Mini Mario...REALLY mini... [WIP]

[Yo-Yo-Master]

Just another noob trying out pixel art stuffs...
Because I have absolutely no abilities in shading, I thought I'd have a go at some animation.     My idea is a Mario world that combines elements from the NES and SNES (and others).  Just an animation of him going through it, nothing much.
Here's a walking animation...ugh, much too stiff.  Plus both legs look funky.

Running (more like jogging)animation...his right arm is choppy...

Jump...

Lakitu?

Piranha Plant:

Sample environment (link works now )



I guess I shoulda done more work before posting.      

[missingno]

I like the running animation a lot -- it's very smooth, although I think that it would be more suited to replace the walking animation.

My biggest problem is that it doesn't feel like Mario. I mean it looks like Mario, but it doesn't really capture the charm of the cartoony style. I don't necessarily mean that I want you to try and emulate the style, but I imagine Mario as shorter and portlier, and maybe with a bigger head in comparison with the body.

But of course it is entirely recognizable and it makes sense visually, which is a pretty good accomplishment for something that's this small.

[Ryona]

Aww! So cute!
I am really going to enjoy this thread! 
Can't wait to see more tiny characters.

Anyway, yeah, I agree with missingno. And I made a little version of mine to demonstrate what you could do with yours...

:MODIFIED:

I took it a step forward and made Mario even teeny-tinier! wheee! ^_^



Yeah, this thread is going to be fun. XD

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[Yo-Yo-Master]

Hm, any better? Still looks pretty wonky.

Sorry for edits, I accidentally saved it as file that can't be zoomed in.   


Edit:
Koopa walk?

[chriskot]

I think that he could use some dark pixels behind his head for his signature mullet.

[Yo-Yo-Master]

Hair.  Dang, I didn't realize how hard this is gonna be.  Just changing one or two pixels makes a world of difference.   

Blocks.  Here's a question: do you think it would be acceptable to have the "eye" blocks give coins, and question mark boxes to give power-ups?  Or does that deviate too much from the Mario norm?  Actually, I'm not even sure what the deal is for the blocks in the real games, my memory is failing me.   

Cloud.

Goomba.  Is it just me, or did photobucket corrupt this?

Bush.  What a beaut.

[ptoing]

Suff in the original game has no eyes, so there are no eyeblocks either. I think the first smb game with eyes on stuff was smb3.

[Yo-Yo-Master]

Yeah,what I wanted to do was combine stuff from different games...that's my indirect way of saying "If something's not accurate to the games, too bad, 'cause it's my art."  For the blocks, I just wondered if it was possible to use both, or maybe I should just stick to ? ones.

[PypeBros]

having coins in eye'd blocks and powerups in question blocks would imho completely defeat the gameplay of a mario clone (e.g. you know whether a question block is important for you or not). It would be just like having treasures out of their boxes in a rogue-like.

imho, the goomba is unreadable at regular size. Maybe you could get a look at Super Mario Land's goombas instead. Bushes and clouds are indeed cute, but giving them black eyes seems too much. Maybe dark green and dark blue would be better.