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I've been taking a break from making that Raz character for a while now (I've just not been having fun making her sprites, not sure why), so I've been focusing on other M.U.G.E.N projects for the time being. I know I've not been giving that many updates, but I promise they are going well! I've just been forgetting to talk about them, lol...
One of these characters I'm currently working on is actually a collaboration with my brother, @pens-n-pixels! It's one of his Street Fighter OCs, Caleb!
PnP is the one who came up with the character's moveset, and made all of his sprites. I'm just putting the character into code form, and it's going pretty well so far! He's got an interesting style to him, that I'm looking forward to finishing!
Whenever I posted the Caleb character, I was planning to include a little update to Shun to go along with it. Nothing big, just a new target combo and a few tweaks to make other moves function better.
However, today, for whatever reason, I've decided to go through Shun's entire moveset and redo all of her hit/hurtboxes, along with modifying pretty much every move she has in some way.
It probably won't actually change how she plays too much, but I can guarantee that she'd function better than her initial release...
(sprite below is unrelated, just wanted to show off this outfit i drew for her a while ago)
I was bored last night so uhhh...
You ever heard of Street Fighter: Spec. Ops?
(Left-to-right) Code K, Dark Bolt, Psycho Weapon, Red Cyclone, Sean Matsuda, Sevil Nahte, Sonic Machine
literally nothing prompted this other than my boredom, i don't think this game has had any news in a while lol...
I am still working on my M.U.G.E.N stuff I swear I just can't do it at home bc Fighter Factory doesn't work on laptop for some reason ok byyeeee
I've already (kind of) said it on my DeviantArt, but I've recently redesigned my KOF OC, Uta!
So if she looks really different to how she did in my previous posts with her (there's only, like, two), that's why.
Random rambling about my thought process below the cut (warning: there are a lot of images & GIFs):
Uta's old design was based off of Yuki, from this bootleg fighting game on the GBC called Queen Fighters 2000. Like Uta, she was a Mai sprite edit, so it was quite easy to make.
It's not the worst design I've ever made (that would probably go to Shun's original design, might share that later), but I felt like it didn't really fit in much with KOF, and it was hard to add in the netting in every sprite (plus I don't think that stuff would be very practical for a ninja? I'm not sure why I did it in the first place...).
This new design makes a lot more sense to me, and I feel like it makes Uta look a lot more unique and different to Mai (which makes sense, as they're not biological sisters). The main inspirations for this design were:
Mai's appearance in Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (mainly the colour scheme, and the decision to make her ginger).
One of Mai's alternate outfits from King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2 (I forgot which one, though; I've never actually played the game).
Andy Bogard's KOF 2001 design (mostly the black bodysuit, and the pants).
In giving her an outfit with inspiration from both her adoptive sister and brother-in-law, I feel like it makes her fit in more, rather than seeming like a bit of an outsider (which wouldn't be too inaccurate, but still...).
And yes, I will be making a M.U.G.E.N. character of her eventually.
The Zan Evolution Butouden July update came out, so that's pretty much all I've been doing today...
Thought I might share a neat combo I worked out as my main, Ciara Lowell. She's a grappler character with a chain grab, which I always enjoy.
Also the rankings from the four arcade run I've already done today:
The Caleb character is now complete and ready to share!
Download link is here.
i'd say more but god i'm so drained rn arrrgh
M.U.G.E.N Character Release – Caleb
Shun Ver. 1.01 has come out now.
It would've been yesterday at the same time as Caleb but I was too tired, lol.
Been a hot minute since I did one of those sprite redraw things, and my brother sent me a meme that I thought would fit perfectly so:
Original image:
Made another short bc they're satisfying and easy lol.
Just a little teaser for my next character...
hi! love your neo geo pocket or whatever idr style sprites, but i was wondering if you had other styles too? to clarify this isnt to dunk on the sprites you show off its just that being able to do many styles is always a powerful thing for an artist to achieve
Hi!! Thanks for the ask, always excited to talk about stuff!
To be honest, I have kind of gotten settled into this NGP style for a while now, so doing any other style doesn't really cross my mind much? I would like to do other styles, but I tend to get intimidated by larger sprites, and I get impatient if I'm working on the same animation for too long – I'm aware this is a problem with myself I need to fix, lol...
In terms of styles I would like to try out; I quite like the sprites of Sonic Battle (I've been playing it quite a bit recently, having a lot of fun with Shadow), so I might try that if any fitting projects come to mind. Larger sprites like CvS and Street Fighter Alpha are quite nice, too, but I feel like I should wait until I'm a bit better before I attempt anything of that size.
As a little bonus, here are the only two projects I could find saved on my phone that aren't in NGP style:
The left is an edit from an NES bootleg of Street Fighter II, where I put Chun-Li in her Alpha design. The right is a Sonic Advance-styled sprite of a gender-swapped Amy Rose, which I made for @theyre-gay-because-i-say-so.
Update like, two minutes after the og post:
I forgot I sometimes do this little artstyle when I'm bored:
idk what it's for i just think it's cute
Small update with Uta: she has another special move now (and a crouching heavy punch):
It's still missing sound effects (planning on getting SFX from KOF XV for her), and I haven't sorted the damage yet, but it's otherwise going pretty well!
Being kooky with Ciara again:
I saw the AI cancel Clutch Spiral into Carnival Suplex once and now I go for it all the time...
Just finished my tenth arcade in Zan Evolution Butouden, here are my scores:
Honestly didn't expect to do so good with Taka, as I'm not very good as him; but placing high with Ciara and Sinkage were not surprising to me at all. I've also now played as more than half of the entire roster (there are eighteen characters in total), and have found some new potential mains!
I might do a tier list of how good I am as these characters sometime...
Uta's sprites are all done now btw. Like, all of them.
She has a lot more than Shun, lol, but that's mostly because I tried to include some KOF-isms into her moveset (she has EXs, a knockdown attack, and an evade).
I just finished assembling her spritesheet now; it was pretty awkward to do, because I don't have a consistent way of making spritesheets yet, and my phone can only handle projects of a certain size before it starts to lag. I'll post the sheet on my DeviantArt when the character's done (which should be soon!).
In the meantime, have this random thing I made in, like, two minutes, of Uta posing in front of her own name:
Uta... may be complete now?
I'm not sure, I wanted to include custom voice acting for her, but I've never got the time alone to actually record anything yet, so that may have to wait for later.
I also was going to include a Climax Super (she has engine features based on KOF XV), but it seems like my plan was too ambitious for my current skill level. I'll probably add that in a later update...
As a celebration of her completion(?), have a little combo I figured out using both of her supers:
(Mai character is by animochi, I don't have a link for them but I know they're on MUGEN Archive and MUGEN Free-for-All)
...I may have some bugs to fix.
Might be a bit late, but I made a thing with Mai + my OC Uta for Mai's City of the Wolves announcement.
It's a pretty neat design, cool to see Mai in something that isn't a ninja outfit or an elaborate dress.
Mai has been released now!
This wasn't meant to take nearly as long as it did...