Vertical Shmup Sprite
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Category: Pixel Art
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Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 11:52pm
Topic: Vertical Shmup Sprite
Posted By: EyeCraft
Subject: Vertical Shmup Sprite
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 6:34am
Working on a new game project, for the first time in a long time, feels goood  .
So getting to work on the player ship sprite. It's going to be fairly
complex with a fair bit of animation, but I think it will be extremely
satisfying and rewarding when its done.Basically the plan has 3 states, and here they are: EDIT 4:   State 1 State 1 to 2 to 1 transition  State 2 State 2 to 3 to 2 transition  State 3The yellow pieces are like powerful enegy blade sort of things, btw. So what do you think? I'd like some heavy C+C. If theres no real problems I'll go ahead with animating, thanks in advance  |
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Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 8:14pm
Well I started animating. Had the most rediculous arduous time trying
to export to animated gif!!! If anyone knows a good animated gif
program please tell me I almost went insane.  So heres the first animation, a banking animation of mode 1, any crits?
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Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 8:22pm
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Looks sweet. Seems like you got the hang of the angle and the light source is perfect imo. I use Graphics Gale for animations :P Pretty easy program to follow. ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 8:58pm
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Thanks . I had a look at graphics gale but you need to register to be able to export to gif, which is just stuuuuuupid.
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Posted By: jegHegy
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 9:09pm
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awesome, love it how you made the two top panels on the ship seem sloped using shading :) great job
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Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 9:18pm
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Originally posted by EyeCraft
Thanks . I had a look at graphics gale but you need to register to be able to export to gif, which is just stuuuuuupid.I don't know what version you downloaded but I just Save As gif all the time and it works fine Nice made the hover motion for state 2 - good job ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Sorry I don't remember the download link. Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 10:30pm
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Originally posted by jegHegy awesome, love it how you made the two top panels on the ship seem sloped using shading :) great job Hehe, thanks dude. I sort of lucked upon that sloping when I was fiddling with the shading early on and I was like "ooh that makes them looked sloped, I think Ill keep it ". |
Posted By: jegHegy
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 10:39pm
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many of man's greatest inventions were born out of accident!
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Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 12:13am
Hehe alot of mans worst inventions are by accident too  Another update. Working on the transition animations now, phew, pumping them out... |
Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 12:18am
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Damn that is nice (pardon the language) Very nice jon on the transitioning. Looks realistic and "spiffy" ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 09 August 2005 at 1:34am
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Another update, completed the other transition animation, this was
quite a fun one to do. Once again, crits a very welcome. |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 10 August 2005 at 11:39am
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Dude, these animations are fantastic! I have NO crits.. my gosh, you're a good animator.
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Posted By: Vidd
Date Posted: 10 August 2005 at 1:00pm
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I love these. :O I made a little shoot-em-up mock-up and made little animations for it but they certainly weren't on this level. The only thing I can suggest is to make a state 1 to state 3 animation unless you have to cycle back and forth through them in order. |
Posted By: Dejital
Date Posted: 10 August 2005 at 6:23pm
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Let me start by saying these are fantastic little things! Hopefully you
will continue the project, as I'll be there following it. Crit-wise, in the State 2 to 3 animation, the lighting changes on the wings during and after the animation. The light is on the left when transitioning, the light is on the right after the ship is complete. |
Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 10 August 2005 at 7:47pm
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Originally posted by ryan-gfx Dude, these animations are fantastic! I have NO crits.. my gosh, you're a good animator. Thanks ryan! It's a real pleasure to have such a compliment from yourself Originally posted by Vidd I love these. :O I made a little shoot-em-up mock-up and made little animations for it but they certainly weren't on this level. The only thing I can suggest is to make a state 1 to state 3 animation unless you have to cycle back and forth through them in order. Hmmm, I was thinking about that. At the moment I just have it play both transitions right after eachother, which is like 18 frames or something...But I'll consider it, hell more opportunity to do cool plane transforming is a gift horse I dont look in the mouth. Originally posted by Dejital Let me start by saying these are fantastic little things! Hopefully you will continue the project, as I'll be there following it. Crit-wise, in the State 2 to 3 animation, the lighting changes on the wings during and after the animation. The light is on the left when transitioning, the light is on the right after the ship is complete. I really really hope I keep momentum on this project. I've got someone else I'm working on it with, and this is like my first proper recreational team project so who knows maybe I'll actually see this finished. How its planned its a looooooong winding treacherous mountain road of pixeling to the top, hehehe.  I think I know what you mean about the lighting. Do you mean specifically the right wing during the middle of the animation or both wings towards the end of the animation? |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 15 August 2005 at 10:18am
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Oh wow, these are a lot of fun. The banking animations are fantastic. State 2 to 3 transition looks a bit off to me right around when the wing's weapons pop out. It just looks like they are growing rather than popping out. |
Posted By: Maestro
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 8:23am
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I love them. |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 11:21am
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offtopic as peanutbutter on a roll of ductape: say the word shmup out loud, its funny :D shmup shmup shmup w0000000 (sorry im high on sugar right now.. hit me.. no really.. hit me :D)
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Posted By: jujucece
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 11:48pm
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Very nice work... It remembers me of old school fabulous games... Ahahah nostalgia...  ------------- Jujucece |
Posted By: randomblink
Date Posted: 07 September 2005 at 7:50am
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That freaking rocks... I love the transition... Very fluid and nice looking... ------------- www.randomblink.com I am me... no! Really! |