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Title: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: ptoing on June 05, 2007, 12:17:51 am
The idea here is to analyse the style of the enemies and then make your own tank or ship in this style as good as you can :)

Here some enemies

(http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/tiny1.png) (http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/small2.png) (http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/small1.png)

(http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/mid2.png) (http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/mid1.png) (http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/mid3.png)

(http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/ground6.png) (http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/ground5.png) (http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/ground3.png) (http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/ground1.png) (http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/ground7.png) (http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/ground2.png)

(http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/boss2.png)

(http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/massive.png)

And here two which i found stuck out a bit, esp the plane.

(http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/ground4.png) (http://www.pixelation.org/upload/cc/ddp/scum/odd.png)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: crab2selout.png on June 05, 2007, 05:20:46 am
Nice designs. Its a bit late for me, so ill be checking this out tomorrow. Some things I noticed to get this rolling.

1) modest hue shift. more like no hue shift actually
2) modest use of grey metallics. usually used as small decoration and to show weaponry
3) high contrast stripe patterns. in 90 or 45 degree angles only(except for angled edges)
4) details galore. I leave this for the next person, maybe we can spot some standard design elements?
5) outlines forbidden
6) eyeball/jewel target areas
7) theres a range of values used that i haven't quite figured out, but i think it key to the style. The red ship at the very bottom has a narrower range of values and I think this is why it sticks out. Almsot all have a full value white as a highlight or stripe which i think is important to the style. I'm not sure if there's a 000 black, but if there is it's used sparingly.

I also notice that there dont appear to be many 90 degree corners. Also important I think to note how highlights are used on the points where the ship angles.

MAybe someone could put together some palettes for a couple of these ships so we can look at the contrast of each shade

These designs are hot. Good night.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Xooxer on June 05, 2007, 05:45:42 pm
Here's a few of the color tables I grabbed for 3 of the ships, including the odd red one, which is at the top. ground1 is the orange vehichle in the middle, and boss2 is the green tank below that. Another thing I noticed is the depth shading on the geometric shapes as they proceed down (away from the top layer). The shapes on top are a bit lighter, and get darker, for the mast part. This can readily bee seen on ground5, second from the left, third row down.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/Xooxer/pallets.png)

~X
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: philipptr on June 05, 2007, 06:04:52 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/Xooxer/pallets.png)
any reason for including the c64 palette? cant see its used anywehere..
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: ptoing on June 05, 2007, 06:05:40 pm
HAHA, those still have the c64 colours in there because I saved them in PS and was doing something with a C64 swatch beforehand.

Those colourtables are pretty useless without sorting them first I think.

Aaaanyway.

I made these like a year ago for a project that never took off :B
Will do some new ones soon.

(http://ptoing.net/shmup/4.png)(http://ptoing.net/shmup/1.png)(http://ptoing.net/shmup/3.png)(http://ptoing.net/shmup/2.png)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: philipptr on June 05, 2007, 08:20:29 pm
(http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4328/tryey4.gif)
first try on this style... pretty bad. I might start a new one tomorrow.
@ptoing: great work, I especially like the green one. you've copied the style perfecty
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: chigsam on June 05, 2007, 08:22:43 pm
wow these are pretty sweet  :D you must have tried hard :blind:
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Helm on June 05, 2007, 09:16:01 pm
(http://www.locustleaves.com/step1.png)

step one
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Hishnak on June 06, 2007, 01:08:13 am
(http://aphoticpixel.gorobotics.net/images/sprites/shmup_activity.gif)

step one for me I guess...
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Ryumaru on June 06, 2007, 03:24:39 am
ive wanted to do a big boss ish sized thing like this in dodon style for a while, hopefully i can make some time.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Jhelle on June 06, 2007, 01:53:23 pm
Well, tried my hand at it too. Also my first piece of pixelart in photoshop, any of you people who use photoshop for this have a special kind of setup in photoshop for pixelling cause with all those AA tools its kinda odd :).

