To my knowledge, there is opportunity for Tattie to be either male or female depending on back story and overall role in the game's plot. Just thought I'd throw that in there since he didn't seem to mention that. :P

Tattie is probably one of those characters where gender is open to interpretation and debate like Vivian (PM:TYD) or Birdo. But yeah it might lean one way or the other depending on backstory.

testing some things out with my new drawing tablet I got a week ago. [spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/ZBBjDPI.png[/img][/spoiler] Bonus points for guessing which program I used to draw it.

Um, Wacom Intuos Pro? Because you do have a drawing tablet, and this looks like it was made by that program. But it looks, expect that they way he holds the bat is weird.

Yeah I usually don't know what I'm doing when it comes to hands and hands holding things so I usually just use balls instead of hands. Also thus why I used gloves. Edit: I drew it in GIMP, but scaled it down. Maybe drawing programs aren't distinguishable when you do that sort of thing.

Wacom Intuos Pro is the tablet itself and at a stretch the driver, but whatever. Anyhow, why change the overall topic for one picture? :T

Because I'm probably going to post more art in here that aren't sprites, probably iosmb4 art.

d-dump from another forum [quote="imaginary cake"]Here's all of the more-developed villains so far: I haven't shown these yet [spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/Gb24gWs.png[/img] King guy that's holding something probably never to be seen again since I drew a cool pose with him holding something but I didn't know what he should hold so there you go. Anyways, he's supposed to switch forms to another animal of sorts. He also falls in love with peach and tried to imprison her like so many others before him. I don't think he should be a part of the team of villains initially but joins later on instead. I've also wanted to introduce a new human character for awhile now, and I think the role of Villain could be more interesting. However, I think things in the story will flow more naturally if I ditch the human form- it just works out better I guess. [img]http://i.imgur.com/Rdt7DCt.png[/img] Robot Mafia boss of some sorts. Controls all of Jackpot City in short. His nose is supposed to be a little red bulb in case you're wondering. (And he has this bigger buffer tuxedo-clad body as well. I only drew the head.) Not much else to say or describe about him. [img]http://i.imgur.com/0Tdx5Vf.png[/img] The Shadow Theif, this guy can steal and control other people's shadows. I don't think he should be a true villain or is intentionally trying to hurt anyone since I want to make him "feed" off of other shadows in order to continue existing. That, and the promise that the other villains make him that he won't need to take other's shadows if all goes to plan. I also like to have the concept where if you're missing your shadow, you slowly fade away with nothing to anchor you to reality. Kind of dark to be honest.[/spoiler] You've probably seen these already [spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/mPQZrZF.jpg[/img] Tattie. It's a scarecrow with a "bad boy" personality or something. He probably wants to prove himself to someone, namely Caprio. [img]http://i.imgur.com/HVOBlcg.jpg[/img] Caprio is a magician-turned-hat via some accident. If someone wears Caprio, then Caprio gets to control that person. He also either depends on a "empty body" (like a suit of armor or a snowman) or another villain to move around. Multiple villains will wear Caprio. [img]http://i.imgur.com/mP4rK3Z.jpg[/img] Gloopa is some moody goopy thing. Probably wants to become a normal person.[/spoiler] Bonus character [spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/XfD3J4X.png[/img] Uses his magical flute to do things like control smaller animals or something like that. Commonly travels around with a Robin Hood character equivalent. They're not villains not heroes either.[/spoiler] Feel free to suggest ideas.[/quote] [quote="Defiant Shout"]Doesn't really belong in the art thread, so I'll slap it here. Since Cake says redesign, I'll attempt. [spoiler][img]https://s3.amazonaws.com/colorslive/jpg_512x512/2840705-8O_BzE-BmjmpbACC.jpg[/img][/spoiler] Nothing here is final, or even approved, just ideas.[/quote] [quote="imaginary cake"]Context [spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/IVaWoFtb.jpg[/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/iYrELvs.jpg[/img] I've been trying to develop one more villain, one that drives the story of the first chapter. It's a bounty hunter that wears a suit in order to look tougher and more able to do the job.[/spoiler] 102 and I were working on it some but I haven't drawn a new design since, so Defiant's showing his own ideas above. @102: I've also taken our entire conversation into account. I'm trying to work out what the best solution is right now for the entire project. Also Defiant suggested a design without pants- should there be? (Also I think a poll for designs may be approaching soon.)[/quote] Edit: I know these designs are starting to stray from the traditional mario ones. I can't really say much else other than some of these designs- they're the first iteration. Of course I got attached to them and saw them as pretty complete. The point of posting a lot of this was to get feedback on the designs in order to make improvements, especially on the bounty hunter dog.

