Dirty sheep fu( l< er

arshlevon · Mar 2005

yeah its a little disturbing but these are some characters i am working on for a 2d fighter.. first is skeeter and he likes to fuk sheep.. his attacks all involve the um, well . sheep...

and the next is andy.. or anus and andy.. his head is a cardboard box that is an interdementional portal and he pulls all kinds of random stuff out of it.. like this beast with an anus for a head that just sprays straight up diarreha all over you...

still works in progress.. more to come soon..

HonkyPunch · Mar 2005

errrrr..........yeah, i love the concepts, but a monster with an anus for a head that squirts dirraeah? dude, make it shoot acid, and the head should be a....errr..........whatever man.

gauss · Mar 2005

i love the pencil sketch for andy. the finger legs are a really nice touch. however distastefuly the skeeter character is (and frankly not really up to par creativiely with andy), i like the stylized curls.

johnwoo · Mar 2005

Some nice line and shading work you got going on there arshlevon, especially the style for skeeter...heh..the subject matter tho' totally left me flabbergasted, and lost for words (which is not often)...especially Andy's special move!...btw..have you done a lot of 2d/sprite based work then?....again..bold move man...bold move...

Josh_Singh · Mar 2005

arsh! long time my friend. These are hilarious! The only crit I would make is to make the anus monster's um "Head" a bit redder with some nasty specular. Make it look raw.

Prs-Phil · Mar 2005

I love it. Fantastic ideas, nice art ... I´m wanting to do one of them

... if you don´t mind I might give on a try if I find some time aside work

arshlevon · Mar 2005

thanks guys.. i seem to be getting mixed reations from these at work and i know its not going to be everybodys cup of tea.

@johnwoo"have you done a lot of 2d/sprite based work then?"

nope i have never done any sprite work but i am learning here is a test for andy's idle:

claws and head are in progress should be done soon.
@ghostrider: ohhhh redder and specular.. nice ideas.. i will play with it..
prs-phil, go for it dude. i am trying to get people at the office to make crazy characters, poop made a couple cool guys i am still waiting to see them in color and mojo did a really cool character and even had a walk cycle animated. i sketched out a new character last night when i get sometime i will try and fill him in and post him up.

johnwoo · Mar 2005

Hot damn!!...arshlevon that is really nice man!!...how many frames you got in that anim btw?...cos' it's very fluid...this is kickin' ass!!...please..please..please..keep updating us with the progress...top stuff!..

Josh_Singh · Mar 2005

Dude, how did you make this????? youve got me very interested!

KDR_11k · Mar 2005

Yeah, tutorial!

That's got quite some similarity to GGXX's anim style, same framerate, same hip swinging motion, etc.

Wells · Mar 2005

damn you! i dreamt of Andy last night.

great work nonetheless

Steakhouse · Mar 2005

These ideas are great, wildly imaginative. It's going to be like some horrific black market version of Guilty Gear if it ever comes together in one place.

KDR_11k · Mar 2005

I'm hoping for a 3+1 control layout (weak, medium, strong, parry/special) instead of those insane 5-6 button layouts commercial 2d fighters use.

aesir · Mar 2005

I like your work, but to be honest, Im not sure I'd actually want to play a fighter where diahrea is sprayed on anyone...

Todd Dinosaur · Mar 2005

These are stupid but that is what makes them so great. I can't wait to see them finished.

thinsoldier · Mar 2005

it should spray wet acidic bowel fluid. It'll burn a lot more than reglar poop.

Steakhouse · Mar 2005

Howabout blood? Blood burns like hell when it gets in the eyes. It's the reason humans still have eyebrows.

FAT_CAP · Mar 2005

Pahahah - this is great work Arsh.

Really interesting designs for the most part - although I'm not sure about the plain box on the guy's head, i think it sorta doesn't really pull the character together - if you know what I mean - feels a little disjointed. You might have this fixed in the final colour game version though.

