CHALLENGE 4/28/2014: The New Bomber
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Topic: CHALLENGE 4/28/2014: The New Bomber
Posted By: administrator
Subject: CHALLENGE 4/28/2014: The New Bomber
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 12:01am
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Posted By: Eggy
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 3:51am
Done at school, planning on animating it, inspired by the Megaman Derp image meme.
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Posted By: Nevercreature
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 4:57am
I can see massive entries... |
Posted By: bagz
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 7:50am
Current WIP. I'll try to animate it.
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Posted By: deadpixelteam
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 8:30am
Here's my wip, scaled x 2 :
There is a lot of things to be changed but, I'm getting there... |
Posted By: PurpleTentacle
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 10:31am
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Hi guys, I'm trying to make the pixel version of what's probably the worst Megaman ever seen ( http://webs.ono.com/purpletentacle/megaman_cover.jpg - the one on the cover of the first NES game ).  Critics and comments are more than welcome ;) |
Posted By: DatMuffinMan
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 12:20pm
I was going for a kind of pompous look, like one of those buff guys that puff their chest out and have really stubby legs. I plan on animating him to walk and maybe shoot, but I'm struggling with readability on frame 1 :(
edit - for now, making the limbs black seems to help a bit. Might redo the whole tihng, since I made lots of things too thin/small  
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Posted By: CakeDrake
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 1:04pm
here is my kind of silly sprite :P
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Posted By: inphy
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 1:45pm
 u fokken wot m8 Just thought that would've been a fun redesign, not going to enter this. :) |
Posted By: Karric
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 2:25pm
I'm kinda new to spriting, done a thing here and there. This is my submission: I've always hated that he doesn't look like a robot, and the odd proportions, so I fixed that. The white marks would change to the color of his mode; I'm too lazy to animate. |
Posted By: sgtcrispy
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 2:28pm
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One of the practice doodles that I like. 2x'd
edit: better(?) face 
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Posted By: Damian
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 3:02pm
Getting in on the fun :)
CakeDrake, loving those colours! |
Posted By: skittle
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 3:56pm
| These are all fantastic! |
Posted By: SharpKing
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 5:14pm
Here is my current attempt :)
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After my first attempt I was very much not happy. Then I got inspired by all of the great work the rest of you did! I tried not to copy anyone's work too closely. :] |
Posted By: DeathByChris
Date Posted: 28 April 2014 at 8:05pm
I'll give this a try. This is just a quickie will probably end up redoing it. |
Posted By: JoCh
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 12:15am
WIP for Mega Wooo !
  
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Posted By: Mrmo Tarius
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 12:51am
Well, my MechaMan is a very loose reinterpretation so I don't know if I'll submit it but it was a nice practice I guess.
*edit* ok, I'm spending more time on this than I thought I would... 
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Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 3:29am
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So much great stuff!
I'm really hoping someone will break the cuteness mold and do a nitty, gritty Megaman. Like a cross between Flashback and Abuse. @PurpleTentacle: Very interesting choice. I think you may have to get rid of some of the yellow details, on such a tiny sprite such as this. Getting rid of some details will make it easier for you to improve readability. Unless someone is comparing this side by side with the original, some of the yellow details won't make sense. |
Posted By: PabloGalaviz
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 4:22am
My WIP, I'm not happy with the animation of the cannon. Suggestions?
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Posted By: deadpixelteam
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 5:33am
Really nice takes on megaman so far... Here's my final:
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Posted By: PurpleTentacle
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 10:51am
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Hi guys, I'm pretty new to pixel art and I couldn't help but notice that most of you use an outline to provide some definition to your sprites. I've just tried to do the same with mine... but I have mixed feelings: the readability has definitely improved, but the sprite has somehow lost something. What do you think?  @Karric: Just love the design/proportions. @Mrmo Tarius: Awesome metal shading, love the 2-colored illumination. @Cels: Many thanks, man. As you may have seen I've followed your advice ;)
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 2:37pm
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So megaman is supposed to be a robot created by Dr. Light, right? Well I don't believe any of that, he totally does not look like a robot to me! More like a kid. A kid in a leotard with a gun arm. But leotards are totally not useful for superheroes, and neither is it practical to make a superhero out of a kid instead of an adult. I figured it all out: Dr Light is the father of this obese kid (hence the name MEGA), and build a nice virtual reality system for his son so he can pretend to be a superhero (and hopefully moving around enough to loose some weight!). The real life suit matches the in-game outfit...  ------------- |
Posted By: pthiers
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 3:30pm
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can we do more than one entry?
