[WiP] Bruiser Doom: First (kind of) look!

[Captain J]

you mean flame on the top of the horn or all of part of the horn? if flame on the top is correct, that's gonna be a awesome caco candle from shopping malls then.

[Uboa]

I don't know yet. I'm thinking about on top, but I'm not sure yet.

[Gez]

I made the mouth red and removed the splotchiness. I left those patches on there, because they apparently change color when he attacks. I'll make them a bright red.

Making them go from orange to yellow would look hotter. (As in, higher temperature.)

[RiboNucleic Asshat]

I'd like it if the splotches were added back and that effect was applied to them. It would make it look like the caco has some sort of "internal fire" that's glowing out in places where his hard shell has broken off. Could brightmap it for added effect.

EDIT: Let's change the cyber-bruiser into a super-bruiser.

[0bsidian]

I'd recommend making the flames on his/hers/it's hands bigger.

I blame Cybie.wad for the gender confusion.

[RiboNucleic Asshat]

Oh shit, I have to actually finish that now? BALLS!
Oh well, I may as well do it since I haven't contributed anything since the plasma gun and rehanded weapons.
Wait, has anybody contributed anything as of late? Oh yeah Uboa is making that caco

EDIT: After a long time of making precise selections, recoloring, desaturating, and doing painful pixel editing to correct palette hideousness, I present to you the A frame:

EDIT: Oh I just LOVE making mistakes. Sigh.

[Captain J]

i had it worse, but hey. you did a great job now.
can't wait for full animations.

[RiboNucleic Asshat]

The B frame, slow progress continues...

So I timed myself, and it takes 1 hour per frame.

[Captain J]

hmm, one hour. why did you wasted whole time for this sprites? if that's a coloring problem, i'm recommand photoshop or pixlr.
i'm always use pixlr for recoloring sprites or make their BG clear.

[RiboNucleic Asshat]

I have to select, very precisely, certain regions on all 5 sprites, then do a process 3 times because of some dumb reason. Then I repeat ~3 more times. After than, I add the fire (which, to be fair, only takes about 10 seconds), palette it, then send it back to the editor to fix all palette ugliness. It's not very efficient, but hell, it works.

[Hellstorm Archon]

By the way, I've attempted recruiting help over at the Zandronum forums, especially since agaures is now relocated over there, and let's see how it goes.

[Uboa]

I have to select, very precisely, certain regions on all 5 sprites, then do a process 3 times because of some dumb reason. Then I repeat ~3 more times. After than, I add the fire (which, to be fair, only takes about 10 seconds), palette it, then send it back to the editor to fix all palette ugliness. It's not very efficient, but hell, it works.

Or you could just use gradient maps, pencil the outline, then use the paint bucket tool. But wait, you're not using Photoshop.

[RiboNucleic Asshat]

But the results wouldn't look the same, now would it?
Anyway, turns out it only takes about 20 minutes (my friend isn't trustworthy when it comes to the time):

[0bsidian]

Ummm...are you going to put spikes?

Sorry.

[Marrub]

But the results wouldn't look the same, now would it?

but the results WOULD be the same, if not better
I doubted gradient maps at first
never again shall I stop using them