[Sprites ~ WIP] Alternative Strife Guy - Update

[Siggi]

Totally a moustache.

[printz]

He looks like Han Solo.

[CruX]

I don't know if it's just me - but the face really doesn't look like the guy from the cutscenes

If the problem is strictly the face, there may not be very much that can be done about it. I mean, you've only got so many pixels in that area to work with. Mostly I just did this to help you get an idea of how to go about doing the body, because it seemed like that was what you were having the most trouble with (crazy shifting arms, sporadically blinking cape, etc.) and it's easily what takes the most work.

[lukas]

Yes, I did have most trouble with the body - and thanks for helping out there
Hopefully I'll have an easier time to work on it now...

And btw here's my edit to show what I mean about the face. Now it slightly resembles the cutscene guy.

[neoworm]

Hmmm, how about giving him Sigil to left hand? Strife sprites always looked weird with the left hand in that position...

[printz]

Strife sprites always looked weird with the left hand in that position...

He's always counting.

[Ethril]

He looks like Han Solo.

I'm not seeing the problem here.

That being said, however, the hair is the wrong color and style, and the shadow under the nose could be made a few shades brighter. It looks almost like a Hitler-Stache.

[gh0st]

He looks like Han Solo.

Kinda looks like Boromir as well.

[Sodaholic]

Well, there's a few things that should probably change on the walking sprites.
The cape moves strangely, it should look like it's flowing around against the air, not bobbing back and forth.
His right arm looks like it's jolting around erratically, and his left looks weird. (I think it would be cool to make his left hand have a punch dagger, but then it's actually on his right...)
I'm going to try to make my own version to show what I mean. Nice work so far!

[Ethril]

And then I saw that one-month bump (not that the Resources forum is terribly active anyway) and something clicked in my mind. Something so simple and obvious that it never occurred to me before.
Get rid of his dumb pistol that never makes an appearance in the game, and give him the Assault Gun or Crossbow, holding it like Doomguy holds his rifle (that also never makes an appearance in the game... hmm...)

[CruX]

Yeah, but then you're either going to have to sprite the extra three or so angles for those weapons from scratch, or drop his rotation from eight angles down to five, which would really suck.

[LiverMore]

can someone finish this?

[Dynamo]

I think you're better off PMing the guy than bumping a 3 years old thread

That being said, this looks like an awesome project, hope it'll be picked up again sometime in the future

[ChronoSeth]

I think you're better off PMing the guy than bumping a 3 years old thread

Lukas hasn't visited the forum for three years.