Guyver Rebirth Project - A Guyver Fan game

[*Jess♥]

1st stage, Submitting for feedback

 

[odin]

Niiiiice, I really dig it, i would suggest the inner blue to be a bit darker and maybe a metallic gradient, other than that it looks awesome.

[*Jess♥]

this is stage 1. so please give as much critique as you can. if I go further and start working on details etc, it will be more difficult to adjust.

The general shape of it. I am thinking there could be some adjustment of the shape around the letter E.

I'm also wondering if the left side of the V is ok. it could be good as it is, sort of has attitude, but then it may not work for the overall feel you wanna give.

[odin]

yea the left side of the V could use a little adjusting, it does not look aligned well with the Y, the E looks good to me, don't know what you want to fix on it.  It is pretty late were I live so I will continue discussing this tomorrow if you have any more questions.

[*Jess♥]

ok here is stage 2.

Is this the sort of thing you're after?

what needs to change before we can consider it a final design?

 

(the jpg compression on this is awful. I hate this forum software)

 

 

edit:

added as png file.

[*Kenji Murakami]

Maybe you should try saving it as a .png; I always find those look much smoother than .jpgs.

[odin]

Dude that is awesome, I don't think it needs any  changes at the moment so go ahead and continue working on it. This motivates me so much, later today I will upload what i have done so stay tuned people.

[*Jess♥]

Glad it's suitable. in that case it can be considered a finished design. unless you want some texture on it or anything.

[odin]

yeah, I was thinking that it could use a bit of texture, try it out to see how it looks. just on the word Guvyver and maybe on the G unit.

Edited March 3, 2013 by odin

[odin]

Ok Guys, here is something for you guys that I have done so far, I was supposed to do more stuff for guyver 1 but I  umm...got side tracked making the standing sprites for Guyver 3, Aptom and Neo Zx-Tole (is that how it is written? there are so many versions of his name that I get confused)  do their stances look appropriate or should I teak them before I move to spriting them? also is the size of the megasmasher beam big enough and can somebody whip up a size chart for the characters in the guyver series it is so I can make them size accurate, I know that Aptom is the tallest of the heroes but I'm not sure how tall is Neo Zx-Tole, thanks in advanced.

 

 

 

 

[Cannibal]

That's great, keep it up!

 

I also like that Crysis's style logo, nice work Ryuki.

[odin]

Update time, here is an updated sprite of Guyver 3 side by side with Guyver 1 for size comparison, I will return later with Aptom and Neo Zx-Tole.

 

Edit: also, do Guyver 3's colors look good or should I change them? I was thinking maybe changing the color of the inside of the armor brown, what do you think?

Edited March 4, 2013 by odin

[Guyver0]

Wow Odin this is coming along very nicely and Ryuki; awesome job on the logo it looks amazing!  I think the stances you have are fitting for the characters.  The size comparison is good, but I think Guyver 1 is just slightly taller.  I know Guyver 1 is isn't standing straight like Guyver 3, but I think he is still just slightly taller.  As for the internal mechanisms in Guyver 3's armor I thought they were more of a shade of red?

 

Also with Neo Zx-tole isn't he like a huge character?  I mean in terms of height he is able to match Guyver Gigantics, right?

Edited March 4, 2013 by Guyver0

[odin]

yes he is taller, it is just that I did not have enough space on the paper to make him size accurate and I was too lazy to take out another piece of paper but it does not matter cause when i transfer it to sprite form his size will be series accurate and according to the wiki he is about 10 feet tall so he must be bigger than aptom and as big as Guyot. I really can't decide on the color for the internal part of Guyver 3's armor so I will just make different versions and you guys can decide which one looks best.

[*Jess♥]

it's looking great

I think the colours are perfect.

 

here is my final design with textures.

I'm not comfortable with bold texture so these are subtle.

I think they do the job.

[odin]

yes, this is awesome indeed, it does not need anything else, thanks a lot for this Ryuki, do you think you can send me the psd file (if you are using photoshop that is) so when I start mounting the game I can fit it in the menu screen?

[*Jess♥]

absolutely. check your inbox.

[daveblackeye152]

Sweet Neo-Zektole.

[odin]

Here is a prototype version of the games menu screen, not finished yet since I want to add a bit more stuff, to it, i was thinking of maybe giving the control medal's glow a an animation (think you could do it ryuki?) and having the our heroes fade in and out in the background. Thoughts and opinions? what kind of music do you guys think would fit in it? I was thinking using one of the track from the Guyver Image Album, specially this one track 02 Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver - Main Theme

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M6FPhlgr-U&feature=youtu.be

 

 

[*Jess♥]

music is good.

 

tell me, how is your title screen constructed? do you have layers?  will it hold a movie? will it display separate images one after the other?  can you have transparent images?  can you have transparent movies? what sort of format would i make an animated 'shiny' ?

[odin]

Game maker can hold animated gif (it can have transparent images or you can just give it a magneta background and it will automatically turn it transparent, I suggest you do that) as well as movies, although I would recommend using .mov format since the codecs that it supports are mostly the ones that windows media player has by default so I would recommend using a gif instead. As for the construction of the Menu screen it can have layers since I have done it before with my original game I would just need the control medal shine animation separate to place it in between the unit and the fonts.

[odin]

ok, minor update, I changed the size of Guyver 3 as to make him a bit more in scale with Guyver 1, thanks to Guyver0 for pointing out since it was bothering me as well, now on to Aptom and Neo  ZX-Tole.

 

Edit: Guys I just managed to get permission from an artist from deviantart called Aiuke to use his design on Bioboosted Alky, so I will definitely make him a secret boss in the game. here is how he looks:

 

http://aiuke.deviantart.com/art/Doodle-2-guyver-AU-354445576

 

and here is Lucithea's full body version:

 

http://lucithea.deviantart.com/art/2GAU-Guyver-Zoalord-Archanfel-355666445

 

cool huh?

Edited March 5, 2013 by odin

[*Jess♥]

Aiuke is Ladena; a girl

 

but very cool that you decide to include this!

 

I'll get to work on that animation btw.

I'll make it a single transparent animated gif with just the 'shine' part. if that doesn't work out then we can figure something else out.

[*Kenji Murakami]

Aiuke is Ladena; a girl

 

Yeah, she used to come on here all the time, posting artwork and talking about all kinds of stuff. I kinda miss her.

[Bio-Boosted Dude]

I wannt to re-iterate: good choice on menu music, haha

 

Also I would alter Aptom's feet before you start spriting. they look like they're clasped around a pole or something. Doesn't quite look like he's standing on solid ground. Not like Zx-tole's or Guyver 3's.

I would also try seeing how brown looks on Guyver 3's tendrils. It is brown in the official coloured art.

 

But yeah, i'm getting really excited by this now! it's really coming along