(http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7858/dodonpachijhellekk0.png)

I think it turned out ok, but the style imitation is still kinda lacking.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Helm on June 06, 2007, 04:42:27 pm
(http://www.locustleaves.com/step2.png)

step 2
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Ryumaru on June 06, 2007, 07:14:33 pm
hah heres my extremely rough step one:
(http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/315/dodonzp7.gif)
give me a break im attempting boss size.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: piotrek255 on June 06, 2007, 09:30:47 pm
its a sub boss, the planes fly around him in various formations. there is no animation included, you have to imagine it....

done in 2,5 hours, need some finishing touches.


(http://www.companydesign.webstudio.com.pl/pixelart/samoloty1.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: piotrek255 on June 07, 2007, 10:50:55 am
quick 25 minutes , i think i'm getting a hold of the style... mhm, maybe not....

(http://www.companydesign.webstudio.com.pl/pixelart/plane2.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Ragnarok on June 07, 2007, 06:42:50 pm
Step 1:
(http://sc.think.com/www/usc/1/b/fz/160585375/dodonpachishipcopy.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: am_pm on June 07, 2007, 06:58:40 pm
4) details galore. I leave this for the next person, maybe we can spot some standard design elements.


An ass load of divets, rivets, blocky armor, holes, protrusions, and various other elements. The idea is futuristic but bulky. A good example of this is Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 range of miniatures.

Take a look at this tank:

http://us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/spacemarines/catalog/spacemarines/images/SMRNLandRaider_large.gif

A lot of the same elements. Blocky, yet futuristic. Very extreme edge highlights with very dark crevices and shadows.

Another example:

http://us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/tau/catalog/images/battlesuit_cdr.gif

The details seem to serve no other purpose other than just looking really cool. Almost all of the vehicles are completely mirrored.


Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: vierbit on June 07, 2007, 07:53:08 pm
(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp57/vierbit/pixelation/pachi.png)
Cool challenge here. Man, I should really post more often here.
I found imitating this style not that difficult (it`s surprise me,
most of the time I really had a hard time imitating a specific style).

That Basically all Ships and Tanks are mirrored plus
the lighting is always comming from top helps alot when you want create stuff in
a short of time.

On a side note. I always wonder if the Designers had the many details planned
befor they start to draw, or if they simply start to draw.
I mean, all vehicles have so much random stuff smashed on their surfaces.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: ptoing on June 08, 2007, 08:48:06 am
very nice vierbit. one little thing you could improve is making the bits that are frontal darker. Your ship has less surface definition than the ones in ddp.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: lollige on June 08, 2007, 09:20:12 am
Vierbit thats awesome!!
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Opacus on June 08, 2007, 09:45:07 am
Yeah, that's pretty neat Vierbit. I'm with Ptoing though. And I'd like to add that it seems too "cold" to resemble the style. The sprites from DDP seem to use much warmer, hihg satured colours.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: vierbit on June 08, 2007, 07:44:53 pm
(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp57/vierbit/pixelation/pachi2.png)
OK update Time.
-changed shading in that way, that lower parts going darker
-also Colors are now more saturated
-some design changes, esp. middle part

@ptoing
I know what you mean,
and after compared the orginals with my one
it really looked a little flat.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: snake on June 09, 2007, 02:47:06 pm
Just something quick. I've got too many projects going to make a large one. Maybe later.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/SnakemanEXE/DoABarrelRoll-v2.gif)

Guess what game I just bought...

EDIT: Noticed the edges got AA'ed when I made it transparant. Pixed.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Gil on June 10, 2007, 01:12:53 am
Star Fox! Damn you Snake, that's so nice...