this is my first thought 
and a little larger: 
I also recorded the process =] Anyone want to see? |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 3:56pm
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As many entries as you like. Yes, if you speed it up so that the whole thing does not take more than 5 min I'd be interested to watch the process! ------------- |
Posted By: PabloGalaviz
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 3:59pm
| Nice... I want to see! Thanks. |
Posted By: CyanideKoolaid
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 5:07pm
 A quick try. A bit bulkier and with giant shoulder guards.... because... duh! |
Posted By: pthiers
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 5:48pm
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@Hapiel and @PabloGalaviz
Behold the timelapse! 4:15 of megaman music and pixelart. I hope you enjoy it! Took me a while to figure out how to edit the video http://youtu.be/pzLdw7iPIek - Pthiers' New Bomber Timelapse |
Posted By: LameCakes
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 8:33pm
Trying to work on something with a little bit of realism...it's my first time doing anything this small, so comment and criticism is greatly appreciated! :) Edit: Round 2 of megaman sprite 
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Posted By: LameCakes
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 8:36pm
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@PabloGalaviz
maybe as it shoots it can get brighter at the center of the cannon? it also looks a bit weird coming out perfectly aligned to the left. Just my two cents. |
Posted By: mrbut
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 10:43pm
I'm still new in pixel art, so please comment and criticism about it.I appriciate about it :D
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Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 12:01am
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Originally posted by LameCakes
Trying to work on something with a little bit of realism...it's my first time doing anything this small, so comment and criticism is greatly appreciated! :) Great to see someone take a more realistic approach. Hopefully, more people will follow your lead. Although, to be fair, your pose is very superhero comic-esque. Not a bad thing though. I'm a novice when it comes to this sort of stuff, but the major issue in my opinion is readability. Try to divide the character into separate, big shapes and use simple shading. Forget about complex stuff and details, and eliminate as much noise as possible. Forget about trying to divide the shoulder into different deltoid muscles, for example. I'm assuming you're using some sort of comic book as a reference (please include a link, if you are), and they tend to over-emphasize every muscle on every limb, but that doesn't work at this size. I made an edit here, trying to improve readability and reduce noise. I also got rid of one colour which seemed unnecessary to me, and tweaked the remaining colours a little bit. I barely change the shape of your sprite at all, because I'm not very good with anatomy. Maybe someone else can help with that. It looks pretty good to me. But I did make some changes, such as his left hand, right leg and right shoulderpad. (I see now that I fumbled up his left bicep-area, but... oh well) 
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Posted By: a3um
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 12:30am
SO HANSOM! I wonder if I can use the bigger version as a preview image
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Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 12:36am
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Originally posted by a3um
SO HANSOM! I wonder if I can use the bigger version as a preview image Dat bulge. 
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Posted By: Mandrill
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 3:11am
"Bigga iz bedda!" |
Posted By: JohnnySix
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 3:46am
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This was too fun to pass up. Saw this checking out a link from polycount.
Small : 
Large: 
Palette : 
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Posted By: poet
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 6:09am
Well, I made Mega Dog:
What do you think? |
Posted By: LameCakes
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 6:56am
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Originally posted by CELS
Great to see someone take a more realistic approach. Hopefully, more people will follow your lead. Although, to be fair, your pose is very superhero comic-esque. Not a bad thing though. I'm a novice when it comes to this sort of stuff, but the major issue in my opinion is readability. Try to divide the character into separate, big shapes and use simple shading. Forget about complex stuff and details, and eliminate as much noise as possible. Forget about trying to divide the shoulder into different deltoid muscles, for example. I'm assuming you're using some sort of comic book as a reference (please include a link, if you are), and they tend to over-emphasize every muscle on every limb, but that doesn't work at this size. I made an edit here, trying to improve readability and reduce noise. I also got rid of one colour which seemed unnecessary to me, and tweaked the remaining colours a little bit. I barely change the shape of your sprite at all, because I'm not very good with anatomy. Maybe someone else can help with that. It looks pretty good to me. But I did make some changes, such as his left hand, right leg and right shoulderpad. (I see now that I fumbled up his left bicep-area, but... oh well)
Wow thanks for the advice! I totally get what you mean (pictures make everything so much clearer). I'll work on making everything pop a bit more.....although I'd really love it if it were possible to make out the different parts of his suit -.- Is that something I shouldn't put too much effort into with a sprite this small? It seems like the big challenge is readability. And you're right! I've been looking at some of the spiderman swinging poses as inspiration. I wanted to try something different/dynamic than all the megan man poses I've seen :P |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 7:04am
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Woah, after seeing so many awesome entries I needed to have a better one too! It is fun to pixel something again V1:  But during the animation I figured I could do better:  Critique welcome ------------- |
Posted By: pthiers
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 7:55am
Update:
and zoomed in 
the bad news is that the specs tool is saying these gifs have 100% transparency as ONLY color. HALP! Anybody know how to fix this? |
Posted By: Cheetah
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 8:34am
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Originally posted by pthiers
Update:
and zoomed in
the bad news is that the specs tool is saying these gifs have 100% transparency as ONLY color. HALP! Anybody know how to fix this? I loved the video, you should do more with additional animations. I like the new final stance, but I think I liked the bolder and simpler colors better. |
Posted By: CyanideKoolaid
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 8:35am
For fun.... if Megaman had been made by Technos... 
