The Mugen Fighters Guild - Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

Rabano

Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#1 November 06, 2024, 04:26:32 am

Hi, Rabano here.

I think its a good time to present my new sprite project, after thinking about it for while, I decided which character I want to work on:

Shen Woo from The King of Fighters

this is the sprite Im working with rn

and here's some animations:

and a wip of his walking animation, big thank to MotorRoach for helping me with it:

About this project: Im not sure how much I will take on making him, probably less than Jubei since with I have enough references from his KOF games and a better roadmap, unlike Jubei that I was doing stuff without a order and most of it had to be made from scratch.

He will have all his moves from his games, and besides 3 or 4 new animations that he lacks in KOF, it will be all based on existing animations and nothing new or custom from my part.

Feel free to share feedback!

Momotaro

Re: Shen Woo CVS spritesheet

#2 November 06, 2024, 12:20:08 pm

A.K.A. NED
I like to draw fighting game characters...

Very good project Rabano!
I'm really hyped about it even if to me Dampir did a great job as well.
I always have a preference for spriting projects where there is no equivalent.

BUT Shen is so badass and a great choice.
Keep it up.
Very promising !!

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SkySplitters

Re: Shen Woo CVS spritesheet

#3 November 06, 2024, 01:57:39 pm

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I have always liked Shen Woo in terms of conceptuald design, but I always felt he was lacking in the gameplay department, perhaps this will be the push he needs to feel more whole. Lots of luck on your new project,

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FeLo_Llop

Re: Shen Woo CVS spritesheet

#4 November 06, 2024, 07:19:54 pm

¡Ni p*ta ni santa! ¡Digo!

As usual, top notch work.

¡De diez, como siempre!

I swear there was something cool here!!

HadeS

Re: Shen Woo CVS spritesheet

#5 November 06, 2024, 08:50:16 pm

Rabano, your work is always amazing! Great quality, smooth animations that add a lot to this community. Keep up the good work!

Rabano

Re: Shen Woo CVS spritesheet

#6 November 19, 2024, 04:43:18 am

Im finishing with all the movement stuff with Shen, but also I wanted to add both the chain and the yellow details he has in his legband from 2003/XI

I also finished the walking animations, thanks to Motorroach for giving me a hand with this one

plus power charge and roll

SkySplitters

Re: Shen Woo CVS spritesheet

#7 November 19, 2024, 11:16:11 am

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Jawdropping dude. Wow.

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Funk

Re: Shen Woo CVS spritesheet

#8 November 19, 2024, 11:21:00 am

music rules
hi

HELL YES!

MatreroG

Re: Shen Woo CVS spritesheet

#9 November 21, 2024, 12:04:21 pm

Quite impressive.
The fluidity of the moves is very good. And the details in the clothing and accessories also look very cool.

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TheDevil_44

Re: Shen Woo CVS spritesheet

#10 November 23, 2024, 07:59:20 pm

Let's Raise Hell
Working for God

KarmaCharmeleon made Ash so... I was thinking she'll make Shen one day

I don't know what will happen in the future... I gotta say... this is GREAT

The Devil took Emerie's life and ruin it just to make it better

Rabano

Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#11 January 09, 2025, 12:29:00 am

Hi, since I have to many ideas I want to work, I decide to make a universal thread for my own work instead of creating one for every new thing I have.

So, said this, you maybe don't know but Im working on a CVS Shen Woo, you can see the progress here: https://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/shen-woo-cvs-spritesheet-200188.0.html

I will still update that thread at the same time I do with this, just to avoid confusion.

well, anyways, here's the reason of why I created this thread

Leona Heidern

yeah, Im also planing to make a CVS Leona, since she's probably the most important KOF character that is weirdly absent from CVS.

and here's some progress with her:

thanks Motorroach for helping me with her walking cycle

I will update both characters and also share some ideas of future projects I have.

also, here's a little bonus, some animations for Retsu, using his unused CFJ sprite

yes, he's also a future project but way in the future, you can asume he will be harder to make than Leona or Shen.

Momotaro

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#12 January 09, 2025, 01:09:29 am

A.K.A. NED
I like to draw fighting game characters...

I'm glad to see such projects in work!
Rythmic used to have a Leona spriteset project. A really promising one. But he lost the files in a HDD crash or something.

Finally Leona will have her chance.

To me she looks great! Really.
My only fix would be thighs-hip area.
Capcom tend to give bigger ones to their female characters and same for snk females in CVS series.

I'm glad Motorroach gave you a hand with the animation.
Such a great support.

Every thing here is very promising!
Keep up the good wotk, buddy!

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Speedpreacher

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#13 January 09, 2025, 07:11:21 am

The story begins with who's gonna win

Rabano said, January 09, 2025, 12:29:00 am

I will still update that thread at the same time I do with this, just to avoid confusion.

Posting is at way too much of a premium to force yourself to do that

Enjoy

Nevermind, there's nothing I can do
Bet your life there's something killing you
It's a shame we have to die, my dear
No one's getting out of here alive
This time
What a way to go, but have no fear
No one's getting out of here alive
This time
It's a shame we have to disappear
No one's getting out of here alive
This time, this time, this time

SkySplitters

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#14 January 10, 2025, 09:42:31 pm

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Leona is looking really good, and the animations are very smooth.

Congratulations with Jubei Yamada, he is so fun, and the spirtes are so smooth.
So, can not wait to see Shen Woo.

What happened with El Gado? Did you ever finish him? I remember it seemed like you were quite close. Still one of my most anticipated WIPs to follow.

Previously known as;
Mugen-Ninja 2011-2014.
The Street Fighter 2014-2021.

