Ok so I thought that a thread specifically designed for the bosses would be good.
Soo...

Sedgemonkey:
Sibix:

Larwick:
iSTVAN's edit of Larwick's:

Krysis:

Shark:
Krysis:

Brian The Great:
Krysis:

Pixelblink:
iSTVAN:

Krysis:

Artisan's Edit of Krysis':

iSTVAN:
iSTVAN:

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That's a good idea, I like it.
Oh, I attempted to start a shark that was sort of the same shape and size as the hero...

It sucks, I know.

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I don't know about the other bosses, but For Brian maybe something like this would do:

Brian is this insane penguin that chases you and the only way to hurt him is by jumping on his head. He closes the hatch from time to time and maybe even fires some rockets. It seems a bit too dificult for PJ, but that could be adjusted.

EDIT: I remember doing this for a sprite competition a month ago:

I know it's big, not mean looking and it is not really the right style but maybe I could do something like that later on. For now I'd make sprites for Painforest and Iceworld. 

Also: How about some info about the other worlds and bosses?

Shark Attack:

White shark; good "Shark" shark; Evil "Shark" shark; Brian the great thinking of sushi;

I'm loving Brian and the tank.

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I love the sharks and the penguin, Krysis. The new Sedgemonkey is also looking very cool Larwick!

Although my world hasn't really been established properly yet, I think something that resembles http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/1834.htm - this piece would probably work well, and wouldn't be too similar to the other bosses. It would also match my 'Super Hero' themed world nicely. However I feel a little presurred into adopting an animal counterpart...

EDIT: And I reckon PB would look a little like http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/6520.htm - this guy .

Just made a quick sprite of what I had in mind:


After a rather long break from pixel art, I think I might become more actively involved in the PJ game and devote all my leisure pixelling to it! Might I also add, I have constantly been impressed by the quality of work coming from Larwick and Krysis. Well done guys!

I'm liking it iSTVAN. :]


I put all the creations next to the hero so we could get a feel for the style.

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Great minds think alike?

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This is what I had in mind:

Hahah, exactly! This is me done for this evening, sorry I didn't bother with transparencies on either of these. I expect I will be doing some more PJ game work soon!

I had an idea for Dr. Automation's sprite.
We should have the default evil scientist type look.

Dr. Neo Cortex:


Eggman?:


Dr. Willy:

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Originally posted by Brian the Great

Originally posted by iSTVAN

Awesome. He should have a little beard + glasses combo or something.

Then he'd look EXACTLY like PB.

I finished off Larwick's Sedge. It made so much more sense for Sedgemonkey to have the banana gun! My guy can get away on just brute force.

Lol iSTVAN, that body is great. I was thinking of redoing the angry/evil faces again (although basically the same style) so i may update sometime.

Well I love the face you did already, but if you say so! I'm happy for you to do whatever the hell you feel like with the body aswell. In fact I'd love to collaborate with you on creating an entire sprite sheet for Sedge. Let me know what you think.

Updated the first post with your edit of Sedge iSTVAN. :]

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Thanks PB. Just about to start work on your guy's revised sprite.

I've been thinking more about my 'world,' and although I know we'd like to concentrate on Sedges, Sharks and Brian's worlds at the moment, I thought I'd share my ideas with you while I had them.

The world would be a sort of 'Cartoony' universe where piano's drop from the sky, super thugs and heroes exist amongst cutesy cartoon characters. I'm thinking like the 'toon world' in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' only with a greater focus on Super Heroes. The standard backdrop would be a busy city street. So you could have everyone from run of the mill robbers to 'top cat' like alley cats as enemies- just to add variety.

So there'd be a focus on shops and cars and other urban waste land crap for the backgrounds (which would be new for the game) and also give artists a bit of freedom with their enemy sprites. I know the original three worlds were chosen because they acted as a good starting point and their subject matter easily controlled (jungle, ice, underwater) so hopefully this clears atleast a couple of things up about my world.

I'm also looking forward to seeing the alien world, plenty of cool chances for wicked sprites there.

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Between starting and finishing this post I drew two new versions of PB's boss character, minus the flying saucer (I still think a flying saucer would make a good weapon at one stage):

 (<And with head phones)

the tentacles aren't working for me... maybe make him a slug body? Headphones are a nice addition though

Okay, I'll have another look at those leg tentacles, but are you both also referring to the hand tentacles as well? If so, what else did you have in mind for his arms and upper body?

Your suggestions are useful, guys!

This thing is seriously getting weirder and weirder, guys.

I'm not sure if he even looks menacing any more...but I suppose it all else fails he can always be used as a regular enemy for the world.

they don't have to look terribly menacing you know. All the bosses are friendly characters kidnapped from the city and brainwashed into their evil forms.

Anyways, I kinda liked the fingers you had eariler. The slug body looks more like a leaf right now though. Feel free to bulk him up and give him some glutinous form.

It's getting there dude... I can feel it! Let him be weird.

It started as a simple edit to see how it will look with legs...  Then I thought it will be easier to animate, if the head line is more simple and....Unfortunally I got a bit out of control. Surounded him with blinking gold pixels (maybe a pixel energy shield that turns off when he attacks or something) and a sh*tty glow effect.

Which one is better - "A" or "B"? A is closer to Istvan's and B has a big head and shorter hands like PJ.

Thanks Pixelblink.

I decided to go full weird ahead and have a bit of fun animating the baby. He breathes and stretches and wiggles and pouts and goggles and stresses, all important characteristics of PB. Probably too much going on for a regular animation, but it was fun playing with the character.

Awesome animation!

Well, I'm at work and I have nothing better to do than mess around trying to draw sprites... So I thought I'd try making Sedge's face using his picture as reference. Turned out close enough to the real thing, so I submit it.

 EDIT: This is pretty much what I have in mind:

I fixed up the first post by adding all the new sprite works.
Good job guys keep it up. <3

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Personally, I prefer the glowy-levitative mindpower of PixelBlink over the sluggish form.

Also, the bigger head of the levitating PB looks better, imo.

AND, I love both those animations. Ist's breathing and Art-Kry movement.

okies.. here's what I think...

Let's go with iST's vein in the head, beathing, and fingers and Krysis' big head version.

I was thinking previously that my character's power would be a telekinetic mind zap so the floating bit works with that in mind. Let's get some motion trail on that glow as well.

I like the monkey Krysis did as well except there was onther done previously that looked alot more like Sedge himself. If we add the head and banana gun of that and the body of Krysis' it would be pure awesomeness

Umm, right...  

I think we need the missing link between the last two.

I like the body type of the last one but I think the colours work better on the previous ones. Also, let's get the head, arms and tail on the from the second last on to the last version

the evolution of Sedge:

5 being the missing link I was speaking of

Well... what do you guys think? I'm leaning towards number 5 on this one:

I was thinking as well for my guy.. when he builds up to a psy shot:

(rough animation)

just a quick sprite for fun, if it fits anywhere go ahead and use it