Hard Man

[JoeM]

Good news: Hard Man is back from the dead!

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This sprite is only a joke, it will not be in the definitive sprite set.

I finally graduated, now i can return to work. I'm sorry for the long hiatus.
Here some news (not too many, unfortunately)
Taking Laspacho's advice, i started to use photobucket and i'm finding way more handy than deviantart. I see that all the preview i posted from Imageshacks are gone, so I'll have to reupload everything. I'll take the opportunity to take stock of the situation.

The transition from his sitting position to the stance could be smoother. Otherwise nice idea!

I've added some frame. I still need to redraw the Monking, its sprites are badly taken from SAR with little modification. Anyway, i'm glad you liked the idea 


I've worked on the crouching punches. I come up with this for now:

Hi Joe M. if you want, I would like to help you do make Hard Man. 

This hiatus left me a bit uninspired and out of shape, so maybe I can accept some help 

[Rage]

Nice work!!! I'm very interested in this character and in ecstatic to work else you have in store.

[O Ilusionista]

Hey good to see you back.

[JoeM]

Glad to see you're all interested in this char! I had my problems with university, but now that I graduated everything is ok (anyway, my english remains low level  ). Now I only need to redo some practice.

As I promised, i've reuploaded everything on Photobucket. I've posted everything here under spoiler.
Maybe I shouldn't post everything 'cause I'm ruining the surprise, but i'm a novice in spriting so I can't afford it, I need to show everything so I can be corrected if needed.

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Stance:


Crouch:


Turn:

(it need some work)

Crouch turn


Stand to crouch/crouch to stand


Walk fw


Walk bk


Jump up

(Hard Man is a stiff 3 tons robot, so maybe this animation can go also for the other jumps)

Standing punches:


Standing kicks

The strong kick is not right, but i still haven't made the  full combo animation. The true strong kick is this:


Crouching punches

(It's the last thing I've posted, but i think it's right to post it again here to take stock of the situation)

Throw 1:


Throw 2:

(Maybe it still needs some work)

Dash fw:


Dash bk:


Intro:

(As i said, the monking still needs to be resprited)

Win pose 1:


Win pose 2:


Hard Knuckle:
First version (NES) -
Second version -
(They will both be used)

Body press:


Power sets:
- Weapon change
- Break Dash
-Super Arm

I don't know what it will be, maybe a special air attack or something similar:

This is new, so i'll show it here:


What it's still missing:

- a better turn animation
- some work on the first throw
- portraits
- all get hit sprites
- all guard sprites
- fall down, lie dead and stand up sprites
- tech roll
- dizzy, burnt and frozen sprites
- crouching kicks
- air punches
- air kicks
- air throw
- loose by time over
- more intros
- more winning poses
- taunt
- more weapons, specials and hypers

Maybe i forgot something.

EDIT: stand get hit sprites and dizzy state done and posted, shock state redone. I'll keep on editing this post everytime i'll add something.

[Rage]

Nice, 

When the character is all most done i will do the portraits.

[JoeM]

Nice, 

When the character is all most done i will do the portraits.

Yeah, i definitely need it  Thanks!

Stand get hit animation done:

[laspacho]

Cool stuff. 

[JoeM]

Dizzy animation done!


I've also watched other shock animations and i've corrected mine. Now it looks more flashy:


I thought to edit the first post adding every progress and what's left to do to make easier to keep track of the work progress. Can I do it?

[O Ilusionista]

Pretty cool edits. You can feel how heavy he is on the walk animation.
But the attacks range bothers me, specially the standing punches. This will make the standing combos very difficult.

[JoeM]

But the attacks range bothers me, specially the standing punches. This will make the standing combos very difficult.

Now that you make me think about that, you're right. I'll try to solve that problem...

...but it will take a long time. I'm really lynched by fate and my computer is gone. My brother has one (i'm writing on it now), but it doesn't have photoshop and he use it frequently.
Fortunately i made a backup of all the work i've done some days before the incident, so i've lost only few things (namely the damage, shock and dizzy animations). I hope the situation will soon become better.

[O Ilusionista]

JoeM, I suggest you to send all that you have, for backup reasons, to any of the RMM leaders, like Laspacho.
He won't share it and so we won't lose anything.

[Rage]

extract those lost sprites from the gifs you posted and do as O said with back up.

[laspacho]

I like the work on Hardman that your doing.   

Anytime you want to send me your sprites I'll back them up for you and keep it with all the other Rmm stuff.