Makes me want to do a top-down Star Fox
Title: Trike
Post by: Arne on June 10, 2007, 06:53:08 pm
I had a go, but It's too much haphazard random shapes perhaps.
(http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/trike.gif)
(Same palette as orange tank)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: ptoing on June 10, 2007, 07:02:08 pm
Hey Arne, nice to have you here ;D
Hope to see more pixels from you.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Helm on June 10, 2007, 07:46:31 pm
(http://www.locustleaves.com/step3.png) (http://www.locustleaves.com/step4.png)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Gas 13 on June 10, 2007, 08:31:40 pm
(http://gas13.ru/newskul/dodonpachi_gas13.png)

Helm, why greyscale? Do you work in that mode and turning into colors later?
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Helm on June 10, 2007, 08:42:29 pm
Nope, just tried it this once. Didn't work out very well for this challenge. Nice entry by the way. Needs a bit less AA :P
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Feron on June 10, 2007, 08:50:51 pm
two fucking awesome ships there.  Helm's sticks truer to the DDP style, however Gas's looks amazing regardless.

after all the dodonpachi playing i've done, I should probably make one now...
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Helm on June 10, 2007, 09:41:42 pm
Actually I'd say Gas' piece is truer to the style.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: ptoing on June 10, 2007, 09:45:38 pm
(http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/upload/cc/ddp/scum/mid1.png)(http://gas13.ru/newskul/dodonpachi_gas13.png)
(http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/upload/cc/ddp/scum/mid2.png)(http://www.locustleaves.com/step4.png)

They are both about equally close I would say, just off in different respects. Both still ace tho.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Ryumaru on June 11, 2007, 01:24:39 am
i think both of them are a bit more advacned than the style :P
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Gil on June 11, 2007, 04:09:40 pm
I like Helm's composition in this case more than the original. It stands a lot stronger, with a lot more depth. I can instantly see what it is, in contrast with DDP ships...
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Stwelin on June 11, 2007, 11:57:24 pm
Gas's and Helms are pretty spot-on, except for the use of smooth ramps, which are present mostly in Gas's. One thing to note on helms is how where the edges of two defined surfaces meet, there is actually a third color, making the edge appear less harsh, whereas in the DDP sprites, the edges of two surface's highlights almost never converge to make a third color.

They both do look amazing, nevertheless.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Omenith on June 12, 2007, 11:26:30 pm
Vierbit: The design is really close. I think you should put some shadow underneath the two engines above, something like that little red/pinkish ship in the examples. Also the grey metallics in your ship have too much saturation.

Gas13: Like others have stated, theres too much AA and smoothing in your ship also the design is abit different and passive compared to the donpachi ships (more jagged, pointy, rectangles). I like how the holds together though, it has an organic feel to it which is great.

Helm: Your advanced use of colors is too much for the donpachi style. Theres also too much outlining, but as a Helm piece it is still beautiful.

Heres my shot at it. I made a tank since everyone made planes. :p
(http://www.vindicategames.com/durwina/portfolio/Donpachichallenge.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Presley on June 13, 2007, 10:32:23 am
Omenith, I think it's a bit too saturated for the style, but as a tank in a shooter it's lovely.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Omenith on June 14, 2007, 01:17:02 am
Thanks Presley,

On my way to readjusting the colors I also noticed that the lighting didn't flow right from top the bottom like the DDP sprites do also parts of the tank were too segmented.

Heres an update.

(http://www.vindicategames.com/durwina/portfolio/Donpachichallenge2.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Gas 13 on June 14, 2007, 07:47:33 am
Omenith,

Not sure if it makes any sense, still decided to let you know:

(http://gas13.ru/newskul/Donpachichallenge2.gif)

Since they are on the same surface and form another surface it's strange they have a different height. Maybe I read it wrong though.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: lollige on June 14, 2007, 09:39:07 am
I know.. its not very large,but im veery happy I was able to sort of  mimic style :)

(http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/715/plane71890rh3.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Omenith on June 14, 2007, 10:14:56 am
Omenith,

Not sure if it makes any sense, still decided to let you know:

(http://gas13.ru/newskul/Donpachichallenge2.gif)

Since they are on the same surface and form another surface it's strange they have a different height. Maybe I read it wrong though.

