Post your favourite sprite ever.
Pic related, i haven't seen better sprite flames than this.
>>3428785
Is this the "victim of Dhalsim's Yoga Fire/Yoga Flame" sprite?
>>3428838
and red hadouken
>>3428838
Yes, i was reading that Capcon didn't draw individual sprites for each character so basically everytime someone gets in flames is transformed into Mr. Bison.
>>3428862
gay
>>3428862
Why is this so ridiculous
I can't put my finger on it, but it is
Just look at it
Red Earth has amazing sprites. I really like Kenji's animations.
>>3428895
It's the arms movement.
Tyrant Rave: AKA the raddest super move ever created.
GG1 was full of cool looking animations that were dropped for some bizarre reason. Ky's instant kill will forever be missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BLzNiax3c
>>3428962
Shame the game is garbage.
I love sprites with a bazillion frames of animation
>>3429007
Sauce?
>>3429016
There is not a more iconic meat in all of video gaming.
It's obvious and doesn't really need to be stated at this point, but the sprites in the Metal Slug games are nothing short of extraordinary.
How/why are they so good? What went so right at SNK when it came to the sprites for these games?
>>3429037
Nazca Corporation
>>3429027
This is bait.
>>3429037
30fps
>>3429042
Incorrect. it is meat.
There are many, but here are just some of my favorites
>>3429097
>>3429045
>>/v/
>>3428895
His movement is too perfect, there's too little head movement and the run cycle is is perfectly divided.
>>3429173
Yeah but I feel like that fits the character. He's a dhampir, he should be able to move with superhuman grace.
>>3429037
>>3428895
First of all, the hair. Every loop is like a L'Oreal ad.
Second, he's spinning his arms like he's dancing. Rick Astley would be proud.
Third, it's that floaty feeling his walk has. He's bent forwards, but he's not running. Yet it's too fast for just strolling. His steps are way too wide.
>>3429037
At first the pic appears amazing, but take another look. Most of it is done using just cutout animation. The actually fully animated parts are the explosions, the sand, crab's back, and very few others.
That said, the art direction and the level of detail of the graphics in Metal Slug is admittedly great and I wish more games would do something similar.
>>3429280
>>3429113
Just a combination of pre-existing attacks, UMK3 be proud.
Burning Metal Slug zombies are crazy
>>3428785
I know what you mean. I thought it looked so good it actually seemed at odds with the rest of the game's aesthetic.
>>3429038
I know them for Neo Turf Masters. The best golf game ever.
Fucking brutal and I love it
>>3429483
MK3 seemed like such a lazy attempt after detailed stuff like that.
reminds me of a sprite from Stone Protectors; a little more cartoony, though
>>3429023
FINAL. ATOM-EEK. BUSTER.
so cash
right-most
lil bastard
>>3429267
comments like these always remind me that people on here have no clue what they're talking about
>>3429238
Eew please never try being funny again.
>>3429296
To be fair, Art of Fighting itself was what invented the ranbu super.
>>3429991
lel
>>3428862
alucard had such smooth animation in sotn
>>3429037
NAZCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slnu57TB2rM
rudra no hihou
Favorite platformer.
>>3430314
I love the idle animation, so cute
>>3430075
I always loved Iron Liches, the creepy laughs, the magic bullshit
>>3430051
>filename
>>3428831
When parts of the sprite are perfectly still while others are overanimated, NO that's not a good sprite.
Go back to tumblr
>>3431094
And if it's like that so it can more smoothly transition into other animations once the player stops going idle?
>>3428895
Looks like he's walking on a slippery surface.
Asha
Magus had some GOAT sprites in CT, ones that made me eternally grateful the console was too weak to Toriyamify everyone in gameplay rather than just the hideous portraits. They were not technologically impressive by absolutely any metric but just good style with nice exaggerated poses.
>>3431481
faggot
this pose.
Pretty much anything involving Geese, but this one in particular.
Idunno if this counts as a sprite, though.
