8-Bit Shinobi Sprite
 

Hey guys, I'm a long time 8-bit theater reader, although I've fallen a bit behind of late. Anyway, I have an odd request but I figured that here was the best place to ask.

Anyway, many years ago Brian, inspired by the PS2 Shinobi game, created a Hotsuma sprite out of a Mega Man sprite. He also did a one-off comic using it he liked it so much. Words cannot express how much I loved that sprite - it was my AIM avatar for a long time.

I had the sprite and was going to use it on my Backloggery account. Sadly, my laptop was stolen before I was able to do so. So now I have no copy of the sprite and all my searches on the site and otherwise turned up empty. So I throw myself on the tender mercies of those here: does anyone have the Hotsuma Mega Man sprite or that Shinobi PS2 comic Brian did?

I don't recall ever seeing either, to be honest with you, but I am a sprite artist. If you could describe it to me and tell me what era of Megs was used, I'd be happy to give it a shot.

You're a peach bluestarultor. I think pictures would do a much better job of conveying the image than a description by me ever could.

The base sprite was Mega Man's default standing pose from the NES games.
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...pFSK3nQ_FBg40=

Here's the best picture I could find of Hotsuma and his rather... busy design.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2699/...5101c63e_m.jpg

Thanks again for the offer, I can't wait to see the results.

Yeah, all the old cool extra comics brian had all went poof. I know exactly what you're talking about, but I don't have the comic or the sprite on hand.

Well, here's a shot at it.

http://i55.tinypic.com/15odszs.gif

And blown up to 2x:

http://i54.tinypic.com/2rggx0k.gif


PS - I did this from a Proto Man base, if that's okay.

Make the eyes on the headband blue, and the blades on the arms as well.

Tried it while I was making it. It looked like crap. On top of that, it breaks the Mega Man format of only having 4 colors, black and transparency, which itself used extra memory supplied on the cartridge, as the NES only allowed a palette of 3 colors and transparency.

...God damn, am I ever a geek. I'll see about finding one of the blues in the NES palette that doesn't look like crap and do that.


Edit: This better?

http://i55.tinypic.com/1zdn8u8.gif

scarf needs to be WAYYYYYYY longer

That's some impressive results considering that you're using the limitations of the NES color pallet. This is actually inspiring me to give pixel art a shot myself. Would you mind terribly if I maybe used your Protoman/Hotsuma as a base?

Perfect!