HOME | DD
DragonDePlatino β NES Character Revamp
#balloon #bit #bobble #bubble #dragon #dragons #erdrick #fight #gimmick #icarus #kid #kirby #link #man #mega #mr #nes #pit #pixel #quest #retro #8 #art #castlevania #luigi #mario #metroid #samus
Published: 2014-10-09 03:51:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 20887; Favourites: 252; Downloads: 160
Redirect to original
Description
Drew this a little while ago. My goal was to revamp a few NES sprites and give them a lot more detail. I know I changed a lot of their designs in the process, but I'm pretty happy with the results!Related content
Comments: 44
π: 0 β©: 0
π: 1 β©: 0
π: 0 β©: 0
π: 1 β©: 0
π: 0 β©: 0
Hello there! I was wondering, could I have a full-color palette of the revamps you did since I'm working on pixel art that's pretty inspired by you, I'd thought I also need other colors such as black and white.
π: 0 β©: 0
I love it. And Mega Man is my favorite nes game.
π: 0 β©: 0
Wow, that is impressive! ^^
Especially how Link looks when revamped, that is very impressive, even with 5 colors.
π: 0 β©: 0
Oh my wow, is that GIMMICK???
AAAAAAAAAA SOMEBODYβS GIVING MY GREEN BOYEE SOME LOVEEE
π: 0 β©: 0
Okay, these sprites aren't bad, You obviously have a gift but, I kind of dislike them? Its like, instead of just revamping them, you Changed them and made them look, idk, weird? I guess I'm just used to the older looking styles so this doesn't look right to me. And wtf, why does Megaman's sprite look like it was from Sreet Fighter's Megaman.
π: 0 β©: 0
these look pretty cool
kirby's second sprite tho
π: 0 β©: 1
Thank you! And yeah that sprite's pretty out there haha
π: 0 β©: 0
Although Link does look good.
π: 0 β©: 0
Is the fact that Simon, Pit and Mega Man all next to each other a Captain N reference or a coincidence?
π: 0 β©: 1
Just a coincidence, I guess.
π: 0 β©: 1
Oh god mega man u look... Terrible... Why?
π: 0 β©: 0
I'm going to make a full tile set with these! And i'm not going to give credit!Β
DragonDePlatino: Why?
Because you called the ZX spectrum's graphics ugly, And that fucking pisses me off.
π: 0 β©: 0
The art reminds me of Arne of AndroidArts.com (androidarts.com/smb/Marne_mock⦠). I wonder if you were inspired by him, because those sprites look like it!
π: 0 β©: 1
While he didn't inspire this particular piece, Arrne is definitely a huge inspiration for me! I actually modeled my Mario NES Mockup after that particular image.
π: 0 β©: 0
Here's a suggestion: A Gimmick! ROM Hack using your NES revamp of Mr. Gimmick.
π: 0 β©: 1
Nah. Gimmick! is already perfect as-is.
π: 0 β©: 0
I thank you for gifting me your 108 years of wisdom,Β qwertyuiopasd1234567.
π: 0 β©: 0
Who's the guy next to Link (NOT KIRBY) the other one
π: 0 β©: 1
Erdrick from the first Dragon Quest.
π: 0 β©: 0
Super Mario Crossover 5.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
π: 0 β©: 0
I think that while these are good artistically, some of them - particularly Samus - lose a lot of their defining features, because the colours are too close together in hue and lightness. Case in point, her arm cannon isn't highlighted much and, with her visor, you wouldn't know it was there unless you knew that she was supposed to have a visor, because of the fact that it uses the same colours as the standard shading of her body - which it would have to due to the 3 colour limit. It becomes a bit hard to tell what certain parts are and what they are meant to represent.
A fear I'd have also is that a character like Mario would become very hard to distinguish from the background say on a level like this ian-albert.com/games/super_mar⦠, where sections of the background have a similar colour to him.
The large difference in colour between certain sections on all of these characters' original sprites also helps in distinguishing your character from say another character or an enemy or maybe even a level object like a statue.
π: 0 β©: 1
WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY-
Oh! You're talking about this old deviation. Yes, I'll admit the clarity is terrible on these sprites. But I learned from my mistakes, and lots of my newer NES projects like this and this do a much better job of keeping the designs clean.
π: 0 β©: 1
Yeah, the other one's are far superior, I can definitely agree on that!
π: 0 β©: 0
Really quite interesting.Β Nicely done.Β I particularly like Megaman & Link.
π: 0 β©: 0
Kirby absorbed the cuteness of Bub and Bob.
π: 0 β©: 0
Some of these look GREAT. I especially love your take on Kirby and Link. The amount of detail and your choice of colors however makes some of them a bit hard to read.
π: 0 β©: 1
Thanks!
And yeah, I figured that these would have some problems with readability since they're a bit old. I might revisit this piece one day.
π: 0 β©: 0
Mr. Gimmick! He's from a really obscure but awesome NES game called...Mr. Gimmick!
π: 0 β©: 1
Oh, thanks, I'll google it. By the way, I really like the revamps XD Did you used any palette limitation like in NES?
π: 0 β©: 1
Thanks! Yup...I used the palette limitations. Each of these sprites uses only 3 colors, with the exceptions of Mega Man, Mr. Gimmick, Link and Pit's eggplant form, all of which were made by combining 2 sprites to get more colors.
π: 0 β©: 1
Yeah, like in the actual Megaman XD That's freaking awesome! It's nice to see that there's people who still love the 8/16 bit age
π: 0 β©: 0