06-04-2012, 01:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-04-2012, 01:22 PM by Terminal Devastation.)
Well if you really want to get more away megaman styles its not just megaman boots you need to veer away from.
You are also posing them like megamans, exaggerating proportions like megamans, and picking colors for them like megamans.
(Actually the earlier version girl versions seems to take her colors and shading from Sonic sprites, so there's something to think about)
It's alright to take a few influences with you as you develop your own style, but with too many influences at one time, even if you fix one thing, it will still look like a megaman sprite.
A few tips to get you off megaman style. Nearly every megaman humaniod uses the same feet positioning and often the similiar leg positions in their idles. Megaman feet tend to have one foot facing the viewer (or pointed slightly back) and the other in forward profile, while in real life feet can point forward more. Mix up the exaggrations on the features a bit, how proportions are different from real life in a sprite is a big part of what makes a style a style. Megamans tend to have bigger than needed lower legs, feet, and lower arms and hands, plus a bigger head. Changing to a leg pose NOT found (or commonly) in megaman would also go a long way towards demegamanifying a sprite.
You are also posing them like megamans, exaggerating proportions like megamans, and picking colors for them like megamans.
(Actually the earlier version girl versions seems to take her colors and shading from Sonic sprites, so there's something to think about)
It's alright to take a few influences with you as you develop your own style, but with too many influences at one time, even if you fix one thing, it will still look like a megaman sprite.
A few tips to get you off megaman style. Nearly every megaman humaniod uses the same feet positioning and often the similiar leg positions in their idles. Megaman feet tend to have one foot facing the viewer (or pointed slightly back) and the other in forward profile, while in real life feet can point forward more. Mix up the exaggrations on the features a bit, how proportions are different from real life in a sprite is a big part of what makes a style a style. Megamans tend to have bigger than needed lower legs, feet, and lower arms and hands, plus a bigger head. Changing to a leg pose NOT found (or commonly) in megaman would also go a long way towards demegamanifying a sprite.