any smaller without distorting his face, since that was the only part that wasn't aligned perfectly. As for his arms, I guess they did look off, but I didn't like the way they looked originally. It looked lazy and not as consistent with the one on the far right. One arm is lower than the other, and one is further toward his back. Anyway, I tried again, and this is what I've got.




On a new note,

I actually just recently came up with a cool idea for a class, but I don't think I'll be able to finish it in time. (I haven't even started.) So I guess I'll just tell it here.

Anybody remember this guy?

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Yes, the Crystal King from Paper Mario. No idea what skin he'd use, but oh well.

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Health: 100
Speed: Above Average (Average being Megaman's speed.)
Jump: Average, but can hover/float.
Armor: 0.6
--Strong Against: Any ice weapons.
His mainfire consists of shooting a ray of ice that freezes enemies on contact, and deals about 20 damage. Rate of fire is fairly slow, and it takes a moment to charge. It's a ripping weapon, meaning he can take out several people in a line.

His altfire is summoning Crystal bits. The summoning of the crystal bits is fairly slow, but it damages anyone close by and can possibly reflect projectiles. Once finished, three Crystal Bits will float around him like Beat Assist. He can then throw them using his main-fire, doing about 20 damage a piece. After firing the third one, he will have to summon more again.

As time goes on, a power gauge gradually fills. Once it reaches its peak, using an item allows him to divide into three, transparent versions of himself. In his divided form, all three of himself will copy his regular attacks.
It's an illusion, however; There is only one real Crystal King. The formation the three show in is randomized, so that it isn't always the same one. To better make the illusion more confusing, the actual player sprite will be turned invisible, while three copy images take his place. Once he takes damage, however, the illusion is broken and he returns to normal.

I figured since I didn't make the class, I might as well try my hand at making the skin. I didn't really get started on the rotations yet, though.

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Credit is given where it's due.

[SmashTheEchidna]

Oh man. I wanted to do way too much at once, it seems. I started working on skins, but then dumped that to go and work on sprites for another project which I had already temporarily abandoned after losing motivation after New Years, and now I'm being reminded that Akuma still needs to be finished so it's back to spriting again.

Since Blaze is more or less ded,

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[11:18:32 AM] Smash The Echidna: So how about that Akuma skin
[11:29:57 AM] Blaze Yeager: Blaze Yeager is in a grave

it looks like I'm on my own. I'm not too worried though; It's actually pretty easy stuff. (At least, the bare necessities are. Making rotations for most of the attacks are pretty tricky/difficult, even.) It's just that we've been so procrastinatious about it that nothing ever got done. So, here's what I've got to work with this week.

(Apparently the last three rows of sprites are not needed. )

I could have had a lot more over the weekend, but life matters got in the way. So, I'mma make it a goal to finish this by the end of this week at the latest. All the other skins can wait, because I've got someone who needs this done soon.