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Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 8:35am
| I'm glad you did a more detailed version, pthiers. But is it just me, or did you kind of decrease the white flash effect? I thought it was more visible before. Maybe it's just because of the bright forum background. |
Posted By: pthiers
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 8:46am
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kinda both: Since I ran out of colors, I needed to change my darkest colour to a dark blue so I could use in the metal parts. It was previously a darker brown-ish that I was using it on one frame only, to make a greater contrast at the opening.
But in this thread the bright background is doing most damage. |
Posted By: pthiers
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 8:57am
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Thanks Cheetah!
I liked that way too on my gray background, but when I uploaded to my gallery with transparency it wasn't as good. I couldn't shake the feeling that was halfway done. I was going to leave it though, but CELS' comment reinforced my insecurity. Also, I woke up earlier than usual today, so I thought I might try to do some shading. At the end, I liked the result better, but the previous state is quite good and fast to animate if I can control the background at all times! And as for the videos, I'll keep recording my pixelarts! It was a fun experiment =] |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 3:15pm
How often can I get myself to edit tiny details on this?.... > ------------- |
Posted By: pthiers
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 3:20pm
| I update mine a little bit. Anyone knows if there's a problem if the small image is larger than the detail image? They are exactly the same, only the display one is bigger than the detail, since this last one fits 32x32 |
Posted By: SharpKing
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 4:49pm
| Update to mine above...super different look now lol! |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 6:20pm
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Megaman has come a http://www.dorkly.com/article/43085/mega-man-cover-art-memos - loooong way. ..
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Posted By: DeathByChris
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 7:31pm
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meh not, I'm just not feelin it.
maybe another try later this week. 
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Posted By: sgtcrispy
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 8:06pm
wip. 2x for the eyeballs. sms colors.
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Posted By: Pixelart_kid
Date Posted: 30 April 2014 at 8:52pm
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My Wip for Weekly Challenges:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccNp4QfPBlo&feature=youtu.be - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccNp4QfPBlo&feature=youtu.be |
Posted By: EdJr
Date Posted: 01 May 2014 at 12:27am
I'm planning to animate this one, but my motivation has already been drained 
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Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 01 May 2014 at 12:35am
| EdJr, that looks awesome! I very much hope you get around to animating it! |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 01 May 2014 at 3:09am
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I don't know if I am still fixing things, or actually breaking it now. Every time I open GG to start working on running, jumping, shooting or anything new, I end up fixing details... >  colorswitch  ------------- |
Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 01 May 2014 at 3:59am
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Originally posted by Hapiel
I don't know if I am still fixing things, or actually breaking it now.Every time I open GG to start working on running, jumping, shooting or anything new, I end up fixing details... >
Edit suggestion here. 