>>3428785
>>3432271
7up is better
>>3432284
If you said 7up Plus you might have had an argument.
>>3429749
That's pretty hot.
not even the most impressive one in the game, just one that sticks out a lot
>>3432440
yeah, elena's are the ones that are really cool
>>3432463
amazing animation her head doesn't even move.
>>3432492
Great, now I can't unsee it as something like someone photoshoping a face on the zoolander car gif
>>3432463
Elena's look good at first but it's pretty obviously rotoscoped and doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the cast
>>3428862
there's something weird going on with his hands. it's like he's shakin' em off as he walks, which is probably due to the sick tunes in that game.
can confirm this is a real thing because a black man showed me how to walk like a true pimp: let one hand go free, and with your other hand you "pick it up" take a step, and "put it down" with your next wek.
pickin it up, puttin' it down, pickin' it up, puttin' it down.
try it. if you want to be a pimp.
>>3429991
huh. yeah that worked out well.
The greatest.
>>3429483
dammit I love this game so much, one of the best fatalities.
>>3430314
SHAKE SHAKE
Call me insane but I think the classic mega man sprite may be one of nost brilliant sprites ever conceived. Not only is it good from a design stand point but I feel like it carries weight, almost like it has a intense gravity to it. Probably just crazy talk.
>>3429653
It was. Since 2 sold did great they probably got lazy convinced that no matter how shitty they did it would sell good too.
>>3432619
I wish they'd done all the characters like her. She's by far the best animated character in the game.
perfection
>>3431289
>Mah nigga
>>3432619
It is, but she's still drawn very carefully and it's showing.
Except for her head. Yeah. But it's kinda justifiable since at low resolutions that's the hardest part to draw. Some other sprites like Sean and Gill also have static heads—with some hair animations.
Even aside from SFIII, not many 2D fighting game characters move their heads much in neutral poses.
>sniff sniff
"Augh, man..!"
>>3433110
sometimes you just gotta know
>>3432719
>Gravity
Ummm yes anon, of course.
>>3433386
Hm, which KoF is this from? I don't remember this from any game I've played. Could be the regional censorship but still.
Mai >>>>> Chun Li.
>>3433398
Its from '96. Mai animations were awesome in that game.
>>3433423
Hm. I checked and it's actually in '98 too. I never noticed this because in the actual game, it's twice as fast, so it's more like flickering. Also, LCD screens are a fucking ripoff, I can't enjoy bouncy Mai with that response time.
>>3433470
wut
>>3433398
they are both even in my eyes
>>3433550
I made that gif almost 15 years ago now. Never get tired of posting it.
>>3433593
You see, I think Capcom has forever been trying to make Chun Li what she was not initially: the sexy mascot of the series. When initially, I think she was more of a "cute Chinese kung-fu girl" with just a little bit of sexy legs.
Now, Mai is obviously a fan service character—not in a bad way. No one hides it—and she's stayed pretty consistent over years.
But to me it seems that Capcom has been trying to retrospectively change Chun Li to some monstrous milf. Initially, I think she was closer to Pai Chan/Ling Xiaoyu. But then Capcom took away all her Asian facial features, gave her new ridiculous legs, and generally tried to give her more and more sex appeal. All of this IMO just doesn't work: she still has her modest original outfit, but Capcom goes out of its way to try and find new ways to make her sexier.
And in SFV, her boobs and overall looks are just ridiculous. I'm just saying—leave Chun Li alone already! For fuck's sake—SF has other female characters! For sex appeal, pick Mika, or Sakura, or at least Cammy if you pretend SFII is the only SF game. Heck, I love Mika much more than any other SF girls.
>>3429107
I don't think you understood his post. Like, at all.
>>3433398
>Mai >>>>> Chun Li.
See I don't know about that.
Overall I find Chun Li to be dreadfully boring but Mai's always, and especially in recent games, been kind of a gigantic bitch.
Really both SF and KoF have better waifus
>>3433727
Well, at least it doesn't show much during fights.
