HellJumper's Hellish Pixel Drop Zone

[HellJumper]

This is a thread where I will be sharing my art, and if you're interested, or see anything odd about the art I am showing, leave a reply down below explaining what you think, and how you feel it could be better.

One thing you must keep in mind however, is that I am trying to stay as true to their modern designs from the games as possible. Mainly, the GameCube/DS era. They mostly have the same design in that era as they do now, but when I say I'm basing the sprites of the GameCube/DS/Early Wii era, I'm mainly talking about the color choices.

Lets start off with Waluigi, who I have been working on for a while. It started off as an attempt at making Waluigi in Neweegee's 2D Worlx style which I am personally very fond of, but it gradually evolved into it's own art style. Here, you can see the process it went through, and what it looks like now.

[OssieTheOstrich]

Pretty nice!

List of projects I eventually plan to finish after the indefinite hiatus is over, assuming I don't abruptly cancel them:

Spoiler

Mario's Rather Unusual Trilogy (Mario's slightly unusual Boss Rush (Completed), Mario vs. Some Unusual Foes (In development), Mario's VERY Unusual Final Frontier (In development))
Sonic's Foray into Random/Unusual Zones (spin-off of Unusual Trilogy, in development)
Angry Birds Slingshot Frenzy (In development)
Super Mario Flashback: Really Good Edition (In development)
Super Hilda DX (In only conceptual phase)

Yes, I am aware that I have about 6 or so fangame projects currently in development at the same time. And yes, I am also aware that all of this is very ambitious.

+ List of projects I'm helping out with in some small capacity during my hiatus:

Spoiler

Super Mario Bros Dimensions 2 (as a spriter, only for Mario's sprites)
MFGG Community Fangame Project 3 (as a spriter)
WordGirl ReWired (as a artist)

[Evil Yoshi Toes]

That's great improvement. The anatomy has definitely gotten more convincing, even just from 3 to 4. His stance also has much more character.

[Willsaber]

Awesome work, dude! I think it's great that somebody is filling the niche for super on-model Mario sprites, because most Mario game art is pretty abstracted.

Making terrible posts since 2014

[HellJumper]

Despite being the main characters, I started making Mario and Luigi after I had already started Waluigi, because at first, I was just trying to make Waluigi in the 2D Worlx style, a style that already had Mario and Luigi, so I only started making them by the time I got to version 3 of Waluigi, when I was starting to see this as it's own art style. Similarly to Waluigi, version 4 looks much better than all previous versions. I don't know how I thought those other ones were good.

 Jumping feet first into hell isn't my job; making sure it's crowded when I get there is. 

[OssieTheOstrich]

Where's version 4?

List of projects I eventually plan to finish after the indefinite hiatus is over, assuming I don't abruptly cancel them:

Spoiler

Mario's Rather Unusual Trilogy (Mario's slightly unusual Boss Rush (Completed), Mario vs. Some Unusual Foes (In development), Mario's VERY Unusual Final Frontier (In development))
Sonic's Foray into Random/Unusual Zones (spin-off of Unusual Trilogy, in development)
Angry Birds Slingshot Frenzy (In development)
Super Mario Flashback: Really Good Edition (In development)
Super Hilda DX (In only conceptual phase)

Yes, I am aware that I have about 6 or so fangame projects currently in development at the same time. And yes, I am also aware that all of this is very ambitious.

+ List of projects I'm helping out with in some small capacity during my hiatus:

Spoiler

Super Mario Bros Dimensions 2 (as a spriter, only for Mario's sprites)
MFGG Community Fangame Project 3 (as a spriter)
WordGirl ReWired (as a artist)

[HellJumper]

Where's version 4?

Well, version 3 of Mario and Luigi, and version 4 of Waluigi are the same version technically. But Mario and Luigi's first version is actually the same as Waluigi's third, and Mario and Luigi's second are in the middle of Waluigi's third and fourth. Does your head hurt yet?

