Doc von Schmeltwick's SMAS SMB3 expanded sprites

Doc von Schmeltwick

Doc von Schmeltwick

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Doc von Schmeltwick
For the past year and a half, I've been working on a project involving making sprites of enemies in the SMAS SMB3 color set. The exact goals of this have evolved much over time; this same project actually led to me joining the wiki, as I wanted to find some reference artwork for a Cleft type, and noticed a glaring error on one of their pages, the rest being history.

Much of this evolution can be seen on this Spriter's Resource thread: https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-31089.html

But for now, I'd like to post some more recent stuff. For starters, this Bony Beetle!
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So yes, the palette is SMAS SMB3-based, the sprites themselves heavily-edited from SMW, and the way the shoes are assembled invokes SMW2. The turning sprites, which I haven't shown yet due to having not added shoes to them yet, are in DKC amounts. I also haven't shown the "spiking" sprites for the same reason, and still need to make the "falling apart" sprites.

As for the design of the Bony Beetle I used, I went with the classic design, but with more modern colors. Basically, there's a pair of tiny little Buzzy Beetle feet in each of those shoes. Might have some bones fall from the shoes in the falling apart animation, but I haven't gotten there yet....

This animation has a total of 10 frames, by the way. Compare to the original's 2.

I'll show more sprites here later, I want to work on animating them a bit more as well. ;)
 
I think it looks really useful! I'd like to see more progress on the sprites.
 
I think the right foot on the Bony Beetle needs to be nudged higher up on its walk animation or tweaked, especially when it's getting dragged along the floor; otherwise, to me, IMO, it looks like it's limping.
 
@LGM That's actually the idea! The original 2-frame animation looked like it was taking a half-step then a full-step, and I decided to roll with it. Mainly because it's a quadrupedal skeleton with detached feet inside of giant shoes, so I figured I could make it invoke the original a little by having it step awkwardly from that.
 
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On a whim, decided to (hastily) make a Jelectro. It's fully-custom, not at all edited from the original. Also tweaked the base design a bit, being black with white spots like the original NES sprite, but with larger tentacles like the artwork. Though unlike the artwork, these are actually attached to the body. I figured a Hothead-like "zappy area" looked more electric that the original's "outline changes color a bit," so I gave it one of those. I took a bit of design cues from the successor Jellybeam (namely, the rim around the bottom of the bell), while the eye movements are inspired by the idle of Pneumo/Jellybob from Wario Land 3.

Anyways, if a game comes from these ever, I'd like to make Frog Mario immune to electric things like this, because it's a scuba suit and rubber doesn't conduct electricity. Also to make Frog Mario not utterly useless in ways that don't involve swimming fast or jumping extra-high.

I'll probably make ones for Jellybeam, the Yoshi's Story Jellyfish, and Preying Mantas to use in conjunction with these. Lots O'Jellyfish indeed. And possibly refine this one a bit more....
Not sure when I'll next be able to post, this coming week is going to be a busy one for school.

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EDIT: Added a quicker version with less superfluous frames.
 
(Anyone who prefers designs of DiC Entertainment, avert you eyes! :waluigi: :waluigi: :waluigi:)
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Blargg. Sorta-preliminary Blargg. Plesiosaur-esque Blargg. Leaping Plesiosaur-esque Blargg. Tiny-bodied Blargg. 4-frames of animation Blargg. I'll make more for the "looking from under the lava" actions, and might try refining this one, maybe with some more head and body angles. Currently, when the flippers go down is when it's intended to be pouncing.

I'd like to point out that the original sprites for Blargg from SMW were an utter mess, to the point that they used two nearly-identical (in fact, optically-identical unless you are looking extremely close) colors in their palette (the darkest "yellow" and the lighter "orange") interchangeably and mixed them around. This is much cleaner by comparison.

On a side note, that giant head and anatomically-tiny body makes it look oddly cute. :yoshi: :boshi:

.....anyways, anyone know a way I can upload images here without first uploading them to that TSR thread or somewhere else? When I click the "add image" button, it seems to bring up a URL-insert box....ah, I'm tired anyways (hence my odd wording throughout this message). Enjoy!
 
You have to upload images to other sources first before posting them here, as the forum only connects the link. There are plenty of reliable websites to use, though.