Completely unrelated: I feel for Robert. Takuma has been cock blocking him from Yuri. For 13+ games. This is just scary at this point
>>3433727
she dates andy which is a massive fucking flaming faggot
of course it would rub on her someway
>>3433658
dat battle outfit tho
>>3433658
That outfit makes me question your statement.
I for one welcome our sexy Chun Li.
>>3433814
she looks like a Hong Kong hooker. If Chun Li was ever sexy it was despite her outfit not because of it. this is just shallow and frankly doesn't fit her established character.
>>3433658
well to be frank, chun has always had humongous legs.
that's because the guy who drew her up was and is still a leg fetishist, enough so that SF2 actually got delayed a bit so he could render her legs just right
as for the milf thing, 3 already established that she was taking care of orphans now, and since the recent games take place after 2, she isn't the young cop she used to be.
This IS chun li. She isn't complete without the freakish huge dark alien eyes courtesy of akiman. The reason for a her massive legs are A) he had a fetish for massive thighs, B) so she can compete with all the other beef cakes in the game, and C) it enhances her character design. Either way, ...strongest woman in the world.
>>3432719
Akira Kitamura made the static sprite. The rest of the art team did the rest of the animations.
It's a really good design, on par with Mario for giving the most detail as you could in a famicom game. It's packing a huge amount of detail into a tiny sprite. Matsushima's two sprite trick allows for more colors than normal.
>>3433832
it's amazing how much akiman has changed.
>>3433864
then again it has been 25 years since sf2
>>3433814
That outfit is literally hooker-tier shit as >>3433818 said.
I must admit though that pic I posted was actually not that bad. Her eyes looks more Asian. I probably lashed SFV way too much when I should have talked about IV instead, which introduced the hooker outfit in the first place. There, she looks like Julia Roberts playing Chun Li.
>>3433823
I agree to some extent, but in the recent games (and even SFIII) her thighs are just monstrous, Hokuto no Ken tier bulging mountains of muscles.
OK, plenty fighting game characters have their weirdnesses, especially in SF. But every fucking time now they give her tits rivaling Soul Calibur, and generally make her more and more of sex appeal character. She's looking more and more like exaggerated hentai version of herself now.
And it's not that they have some vision of her. It's like they're trying to distort the old Chun Li and retroactively add new details into her design. I used to have some idea of who she was as a character—I don't now. I honestly have no fucking idea who Chun Li is anymore.
>>3429184
Desperately trying to contain his spaghetti.
>>3433864
Now this is the original Chun Li. She just used to be more serious, you know. Now she's become slutty and relaxed.
I'm not a big fan of Chun Li in general. I am of the same opinion as >>3433727—I think she's too boring to be a main character. But in SFII I did enjoy playing her—as a second character.
>>3433912
The big problem with a lot of SF2 characters is that they're really just costing off their SF2 fame at this point. Capcom is even terrified of moving the time line on proper track.
>>3432683
Thank God a hack like Iga isn't with Konami anymore.
I hope they sue him for his Castlevania copy from Kickstarter.
>>3433938
anon pls.
you have been trying way too hard this whole thread
>>3433864
where's that guy complaining about new chunli's boobs being too big? they look pretty big already here
>>3433959
it's kind of funny.
her in-game measurements put her at like an A-B cup, but pretty much everything after the original gave her some large knockers.
even alpha gave her bigger ones even though it happened before 2 and all that.
>>3433929
Exactly. Nothing to add.
>>3433959
I'm not really complaining about them being big but rather about how ridiculously slutty Chun Li was in IV, which IMO is directly the opposite of what she's been before—pretty restrained cop, with her famous win pose contrasting her usual focused attitude.
That's really it… except for the bouncing animation in her SFV portrait. This is just a bit too ridiculous and cheesy. Hence the comparison with Soul Calibur (her boobs look exactly like Taki's now). However, in SFV she's a little more like her old self—compared to IV.
>>3433980
In Alpha they're kind of bulging under her top which is pretty weird too. I usually don't associate Asian women and big boobs and that's kind of clashing. But given the general vibe of SFA as SF anime, I'm more or less fine with it.
