Not for the enemies, but I will sure study some of their laser designs, they are awesome. Would love to see stuff from your game too, could only find those popcorn helicopers which are dope.
Soon I will have a demo, finished the first stage starting the second now
Very cool, did "DRAINUS" gave some insperation for big ship?
edit, always cool to se fellow shmup developer 
at this point i kinda have only sketches mostly focused on learning coding/tools hope september to have some gameplay systems done and start to work on some pixel art