Makes perfect sense. I'm sure theres more of that going on; I'll have a look... didn't really take the height of the sections into consideration. I just built the tank up by making large base shapes then added or trimmed pieces to get that result.

Edit: Fixed

(http://www.durwinau.com/pixelation/Donpachichallenge3.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: ctrl-alt-chicken on June 15, 2007, 12:31:44 am
Been looking at this topic for a while, and have decided to give this "Pixel-Art" a try. So I made this:

(http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2162/dodonpachitx5.gif)

I know it's crap, but it's my first.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: lollige on June 15, 2007, 07:05:03 am
Been looking at this topic for a while, and have decided to give this "Pixel-Art" a try. So I made this:

(http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2162/dodonpachitx5.gif)

I know it's crap, but it's my first.

thats an edit, not something new....
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Delgneith on June 15, 2007, 11:57:40 am
thats an edit, not something new....

You mean between these?
(http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/upload/cc/ddp/scum/small2.png)(http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2162/dodonpachitx5.gif)

I don't really think it's an edit though he did make it too similar to really be an original ship. Why not come up with something a bit more original Chicken. Take your time and have some fun with some new designs.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: ctrl-alt-chicken on June 15, 2007, 03:29:32 pm
It's definatly not an edit Lollige, just look at the lines and everything. But it was heavily referenced (is that allowed?). I realized this when I was almost done with it, but finished everything to get a little feel for the teqnique. Now I'm starting another shiip and am not using any specific ship as a heavy reference. You may not think my previous ship original, and it really isn't, but as I said before I just wanted a feel. If that is not a good way to do it, please tell me.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: tomas on June 15, 2007, 07:20:38 pm
Latest version:

(http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/dodonpachi_colors.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: ctrl-alt-chicken on June 17, 2007, 05:48:40 am
Still a major WIP. It sucks as you can see  :blind: , but I had 4 hours on a trip  to a soccer tournament so I tidied some things up.

(http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/5711/dodonpachigr4.gif)

Some critiques would be nice.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Aleiav on June 22, 2007, 05:22:20 pm
Wow. I just wanted to say these are some seriously amazing ships.  :y:
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: snake on June 23, 2007, 03:14:02 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/SnakemanEXE/Tank2.png)

Tank
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Opacus on June 23, 2007, 03:22:19 pm
You rock too hard for your own good snake. Very, VERY excellent.
Matches the style the best of all made so far in my opinion.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: ptoing on June 23, 2007, 04:11:23 pm
Almost there I would say, contrast between up and forward facing planes is a bit too low. Very awesome tho.  :y:
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Ryumaru on June 24, 2007, 03:09:04 am
thats cause snake is boss, wouldnt have expected any less.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: huZba on June 28, 2007, 07:13:27 pm
Been making this a few minutes at a time for quite a while and started to feel like it's sidetracking a bit, so i better post it for some crits before going on.
BIG guns and a detachable minitank  :durr:


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/huzba/dodontank_1.png)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Conzeit on June 28, 2007, 09:49:34 pm
its the shagahod  :o  ;D
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: JJ Naas on July 06, 2007, 01:00:50 pm
Huzba: Oh, you got it finished! That's pretty awesome, I couldn't tell it were not an official sprite if I didn't know. The minitank is a funky detail.. kind of nice to have a meaningful detail among the less meaningful details that are there just for the sake of looking good. The orange has kind of industrial feel to it.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: bengo on July 06, 2007, 01:46:46 pm
After playing Dodonpachi I gotta make my own enemy now... ugh, better get started.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Liksmaskaren on July 18, 2007, 11:17:03 pm
Well... at least I tried.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/andreas_hahaha/tank.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Lick on July 20, 2007, 11:53:15 am
Goodjob everyone! No one's animating these? :P

Anyway, my observation would be: lots of flatshaded and blocky surfaces. For example Liksmaskaren's piece, although I think his needs an intermediate tone added.

