CFP Graphics WIP Topic, All tentavie graphics belong here

Want to try the outside?

OK, so at IRC CFP meeting, I came up with a idea for a boss named tundra. Guinea told me to keep him in mind, and I have been.

Heres my sprite of him:

the first pose is the head, and the second pose is the snowballs that follow the head, the hands, and the shine thingies.

The tutorials were down, so I kinda winged it.
Note:The white parts are supposed to look pillowed. the head and the links are basically fluffy snowballs floating in a flame of Ice.

Also, does fire/ice have outlines in the CFP style?

This post has been edited by mrmario on Oct 17 2009, 08:44 AM

it doesnt really look that good

I missed the meeting about that boss. Describe to me what he is and I can take a crack at making a base sprite.

Basically, what he is is a ice flame, and inside a flame is a snowball with glowing red eyes. He has 4 smaler snowballs following him, along with 4 hands.

ok so
IMO the Goomba sprites look a bit out dated so I made this

however its really my first attempt a custom spriting so if someone could tweak this base sprite I would be happy.

Not overall bad for a custom sprite, but I did notice some strange things.

Here's what I did.

1. I noticed your sprite has a strange lightsource regarding the feet, the lightsource seems to be coming from the bottom-left and the top-right, so I got that fixed.
2. Your sprite seemed to be leaning to the left, so I got that adjusted.
3. Your goomba's feet have a very unnatural shape to them, fixed that.
4. Lastly, your goomba looks like it's just staring into the center of the screen, so I made it look more like it was looking right.

Honestly, I don't care for either. I think the one we have now is good.

The goomba sprite is fine as it is.

eeeeeeehhh....

Honestly, that design sounds kinda overly simple. I mean, a snow ball followed by 4 snow balls with 4 floating hands?

You can add stuff. maybe the head snowball can have giant googly eyes and a big mouth? Maybe the hands can throw ice shurikens? Maybe the snow followers are spiky?

Googly eyes? Shurikens?

I'm sorry but this is sounding more and more like it was designed by a 5 year old.


What about, instead of adding things to the snowball with eyes, we go for something larger in general based offo f it? Like a Snow Dragon for example. It could wear a scarf and a small bucket hat like a snowman, and oyu have to knock the bucket off to reveal it's weak point.

Yes that is a good idea, but think of it:A general whos a midget with a mask, who has a giant hat, who rides in a toy tank?Doesnt THAT sound like it was designed by a five year old? Really, mario games get dark only at the end, where a great demon is released or whatever.

You want this game to keep the mario feel, so be REALLY crazy with ideas.


Note:I was describing general guy.

This post has been edited by mrmario on Oct 20 2009, 07:13 AM

The thing is is that General Guy is a shyguy which is a classic enemy design and it takes place in a toy box, so the theme was meant to be more childish.

You idea isn't going "crazy", It's a ball with eyes and floating hands.

EDIT-

Heres my general idea. Note that for the thing in charge under the helmet, i used your idea

I cnat see the image on my screen, but I can imagine how it looks.
And it looks good!

My idea is that you avoid the dragons attacks until you get something to throw, then you use it to knock off the helmet. That will reveal the original boss design. He will hop off and do small attacks, and then return after a while, or after you hit him, and then it starts over.

That way a simple boss design will work because it's upheld by a larger more menacing boss.

3up
its supposed to be an animation

This post has been edited by MONEYMAN on Oct 22 2009, 05:46 PM

Do you guys still need some backgrounds?

I have nothing to do so, what kind of background?

I dunno if you have use for this, but it could help.

This is totally out of style, but I think it works as a base for a BG if you tried to get the style down more accurately.

Rule of thumb: Whenever you make a sprite, make a mockup with the existing sprites to see if it matches.

yeah, i know that. This was ment to be a base for a bg.

But I'm aking what kind of backgrounds do you guys need?