Rabano

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#15 January 10, 2025, 09:52:57 pm

SkySplitters said, January 10, 2025, 09:42:31 pm

Leona is looking really good, and the animations are very smooth.

Congratulations with Jubei Yamada, he is so fun, and the spirtes are so smooth.
So, can not wait to see Shen Woo.

What happened with El Gado? Did you ever finish him? I remember it seemed like you were quite close. Still one of my most anticipated WIPs to follow.

Im gonna be honest, El Gado was cancelled a looong time ago, like even before I started with Jubei, not only the work I was doing looks bad, but I also traced over a lot of other moves and using PrimeOP's sprite didn't really help

I don't promise I will do this, but I want to work on a new El Gado in the future, with a more better though up moveset, 100% original animations, and more important of all, using my own sprite, since after Akira I decided to only use my work instead of using other people's sprites (Retsu is a exception)

Rabano

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#16 February 03, 2025, 04:28:59 am

Hi, some updates.

with Leona there's not to much, just that I will redo every one of her sprites.

with Shen I have some animations to show:

his Get Hits:

and his LP and MP:

About other random stuff, Im also just doodling stuff like some extra animations for Sean Atly's SF1 Joe, with a little CS, I will probably try to make a POTS character of him later.

another thing is that Im planning for more characters to work, and my plan is to do a obscure or weird character, concidering that both Shen and Specially Leona are pretty well known characters, and perfect for CVS (I still don't know how Leona didn't make it for CVS2)

I have some ideas, like SF Retsu, or even Monster Hunter Felyne.

that and some other... personal projects I want to learn, still will not show any of it, this is not the place to do it anyways.

Gritsmaster

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#17 February 03, 2025, 05:30:04 pm

#1 Boss Lady

Can't wait for both of these, looks crazy

Momotaro

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#18 February 03, 2025, 06:44:57 pm

A.K.A. NED
I like to draw fighting game characters...

Rabano said, February 03, 2025, 04:28:59 am

I'm very hyped for both of them. also for extra "obscure" characters.
Yay for Retsu !!!
For Leona, I still feel like she should have this Capcomish lower body thing all SNK girls have in Capcom style.
But this is not my project ^^

good luck.
Shen looks terrific!

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TheDevil_44

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#19 February 04, 2025, 07:26:01 pm

Let's Raise Hell
Working for God

CvS2 is Great! Yess... we have a lot of characters missing... we understand some characters are very powerful... but why the hell we have CPS2 sprites mixed with new sprites?

I love CPS2 but I don't like CPS2 characters In CvSPro and CvS2. I don't hate it... it's slightly unbalanced if you think about it... CPS2 characters got less frames than CvS characters

Rabano?! Thanks for drawing the missing characters. My prediction was correct about Shen. I had no idea about Leona

I gotta thank you and KarmaCharmeleon for making characters... that could've join the roster of CvS2

That's why I can't get enough of The MUGEN Multiverse

The Devil took Emerie's life and ruin it just to make it better

Last Edit: February 04, 2025, 07:52:04 pm by TheDevil_44

Rabano

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#20 February 12, 2025, 07:09:06 pm

Intros:

Victory poses:

Taunt:

and Time up:

SkySplitters

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#21 February 13, 2025, 02:29:26 pm

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The design of Shen Woo has always intrigued me, but I always felt he was lacking in the moveset department.
Your work, and fleshing him out into CVS Style makes me so hyped for this character. Again, thank you Rabano. You are amazing.

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Mugen-Ninja 2011-2014.
The Street Fighter 2014-2021.

Rabano

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#22 February 18, 2025, 08:31:30 pm

Some other Shen animation, HP and LK

and in a unrelated note, here's the characters Im currently interested in making in the future, and listed depending how hard they will be to work on

Staubhold

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#23 February 18, 2025, 09:56:10 pm

The Chaos has ended. You will be remembered!

Really enjoy your work.

Man, so many chars. you are "maybe" working on, that I would love to see.

Xanadu, Marshall Law, F.A.N.G, King (!!!)...
Keep it up.

Momotaro

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#24 February 19, 2025, 09:45:22 am

A.K.A. NED
I like to draw fighting game characters...

Rabano said, February 18, 2025, 08:31:30 pm

I know the way will be long but I'm very hyped with this possible table of project. Even if most of them will not be completed.

Of course I'm very interested in your main projects on the works. Shen and Leona.

Daigo would be incredible... One more charismatic Rival Schools character.
I would really like you to complete El Gado.

I'm not a big Abel player, but I remember ~~out~~ our exchange about it in your earlier steps of spriting learning.
And you definitely can make it happen.
Similar feeling for Ed
Luke, why not?...

Poison would be absolutely awesome! For so many reasons!

Tsugumi would be a nice fresh touch to the usual SNK overused girls. A female grappler for a change...

All your Tekken characters are promising as well, but I know it will be a lot of work.

Most of the others SF4-SF5-SF6 newcomers + SNK overused charcters don't really make it for me. Just feeling so so about them...
My wish for you, not to burn yourself spriting characters who already have a more than decent spriteset.

Good luck with Shen and Leona.

EDIT : fixed typo.

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Last Edit: February 19, 2025, 02:11:26 pm by Momotaro

DatKofGuy

Re: Salad's Kitchen: Leona and Shen Woo

#25 February 19, 2025, 01:20:09 pm

Hungry Wolf
Aspiring Sprite Animator

Nice to see Andy getting some appreciation, always sucks mah boi getting disrespected everywhere.
A proper version of Poison would be the most amazing though.