8-bit Megaman 1 ppm

ironbearxl

Kind of bored with the sub-d edgeloop work so I'm trying to sculpt this from boxes/primitives and see how far I get. So far everything is sculpted from a box, and 2 spheres for the eyes.

I was looking at megaman 1, and decided to aim/lean for the sprite instead of the concept art.

Here's some progress from tonight:
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/8-bit_rockman_2.jpg

and yesterday:
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/rockman_1.jpg

I want to make him playable on UTIII PC+PS3.

hawken

some good reference can be found by looking at the megaman in captain N, he was based on the 8-bit game.

http://www.dadako.com/megaman-and-megagirl

ironbearxl

Thanks Hawken and nice illustration man!

On Xmas eve I almost..almost picked up the Captain N DVD in Best Buy for myself.

Found some Captain N fan art featuring him:
http://traditionaldanimatio.deviantart.com/art/Captain-N-The-Game-Master-19448312

hawken

also, that is nice fan art!

I did a belmont too

http://www.dadako.com/captain-ns-simon-belmont

you should have picked up that DVD man. They are seemingly rare!

ironbearxl

Cool Belmont, any Bayou Billy perhaps?

I'll have to pick it up next time I see it, it was this one:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?...;ci_sku=8602489

hawken

I need a girlfriend who understands me enough to buy me this: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?...&id=1614216

vahl

love the fan art Hawken
Ironbearxl, I was about to suggest the same thing as hawken since their depiction of megaman was quite close to the 8bits version keep it up dude !!!

Slum

Quite close to the original? He was green and yellow (megaman was blue) and talked like he had been smoking cigars for fifty years.

ironbearxl

Vahl, which is why I didn't want to use some of the newer megaman concept art, doesn't match the 8-bit version at all. I like the old nintendo cartridges like urban fight and pro wrestling where they slapped a blown up copy of the sprite on the cart.

Slum, I imagine megaman's voice should sound closer to Sonic the Hedgehog.

Here's some more I did tonight:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/rockman_3.jpg

Still making everything from boxes, it keeps the poly count predictable. The hands and blaster should make for a fun challenge next!!!

ironbearxl

Blocked in everything now, the shoes need a bit more attention, then onto the lowpoly.

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/rockman_4.jpg

_Eclipse_

well, he have no shoulders and he's too fat for me, Captain N megaman doesn't resemble the original megaman at all men

i know that the sprite have almost no shoulders too but it was about 24-25 pixel tall and it doen't look strange like in a 3d model also because the pose
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/10/megaman_quilt.jpg

_Eclipse_

oh, here's a ripped charset for you, perhaps you will found something useful
http://www.panelmonkey.org/sprite.php?id=116&theme=3

ironbearxl

Thanks Eclipse, I dropped the shoulder a little and the sprite sheet is helping alot!

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/rockman_5_a.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/rockman_5_b.jpg

steady

haha nice one ironbear, nice and plump little guy

ironbearxl

Megaman put on a few after quiting smoking in the 80's.

seforin

jesus christ please thin him out, he looks like he was stuffing cake down his little mouth since you started skulpting him


haha that asside sculpt is very nice, I was kinda hoping you were leaning towards that kinda Magna style megaman

I really need to make my next gen megaman before someone else does it on here.

I was gonna do a realistic rockman or possibly rockman x design , er megaman

this really does scream the captain N version of this though

ironbearxl

Cool seforin, then we can battle megaman vs rockman x.

Here is what i'm calling the "finished" highpoly:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/rockman_6.jpg

Xenobond

Wow. That's what was missing. Those teeth fix up some of the things that were bothering me with him. Haha.

zenarion

I would say that he needs a neck.

Panupat

He doesn't look like a sculpting material to me Maybe subdivision modeling would suite him more.

ironbearxl

I finished the lowpoly a few days ago and did the unwrap and bake last night.

Here some shots from xn:





Texture is 1X2048 scaled down here to 512:



Working on painting him now.

seforin

how do you plan to do the eyes?


you gonna make them small spheres just resting inside or you have something step up for that?

Xenobond

Looks like the eyes are down in the lower left corner of the uv page.

seforin

ah ok I see now, its gonna be a big eye I thought it was all 1 mesh for a second

ironbearxl

Yep, earlier on in the sculpt it was all one mesh, but then I sank the eye sockets in and added spheres a little later.

ironbearxl

Spent some time painting him, early progress:



He won't be so clean next time you see him...

ironbearxl

ok, he's got some scratches/scuffs on him now and I hacked together a spec map:

Cody

Spec seems a little too shiny in the facial area.