>>3429749
DONT MESS WITH THIS SENATOR
>>3429017
Does this emulate well on mupen?
>>3434428
>N64 well emulated.
I have some bad news for you.
>>3434436
Ya, that's why I asked rather than assumed it worked.
and I see it wasn't injected into VC so im fucked, oh well
>>3434017
The problem isn't really her boob size as it's them really trying to up her as a sexy symbol because she was their waifu and first fap so now she has to be a sexy character because nostalgia faggots never get what made the character good in the first place
>>3434924
Yep, exactly. Capcom is a prisoner of its own successful game which binds the series to one place.
>>3435002
Same with Mortal Kombat, so now we're getting the ol' "New class guided by the old originals" bullshit.
Sometimes I wonder what MK would have been like if every game just got a new cast and the story about it being so many years later or something.
>>3434924
I think it's more that so many people over the years made her sexy that Capcom is just going with the flow. Cammy has always been their main fanservice character.
>>3435275
>capcom
>only having one fanservice character
oh yee of little faith
even makoto, ibuki and sakura will be sexualized by capcom given the chance
but yes, as you said, people started fapping to chunli more than they did to cammy and capcom was just all "alright i guess as long as you buy our games, here you go"
>>3435281
That's why I called her the "main" fanservice character. Any female character in a fighter turns into fanservice eventually, but Cammy was clearly made with it in mind.
>>3435286
i think R. Mika is way more "sexualized" than Cammy
Cammy at least had a pretense for a backstory in the SF universe. Rainbow Mika is just "BUTTS
>>3435281
>sakura will be sexualized by capcom given the chance
???
Sakura already flashes her underwear all the time. She's more oriented towards Japanese though, but still she's as fanservice as it gets. It's like saying that Capcom is going to make Tiffany sexy.
>>3435293
Granted, I had wiped Mika from my memory. Thanks for reminding me. And there's Morrigan and Lilith who are made to be sexy from the start.
But the point was more how even originally non-sexy characters like Chun Li usually end up that way anyways. In comparison to the ones like Cammy who were always supposed to be hot.
>>3435281
>capcom was just all "alright i guess as long as you buy our games, here you go"
Hence all those people mashing buttons like retards online I guess
>>3434442
I used to play it back in middle school on pj 64 alpha and it worked 'fine'. Assuming things have only gotten better.
>>3435305
Any community of a game, be it video or otherwise is going to have more bad people than good people.
>>3433603
Liar. That was one of my early works. I can link you to the direct site from my early geocites days.
Why would you try and steal someone else's work on the Internet?
>>3435362
0/10
>this is now a chun-li thread
I'll bite, I prefered her sprite work in sf3 way more then anything.(even with the thunder thighs, I tend to play her more then anything else in sf3) Her design in Tatsunoko vs capcom was nearly perfect and paid respects to the old one from 2 (in my opinion).
>>3433942
Iga never did anything but trying to reenact SOTN, a game where he wasn't even the main designer or director.
>>3435396
he was the assistant director, scenario writer, and a programmer on sotn.
he contributed so much to the game that konami just decided to give it to him.
>>3435395
I liked how in SFIII, she actually got very nice king-fu movements, stances and so on. Her stage also had a very distinct Chinese vibe. This made her deeper as a character, in my opinion. I slightly disliked her taunt though, she became slightly arrogant/bitchy.
On a side note, I loved how both TvC and MvC3 looked. I guess they tried to follow Shinkiro artwork style, and in the case of MvC they also added the trademark Marvel shading. The result was simply eye candy, it was exactly the look I hoped for when Capcom were taking their series to 3D. Too bad they made SFIV look disgusting.
How come high school female Ryu is so hot!
>>3435486
I don't know, maybe because she wears a super short skirt with red panties and gives absolutely no fucks that they show when she kicks.
>>3435490
Are they panties or a speedo? Either way, hot as fuck.
>>3435494
bloomers i think.