 Jumping feet first into hell isn't my job; making sure it's crowded when I get there is. 

[OssieTheOstrich]

Where's version 4?

Well, version 3 of Mario and Luigi, and version 4 of Waluigi are the same version technically. But Mario and Luigi's first version is actually the same as Waluigi's third, and Mario and Luigi's second are in the middle of Waluigi's third and fourth. Does your head hurt yet?

Yes, yes it does.

List of projects I eventually plan to finish after the indefinite hiatus is over, assuming I don't abruptly cancel them:

Spoiler

Mario's Rather Unusual Trilogy (Mario's slightly unusual Boss Rush (Completed), Mario vs. Some Unusual Foes (In development), Mario's VERY Unusual Final Frontier (In development))
Sonic's Foray into Random/Unusual Zones (spin-off of Unusual Trilogy, in development)
Angry Birds Slingshot Frenzy (In development)
Super Mario Flashback: Really Good Edition (In development)
Super Hilda DX (In only conceptual phase)

Yes, I am aware that I have about 6 or so fangame projects currently in development at the same time. And yes, I am also aware that all of this is very ambitious.

+ List of projects I'm helping out with in some small capacity during my hiatus:

Spoiler

Super Mario Bros Dimensions 2 (as a spriter, only for Mario's sprites)
MFGG Community Fangame Project 3 (as a spriter)
WordGirl ReWired (as a artist)

[HellJumper]

I think this is a better comparison for each character. And I just finished up editing Wario. What do you think?

 Jumping feet first into hell isn't my job; making sure it's crowded when I get there is. 

[Evil Yoshi Toes]

They look very nice! Wario's hand is the only thing that bothers me if I'm to nitpick. Right now it gives the illusion that he has no thumb, so perhaps something more like this would work better:

[HellJumper]

Oof those old ones sucked.

 Jumping feet first into hell isn't my job; making sure it's crowded when I get there is. 

[Mariotroid]

I don't think they sucked. This all looks fairly amazing.

[HellJumper]

I've made some small changes recently. Here's what they all currently look like. I'm nearly finished with Mario's running animation here, so I'll show you that once it's done.

Edit: Oh, and yeah, I still need to change Wario's hand there.

 Jumping feet first into hell isn't my job; making sure it's crowded when I get there is. 

[HellJumper]

Mario's running animation as of now.

 Jumping feet first into hell isn't my job; making sure it's crowded when I get there is. 

[Evil Yoshi Toes]

It looks nice but the way his hat flips so quickly looks a little odd to me

[HellJumper]

Slight update. Made the hat flip a lot smoother. Does that fix it?

I still need to make it so that he turns his head slightly to the side on the last 4 frames, and I might just change his arms and hands entirely, because that is not how he runs in the games. He usually keeps his arms pretty level. Right now, it looks like Wario's from Wario Land 4.

 Jumping feet first into hell isn't my job; making sure it's crowded when I get there is. 

[Pedigree]

Looks better to me at least!

 

[Mariotroid]

That's a beautiful sprite.

[HellJumper]

JuSt YoUr TyPiCaL 2dWoRlX eDiT bY jElLhUmPeR! HuE hUe!




In all seriousness, here's Mario's idle animation in its current state. And before anyone says, yes, this was inspired by Mario's idle animation from Midas Machine. Notice anything wrong with it, just let me know, and I'll consider whatever you've got to say about it, as long as your argument is well constructed of course, and doesn't just consist of "it's not expreeeessive enough."

 Jumping feet first into hell isn't my job; making sure it's crowded when I get there is. 

[GamerInGeorgia]

Looks great! The thing is, it seems kind of weird that Mario only looks in one direction, but that might just be me. Maybe you should make him look over his shoulder? I don't know. It's up to you. Also, Mario seems kind of stiff, except for the moving hand when he scratches his nose and when he looks to the side. I don't know if this counts as saying "it's not expreeeessive enough" (as you put it), but I'm just trying to critique the sprite to the best of my ability. Keep up the good work!