The Mighty Walrus' pixel treasure trove!

[lui]

Hi guys, so lately i've been reading up on a bunch of spriting guides (a fantastic example of CvS is this one right here by Rolento http://iammanyninjas.com/irwt/sprite-cvs.html)

and so i've completely improved the way I sprite things, so I thought, why not try to revamp a not-so-CvS sprite into something that resembles the style at all atleast?

sooo, i've decided to try and fix up one of chuchoryu's Juri sprites and ooooooh boy, this one was a mess to do.

Yes, it's good that he made an entire sheet of Juri, but when they are filled with SO many errors that can be easily fixed with just taking time to look at the smaller details, you can see the obvious problems regarding quality.

Let's start with the obvious one: proportions. simply slapping on a lightsource from above and using cvs colors won't just do the trick on sprites that are supposed to resemble CvS, like Diepod and Rolento pointed out, the proportions on the CvS sprites are pretty much KOF and a bit of exaggerated Capcom-ness mixed in (take a look at Kyo for example, he's definetely more fit in Cvs than his KOF incarnation), so tracing over SFxT rips just look silly, since in SFxT, the proportions are the ones that are found in SF4, so Juri has bigass feet, hands and noodles for arms, not to mention the banana-pants she has lol when you do a CvS sprite, you have to adjust it by re-drawing pretty much most of the anatomy-related stuff in the proccess of spriting.

the second big issue is lightsource, its just all over the place. why does her belly get light from the side? why do the arms look so pillow-shaded? where the hell is the shadows on her face and howcome she doesn't have a mouth? i could list so much more...

sooo...a couple hours later, I give you this:
compared to

i pretty much re-drew atleast 90 percent of the frame.

Rolento's observations helped out a ton! i'm gonna try and fix more chuchoframes in the next coming of days

[Toki of Time]

Well, f*** yeah. That's what the f*** i'm talkin' about. I never even bothered chu's chars. Ever. But this? Definitely f***ing approving this shit. Period.

[hatter]

About time you made one of these. Hope to see more, keep going!

[inktrebuchet]

It looks great! I think it would have saved you time to trace her for the source yourself. Correcting sprites that far off is tough.

*Her standing leg may be a little to long though.

[hatter]

It looks great! I think it would have saved you time to trace her for the source yourself. Correcting sprites that far off is tough.

This is true. It took me an entire day to correct dampir's Mr. Big, and the same to his Clark (all the while trying to make him resemble his KoF XIII counterpart).

I forgot to put this in my last post, but something needs to be done about here arms; the left viewer arm is weird as fuck. Right viewer arm is fine I suppose.

[lui]

@kano uhm, thats good to hear about? aside from the needless swearing, thanks for the compliment i guess!

@ink ooooooh no i ain't gonna revamp ALL of his Juri sprites, I would die a waifu-less death if i did, it would be easier to just do my own HINT

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I do plan on spriting someone (other than Dormammu or Iron Fist because they're on hold) once I finish my studies here in asia, I just don't know who

@BH Yeaaaaaaa dude seeing all you rad dudes sprite without me while i'm reading books all day made me jealous! lol i'll try to devote some freetime to some pixel art this weekend. and yeah I see what you mean about the arms, I didn't change much so I'll take a look, same thing about the leg

[AlexSin]

That's a fine fix/remake of the sprite. Good job. The effort really paid off.
I find the hands very small though.

[ShinZankuro]

That's a great work man! Congrats

[hatter]

Zetsu Yeaaaaaaa dude seeing all you rad dudes sprite without me while i'm reading books all day made me jealous! lol i'll try to devote some freetime to some pixel art this weekend. and yeah I see what you mean about the arms, I didn't change much so I'll take a look, same thing about the leg

Thanks. Try to split it between pixel art and some digital/traditional art. Maybe do a color blending practice (digital) or a proportion/anatomy practice (traditional), it helps a lot.

Also, Black Hatter is the dead and old me, please refer to me by my new self as Zetsu or just Hatter.

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I might as well delete my old art thread and make way for a new one. Or in other words, jack your style

[lui]

nah dude, you're always gonna be Black Hatter to me , just kiddin, I'll just call ya Hatter.
also, anatomy practice sounds like a good idea, its fun to draw naked people!

and naaah dude you update your graphics thread pretty often, you dont need to delete it, i barely posted in mine so thats why it was trashed

also, I fixed Juri and her weird hand lol

[AlexSin]

Why do you people have to delete your own old threads? Leave them there. Nobody cares about them either way.
I'm joking.
Let them sink into the depths of this board if you want to forget them.

Oh well, he deleted it anyway. :\ HIDDEN TEXT HERE==>I was talking about Black Hatter.

Like I do.
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[ShinZankuro]

Instead of deleting, why don't you rename your thread and update then? It's more easy :v

[lui]

meh, its already done, no going back now

[AlexSin]

What other frames are you going to convert/fix/make next? Are you going to animate the stance?

[lui]

I'm gonna see if I can fix up some Oni sprites, maybe animate Juri's stance as a test really, I want something to practice on and these fixable sprites are perfect test dummies

[lui]

so again, using Rolento's excellent obvservations, I think I can really convert some KOF frames into proper CvS style. Ofcourse, this is unfinished because I suck at drawing legs from scratch, but nevertheless I think I'm getting somewhere.

For this Athena, I pretty much bulked her up for her to resemble her original artwork proportions, since CvS takes from either the most iconic or the original designs for characters, hence the slightly chubbier Goddess.

I had to redraw ALOT of her proportions for her to fit in with the rest of the cast without looking like a basic re-shade of a KoF sprite.

does anyone wanna finish it for meh?

[AlexSin]

Look at CvS Maki for reference.

[lui]

that's what i was doing, but i still suck at doing it for some reason :/, ill try again tho

[lui]

twas mostly a test to see if i can convert a KoF style sprite to CvS and make it totally look legit as if it came from the game, which means I did a shitload of redrawing in terms of proportions.


who's this RADICAL dude?

[Sir Ghostler]

I really like your Goddess Athena and Juri sprites, Luis, they looks pretty authentic. The 'grips' on Athena's shield could possibly do with some more detailing, though. I hope you convert more of her sprites sometime. Keep up the good work, man.