>>3435570
>/vr/ kiddies don't know what bloomers are
>>3435570
Even better
>>3428895
he looks like he's doing nordic walking but without sticks basically.
it's still a very good sprite though. from far away looking at the screen you don't even notice it's silly.
>>3432630
those are unironically just some sort of metal embellishments on his gloves moving around and reflecting the light.
>>3435601
I would make love to that group of dots
>>3435605
Woah there buddy you got a problem?
>>3435601
i guess they figured a little sideboob would have been too much
>>3435601
I love how they eventually made her butt jiggle with those down + Ds. I'm thinking that 36" measurement for her hips might be under stating things.
>>3435664
it can make sense.
you can be relatively small but still have an amazing shape and proper fat distribution for maximum jiggly.
everyone draws mai with gigantic knockers, but if you pay attention to the sprite, they just seem bigger than they are because they are free to bounce
>>3433658
Chun-Li has always been the sexy fighter even since the beginning.
>>3435681
Sexy =/= slutty
>>3435685
Yes, and who cares, she was created to create boners.
it's a tie between this and...
>>3435698
this
>that satisfying sound of speed boosting and tearing shit up
>>3435693
Wouldn't say so. If you had a boner on picrelated, you have a pretty weird taste.
Chun Li had pretty interesting moves and represented China in the game. She was pretty strong from competitive point of view in most SF games.
>>3435298
>And there's Morrigan and Lilith who are made to be sexy from the start.
If you go back and look at Darkstalkers 1 and 2., Morrigan was actually a lot more reserved at first. But a lot of people only learned of her from crossover garbage, so they don't realize that.
>>3435728
indeed, she wasn't the sexpot people think she is now.
sleepy all the time morrigan is the best morrigan
>>3435723
you never paused during her spinning bird kick?
also man this thread has gone off track
>>3435750
also i'm sure kids at the time had a field day with thisi know i did
>>3435728
COnsidering people are calling this >>3435723 sexy, I would say Morrigan has always been that way.
>>3435750
jumping backwards without an attack, there's a frame where you get a great view of her ass
great fap material in a time before the internet
>>3435762
>>3435728
Yep, but uniquely, Morrigan CAN and probably even SHOULD be seductive. She's a succubus after all. Yeah, I know she was more of a good one, kind of like Casper was a good ghost. But still, it would be unnatural for her.
>>3435775
This one?
>>3435750
I did, but if you're talking about SNES World Warrior, I never liked the sprites in this one.
But in non-stretched versions it's admittedly some great piece of ass, albeit it's pretty hard to catch.
The irony: I can't find a GIF of her rotating anywhere. What the fuck? All these "retro" boners, but no one made a GIF with her? Might as well make one myself
Request: does anyone have Chun Li spritesheet from the ARCADE version of Super Turbo? If anyone provided me with it, I could make some quality animations
>>3435779
That one? No, that's from spinning bird kick.
This one, like I said, from jumping backwards into a corner so the health bar isn't blocking the view.
>>3435723
>If you had a boner on picrelated, you have a pretty weird taste.
>That jump animation
>Bird spinning kick
Nigga you fucking gay.
>>3435874
Ah, my bad, OK.
It's pretty cool considering it was one of the first games which had sex appeal. But as you noticed, not every of her poses had this.
>>3435886
I meant Spinning Bird Kick
>>3435886
I mostly played Turbo on SNES. If you can can see anything during Spinning Bird kick, you have some very good eyesight. No, really. The animation is very fast, and the SNES sprite is scaled as fuck. Sure, you can catch several nice frames if you're good. But otherwise she's no Mai, and I prefer tits.
OK since no one's helping here's the WIP so far
Had to take Championship Edition sprites
>>3435991
Slightly different version.
Interesting thing I found: the rotation animation is actually flawed. Because some frames are just mirrored versions of others, Chun Li "swaps" legs during the animation. You can notice she also "moves" her arms because of this.
Too bad I have no Super Turbo sheet, it had some really nice moves
This was a good thread while it lasted.
