Midnight Bliss and Shock Project (Shock Project revived!)

[Xenomic]

And now, got Momoko done after not distracting myself with everything else >.>;;








I'll more than likely work on Sailor Moon's or Mercury's MB next, so stay tuned!

[Xenomic]

Cancelling the Shock Project portion of this project due to not having any motivation to do it, and that I just don't have the skills to do it it seems : /



If anyone still wants to do that portion of the project, go ahead. I'll add it to the releases that I do when I get to them.

[KenFan9276 - Member of CROM]

WHERE'S AKUMA!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!

[Xenomic]

Hey all! Don't worry! I'm not dead! At least I don't think I am....


Anywho, I think I have some motivation to do some spriting (more due to boredom than anything else and lack of interest in my Touhou RPG right now), so (courtesy of Kinto2006), here's the MB so far for Sailor Moon:








I'll at least have this done either tonight or tomorrow, depending if I work on my Final Fantasy V walkthrough tomorrow or not, so stay tuned! And as always, always looking for more help with this ^^



And yes, the Shock Project is still cancelled, though I'm trying to improve my spriting on that bit....still not easy T-T

[♦ßlôödÑinjå♦]

Looks great good job.

[Xenomic]

And the full animation is done! Yay for boredom!







Will probably work on Tia next, or Jam, depending on which one I feel like doing first ^^

[Xenomic]

I'mma make this topic open for ANYONE who wants to share their sprites or show what they've done for MBs or whatnot. Might as well make this a public project (not that it wasn't already kinda ). Besides, it might give me more motivation to do some more in the meantime. ^^

[Gate]

Shadowman MB

The entire animation will be revealed in the chars release 

[Xenomic]

Hm....the more I look at that now, the more I see ninjaness in Shadowman


Then again, it fits him. Cuz it's Shadowman after all : p



I'll probably have some more of mine up soon when I get to them. Been trying to work on a new Shock animation for Arcueid since Mina's is giving me a headache, but this one is also giving me a headache too. Blasted Shocks .V.
Post Merge: March 29, 2009, 11:39:40 PMSo I was stumbling through Pixiv, looking for things, and I stumble upon this little image. I'm guessing it's something being made for Mugen, but...yeah








Poor Cirno....she seems to be enjoying the shock treatment.....not so much the burn treatment though. Never thought I'd see the day I'd see a Touhou character like this o_o

[Xenomic]

Alright, so now I come to you guys for advice. I know I've asked this before, but what can I do to motivate myself considering I don't even touch Mugen anymore? I was going to do Malin's Midnight Bliss earlier, but as soon as I opened up the file, I lost the motivation right away. Any advice on what to do to bring it back up? It's been a good month or so since I last did a full animation.



And on this subject, do you think that I should retire from the Mugen scene? I know it's my decision, but considering that I nuked 90% of my Mugen since I never played....and coupled with the fact that I don't have the motivation to sprite anything anymore....well....I don't know. I enjoy spriting, but I think I enjoy it more when there's more than one person doing it with me. : /
Post Merge: April 01, 2009, 09:32:40 PMMeh. I decided to try and do this.....I kinda like how it's coming along (since I'm using Terry as a base, but doing it from scratch. Haven't done things from scratch since Len I think x_x  ). Anywho, I think the torso and the head are odd to me.....what do you guys thinks?




Original Stand Sprite:






Current Grab Sprite:





Oi vey.....I'm not as rusty as I thought I was....just had to FORCE myself to do it ^^;
Post Merge: April 02, 2009, 10:38:03 PMUpdate! Woooo! We all love that, don't we?








I dunno. Legs seem long to me....hmmm

[BlizzardTora]

Those some nice ones u got there. Will you at least be releasing these in a pack.

[Xenomic]

I usually do release them in packs, at least that's what I've been doing for the past year anywho ^^;;

[ace_tales]

i love your midnight blisses the rock!  (really like that shadowman one  )
just one question, who is that blonde in the blue?

[Xenomic]

Twould be Malin from King of Fighters.

[Xenomic]

Well, after working on this for a while, I'm FINALLY happy with how the hip came out. Thanks to Viofitz and his Mina sprite, I was able to tell WHERE the blasted leg is and how the hip looks, so that helped. Then I used Morrigan's shock sprite to help with this.









