Anibaal (Anibaaru) GGXX-like character WIP

[Anibaal]

Hey there im from Mexico and i play Guilty Gear series games a lot and just one day it went *puff* i wanted to create a 2d fighting character for mugen, dont ask me why but its myself posing in a 3d program called blender and painted using idraw chara maker, if its posible i would like to request a song, for this character.

The thing is i would like it to be a Guilty Gear sounds, instruments, rythm, its like metal, rock, techno, that sort of stuff and things like that i dont know...
I can only say about the "feeling" of the song i want, is a little gothic and melancholic , but mostly iron maiden's power rock.

This is his current profile i made:
-----------------------------------
Anibaal (Anibaaru)
Height: 5'10" 
Weight: 123 lbs.
Birthday: Aug. 04
Blood Type: O Negative 
Race: Human/Unknown
Risk Rating: Unknown
Recent former recruit of the Assasin's Guild.
Using Tae-kwon-do style and other
self-defense techniques, he sway his enemies
with an ancient dagger, presumed to be
possessed by an egypcian demon.
Current actions of the subject are Unkown,
making risk rating to be variable.
Further investigation is required.


Details

Well i want he to be a ggxx character and in some way inserting him to the history background. It is currently a WIP so changes must be made, it needs the red cloth belt, the pants lacks quality and needs some armor on his arms. He is almost 100% made from sracth, i used the 3d blender program to model myself and make poses, its boring and little dissapointing to take references of legs and arms from other characters. The dagger comes out from.... between the shoulder and the neck, part of the free space in the amor. Considered to use the dagger as a second heart, producing an alternate type of blood, an even darker color and produced by hatred, in some way ill use this feature on him. On some strong attacks he changes the blade on a large and thin shape, supposed to be very sharp.



Peronality

Come to think of a personality, he is quite, doesnt talk easily, its very loyal to its superiors, but could raise in berserk if threated less than a recruit. Most of the time it has a serious and at the same time sad lookin. Nonetheless when speaking about assasination missions he just gets excited and goes to a well-performing attitude, worth of admiring, remarkable doing for elimination of targets.

Style

About the fighting styles, well most must be for killing, deadly attacks with his knife, sometimes changing of shape, and his slow but strong kicks. Maybe the character with the strongest kicks.

Background

He has been recently ascended from trainee to Assasin recruit, so he is currently at the disposal of the high official of the Assasin's guild Venom, taking his command and responsibility, he is devoted to show-off and rushing for those who he doesnt relay on. More info to come.

[OZ]

You should be saluted for, if nothing else, the creation of a decent backstory.

The sprite looks good, but I have to say that it resembles a young Michael Jackson.

I am also a Guilty Gear fan, so a GG style will be refreshing.

Also, if he uses tae-kwon-do, he better have a lot of kicks.

[Xenomic]

Hm...a GG edit huh? Interesting, as I haven't seen many edits of GG sprites. Good luck on this!

[Anibaal]

Now this is more like it  8). haha Michael Jackson



Now Im designing the first of two intros, after that maybe ill star animating the basics, guard, punch, kicks, slash and stuff. After getting realized how the characters functions and movements works i got an idea how complex i have to make the character get some nice new moves, for all i dont want to copy moves from other games characters, my desire, that i want to make this as original as posible.

About the sprite, I have seen that some guys doing kung fu training wear red belts on their uniform but unlike Anibaal, they make the end of the cloth belt (my english lex is no good, again) to the other side, left leg i presume. When i did the belt very long ago with my first sprites:




I made it without any references. For the face i dont know if I should add some gradients it was difficult to make that face related to my own shape (it doesnt mean its the same, of course). All those where made taking photos of myslef in poses but i decided to quit because it wasnt ez to get my parents camera, so now 3d blender will do the work.

Ill be updating with news of the character just for fun and to get some constructive ideas from the community this site has.

[helli3yte]

go for it man. you have full support of the community

[txrocker281]

los sprites son fantasticos!

Te deseo mucha suerte en este project

[Nocii]

The sprites are amazing man. Good luck on your project!

[The Maverick of Death]

I am the Maverick of Death and I fully support and approve of this character.

[ultimatedude]

Amazing sprites as everyone else says, it looks kinda cell shaded for some reason, but yeah, Cell shade is awesome and original for mugen

[Anibaal]

hi everyone, its been time i decided to update with the current progres of my character, i have already made an intro, then standing animation goes next. I dont know if it would be good to post the screens right now because its not much but all i can say is that im very satisfied with it.

I paused this for a whole week because a friend is staying in home all nights and we all 3 with my brother and some times plus another, are playing ragnarok online on private server.

As for the coding i think ill have to ask for help, obviously the moves and feeling of the character gameplay are going to be planned by me. I want so to be mostly original.

As for the inspirative songs of guilty gear i found one that i liked a lot and thinking of using it for my character. In GGIsuka for playstation 2, i saw a song called "last battle" but i dindt heard of it in the entire arcade(survivor) mode nor in the ggboost (could it be frenzy sol and ky theme?). Anyway ill get to work on it. Ill try to bring updates each week or whenever i make big progress.

[NiO ErZeBeTh]

se ve interesante tu propuesta, pero los chars de GUlty Gear tienen un toke anime-gothiko, y creo ke este se ve muy real!

good luck with the proyect!   

[Anibaal]

bueno el problema es la cara, no le he puesto el efecto de la sombra, solo en los ojos. Y la cabeza deberia ser mas chica.

The issue is the face, i havent add the shade it needs. The head must be smaller.

[Anibaal]

Time for a little update, sorry for being so late  .

But for now time has passed but my project hasnt advanced very well... its because i got demoralized by taking to much time on each sprite.

The only way i could continue this project with less delay, is that i have to already make animations of the sprites without editing them too much, just defining the silouette. I hope for the time being i dont lack the motivation, that i think it would be more than enough for the project to go on.

Oh and for the face... well i was trying to change the size of the head compared as those of the guilty gear characters, but it looked so horribly i dont want to post such crap. I cant change the face cuz its unique, the same thing want for its moves, characteristics and performing, being mostly new and to the point.

[Anibaal]

Here it goes, first intro:



Now ill go for the stance animation, it shouldnt take this long.

[OZ]

Looks nice.
I was wondering if you were still working on it.

[Anibaal]

well... school and lazyness doesnt help...

[OZ]

I know what you mean.
It's hard to stay motivated.
Keep up the good work though.

[Kamen Rider Joker]

Best of luck with this project, the world needs more original characters.

[Rote Zaungast]

turned out better than I thought...though it needs some tweaks to be more close to GG style

[knightmare106]

he looks like he can play sorta like either shiki from MB series. or some leaping attacks o,o