These are sprites for a game I'm helping a friend with, he's doing the majority of the work with the story writing and coding and stuff like that, I'm taking care of the pixely side of things.

The main two characters (so far) are a vampire and a werewolf. That means that this game is going to have excessive blood and gore, occult themes, possible drug use, hardcore sex and a number of sexual fetishes that will shock and dismay those that haven't been on the internet long enough. (Yeah, I never thought I'd end up working on something like this either, yet here I am.)

So for these obvious reasons I'm not going to be posting everything, just some basic nude poses (nothing explicit like sex), some basic attacks (non-bloodied, non-disemboweled), and anything else that's safe for viewing.

Also I would like to point out that this game is not going to be a commercial game, it's being made purely for kicks and giggles. So anyone that wants a copy, once it's done, ask and ye shall receive.

Funny thing about making pixels for someone else as opposed to just yourself is that you've got to work within, I dunno, guidelines you could call them. I've got 3 so far:

1) Sprites should have a cel-shaded look/feel to them.
2) The face: Big anime eyes, no mouth.
3) Make'em sexy, that's mainly going to be applied to 'special' poses and walking animations.

My biggest problem right now is getting a basic character template done. Once the templates are complete the majority of the animations should be relatively smooth sailing.

When I post WIPs I'll post two versions. The first being the sprite sheet that's going to be inserted directly into the game. And the second being an animation of how it's actually going to look once you're playing the game.

Now then, on with the pixely artsy stuff...

Female template:                                     


Female test walk:


I tried to give the walking a bit of a sexy touch to it, but it's rather hard since reference pics (or vids) aren't that easy to come by. So sadly none were used when making this. Any of you ladies care to strip naked and do a sexy little strut for me... purely for educational purposes... I swear.

And I don't like the side view too much, it gave me a bit of a hard time.

Also I'm not entirely sure on what to do with the arms. I mean, I tried to make them swing, but they end up looking like gorilla arms, which isn't all that sexy.

I'm trying to keep the color count here down to a bare minimum, because I want it to match with the hand drawn stuff that my friend made. And most of those only have four colors, a base color, a shade color, a highlight color and an outline color.

I'd prefer to have the walking animations a bit more smoother, but the engine my friend is using only allows for 4 frames of animation in any given direction when walking. If anyone could give me some tips on how to make the walking a bit more fluid with just 3 frames (the 1st being the idle/standing frame) it'd be much appreciated.

Anyways, sorry for all this rambling, I've been working on this for over a week now, with my creativity/motivation going on and off like broken down motel sign, and I'm just glad to finally be able to show some progress. I'll stop talking now.

Dude, please scrap the anime-chibi styled base. More realism! I'd never want to see that base do any sexual fetishes that would shock and dismay me. The impact of the gore, violence etc will also be ruined with a 'cute' base style like this. It's also not cute enough to be used in sick irony imo.

The animations will also be a heck of alot easier with a more realistic base, as well as the way to show sexyness. Forget big boobs and curvey shapes for the moment.

Work on a midtone background, simple shapes, get the proportions first. :)

Also..
Long legs = sexy.
Boobs the size of buttcheeks /= sexy.

in my personal opinion..


Edited by Larwick - 02 June 2008 at 7:05pm

oh my god BluWriter, thats such an awesome reference you got there.

If you want her sexier exaggerate the female form.  Big hips, nice size bust, slim waist, long legs, plump butt and tiny feets.  Also ditto on the swinging hips, and leg cross over.  The amount of bounce you give the body will help too.

sorry i didnt actually read the thread, i saw some 'exaggerate hips boobs something something sexy'  somewhere,   but did anyone mention how her legs are crazy short?   It looks like her knees are attached to her hips somehow.  And I see you have shading on the legs that puts the knees lower but they're wayyy too short.

Long legs are a must in sexy walk
Just saying.

Then again I should've read the whole thread before speaking so I might be wrong haha

leel, yeah, now that you mentioned it... they do seem a bit short. I'm going to have to talk with my friend to see if he still wants the whole semi-chibi thing. >_<

Met, no, I'm not ignoring his walking reference. It's actually quite awesome and helpful. I'm just saying that it's going to take more than 3 frames to pull of something like that.

Just had a chat with my friend and showed him what I've got so far. Gonna redo a few things including the legs and the hips. The whole chibi thing however... stays. >_<

Yeah, I know. Working on this is really strange because I'm making this to fit his tastes and descriptions, not mine. But if nothing else it's a good experience to learn from, if I get lucky enough to become a professional spriter in the future. He's my guinea pig.

And chibi, chibi, chibi, chibi, chibi, chibi, chibi, chibi, chibi, chibi, chibi. How's that for funny?

Yeah, even if it's chibi, give her long legs in proportion to her body (long as in normal sized). In fact you could cheat him and make a realistic sprite with simply a large head. >_>

You need to debate with your friend about the design. Everyone has these crappy (no offence) 'chibi' anime sprites these days, you see them everywhere. More than normal proportioned people possibly, and that's just silly. With the sex and gore it's just gunna be laaame.

Also her shoulders are too wide. :)

Keep it up! I look forward to seeing a new version.

Sex + Gore + Chibi = Kings of Power 4Billon%

the nipples are freakishly pointy