8 Bit style Walker WIP in Art & Sound

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Jan 12 2012, 8:55 am
Was playing around with Forum Account's excellent sidescroller library and decided I needed a proper player sprite. Inspired by the old NES Castlevania games I did this:

The player walk animation is 8 frames as opposed to the 4 Castlevania used and I tried to minimize the odd posture while still maintaining the "feel".

And here is a bad guy:

Shorter walk animation (6 frames) but still three times as many as the old NES sprites.

Both use a 16 color palette (15+clear), so would actually be more SNES level.

C&C welcome.
#1 Jan 12 2012, 9:33 am
Looks fantastic, bro!
#2 Jan 12 2012, 10:07 am
Wow your a very good pixel artist lol. :)
#3 Jan 12 2012, 1:58 pm
Beautiful
#4 Jan 12 2012, 4:47 pm
Looks great. (:
#5 Mar 19 2012, 3:27 pm
Quite good. I like them. The only things I notice in the first one are that he is REALLY swinging his right arm way out in front of him though in a sprite this small exagerated motion is sort of required, and his skirt is a tad too short ;) Very nice for small animated sprites.
#6 Mar 23 2012, 12:02 pm
its heman!
#7 Mar 23 2012, 12:15 pm
yeah! i never said it, but that's what i thought too!
#8 Mar 23 2012, 2:03 pm
HOLY CRAP IT'S FLICK!

Anyhow, I think your walking animation for the dude looks a little awkward with how the legs move. Otherwise it looks pretty good.
#9 Mar 23 2012, 5:16 pm
Oh snap, that's not heman that's Thundarr the Barbarian! Anyways. Nicely done. I like it quite a bit, though the middle of the body on the walking man looks a little odd to me. Just below the arms, where the belt or skirt (whichever it is, looks like a belt to me) seems a little too still. Seems odd with everything else moving forward so clearly.
#10 Mar 27 2012, 1:00 pm
The skeleton, comparing to hero, has rather poor move animation :) But i really like it
#11 Mar 27 2012, 1:53 pm
The skeleton is fewer frames. The idea is bad guys probably wouldn't get as much view time.
#12 Apr 1 2012, 11:27 am
You should post your reference so people can stop being impressed.
#13 Apr 2 2012, 12:54 pm (Edited on Apr 3 2012, 5:57 am)
You mean the sprites that I based them off?
Sure thing!
Castlevania 3: Trevor Belmont

Castlevania 2: Skeleton


I tried to capture the same feel with a more updated look.