Wow, that's an ugly palette :D

Cthulhu Doom?


also, maybe I'll finish a challenge for once :)

Also @Volrak_Rutra, think demons, gore, biomechanics and cyborgs. AFAIK many doom sprites began as clay figurines that were later digitized and retouched so there's usually a lot of details on them. For example,


Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 08 December 2014 at 5:15am

Apart from zombified humans, typical Doom enemies are :
- creatures that look like different species of Hell's demons. They use raw physical strength (teeth and claws) or intrinsic quasi-magical powers, like flying, throwing fireballs, being invisible.
- demons designed (or transformed) to incorporate human technology and weapons. There are more of those in Doom 2 than Doom 1, though.

Adrian Carmack made clay models of a few of them, including the Doom Marine (whose sprite was also used as a base for the humanoid enemies) the Cyberdemon, Demon (pinky) and the Baron of Hell, not sure about the Lost Soul and the Imp (Imp might be also edit of the Doom Marine). The Cacodemon is pretty much a copy of the head of a monster on some AD&D rulebook. All the other monsters are edits of these (Pain elemental being an edit of the Cacodemon, Hellknights just colourswaps of the Barons) or based on posable sculptures by Gregor Punchatz.

I personally do not think that pixelart is a good approach to try and make a monster that really fits in with the original Doom lineup. Possible but tedious, especially if you would go for rotations.

In any case I would say look at the original sprites very closely, do not use any dither on sprites, generally have very smooth gradientswith a base light that is top down.

Hugeass image with all doom monster sprites and some more stuff like player and such that I have compiled quite a while ago for a test when I was helping in a project with refining the palette. Might be helpful for y'alls

CLICKAGE!




Edited by ptoing - 08 December 2014 at 12:09pm

Note that the original was in VGA, ie. 320x200 displayed on a 4:3 screen. This means the pixels are supposed to be slightly tall, this is why they look slightly "squished" in the rips.

k, those are a lot of colors.

damn, this is tough. this is wip of a doom princess bubblegum (since there are so many shades of red and pink to choose from)

This is how I understood the challenge myself. "True" doom sprites are not really what we'd consider "real" pixel art nowadays :)

Also, I slapped some color on the squiddy guy:


Also #2, testing testing


Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 09 December 2014 at 4:34am

@mrmo, Looks great man, though it seems like his gun isn't facing directly towards the camera and would miss if he shot at you.

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Mrmo, I think your Cthulhu is WAY too big to be actually useful in-game.

Maybe it could be nice if your sprites could be actually used by mappers, if animated...

At least you could try to use the right sizes, like the actual monsters that I've posted. They are used in actual fan made maps.

Just throwing suggestions, don't take it bad...
 

Yes, maybe a boss could work.

Besides the size there's something that is bugging me in your sprite. Maybe it's the palette. I know the palette is fixed but, what do you think of doing him in more greenish tones, like this one?



This is cool. Green but lit in blue from the ground.

And what about red eyes or more length tentacles? What do you think?

the chthulu is looking really cool Mrmo!would love to see it ingame


Edited by raymoohawk - 09 December 2014 at 2:39pm

they still look cool tho.

Worth posting?






Edited by Jinn - 10 December 2014 at 1:14pm

Yes, Jinn, worth fo sho, that pubic area blood is a nice touch, but be prepared to be misunderstood and judged.

here's another update. not too sure about the teeth, also, not sure what to do with feet. suggestions welcome!

more cheerful enemies!



update



Edited by a3um - 11 December 2014 at 5:57am

Maybe a little too friendly?
His mouth could be a little less smiley, like these ones:



Edited by Jinn - 11 December 2014 at 1:58pm

it's too big for the challenge, unless you sized it up before uploading, which is not necessary BTW, as when you click on an image in forum it zooms in. 

I'm trying to give the impression that his flamethrower is powered by his own fluids.

Attempt 2:



The eye and mouth have been changed, and contrast with the skin has been turned up. Any problems I should correct?

I would suggest choosing some different colors for this piece; it is hardly readable at all. Try to have a higher contrast between the light and the dark colors.

Have a read about color from these sites.

Link 1

Link 2

I would work on the teeth a little bit. :3

You could boost the contrast on the piece to make it more readable... it took me a while to see the mouth.