Ventris' Subtle Multi-purpose Doomgal sprites (In Progress)

[Captain Ventris]

After messing around in Virtue's Doomgirl sprite thread, I decided that the community needed a spectacularly unnoticeable set of female marine sprites. These can be easily modified in the same way as countless Doomguy modifications, possibly with mostly copy-pasting the altered bits with mininum fuss.

Here is an upsized comparison shot:


And what I have so far, which is the forward walk animation, set above the beloved original:


And the X2X8 frames:


The X3X7 frames:


The X4X6 frames:


I'll put up a download when I'm done, which'll be, like, forever maybe. Hopefully not. We'll find out, together.

Sarcastic Feature List:
-Unisex armor design for maximum usability.
-The Iconic helmet is preserved because seriously why would the helmet differ?
-80% more breast protection than comparable models.
-85% less patronizing to the fairer sex.
-112% less gratifying to 13 year olds who can't Google.
-14% more freedom from Patriarchal oppression.
- -20% popularity with Mansplainers.
-45% more difficult to masturbate to.
-No indicators to let you know the gender of who you're throwing fireballs at from farther than 10 meters.
-DoomGAL instead of Doomgirl, because Guy and Girl aren't really gender opposites, you know?
-My mom said that the Doomguy's boots look like Uggs and I can't unsee that!

I'm no sprite artist, so input is welcome, but not that welcome.

[Gez]

Unwelcome comment (unwelcomment) #1: the right arm (on our left) still seems too buff on the D frame. It's visibly thinner on the A frame, less so on the B and C frames, and even less so on the D frame.

Edit: this no longer applies.

[Virtue]

to be honest, it just looks like a thinner doomguy, but good luck, we need more female doom characters.

[SyntherAugustus]

Slender Doom Marine works better as a name, as it would fit some females and thin dudes. A larger female can still fit as the normal doomguy sprite.

[Captain Ventris]

Did a second draft based on Gez's arm suggestion thingy. Also, now that I'm at home with Photoshop, I made the images have a transparent BG. The E frame is now there, too. Was scratching my head a bit over the left arm in E, but I think it's alright.

EDIT: But Blackfish, Subtle Multi-purpose Doomgal sounds so much more Tacticool!

DOUBLE EDIT: Forgot that F is just E with lighting, so that's in there, now. That's one whole animation sequence (I'm doin' death last because I want to have everything else about the anatomy figured out first.

[Blox]

you suck at spriting omfg what are you doing why are you even here holy damn you are just pathetic

But seriously, try tightening the middle-torso area a little bit to make it seem less bulky?

Because currently it seems like the biggest flaw that I can see. o_O

[Captain Ventris]

Ah, that's inconsistent with the B frame. You're right. I've touched up the A and D frame accordingly. By that, I mean I removed a total of 4 pixels.

[CaptainToenail]

Good luck with this, lest we end up with something like this:

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[Captain Ventris]

brb redoing all sprites to match Toenail's masterpiece

[Enjay]

Glad you've decided to do this.

Now we just need CaptainToenail to make a full set for his one.

Too many captains - at least one of you should be a major by now!

[Captain Ventris]

Added the first draft of the X2X8 frames to the OP. Messing with arm thickness in these frames was a bit funky. When I get home to my PC I'll put up a version with a transparent background.

[Captain Awesome]

This sprite is terrible. She's not sexualized enough.

I'm kidding.

[TerminusEst13]

to be honest, it just looks like a thinner doomguy, but good luck, we need more female doom characters.

Basically this.
There's a lot more to female proportions than just "skinnier".

[Enjay]

That'll be why he's doing more than just making her skinnier I guess.

[Minigunner]

Maybe moving the breastline down one pixel could help make the skin appear more female.