Even though the style doesn't match perfectly, I really LOVE Helm's.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Ryan Cordel on July 21, 2007, 11:06:19 am
(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7804/chaosfleetdreadnoughtmosu9.png)

Took a bit too much liberty with this one, I'll admit, and I now noticed there's a few perspective issues. :crazy:
Some parts may look familiar since I looked at the biggest ships Helm/Ptoing/Whomever posted and drew some detail tactics and inspiration from there.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: SovanJedi on July 25, 2007, 04:43:15 pm
(http://www.jontendo.co.uk/gfx/pixeltank.gif)

Mine's not really that interesting now that I've done it. Boo! Good fun though, it's an excellent-looking game so anything that commemorates it is A-OK in my book.

Snake's tank has this one pretty wrapped up. Looks hard as nails too, wurgh!
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Arachne on July 26, 2007, 02:17:24 am
Had to give this one a try :D

(http://www.retinaleclipse.com/dodonship.gif)

Thought I'd also try and make a tank of sorts. It turned out to be a slightly more tedious task with all those tiny details.

(http://www.retinaleclipse.com/dodontank.gif)

I have a feeling I've missed the point here, though  :crazy:

Without looking this time :P

(http://www.retinaleclipse.com/dodonship2.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: ptoing on August 01, 2007, 10:05:51 am
Very nice stuff Arachne.  :y:
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Xion on August 01, 2007, 10:23:13 pm
Awesome stuff Arachne, but in the tank, are all the wheels touching the ground? Seems to me like the two outsidest ones are up in the air.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: locust on August 01, 2007, 11:30:54 pm
had this thread in mind last night and drew some ships in what i thought at the time was donpachistyle, heh...now that i see the donpachi sprites i notice my lack accuracy...fun thing to do anyway. great sprites all


(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x266/dr_locust/donpachshiet.png) (http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x266/dr_locust/donpachshiet2.png) (http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x266/dr_locust/donpachshiet3.png)

Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: bengo on August 01, 2007, 11:48:20 pm
Too dark mah boiiiii, not enough colors aswell, I still like the designs though.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Arachne on August 02, 2007, 04:19:36 pm
Awesome stuff Arachne, but in the tank, are all the wheels touching the ground? Seems to me like the two outsidest ones are up in the air.
They were supposed to be further behind rather than above, but I see how that can be confusing. Here's an edit where I've leveled the wheels, and I also tried to make the middle section larger so that it would seem less like three separate units. :)

(http://www.retinaleclipse.com/dodontank2.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: LoTekK on August 02, 2007, 07:40:07 pm
They were supposed to be further behind rather than above, but I see how that can be confusing
I sort of figured that may have been the intention, but I think what was confusing the image was the way the guns (I assume those round metallic thingies are guns?) were set. The guns closest to the treads look like they should be sitting on top of the central portion, and the tread sections appeared to follow their vertical height, hence the confusion. :) New one nixes the confusion, but now the construction seems at odds with DDP's style (horizontally elongated, as opposed to chunky, or vertically elongated).

The techy bits look awesome though.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Helm on August 02, 2007, 10:14:35 pm
Awesome stuff Arachne, but in the tank, are all the wheels touching the ground? Seems to me like the two outsidest ones are up in the air.
They were supposed to be further behind rather than above, but I see how that can be confusing. Here's an edit where I've leveled the wheels, and I also tried to make the middle section larger so that it would seem less like three separate units. :)

(http://www.retinaleclipse.com/dodontank2.gif)

