CHALLENGE: The New Bomber

Challenge winner, atpalicis, wants you to redesign the classic NES Mega Man sprite:

The sprite must be all your own work - no editing existing sprites. Have a look at this thread over at Pixelation for some inspiration.

Canvas size: Max 32 x 32.
Colours: Max 8.
Transparency: Required, don't forget it counts as a colour!
Animation: Optional.

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CHALLENGE RULES

• Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
• Only new pixels allowed.
• Open to all members.
• Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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CHALLENGE JUDGING

• Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
• Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
• Winner announced the following week.

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CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES

• Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
• Top finisher gets to call the following week's challenge...sweet.
• 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
• No matter what happens you get challenged :)

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CHALLENGE VOTING

Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

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CHALLENGE AWARDS

The The New Bomber pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!

I can see massive entries...

Here's my wip, scaled x 2 :



There is a lot of things to be changed but, I'm getting there...

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


Edited by DatMuffinMan - 28 April 2014 at 1:07pm

u fokken wot m8

Just thought that would've been a fun redesign, not going to enter this. :)

One of the practice doodles that I like. 2x'd
edit: better(?) face



Edited by sgtcrispy - 28 April 2014 at 2:33pm

These are all fantastic!

I'll give this a try. This is just a quickie will probably end up redoing it.

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...



Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 29 April 2014 at 4:02am

My WIP, I'm not happy with the animation of the cannon. Suggestions?

@Cels: Many thanks, man. As you may have seen I've followed your advice ;)

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?

Edited by pthiers - 29 April 2014 at 3:45pm

Nice... I want to see! Thanks.

@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

Pthiers' New Bomber Timelapse

Edited by pthiers - 29 April 2014 at 5:58pm

@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.

Edited by LameCakes - 29 April 2014 at 8:37pm

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)





Edited by CELS - 30 April 2014 at 12:02am

Dat bulge.   

This was too fun to pass up. Saw this checking out a link from polycount.
Small :


Large:



Palette :



Edited by JohnnySix - 30 April 2014 at 3:50am

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

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?

Edited by pthiers - 30 April 2014 at 7:56am

For fun.... if Megaman had been made by Technos...

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.

How often can I get myself to edit tiny details on this?....
>


Edited by Hapiel - 30 April 2014 at 3:27pm

Update to mine above...super different look now lol!

meh not, I'm just not feelin it.
maybe another try later this week.




Edited by DeathByChris - 30 April 2014 at 7:34pm