[img]http://imgur.com/cooEJQ9[/img] Can someone tell me if it's showing up because I can't see it from my phone for some reason If you can't see it, [url=http://imgur.com/cooEJQ9]link[/url]. Edit: why is this image so resilient Scan coming soon.

the image is broken

[quote="imaginary cake"][img]http://i.imgur.com/9F60WeR.png[/img] Scanned it. (50% size) [url=http://i.imgur.com/Ow03waN.png]100% size[/url].[/quote]

COLOR SCHEME TIME big image [spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/0RHwOCg.png[/img] ...whoops I forgot to draw the tail again.[/spoiler] Pick a color, any color. A, B, C, D, E, or F. [size=75]You don't have to follow this strictly; you could say "F but with blue boots instead".[/size] (More details will be drawn in later for it, this is just a general color scheme poll I guess.) Edit: A' too since someone actually was kind enough to recolor it. [spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/CNyeAV5.png[/img][/spoiler]

big [spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/DrWpqMG.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/f7wLg84.png[/img][/spoiler] can I be mit for a day

[img]http://i.imgur.com/We67T6r.gif[/img] Some things that I'm not quite finished with yet, but enjoy! (The colored blocks are the music block variants of the note blocks, in case you're wondering.) [img]http://i.imgur.com/RcRGSFT.png[/img] I also threw in the SMB2 veggies (and then some more veggies) into the note/music block clipboard because I was demonstrating both at the same time, and separating them takes a few more equally unproductive minutes out of my day. Note: The veggies are still unfinished at the moment, as I plan on spriting some expressions as well.

WIP stuff here, stay tuned for the actual sprite sheet and/or more sprites. [img]http://i.imgur.com/ypjI5aU.gif[/img] SMB2 Flurry-in-progress. Edit: [img]http://i.imgur.com/5iHPObC.gif[/img] boing boing boing (For a Thwimp, this is supposed to be it's animation when it lands on the ground.) Edit: From looking at the previous animation for the note/music blocks, I realized I made a mistake. [img]http://i.imgur.com/vpaslBC.gif[/img] The [triple-wide up-side-down notes] weren't centered in the blocks.

drafts [spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/wsZBPWY.gif[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/kCFHyjr.gif[/img][/spoiler] [img]http://i.imgur.com/d4gcWrC.gif[/img] spooky scary phanto masks shading not confirmed to be final but it's really close to final

Hm, apparently I went through a phase where I typed like mit. Anyhow, it's time for maybe a revival of the topic with redesigned villains. [spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/xnXzzZq.png[/img][/spoiler] The middle form looks kinda weird to me, I might redraw that later on. And several other villains I want to put in my fangame someday. (The image as whole looks weird because I basically re-arranged the entire image after scanning it because there's a bunch of extra crap on the same paper. It was also terribly organized.)

Today on Cake Returns to Spriting, he animates the classic Koopa shell! Drafts: [spoiler]2013: [img]http://i.imgur.com/kCPrCkI.gif[/img] 2015: [img]http://i.imgur.com/z3zOP9L.gif[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/Rdkv4JP.gif[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/BS5edWs.gif[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/WnsLpPw.gif[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/84I0lfq.gif[/img] I think I've improved considerably.[/spoiler] [img]http://i.imgur.com/BNmBUEq.gif[/img] I may or may not add in holes for the arms/legs, but I think this looks good on its own. [size=75]Which probably means I'll never revisit this sprite again, do recolors, or post the spritesheet.[/size] Edit: [img]http://i.imgur.com/HJJ4Eoe.gif[/img] Edit: [img]http://i.imgur.com/clrPKiK.png[/img] I finished a sheet with a few recolors, so I can't do much else for this sprite.

[spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/mfSJATqh.jpg[/img][/spoiler] [img]https://i.imgur.com/Qco9QO0.gif[/img] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/KKrM65Gh.jpg[/img][/spoiler] Working on a few things.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/P6qk5SD.png[/img] I drew up a logo for my team's project that hasn't been unveiled here officially... yet.