Arachne's tank: driving tank lot parking valleys insane since 2007.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Schu on August 12, 2007, 01:22:46 pm
(http://www.eyegore-net.com/eyegore/art/dot/dodonhovertank.gif)
Thought I'd take a crack at it. Never was very good with machines... So here you are, the DoDonHoverTank.
------
Schu
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Conzeit on August 12, 2007, 05:27:57 pm
dodonPARTAAAAY! =O
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Helm on August 12, 2007, 06:26:07 pm
Schu, that's absolutely wonderful.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: lilwing on August 12, 2007, 10:28:33 pm
here's mine.. man i am angry with the way it turned out:

(http://www.anachronismus.com/images/cg/dodonpa1.png)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Sohei on September 09, 2007, 07:25:37 am
This is my try. Phew, this took quite some time. In the left there is a rough design scetch from which I started to work.
(http://www.sohei.org.ua/img/pix_tank_by_sohei.png)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Lysekoid on September 10, 2007, 09:05:02 pm
(http://hometown.aol.de/Fabian%20HBS/pixel/pachi.png)
Cool challenge here. Man, I should really post more often here.
I found imitating this style not that difficult (it`s surprise me,
most of the time I really had a hard time imitating a specific style).

That Basically all Ships and Tanks are mirrored plus
the lighting is always comming from top helps alot when you want create stuff in
a short of time.

On a side note. I always wonder if the Designers had the many details planned
befor they start to draw, or if they simply start to draw.
I mean, all vehicles have so much random stuff smashed on their surfaces.

That is truly amazing! I haven't seen anything like that in quite a long time...
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Feron on September 10, 2007, 10:34:22 pm
That is truly amazing! I haven't seen anything like that in quite a long time...

aside from the rest of the pieces in this thread and the game itself?
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: crab2selout.png on September 11, 2007, 01:03:29 am
This is my try. Phew, this took quite some time. In the left there is a rough design scetch from which I started to work.

Lovely, Sohei. My new favourite of the tanks. I wouldn't call it truest to the style, but I prefer the changes you made. The form is clearer and I like the AA you've added. It's still crisp and you've preserved the sharp angles. Only part I don't like is the gun coming from under the tank. Looks separate from the other parts of the tank. Almost looks plasticky. If the blank space doesn't look odd, I'd like to see how it looks removed. If it does look odd removed, the main problem to me is that you didn't use the same highlights as on the other parts of the tank(I guess to suggest depth or maybe its in the shadows) so the lower range of values makes it look flat compared to the higher range used in the rest of the tank.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: DreamRunner on September 15, 2007, 06:09:58 pm
Hi all!
my simple space bomber :)
(http://www.gamedev.ru/images/upl/sship_bomber_1.png)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Lysekoid on September 22, 2007, 07:43:37 am
Hi guys,

... this is truly amazing work! I've been spriting since 1998 but I'm not even close to anything like this...
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Helm on September 22, 2007, 04:42:34 pm
That sounds like an extremely unprofessional way to make a game (what with aesthetic consistency, art design and so on) and Pixelation is not here to provide you with sprites. If you want to hire one or more of the pixel artists showcasing their work in this thread, feel free to PM them with your offers. However the activity here is for its own sake and it will not be confused with 'Lysekoid's artist recruitment pool'.

Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Lysekoid on September 22, 2007, 08:56:38 pm
That sounds like an extremely unprofessional way to make a game (what with aesthetic consistency, art design and so on) and Pixelation is not here to provide you with sprites. If you want to hire one or more of the pixel artists showcasing their work in this thread, feel free to PM them with your offers. However the activity here is for its own sake and it will not be confused with 'Lysekoid's artist recruitment pool'.
I thought it was a fun idea, that's all. I ment no disrespect. Neither did I want to upset anyone. Sorry!

