cartoony(?) battlers

[sixtyandaquarter]

Here's some enemy battlers for my project Faris Adventure, which is meant to be rather old school.  The style is meant to be a little more cartoony, what with the black outline and all.http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g147/ ... family.png[/imgzoom]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g147/sixtyandaquarter/faris/wads.png[/imgzoom]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g147/sixtyandaquarter/faris/wolfsont.png[/imgzoom]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g147/sixtyandaquarter/faris/wolfsont2.png[/imgzoom]Any thoughts?

edit:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g147/ ... notaur.png[/imgzoom]
Not quite done - as you can tell, still playing with colors and shapes and outlines.
Meant to be the "minotaur" like character.

edit:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g147/ ... taur-1.png[/imgzoom]
upamadate to the minotaur
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g147/ ... aeater.png[/imgzoom]
prototype for the panda eating door

 

[Crazetex]

Your Steppers are pretty cool--the pants are done well (I am a huge fan of drawing baggy pants). The Wolfsont looks good, but I'm guessing it's a hybrid animal? The legs are waaay too short to be just a wolf (but it is a Wolfsont, according to image properties, so!).

Good job.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

added one more:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g147/ ... notaur.png[/imgzoom]
Not quite done - as you can tell, still playing with colors and shapes and outlines.
Meant to be the "minotaur" like character.

It was meant to be a wolf, but everyone called it a fox.  I just never got around to renaming the file XD
I never realized how stubby those legs looked.  I might have fun with that, thanks for pointing that out.

 

[coyotecraft]

The fox looks chubby, kinda like a bulldog.

The minotaur looks great.  Will you add a bull snout coming out of the helmet?
Minotaur's usually have bull heads, satyrs have the goat legs. So right now it looks like a beefy satyr.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

Technically he (the "Minotaur") would be a satyr if that's the definition we'd be using.
I nick named him minotaur in my sketches simply because the helmet has what could be horns.
I have yet to settle on an official name.  Names are usually one of the last things I do to one off characters and enemies.

I thought the fox/wolf thing looked good at first, but now I see how off the legs really are.  The more it's brought up the more I see it.

 

[~R~]

Details i Don't Like:
Foxes/Wolves: Their Bodies are too large and the legs are really short. Two ideas to solve it would be:
a) Make it Thinner
b) Taller Legs
Minotaur: The foots are too thin, i think... Something like this, maybe?
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj19 ... ditbyR.jpg[/IMGZOOM]
Argh, just realized now i saved it as a .jpg

 

[mawk]

I'm withholding comment until I see the panda-eating door. Consider this a criticism strike. I'm like a cynical Ghandi.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

The feet of the minotaur are meant to be in a specific stylistic design, the typical stylings include matted shadows, tiny legs, and laods of other minute li'l details I tried to copy here. tiny li'l legs.  I actually should probably be bringing the groin up further, making the chicken leg approach come even closer to that style.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

The panda eating door is being very difficult... do you have any idea how hard it is to sprite a door eating a panda in this style that doesn't look like someone threw smores at it?

 

[mawk]

In my day, we managed with just eight bits, young man. You should be grateful.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

this coming from the guy who originally was on the side of those who suggested a minimap for my li'l dungeon crawler faris adventure - to which these battlers belong :x

 

[mawk]

And then changed his mind! Duuuuuh!

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g147/ ... aeater.png[/imgzoom]
there's your damn panda eating door (haha i really have to do that for real instead of just slapping it together)
different battlers (as in that's not an animation, still frames of different door enemies)

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g147/ ... taur-1.png[/imgzoom]
minotaur 2.0