[SPRITES] Spriting Carnival!!

[jdredalert]

Pulse rifle sprites, reload, and pump action reload. Click for fullsize



Credit : DOKU, FURY_161 (from steam workshop)

Hmm... i may try to make it more Doom friendly later. Right now i'm doing the Hudson Pulse Rifle from Colonial Marines, but this is a lot more on par with the classic design.

Thanks for sharing it!

[LossForWords]

a compilation of m887 sprites.
centered cocking, classic cocking, spin cocking, the whole family's here.
credz to joeytd for the 1887 lever, hamburghannes for the model and ellyklamsky for the xna conversion.

[vólentiæn]

how would one doomify this ak?

[ElectricPulse]

how would one doomify this ak?

I just made some attempts (in this one i just changed the color palette to the Doom's one):



In my opinion, the sprite is too big to be fitted with doomguy's hand! But i tested with Caleb's hand as well, and i think it's not that bad :

[Captain J]

a compilation of m887 sprites.

Centered lever action rifle! Now that's really something new!

[jdredalert]

how would one doomify this ak?

Hmm... no offense here, but i think this sprite was damned from start and there's little one can do to save it. I tried to shade this train wreck in line with what i think someone like Blox would do, but thanks to my lack of experience and expertise in shading i'm not really satisfied with the results. Maybe someone more skilled than me can make a better job drawing above the lines of the weapon itself, i did all i could.

[NeuralStunner]

Hmm... no offense here, but i think this sprite was damned from start and there's little one can do to save it.

Dude. So here's a couple weapon frames from Doom that show the side of the weapon in more detail:

Notice how they don't look as if they've been airbrushed like a cover model?

The source image is closer to Doom's style than that... attempt. Lighting contrast is the main thing it needs, which you may be able to handle with a little brightness/contrast adjustment and some accenting by hand. If possible, it might be wise to re-render the gun at a lower resolution with more pronounced lighting. Certainly don't go manic with the smudge tool until it looks entirely fake.

The first step to making a Doom-style sprite is to rid yourself of the notion that Doom has a single cohesive style. The whole game is a mashup of hand-drawn and photo-sourced images. The weapons themselves are made from photos of toys. A realistic, high-detail model is as close as you'll get to that without a photography setup of your own.

[jdredalert]

I think you focused so much in the Doom style part that you missed what i had explicitly said in my second phrase: i tried to replicate Blox style of shading, which consists in high contrast and lots of airbrushes, not Doom style. That's what i was aiming in my"... attempt".

But anyway, you're right with the vanilla sprites you posted, but notice how even they have much better light and shadows and are overall a lot more detailed than the AK, which in turn is completely flat, washed out and grey - and as noticed by ElectricPulse, fits a lot better with Build Engine style. I still maintain that the base sprite looks bad, and agree that he should probably render it again with better lightning conditions.

EDIT - And here's an attempt to mimic Doom style:

[ElectricPulse]

Second attempt to doomify the AK:




And as the front sight indicates that the AK might be a Norinco Type 56, i tried to add the spike-style bayonet (i used a darker background because the bayonet would camouflage with the color of the forum):




Here is the raw sprite:



*Used jdredalert's edit as base for all of them

[NeuralStunner]

I think you focused so much in the Doom style part that you missed what i had explicitly said in my second phrase: i tried to replicate Blox style of shading, which consists in high contrast and lots of airbrushes, not Doom style.

I focussed on the original question:

how would one doomify this ak?

All you did was call it hopeless and not even offer a solution.

But anyway, you're right with the vanilla sprites you posted, but notice how even they have much better light and shadows and are overall a lot more detailed than the AK

I must have noticed, because mentioned it immediately after.

And here's an attempt to mimic Doom style:

That's better.

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Don't just answer a prospective artist's "how do I improve this" with "you can't, it sucks". That's only encouraging them to quit.

[vólentiæn]

[quote="jdredalert"]I think you focused so much in the Doom style part that you missed what i had explicitly said in my second phrase: i tried to replicate Blox style of shading, which consists in high contrast and lots of airbrushes, not Doom style. That's what i was aiming in my"... attempt".

But anyway, you're right with the vanilla sprites you posted, but notice how even they have much better light and shadows and are overall a lot more detailed than the AK, which in turn is completely flat, washed out and grey - and as noticed by ElectricPulse, fits a lot better with Build Engine style. I still maintain that the base sprite looks bad, and agree that he should probably render it again with better lightning conditions.

EDIT - And here's an attempt to mimic Doom style:



yeah sorry i think i made ther angle too harsh haha ill load it into blender and re do it XD

[vólentiæn]

Second attempt to doomify the AK:


And as the front sight indicates that the AK might be a Norinco Type 56, i tried to add the spike-style bayonet (i used a darker background because the bayonet would camouflage with the color of the forum):

Here is the raw sprite:


*Used jdredalert's edit as base for all of them

its actually a cross between a norinco ak and a polish type XD i attempted to make a ak 74 (for my current mod im working on.)





suprising mixing the star and the brutal doom flash look really good when animated

sorry about the imgur images looking odd imgur throws a fit when i use tranparency for some reason

[jdredalert]

That's because they are both from the Alien Trilogy game, so they will naturally blend together. And nice improvement to the Ak! Looks a lot better now! Congrats!

[ElectricPulse]

its actually a cross between a norinco ak and a polish type XD i attempted to make a ak 74 (for my current mod im working on.)

suprising mixing the star and the brutal doom flash look really good when animated

sorry about the imgur images looking odd imgur throws a fit when i use tranparency for some reason

And those do look like AK-74s!

But hey, at least we have a chinese-polish-russian AK with a spiked bayonet

Anyways, nice work my friend!

[zrrion the insect]

A caco-thing, still need to make xdeath for it. Credits to osjclatchford for his baby caco and to Jimmy91 for the arachnorb