LOVE those stylised curls on the sheep though - and that animation is looking SEXAY aswell so it looks like you know what oyu're doing

seantree · Mar 2005

The box guy reminds me of Faust from GGXX, but damn that idle anim is on par with SF3:3S quality wise. Are you coding the engine yourself or using Mugen? I'd LOVE to playtest for you as fighting games are my fave genre. Anyway, I know you want to do a sprite based game, but have you seen Chaos Breakers by Taito? It's using cel shaded characters but looks great. heres some links
the main site http://www.taito.co.jp/gm/chaosbreaker/index.html
and a gameplay movie
http://www.taito.co.jp/gm/chaosbreaker/images/wmv/003.wmv
and some Japanese match/combo vids
http://samchai.versus.jp/chaos.htm
BTW, you should post it up on Shoryuken.com. you'd get some good feedback over there as all of the regulars are avid SF fans, if you couldn't figure that out by the sites name

I look forward to more updates and a tut on how you are creating your sprites

gauss · Mar 2005

i'll say again that the andy design really clever looking, and now the sprite test is looking even better still. i just wish the sheep guy could get replaced by a more interesting design to be on par with Andy

KDR_11k · Mar 2005

Give Mr. Sheep a kilt, should make him interesting enough

. And the super sheep as his hyper/drive/whateveryouwanttocallit?

motives · Mar 2005

totally sick.....

and i love it!

hehe, very nice job man.. would also like to hear somethin about how you go about making them sprites come to life

arshlevon · Mar 2005

thans guys, i wish i wasnt so tied down at work right now so i could spend more time on the idea. i will try to answer some questions.. for the mock up i am using fighter maker 2nd.. it was a japanese program that has been translated to english i dont know how legal it is but its only for prototyping as the final product will need its own engine because there are just so manythings i want to do that i cant.. each character has 2 forms.. at the moment you can see both of andy's forms... for skeeter his 2nd form is in my head but not on paper, and all i can say is its more creative than just some redneck.. although the guy himself isnt that creative i wanted to focus more on making him full of character more than sometype of orignal being altogether like andy. the other characters wont be as off the wall as andy but thats is mostly what the second form will be.. it will be something like a super move that has a meter and when charged you can go into the second "uber" mode. there will be a common theme intertwined in all the characters and basically its just going to all be done in bad taste. as far as the poop shooting goes, its more of a stun move, not intended to take away damage but the other character will be totally grossed out that they are covered in feces and it will leave them open for combos and such. as far as a tutorial goes, i would love to do one, but i am really busy with work right now working on the e3 demo, and have no spare time so i will try and briefly explain the process..

i make a rig that is proportional using CAT, you can really use any program to generate the rig but CAT is my favorite. animate the cycles.. for the idle i used 40 frames in max so it felt right and just rendered out every 5th frame and as you can see it looks pretty nice. i would also recommend an animation book like the animators survival kit that really goes into the principles of 2d animation. then for the animation i used dog waffle its free and lets you cycle through the frames to make sure all your frames are fluid, i trace over the rig to make sure all the skin parts are over the right part of the skeleton and use some streaching of things where i think they should be like the cloth that waves.. and after i make my line drawings i take in photoshop and make pixel art and that is a whole other artform all together. pixelart is my new love and the more i do the more i am obsessed with it. its so exact and perfect and every pixel counts, one pixel can completely mess up a line or a shape. for tips on pixel art go here http://web1.t43.greatnet.de/ i think the boards are down right now cause they were hacked but should be back up soon. i kind of just blew through the process so if you have any questions feel free to ask. if i get time to write a tutorial i will try to be more discript.and the step in max is not nessasry i just have a hard time keeping form so it helps to have the structure underneath.. i think of it as training wheels... thanks agian for words of encouragement hopefully i can do more soon.

Vince · Mar 2005

do you have a graffiti background?
that first picture look very graffitish.

Dirty sheep fu( l< er

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