Last Blade series had some great sprite work
>dat flutter
>Dat cloth fold animation
>>3436086
>>3436086
Great BGs too
I liked the graypics in this game.
>>3436103
Mukuro was one cool niggahis crazy ass battler for mugen is god tier for sprite porn too
>>3436110
If you liked the game, check Gundam Wing: Endless Duel. Same engine, except with Gundams and more features
>>3435781
it's surprisingly absent from the internet.
best i can do so far.
this reminds me that V brought back the hemline, which is nice
>>3433603
TETSUOOOOOOOOOO
Had to.
>>3429670
>Stone Protectors
Hey, a cool-looking SNES game I hadn't heard of before. Thanks
>>3435364
Yea, exactly. Fucking thief.
>>3436171
I wonder what would Chun Li look and play like in Art of Fighting, with its ripping clothes. Hmmm
>>3438125
This fucking .gif right here caused fistfights between my brother and I.
>>3438141
That's not MotW, that's from RB2 though
>>3438156
Don't bring your repressed sexuality into this, anon.
>>3438156
Why would you fight over it
>>3438164
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC7QiUAhv3Y
>>3438172
because when you fucked them hard in the ass and they were trapped between the bombs with absolutely no hope and they had to await their and you broke into that fucking giant faggot dance on your 20inch tv it was like you took their manhood away.
>>3438184
Ah that explains it thanks
>>3432619
I'll never understand why people have a beef with rotoscoping
But then I grew up with the Superman Fleischer shorts so
>>3438184
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC7QiUAhv3Y
Wow that's actually a great track thanks for sharing
>>3436024
The highlight on her legs is fantastically animated
>>3438362
Heh, it's funny: I'd say it's fantastically drawn… but the animation itself is actually not so great.
Here's a slowed down version. Now, look carefully at Chun Li's legs when she faces the viewer or exactly when she turns back. Watch carefully… You can notice she swaps her legs: one frame she rotates with her left leg forwards, the next frame it's her right leg.
Of course, since the animation was so fast, it wasn't really noticeable… But still it's kinda cheap. Instead of 8 different frames, they drew only 5. Maybe they had hardware limitations or time constraints, but still a flaw is a flaw.
>>3436182
Well he is a blatant ripoff. So blatant we'll never see him in another KoF again. It's crazy they did him in the first place, but awesome.
>>3435314
smug ass pac-man
>>3438536
The irony: he was even voiced by Tetsuo's voice actor from the anime, Nozomu Sasaki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozomu_Sasaki
>>3438551
Not really ironic, unless you consider the whole character an ironic joke.
>>3438428
there is an interview somewhere, where they admit they used a lot of tricks like that to save space in the roms as the character animation data became too large fast. I think it was akira nishitani who said this? And its brilliant. In the end you dont notice it anyway.
For the same reason of mirroring it says MAXIMUM on Deejay's pants. Since the word is easily mirrored. Here is more on the mirror stuff in SF.
http://www.rlateef.com/blog/2011/06/23/character-design-analysis-gill
>>3438930
Yep, same on Fatal Fury, this sprite uses the "Nihon" kanji on the back since it also reads the same mirrored.
>>3438996
Well, "Nihon" fits there anyway, it's an obvious thing to write
>>3438914
There's not much brilliant about it. Yes, it's a common technique to lower the number of frames. It's not hard to do. Same reason as for OP's picture.
It was obvious few people would notice that. But in the end when you watch closely, you realize it's always been there. I don't blame Capcom, it's just obvious the hardware had limitations.
The SFIII version is gorgeously animated though—but I like Chun Li less in it. She has no ass and no hems
>>3438607
>he's crying because his series is dead
>>3429042
No, this is bait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_onEJ82rk
>>3440705
I wonder what the world would have been like if Ristar became sega's mascot
>>3429205
nostalgia'd/10
>>3431980
Hehe, there is something nostalgic about this that I just cant put my finger on.
It's hardcore, but childish...friendly, but brutal.
I love it.