Topic: Belmont Sprite

[Inccubus]

Being that Japanese is a hobby of mine, the fact that it is Belmondo is due to the pronunciation rules Japanese has.
It is intended to be Belmont, but "berumondo" is the most comfortable way for Japanese speakers to say it. If it was intended to sound french it wouldn't have that last syllable at all and be written "berumon".

[Flame]

Kind of like "kyassurubania"

[thernz]

Made some edits.

Also, the story probably wouldn't even be related to any canon. It'll just share themes. The characters, including the vampire, probably won't even be named.

[Flame]

So you dont have any drawings or doodles or something of the guy?

[thernz]

Nah, I've never drawn anything of him.

[Vampire Killer]

Really cool work, I'm impressed.

What does dithered mean?  A more muddy/colorful sprite?

[Inccubus]

Looking at it again, I think the legs are a bit too short and just a tad scrawny.

[X]

Looking at it again, I think the legs are a bit too short and just a tad scrawny.

This particular Belmont could still be a youth considering how the bodily proportions look that way. Also the Trevor doppelganger from SotN also had rather skinny legs.

-X

[Inccubus]

Even if a youth they are bit too short. Maybe by just a couple of pixels, but I see what you mean about the skinny-ness.

[thernz]

How is this? In case you didn't know, the skin showing for his leg is where his knee is. That might be the thing making you think the legs are too short if you didn't know. His legs pretty much start at the bottom of the belt.
I don't get how he looks scrawny. His legs and arms are about as wide as Richter's. The big hair could also be making you think he has a bigger head but it's just big hair.

[darkmanx_429]

How is this? In case you didn't know, the skin showing for his leg is where his knee is. That might be the thing making you think the legs are too short if you didn't know. His legs pretty much start at the bottom of the belt.
I don't get how he looks scrawny. His legs and arms are about as wide as Richter's. The big hair could also be making you think he has a bigger head but it's just big hair.

Nice head height charts! I think what people are talking about is the positioning of the rear leg is making the stance look kinda awkward. You almost got a 3/4 view perspective view there. Maybe if you tried a straight side view and a more dynamic pose it would look a little better. Just a thought...I do like how the rear hand is ready to clutch the whip. You should keep that.

[uzo]

Looks like a great sprite to me. A little muddy on the details in spots, but that itself adds charm to it. It looks smooth.

[Inccubus]

I'm thinking it's the arm closer to the viewer. It looks like if it was positioned straight down the side of the body the hand would end up being well below the knee which is disproportionately long as the the hand should fall midway down the thigh.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Yeah the sprite is fine.
Maybe use a few more solid colors and less dithered shading to bring up the hair and the armor's details.

For those who don't know, "Dithering" goes back to the days of the Genesis and systems that did not have many colors.  Instead of using a solid color to shade, you would do an array of 'dots' of altering colors, in different patterns (criss cross, square) at a pixel level in order to achieve the illusion of more colors/shading, at the cost of the sprite looking 'muddy' and losing some dynamics.  I will try and find an example:

Ok here's an easy one everyone has seen:

The pipe tile here has three colors... but 'appears' to have four colors because of dithering in a perfect crisscross pattern on the underside on the horizontal pipe (and on the right side of the vertical pipe).


This is an example of a non-dithered pipe.

If you examine DOS games, and some older Genesis games, they use dithering.

In Pixel Artistry, dithering achieves a worn-out look.  The best comparison I can think of is to compare Simon Belmont's armor from CV4 (chock full of dithering in the blue plated areas on his thigh armor)

BONUS: Check out the HEAVY Dithering on the incoming bat's red wing undersides, on the left!  Dither-City!


And compare him to Richter Belmont and his solid blue colors with no dithering at all in his outfit:

[thernz]

decided to just ditch the use of brown colors on his pauldron to get rid of some muddiness
and edited arm
changed whip holster too

im keeping the dithering in the hair though. it's slicked back long hair. on second thought, i made add in some dithering later. i liked the feel it gave over this smooth one.

this guy's armor is sooooo not byzantine but idc