I have been put in charge of coming with a style, and spriting about half the people for a fighting game. The game will consist of basically a ton of our RP characters. I'm still not great as a spriter though, and I fear what I've come up with needs work. I really could use critqiue and comments about these sprites, so I know what needs to be worked on. I want to get these guys perfected as soon as possible.



The big guy on the left is Raizou. He is my RP character. He's basically a big beefy asgardian who serves Thor. Packed with electricity, strength, and huge axe, Raizou will be sure to be one powerful character.

The lady next to him is Alexa. The guy running this project uses her in RP's. Think paladin kind of with her. She lives in a cold area, hence the large amount of clothing. She wields a claymore in battle and if I remember correctly will have ice based attacks. I won't be spriting her, the leader will be.

The guy with the guitar is Bill. It's hard to describe Bill. A good way to describe the type of person Bill is, is by describing his win pose. "He does a spin while tearing off his shirt. He then proceeds to rub his nipples." Yep, Bill is pretty cool. He uses a guitar to fight with, so you know he's cool. I might be doing his sprite sheet if I get done with the other characters fast enough.

The guy in the red robe next to Bill is Shun-Yu. Shun-Yu is a Jiang Shi, or Chinese Hopping Vampire to some. He will actually have two fighting styles. One where he has his arms at normal length, and one where he extends his arms to be longer (using rigamortis). I'm sadly in charge of this one's sprites (two sets of sprites for one character X/).

The guy in red with the spear is Moonblade. Not much for me to explain about him, most of the stuff I know about him is random backstory and stuff. He's suppose to have a lot of moves and can jump and stuff well too. Another set of sprites I wont' be doing, the leader instead will be.

Last but not least is Ryu. A ninja-fox-ronin-kid, or something along those lines. Like all the others, he is an RP character. Ryu will be fast and annoying with range. His sprites will be done by his owner, who is our side spriter.

Thanks all to those who even take the time to look at these guys. I hope to hear from you all soon. The help will be greatly appreciated, and don't worry about sparing my feelings, I want all honest opinions.

Thanks for the comment, it's greatly appreciated. The pants are chainmail though, hence the fact it's nothing but dither.

Ok. I've done some more work. With the critique I've gotten (Again, thank you to all who have. Anyone who has given me some critique or just plain out told me I needed work, thank you. I greatly appreciate and it's thanks to you all I've been able to make any improvements so far) I have now fixed up some errors with these. I haven't quite gotten to everything. Ryu has remained fairly unchanged, but I don't care too much about fixing him. Shun-Yu and Raizou are most important to me since I'm actually doing more for them. Raizou I'm getting real happy with, sadly Shun-Yu not as much. Due to a recent decision by his creator, his outfit has changed. That stupid under robe just doesn't look right, but I can't figure how to fix it!

The biggest thing I've done is I've altered the style a bit with them all. I went for as suggested, darker borders and greater contrast. I must say I like it, and it is easier to do due to some colors being less plentiful. I can't say for sure if it's better myself, hence my posting of them. I want to continue to evolve these sprites, so I'm again asking for any critique anyone is giving.

While I'm here I might as well post something. I made an animation. It's just the normal standing pose. I have found that my lack of experience in animation has hampered the quality. I'm not asking for critique on this, just because it's not at my best, I know I can and how I can do better. You're free to comment and critique, I'm just letting you all know it isn't required.

nice! in the standing animation he is lossing some finger pixels in some frames.

is the shield glued to his back? cuase i cant see why its not falling.

He doesn't look like he's walking. More like waddling. ._.

Go on YouTube or something and find some videos of people walking in the same method as your character. Note how their legs move (when the knees pick up, how one leg moves to compensate for the other moving, etc.). A good walking animation should probably be about 4 frames at the least to make a nice, smooth loop.

Looking good so far! :D

New thing done. Now I have a jumping animation. I still need to find out if there are special jumps for forwards and back though. The height and speed are also pending still.

for a jump to be that high his movement should be more exadurated. and i very much agree with the above post

Your jumping animation is lacking any sign of how a jump really works.

In order to jump, your legs have to push against the ground and spring off. This pushing down phase is usually called 'anticipation' in animation, and it's something that your animation lacks right now.

To me it almost looks like as if he is willingly just levitating off the ground, nothing is pushing him up.

I also doubt he would be able to jump very effectively with such a heavy and giant friggin' axe.


Edited by Dr D - 05 July 2009 at 3:31pm

Ok, I went ahead and changed up some issues that I could figure out that people were telling me about. Better/more realistic standing pose, better abs, and more. I still plan to go back and tweak and fix problems later again. Also more frames and stuff where needed. C+C is again very welcome. I didn't redo the punch since I'm sure how I want to fix it still, so I decided to put it to the side. I should now be back on schedule and work on more jumps, running, and crouch sprites. I also realize I have a finger count inssue in the animation. Lastly I'd like to say please ignore the speed of the animation in some areas. These were very rough estimates, I don't know how fast Raizou will move for these, since I'm not actually in charge of the balancing and coding of the characters. Also the jump is quite exaggerated as a convenient way to loop the animation.

I agree with Bob about the issues with anatomy that need to be fixed and a number of the character's poses are just unnatural. Axeman looks like he's holding his axe pole against his chest. The sword girl's got her hands over her crotch, and as its already pointed out the spear guy is way off balance.

get a stick or something and try out the poses for yourself. These dont feel natural. Find something that does (by posing yourself) and you'll be a lot closer to getting a proper stance for these folks.



And like bob I'm not trying to make you feel bad either. Please, keep it up, and keep in mind what's been said :)

Thanks Bob for comparing my earlier crappier sprite to yours versus my newer one =P Serious though, thanks. Although not quite the Raizou I know, that's an awesome sprite you made of him.

Well everyone, I have to let you all know, I'm putting the Fighting Game on hiatus. I have decided that I am not doing as good as I'd like with the style. So instead of just continuously working on the same old fighting game sprites making small changes to the style, redoing everything continuously, I will instead just work on other things. I will eventually return to work on these and what not, it's not going to just go and die. I just need a good amount of improvement, so yeah. Hope to see you all some time soon, and hopefully bring with me some real nice amazing skill.