Help with art : Super Mario Land

I tried, I really did! But I'm a bit cack at.. doing.. stuff...

Anyhoo, here's my attempt.

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What I'm really aiming for is a series of sprites that fit the overall look of SuperMarioLand, but more colorful, and..good!
This is pretty much my 8,000'th attempt. The main issue being that the original sprites aren't really all that good. But when I flip between the two tilesets ingame, the difference between a "Normal" mario and the classic GB mario is insanely noticable.
To help, I did at least double the pixels on the original, hoping that I could smooth him out a bit. When I tried that, he looked ludicrously fat.
This attempt is being done after having tried out a rediculous number of other Mario Spites (mostly from this site), all of which show the glaring difference between Mario styles.

So, I'm really looking for a Mario sprite that looks very similar to the GB ones, but .. Aw, heck, you get the idea, right?

Anyone willing to give it a go? (And, yes, my "Large Mario's" animation is awful!)

This post has been edited by Jayenkai on Aug 10 2006, 05:11 AM

Spiffy, but the head looks a little strange

Thye head is too big and Mario's belly is a bit to small :-P

Yep... But A) Trying to get it so the difference isn't so huge when it switches from one gfx style to the other, so the head's gonna have to be pretty big to compensate..
and.. B) Can anyone help?

this might sound dumb,but try removing the black outline so that it fits the classic style...

and as already said,try making his belly bigger

Half-hide the eyes under the cap, and make the nose bigger.

I think you should go with getting the head and belly bigger.

Bah..

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Right, I'm going to ask point blank.

Can someone else draw this for me, 'cos I'm really really **** at it...

+ 3 step animations + jump + Skid, as seen above. Feel fit to redo from start, but I want it to trade nicely between classic GB and the new style, so not too drastic a difference, thanks.

This post has been edited by Jayenkai on Aug 13 2006, 07:14 AM

If you are useing a MMF 1.5 and up (MMF2 counts too) Then Here :

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 SML_edits.cca

Actually,I like the latest version of small Mario that you posted ...

As I code my games in Blitz Basic, I tend to use normal plain bmp/png/jpg images, and have absolutely no idea how to access a cca file. I'm sure they're handy, but any way you could create a plain spritesheet out of them? Thanks..

Ok!!! I will!!! Just let me...
EDIT : Done!!!

This post has been edited by red panther on Aug 13 2006, 10:24 AM

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I'll draw my own...

yea you should, i would color them for you,but im not at home

Why???