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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mike on April 06, 2010, 09:21:13 pm

Title: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Mike on April 06, 2010, 09:21:13 pm
http://ds.ign.com/dor/objects/32321/shantae-riskys-revenge/videos/shantaesrevenge_trl_trailer_4510.html;jsessionid=2hdoeqe3ec3cs

I think when this game is released it will be ripe for pixel art discussion and deconstruction.  :y:
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Gil on April 06, 2010, 10:10:36 pm
The backgrounds seem to be Henk Nieborg. Can someone confirm? At least, it looks like Henk.
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Jakten on April 06, 2010, 10:13:50 pm
Ah you beat me to it lol.

Henk works at Wayforward and I'm pretty sure he did a bunch of the background stuff, I dunno if he did all of it though. The forest areas for sure are him. I can't wait to play this it looks great!
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Indigo on April 06, 2010, 10:15:17 pm
yes, this is all (or mostly) henk
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Helm on April 06, 2010, 10:23:31 pm
some of it is Ptoing ;)
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: ptoing on April 06, 2010, 11:13:05 pm
Only the background around 0:55 (the one with the planet model and such) in that video is from me tho.
Though I made a bunch more single screen stuff. It's MAINLY but not only Henk as far as backgrounds go. Should be a fun game.
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Gil on April 06, 2010, 11:24:05 pm
You're still in Germany, right?

I didn't know Wayforward was doing offsite work too. Maybe I should send in my resumé after I graduate.
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Indigo on April 06, 2010, 11:26:18 pm
most of their pixel artists - if not all the last time i checked - are offsite
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: ptoing on April 06, 2010, 11:26:28 pm
They do lots of offsite work as far as pixels go, I think most artists on Shantae were offsite, as well as other stuff I worked on for them.

EDIT: DAMN YOU INDIGO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Dr D on April 06, 2010, 11:33:32 pm
This looks absolutely great.
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Gil on April 06, 2010, 11:34:45 pm
Okay, cool, good to know. I suppose programmers are on-site?

I would really love to see some screenshots of this, so we can all marvel at the work Ptoing :)

Any idea of the list of Pixelation and ex-Pixelation members that worked on this?
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: junkboy on April 07, 2010, 12:28:44 am
Man, the pixel art is lovely! The character designs are, well, Shantae.
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Conzeit on April 07, 2010, 03:01:52 am
FINALLY! I'm so happy for everybody at WayForward =D......ahhh....it's a bittersweet nostalgia to think of what little time I was there  :-[

Henk's art really brings something new to the game, specifically it really makes that jumping between foreground and background mechanic look delicious
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Sherman Gill on April 07, 2010, 03:11:38 am
I like the green lady's idle animation :-* Totally didn't even notice Sven's bitching background in that portion 'til it was pointed out, too distracted.
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: ptoing on April 07, 2010, 07:07:27 am
Hehe, yeah it's not like you can tell my stuff out there a lot, since I had to keep it somewhat in style with the other content.
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: eobet on April 07, 2010, 09:19:57 am
Haha, I just saw this and was about to post wondering if Henk Nieborg was back again? :)

At least my link has a large screenshot as well:

http://kotaku.com/5511084/shantae-riskys-revenge-clearly-the-prettiest-thing-to-hit-dsiware

I was considering getting a DSi XL, perhaps now is the time. I absolutely loathe the god-awful purchasing system of DSiWare, though (locked into one single device, that if it breaks or you buy a new one, you will have to buy all of your games again). Let's hope this game gets an iPhone release as well, because iTunes DRM is a lot better and safer (for the CUSTOMER).
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: xhunterko on April 10, 2010, 05:32:24 am
Just who is this henk nieborg guy?

Can you point to some of his work here on the forums?

I'd like to see some of it.

What parts did you do ptoing?

Looks awesome as far as I can tell.
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: ptoing on April 10, 2010, 07:26:30 am
Henk Nieborg is a Dutch artist who is around since the 80s. He is not active here.

I made 6 single screen locations, shops and such.
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: TomF on April 10, 2010, 10:44:08 am
this game looks gorgeous, great work by all involved. xhunterko im very surprised you havent heard of henk before, he is like king of pixel art in games. just visit his site for more incredibly sexy pixels.

does anyone know who did the character animations?
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: ptoing on April 10, 2010, 11:25:04 am
I am not 100% sure but I think DarkFalkX did most of them.
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Gil on April 10, 2010, 04:22:41 pm
DarkFalkX is on the team now too? Crazy sexy company for the win
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: linx on April 10, 2010, 04:44:06 pm
Gah agreed, his animations are awesome  ;D
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: xhunterko on April 10, 2010, 08:28:47 pm
I had no idea you guys were involved in so much commercial work.

What else have you all done?
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Kidfrommars on April 11, 2010, 11:20:47 pm
Today, when I was searching the net I found the original Shantae graphics. They've definitely improved.
Title: Re: Shantae Risky's Revenge Trailer
Post by: Gil on April 12, 2010, 03:02:34 pm
They haven't improved, the platform is just better.