So, what do you guys think? Think it's better than the previous version? ^^

[♦ßlôödÑinjå♦]

Much better.

[Xenomic]

And now it seems I have another team member to my team, who seems pretty good with the shock animations, as soon here:








I was actually thinking of doing this somewhere down the line, but he beat me to it. Looks really good. Thanks to tekkannon for this ^^



Still looking for more if you wish to help with the project! ^^:b
Post Merge: April 12, 2009, 03:49:29 PMAnd now I've run into a problem.....I've tried putting in the sprites, but it seems that none of them likes to go in correctly. Note that I'm trying this with POTS' Nakoruru, so if anyone wants to try and implement the sprites into that one and see what the problem is, please by all means, do so if you can. I'm stumped as to what the problem is D:



Here's how I've tried, I went in and separated the sprites, then put them to Indexed, Local (Selective ), then in the Color Table for each of them, in the bottom right corner, put in the transparency color. Then I put the sprites in, and it seems that only the first one works kinda right while the others don't. I don't get what the problem is : /
Post Merge: April 14, 2009, 12:11:42 AMSince I'm already here, I might as well show you guys the progress I've been making on Mina's shock sprite. This new spriter with his Nakoruru and Iroha shock sprites got my juices flowing again, so I decided to try with Mina some more. I was having trouble at first, then I saw he sent me Iroha, and well.....that's all I needed WAS Iroha, since her stance is pretty close to what Mina's is:



Old Mina sprite:






New Mina sprite:








And for those that would like to see the Iroha shock sprite (do note that Iroha and Nakoruru WILL be released in the future in a pack with possibly Mina's shock sprite, as well as Sailor Moon's MB which has been sitting here forever and MAYBE Malin's MB)


Iroha's Shock Sprites (With and without weapon):

[Xenomic]

Huh. Apparently I didn't save the sprite from the character in PCX, and when I tried it with Lilica, it worked PERFECTLY. I then tried it with Iroha, and well, the sprites are fine now, but it didn't take the palette for whatever reason. Odd.


And for those who want to see Lilica's shock sprites, here ya go. Tekkanon is on a roll ^^:b









Also, I showed him my Mina sprite and he did his own to see if I liked it. Tbh, I actually DO like his a lot more than mine, since his is....well....much better ^^. Comparison for mine and his (mine on left, his on right):









Now YOU tell me which is better!
Post Merge: April 16, 2009, 09:05:44 PMFirst post updated with new team members and sprites that I'll be using ^^:b


Still looking for more who wants to help ^^

[Xenomic]

Well, a slight update to Malin. Managed to finish her grabbed sprite, but it still seems wrong to me:





Anyone wanna fix it, go right ahead. Until I get back around to this, I'm going to work and finish Mina's shock sprite before I finish this, which should be plenty of time for any fixes. And then I'll be releasing a pack here with the 3 shocks (with Mina's as well), and Malin's and Sailor Moon's MBs. Speaking of which, I forgot to add the last MB pack to my site....I'll have to update that....


Also, I MIGHT do some updates to my older MBs, for my one year anniversary of this project.  Can't believe it's been a full year since I started this project ^^;;

[Sabaki]

Pretty nice work here, especially the shock sprites. You and your team have a good talent in drawing/spriting bones 

[Xenomic]

Believe me when I say that the rest of my team is MUCH better at doing Shocks than me. I have so much trouble even doing a single shock sprite, as you can tell with Mina, which I might just leave to Tekkanon to do since his version is just vastly better than mine ^^;;


I might as well stick to doing MBs and leave the Shocks to him and Katman.
Post Merge: April 20, 2009, 11:37:09 PMAnd a update, thanks to c00per for fixing up the grabbed sprite for Malin's MB, and for adding a couple neat things to her that I tried to add to the stand sprite ^^:





So yeah, expect the full animation soon! And then I'll have a new release after this, unless Tekkanon gets more shocks done. I'll be leaving the Mina shock to him ^^;;

[Sabaki]

Well, it's always good to have help, right? And you have a team to compliment you in areas you may not be so strong in. Still, great work you have going on witht he Midnight Bliss and Shock sprites. Wish you 

