SUPER HD TURBO REMIX RAINBOW EDITION: FOURTH STRIKE!

Since I can never leave my pixels alone, I went back and redid all my sprites. I think this should be the last time I mess with the pixels (we'll see). I'm a pixel bully. Constantly messing with them. And taking their money too. And kissing their girlfriend in front of them. And then coming over to their house afterwards and proving how helpful I am with helping the pixel's mom set the dining room table which leads to her inviting me over more so I can mess with them in their only place of escape.

"How come I didn't get any milk?"

Who loves examples? Well get in here. I got examples coming out of my wazoo! My god, it hurts. Nothing should ever come out of anyone's wazoo.

EXAMPLES!

Here is an example of the original knife slash move for Drea step by step. Original version is on the left and the new one... wait for it... is on the right! Imagine that. Single frames by themselves are new frames added in more fluid animation.

Her original face always annoyed me. Looked like a doll's face. A creepy doll in your grandma's room that seemed to stare at you with disapproval. 

Little more build up in grabbing knife.

More of a blur for the knife streak. Plus her knife now gives off a shine onto Drea.

All the knife attacks now end with this staggered fade out effect.

I actually filmed myself slashing a knife for reference because the original always seemed like a weird way to recoil after swinging a knife.

More recoil.

The main reason behind going over these animations and re-shading them is because I got to play a demo of the game and the dynamic lighting that lit up Drea made here look very out of place and showed off how muddy her original coloring was. Plus, I'm a little obsessive.

FINAL VERSION!

And for no good reason besides he rocks, I was watching this earlier. Take it away Mike...

And the Winner is...

I got myself a shiny new gun! Try and take this out of my cold dead hands Mr. President! Pew pew pew! I'ma gonna shoot sumfin reeeeeal good like.
Thanks to Peter Queckenstedt. Who is Mr. Quakenstack? I mean Qrankenstein, I mean Launchpad McQueck... oh wait, I wrote his name right the first time. Never mind.
He is a fellow artist of many talents. You can check out his stuff over yonder...

http://scutanddestroy.wordpress.com/

Here is Peter's original design for the Sonar Drill.

And then my final rendition of it to make it fit on the EDU mech and line things up for gameplay reasons. And a splash of color.

Final version. Finally! 

I kept with the red power tool look but made it more industrial than Peter's design. Peter's design was really inspiring to see. I love to see another artist's vision of the same thing. You get so used to looking at an object at a certain point of view but it's nice to see someone else's point of view because they might have a better vantage point than you do.