Battle Beasts for Mugen

[Neokenjiro]

Well this is my first time at trying to sprite something and I'm still working on it to make it look less like the original sprites.  I thought it would be great if there were Battle Beasts for Mugen.  Back in the 80's Battle Beasts were some of the most fun toys to play with plus they were associated with transformers.  Well here is my first attempt.  Maybe someone can give me some advise or some ideas on how to better improve the look of this sprite.  I hope you like it, even though I know its not great just think fo the possibilities.



This is a picture of the toy.



Sawtooth Shark (his emblem is fire!)



Sawtooth Shark Portrait



Life Bar Photo

[Spidermew]

Well this is my first time at trying to sprite something and I'm still working on it to make it look less like the original sprites.  I thought it would be great if there were Battle Beasts for Mugen.  Back in the 80's Battle Beasts were some of the most fun toys to play with plus they were associated with transformers.  Well here is my first attempt.  Maybe someone can give me some advise or some ideas on how to better improve the look of this sprite.  I hope you like it, even though I know its not great just think fo the possibilities.



This is a picture of the toy.



Sawtooth Shark (his emblem is fire!)



Sawtooth Shark Portrait



Life Bar Photo

Well with your sprite, it looks like all you did was add the trident and put fins on the head.

If you look at the toy photo you can see that you dont see a fin, so you should put the fin more on the back of the skull then you have it here, and work on the head shape, its still got that mega man face to it, if your having a hard time making the shape, try doodling it on a peice of scrap papper to get an idea on how youve got to draw the pixils

[Neokenjiro]

Thanks for the Advise I'll keep trying to play with it till it looks less megamanish.  This took me about two hours total so far... Its hard making sprites, I see why its a such a difficult process to make a char

[shinrahunter]

Good luck with this, I loved Battle Beasts when I was a kid!

[UltraRoboninja]

Good luck with this, I loved Battle Beasts when I was a kid!

Me too! I had a ton of them, though I never knew their individual names. Maybe if this goes well, Battle Beasts will become the next big Mugen trend!

[shinrahunter]

that would be great if it did. I'm not keen on small chars for mugen but because of what they are, I'd definately download em!

[Neokenjiro]

! yea I keep on thinking how many different strikers you can have and it gets me giddy.  I'll keep working on his, I wish I were a better graphic artist

[shinrahunter]

In the most pa tthat doesn't relate to making sprites though, I'm one of the better known artists here and I've only ever made (very) minor edits to sprites!!