Ink on paper. Afterwards, it is scanned and colored digitally.
Rendering did a lot of the heavy lifting, but inking came out okay. I should review hatching, hard to tell whether I've gotten better at that.
This works for its purpose.
True. It's hard not to cramp an existing RM's theming, but imagine, for instance, if Mega Man 8's volcano castle had more fire gimmicks, or the submarine castle in Gameboy 3 did something with the water. Cossack's fortress is kinda bottled lightning for that sort of thing.
The Lavaman character is not my OC. I adopted the persona as a teenager without thinking too hard about the character's flaws in the story he's from. I connected with him "peaking" long ago, but there were... crimes he committed as a kid that he didn't fully move past and were not meant to be sympathized with. I also just want to mark the many changes from my teenage self, because it's been forever. Might just go by "Lava". We'll see.
Planning an avatar change...
My dumb ass discovering Robocon for the first time, the rabbit hole keeps going
In my ROMHack-playing phase. I like Tsukikuro's later hacks, specifically 3 Claw-- it has juuust the right amount of BS. Maybe the powerups are a bit generous, but it genuinely feels like it wants you to keep going.
By Servadac. Interestingly, it's just called "Giant Met" internally. The line between Metall and Pickel remains ever blurry.
Guts Dozer gives me a lot of ideas to work with. My idea is that his torso is a BG and maybe just the pick hand and eyes are sprites. You hop on the rungs on his knees and hit a weakpoint on the belly or something.
Wily 2 also has a giant Pickelman that I have redesign sketches for, but I don't have the energy to render that at the moment...
From left to right: Etc. Man, a secret boss; returning Yellow Devil, in Wily 1; and Doppelganger, in Wily 3. The Wily castle in 42 is pyramid-themed, hence my redesign choices.
The original designs in Mega Man 42, by Servadac, for reference.
The original Etc. Man.
"Et cetera"... It's Latin for "and others", used at the end of a list to imply it keeps going. You can look it up.
Like MM42's other designs, Servadac probably meant it as a shitpost, but the idea of summoning any enemy type from a TV screen is actually pretty clever.
"Do the roar"
As an Astro Boy fan, I get that it's the main anime Western Mega Man fans are familiar enough with to draw comparisons between. Skimming the different influences namedropped for Mega Man, though, the one the franchise would be the most different without would probably be Casshern. Just a PSA.
Lots to talk about with Mega Man 4's graphics! Starting with part 1. Retracing my steps, I also made some corrections to my rips for this game, so that's been updated as well.
#megaman #megaman4
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Lots to talk about with Mega Man 4's graphics! Starting with part 1. Retracing my steps, I also made some corrections to my rips for this game, so that's been updated as well.
#megaman #megaman4
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Some translated the names as "Anne and Nick", so I imagine them as a girl and a boy. Since they're both named after buns, I made them much rounder than Eddie (which fits with 1's doughy style). Anko manjū is a bun filled with sweet bean paste; a dessert. I made Anman lidless to set her apart a little more from Eddie. Niku manjū is a bun filled with meat. I believe it's another name for those steamed pork buns, with the swirly shape at the top, so I added a little stripe pattern to the top of his head as a nod to that.
Fan designs of Anman and Nikuman, prototype Eddies from MM1. Anman would recover some energy and Nikuman would recover it fully.
According to Kobun20, the "man" in their names is actually short for "manjū"-- they're named after food!
wtf....
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Spring Man's stage from Mega Man 7 has a documented prototype version in which it was more explicitly a toy factory. And it had this stupid looking creepy giraffe toy which was too awesome not to remake into a NES enemy sprite.
mmmm... giraffe...
Shoutout again to the Artfight users who showed Quilt some love. This very much takes some inspiration from their creative liberties.
Quilt Woman, a sewing robot with a thread spool for a helmet. Her Special Weapon, Quilt Cover, lets her control pieces of fabric to shield from attacks. She also wields a familiar-looking arm cannon...
Now for some non-competition stuff. More Quilt Woman! Made new key art to be more consistent with Molecule Man.
#MegaMan #RobotMaster
Scratching the surface, of course. Evidently, I'm still happy with all the different stuff the fandom *made*, if not what Capcom picked. It was nice seeing some surprises and all the wild creative shit people were able to pull, from both familiar and unfamiliar faces.
Also, damn, the 20 that got picked for voting are underwhelming. And I was worried my entry was vanilla, holy shit. I feel like even under the "themes" selected, there are more interesting designs out there.
Like...
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Now that DO voting has started, reposting my entry (in higher res). It was a nice creative exercise; I'm glad I stuck with the jar helmet.
#megaman
this shit? Classic.
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Old Ecaflip design! Meant to try prismacolors with her, but misplaced them at the time and only found them today.
#dofus #wakfu
An engineer sporting an orange mohawk. He rests beside his drill in front of a torn chainlink fence.
guy inspired by Nuparu Inika
#bionicle
It's fun playing it after reading Pixel's webcomics, like, "Damn, Sasuke really grew up."
Art Man, Mad Man, Sand Man, and Zombie Man, redesigned in the style of early NES game cels.
Ombuds Man, Brain Man, Missile Man, Sky Man, and Etc. Man, redesigned in the style of early NES game cels.
Reposting since someone asked. These aged pretty well for 2023, I think.
Still funny how they were made pre-AK's return, I think he made me appreciate the artstyle even more.
Original designs by Servadac.
7th and last attack, trying to include a background. I still need to practice those-- I definitely overscoped-- but I like how some of the rendering turned out.
OC by @evilbeeman.bsky.social
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Attack #6. Another last-minute addition, or I would've fixed some proportions. I like the double-necked guitar.
@axneon.com and I first met when I drew his Ratboy OCs a long time ago, so this continues that trend.
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