The shade to the cyan bits is actually more towards green than the bright cyan, which is an unusual choice, no? The shade is normally colder colours, I mean. I picked a colder colour, which let me connect the different "ramps" a bit. |
Posted By: PurpleTentacle
Date Posted: 01 May 2014 at 8:34am
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Feeling kind of stuck at the moment, this is probably going to be my final:  |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 01 May 2014 at 8:59am
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Nice :). You could make even more of him and stick his legs to the side of his hips ;) @Cels Ooh, thanks for the edit! I did not consider playing with more dramatic shadow yet, I should do that too! EDIT: Much to my surprise, I actually like the result!   So again, same question: Is it done or will I keep on coming back to it? :p Also, on one of my monitors it looks a bit over saturated, on the other it looks under saturated... :( Ooh, even before I managed to update this post I already came back to some details and reuploaded... As many changes possible as there are pixels on the screen! EDIT: Still missing run cycle and a landing, but what do you guys think about this?  Also: I missed pixels a bit! I have vacation this week, hence a bit of free time to puzzle with pixels :D. I got rusty, this is what I would have entered only 2 days ago...  ------------- |
Posted By: sgtcrispy
Date Posted: 01 May 2014 at 7:28pm
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2X'd Also larger. A bit more refined.
or not. wip 
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Posted By: Mino
Date Posted: 01 May 2014 at 10:37pm
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Originally posted by PurpleTentacle
Hi guys, I'm trying to make the pixel version of what's probably the worst Megaman ever seen ( http://webs.ono.com/purpletentacle/megaman_cover.jpg - the one on the cover of the first NES game ). Critics and comments are more than welcome ;) aw damn, I had the same idea : D |
Posted By: PabloGalaviz
Date Posted: 01 May 2014 at 11:50pm
I'm enjoying this challenge. Here is my updated version (4X). I changed the palette and animation. I would like to improve it a bit more.
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Posted By: PabloGalaviz
Date Posted: 02 May 2014 at 12:35am
| Hi @Pixelart_kid, which software are you using? I enjoyed your video, very cool. Thanks. |
Posted By: PabloGalaviz
Date Posted: 02 May 2014 at 3:46am
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Originally posted by Cheetah
Originally posted by pthiers
Update:
and zoomed in
the bad news is that the specs tool is saying these gifs have 100% transparency as ONLY color. HALP! Anybody know how to fix this? I loved the video, you should do more with additional animations. I like the new final stance, but I think I liked the bolder and simpler colors better. I agree, very nice. Thanks. |
Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 02 May 2014 at 7:20am
Just playing around a little...
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 02 May 2014 at 9:28am
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I like the style a lot DB! But what is going on with his left arm, and does the left leg seem so far to the back? Also, mine is finished I guess.. http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/85833.htm">  ------------- |
Posted By: Pixelart_kid
Date Posted: 02 May 2014 at 10:32am
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Thank you @PabloGalaviz.
in the video progress, I used the tool iDraw 3 Chara Maker. 
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Posted By: CBX
Date Posted: 02 May 2014 at 10:50am
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Here is my contribution. Feedback are welcome.
I felt like animating it because of action practice :D Done in good o' Photoshop CS5 http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/85802.htm"> 
Click on it to see it in the gallery (and to use the zoom tool). |
Posted By: pavanz
Date Posted: 02 May 2014 at 1:32pm
I guess i have to practice animation more
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 02 May 2014 at 3:05pm
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Very nice Pavanz! It is funny how many people created a megaman suit on top of a normal person, while actually megaman is a humanoid robot! ------------- |
Posted By: Alex Pang
Date Posted: 04 May 2014 at 3:02am
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I love this challenge!
Here is what Ive made soo far: MegaMaiden, ORIGINAL MEGAMAN COLORS 
MUSTACHEMAN, new colors 
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Posted By: MegaTiny
Date Posted: 04 May 2014 at 2:03pm
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Erk, just joined Pixel Joint and decided why not start with a challenge? An extremely time limited challenge considering I started twenty minutes ago. Gonna animate this big old Shield Man but can't decide between big helmet and small helmet. WIP shots:
Small Helmet 
Big Helmet 
Anyone want to make the decision for me? |
Posted By: SharpKing
Date Posted: 04 May 2014 at 2:48pm
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Originally posted by MegaTiny
Anyone want to make the decision for me? The bigger helmet seems to fit the body better imo. |
Posted By: MegaTiny
Date Posted: 04 May 2014 at 3:01pm
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Originally posted by SharpKing
Originally posted by MegaTiny
Anyone want to make the decision for me? The bigger helmet seems to fit the body better imo. Yep now that I look at them side by side I think I agree with you. I thought it looked too bulky at first. Thanks! |
Posted By: buko-studios
Date Posted: 04 May 2014 at 8:29pm
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This was a lot harder than we could have ever imagined.
So many great entries under such limitations! Love em all! 
http://buko-studios.deviantart.com - Buko Studios |