But I'll take your advice and ask someone here through PM instead...
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Opacus on September 23, 2007, 10:51:29 am
Finally found the courage to do one.
(http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/963/dodonpachifinaltranslk7.gif)
Pro Motion, mostly mirrored. Around 4 hours.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Opacus on September 24, 2007, 02:15:24 pm
Another one. I like it less but meh.
(http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/3572/boss13ii9.gif)

Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: frisk on September 26, 2007, 02:24:02 pm
okay.. here we go.. so I'm back to pixel art. although noone probably remembers me. used to go by the nick "zeron" when I was lurking this board ages ago.
glad to see it's back up! totally forgot about pixel art when pixelation went down.

anyway, what I used to do you see as my avatar so this was quite a challenge for me. thanks a lot arachne for posting your lineart. helped me out a lot.

this took me all day in school (approx. 5 hours):
(http://niels.wi2.ots.dk/ddp/ddp_ship.gif)

I don't think I really nailed the style but I'm quite pleased that I was able to pull something like this off.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: dkh on October 12, 2007, 12:25:20 pm
I hope it's okay to bump this thread with new art, this one's still open, I guess...

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/dkh2/ddp1.png)

Slow, but heavily armored. Only weapons are the massive twin-lasers, firing strictly and predictably vertical. Dangerous in groups.

Yes, there's still lots left to learn for me. :-[
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Conzeit on October 14, 2007, 09:21:52 pm
that's good dkh, you dont have much there but what you DO have looks pretty good to me, its a strength to know your limitations
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Sokota on November 05, 2007, 07:54:50 am
All I can say is wow. And I thought I was ok at spriting! All I have to say is great stuff in this thread! Grats to all, they all looked good! But I liked the tanks more than the ships...Anyways..Good job again! Hopefully I can learn this crap one day....

Sokota
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Xeno-Striker on November 11, 2007, 08:44:43 pm
HEY this looks fun, I might give this a shot.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: brigadon on November 14, 2007, 01:22:00 pm
Okay, umm, I have been coming here to admire other people's artwork for a really long time.
I never really did any pixel pushing myself, but I have played around with some game stuff.

(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs24/f/2007/318/d/f/spacewarper_by_brigadon.gif)

I thought...well...I'd give this a shot as my first submission. I'd ask for critiques and suggestions but chances are I'd probably fail to understand, or be unable to implement any suggestions. This uses 29 colors.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: baccaman21 on November 14, 2007, 01:50:41 pm
I don't know why but that reminds me of THAwk from SF2?
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: brigadon on November 14, 2007, 02:45:51 pm
Beats me, never heard of it...I just sorta started going and adding things till I thought it looked okay
But, in retrospect, I realised that it didn't have anywhere NEAR enough guns, so I added a few more
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2007/318/9/b/spacewarper2_by_brigadon.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: baccaman21 on November 14, 2007, 03:40:18 pm
you're on a pixel forum and you've never heard of Street Fighter 2?

T.HAWK =(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1153/666066838_aa181cf259.jpg)

Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: brigadon on November 14, 2007, 10:22:44 pm
heh
ummm...
SF2 could have meant  a lot of different things.
and the last arcade game I played  with any regularity was defender. I am old.

I don't remember thunderhawk being from the original street fighter 2. I thought he wasn't introduced until later versions.
chunli, Dahlsim, blanka, hondo, ken, ryu, the dude with the haircut, the three bad guys...
I don't think he came along till later versions, gold or something. Same time as Cammy
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: baccaman21 on November 15, 2007, 09:46:26 am
OK my mistake... SSF2 - and if you wanna be really pedantic... 'the new challengers' - included - thawk, cammy, Fei long and Deejay... enough already... back OT.

I think the reason why your ship reminds me so much of T.hawk... is that it it looks like a Thunder bird... from the Native American myths... it's got a certain totem pole ness to it...
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: brigadon on November 15, 2007, 10:37:39 am
I can't help it, I LOVE the aztec/incan mythos, so it tends to show a lot in what I do (sigh) I guess matching the dodonpachi style didn't work out as well as I had hoped.