[Xenomic]

Yeah, it's very good ^^


I have a couple more sprites done by Tekkanon, one being an update to Mai's Shock sprite from ages ago, which I'll have up here soon. ^^:b
Post Merge: April 21, 2009, 01:49:33 PMAnd 2 new things, right out of the oven from Tekkanon! A touch-up on Mai's shock sprite, and a brand new one for Hisui ^^



Hisui:





Mai:






Also in the first post. These will remain there until I upload these and add them to my site (I won't be using those big screenshots now, instead I'll be using just the animations or single sprites for images, if that's alright with you guys when I release em ^^;)
Post Merge: April 21, 2009, 11:41:21 PMAnd an update on Malin, though I only worked on her for a short bit (lost interest, plus trying to do this right after not doing one for so long as well as differently than the others, as in doing it a bit more.....detailed and....yeah....):







So after these, I got 2 more sprites to do. Not bad though. It's turning out well (trying out the style that Ryu's MB in SvC goes....it's not as easy as you'd think x_x).
Post Merge: April 22, 2009, 03:31:21 PMWell, since I'm at it, for those wondering what I had in mind for Midnight Blisses for the Touhou characters, here's what I have in mind (I'm not going to show Sakuya's since it's kinda ecchi ^^;; ). If anyone else has a better idea on what to do for these, go ahead and let me know. I'm always open to suggestions, though it'll take quite a while to do these, since I'm not going to use the original SWR/IaMP sprite styles and instead SNK/Capcom sprite styles (like how Remilia and Youmu were done):




WARNING!!! Many images ahead!!!



Reimu Hakurei:







Chen:







Cirno:






Eirin Yagokoro:






Flandre Scarlet (right for those of you who don't know):







Hong Meiling:







Keine Kamishirasawa:







Yuyuko Saigyouji:









OR









Suika Ibuki:







Sanae Kotiya:







Patchouli Knowledge:








As for the other Touhou people (Nitori, Lunasa, Alice, Marisa, Mokou, Yorihime, Komachi, Aya, Utsuho, etc), I haven't really come up with one for them yet, while those (Sakuya, Reisen, Yukari, etc), I HAVE an idea on what to do, but dunno if I want to use them or not.

[Xenomic]

Oi, just to show I'm not dead, here's the next sprite in Malin's MB. Got bored enough to actually DO this, and I might actually do the rest tonight.







After she's done, don't worry.....the next batch of patches will be released. I still need to find my very last release and get it on my site though....wherever it's at....
Post Merge: May 04, 2009, 01:02:58 AMAnd with this, she's fully done! Entire animation here:







I'll be releasing a pack later tonight hopefully, so keep an eye out for that. Been quite a while since I've done that....but first, I need to figure out what Malin I'll be releasing this MB for. ^^

[Xenomic]

It's released now, and is available in the Others Release section. I'll put a link to the file pack in the first post.



Also, the next Midnight Bliss pack will more than likely be a Touhou themed pack for once, and who better to start it off than my lovely miko Reimu ^^






That's how it looks SO far. It's still in beta process, and is based off of this art, if you haven't seen it yet:






It's looking good to me so far ^^. Oh, and I'll be updating the first post with the link to the new pack, since I forgot to do it before. And apparently, I did release another pack before.....and it did have Kagome and Sailor Jupiter in it .V. I'll update the first post with that too.
Post Merge: May 06, 2009, 01:43:19 PMFirst post updated with all links to packs (save the very first one.....look on my site for that one), as well as images for the majority of these ^^:b
Post Merge: May 08, 2009, 03:27:10 AMAnd it seems that I have a 2nd MB that I'd like to do for Reimu; however, I'm going to be preoccupied with the current Reimu MB as well as TRYING to finish Youmu's MB (or fix it up at least), so if anyone wants to give this one a shot, go ahead and you'll get full credit for it. One stand sprite or both stand and first grabbed sprite is all I need. I want to make this next release a Touhou theme so....yeah....^^;;. However, keep in mind that I'm trying to make them SNK or Capcom style (I think Capcom fits better, which is why I might redo Youmu's MB):







And that's the image that I think will work very nicely for her. Of course, I have another image, but it's too cliched to me ^^