(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs23/f/2007/319/e/3/spacewarper2_by_brigadon.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: surt on November 15, 2007, 12:42:19 pm
(http://surtspixels.googlepages.com/dodonfakery.png)
2^4 colours.
Didn't quite work and took ages.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Larwick on November 16, 2007, 12:52:01 pm
Don't think i followed the style properly. This is too fat to be a ship really. I like it though.  :B

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Larwick/Pixel/Dodonlarship.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: jimmay on November 27, 2007, 04:06:22 am
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2007/330/0/1/Large_Auto_Gun_by_rocketlawnchair.png)
Large auto gun (http://shipyards.relicnews.com/karos/large_autogun.htm)

Based on the large auto gun from homeworld... looks kinda bland now that I see it next to all the other entries... not enough details?
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: MuTiX on February 01, 2008, 06:01:32 pm
try to make something... but seems too crappy (
(http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj131/MyTH1982/pixelart/shiptest.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: ndchristie on February 02, 2008, 03:25:00 am
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2007/330/0/1/Large_Auto_Gun_by_rocketlawnchair.png)
Large auto gun (http://shipyards.relicnews.com/karos/large_autogun.htm)

Based on the large auto gun from homeworld... looks kinda bland now that I see it next to all the other entries... not enough details?

well to give credit, i knew what it was well before reading your words.  and i hated that level if for no other reason than the fact that it took so long; you either had to make (and lose) a bajillion corvettes or wait for a cloaking ship to escort your frigates and destroyers.  lame!
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Red_Mist on April 03, 2008, 12:00:20 am
Well, this is my attempt...  I like the design (altho a little small) but the details are lacking and are of poorer quality... I'll just call this a learning experience for me.

I'de also like to note I made a rocket once with the inverted wings shown on this ship. The rocket when launched, proceeded to flip over and over until it finally caught on fire and burned on its descent back to earth.

(http://www.fuzionllc.com/pics/dodo.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: chriskot on April 04, 2008, 09:31:28 pm
I'm working on building a tank around the palette used by the second boss (the big green tank). Right now, I only a a few spare parts and practice pieces though:

(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i220/chriskot/DDP2.png)

Things I've noticed:
  -Very few curves, everything is very angular.
  -Most of the ships and tanks have one little glassy, eye-like cockpit near the middle.
  -The forward facing treads are standard on all vehicles. I mean that all of the tanks with forward facing treads use identical treads.
  -The top faces and certain angles are rimmed with lighter colours, with a few points of the lightest shade on the corners.
  -Small geometric vents are a common detail, appearing on pretty much every ship.
  -There are very few right angles, most angles are closer to 45 degrees.
  -The muzzle for a small, standard bullet generating gun is usually 4 pixels wide.
  -Among the symmetrical ships, the only objects that are not mirrored are the cockpit and large, attention grabbing components (such as the plate on the front of the lime-coloured tank's main cannon).
  -Individual plates rarely, if ever, cast shadows on each other.
  -Stripes either travel straight or at 45 degree angles.

That's all I can think of for now. There's definitely more though.
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Sohei on October 19, 2008, 10:50:27 pm
I've been practicing dodonpachi style. I guess it has mutated in my hands.
(http://www.sohei.ru/pixel/don_cruiser_effect_00_by_sohei.gif)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: Olothontor on December 23, 2009, 03:36:32 pm
Trying my hand at this was quite fun, although I'm not happy with the fins.

Anywho, this is my WIP Dodonpachi, using the colors of the massive one in the original post.

(http://filesmelt.com/downloader/test_newstyle3.png)

*EDIT* Oh, look, an update!

(http://filesmelt.com/downloader/test_newstyle5.png)

*EDIT2* And all in about one hour, I'm done.

(http://filesmelt.com/downloader/test_newstyle7.png)
Title: Re: CC Challenge - Dodonpachi Assembly Line
Post by: zenpsycho on August 24, 2010, 04:12:21 pm
(http://zenpsycho.com/ship.png)