Problem with sprite editing

[Ragnarok-X]

Well, basicly the entire topic is difficult. Yesterday i tried to make a small hulk sprite (think hulk or abomination from the hulk or resident evil franchise).
I knew doing it from scratch wont work, so i took the lower body from great lion. I then tried pasting the extremeties of agartha-oracles and i then tried to make the head right between the shoulders so it would like massive shoulders/neck with the head in between the muscles. But i didnt work, it just plain sucked.
Before that i tried to morph a werewolf / werejaguar but whatever i did, i didnt work out.


Do you have photoshop ? Here are the templates for the lion-brute.

In general, how would YOU go about creating a hulk-like thingy ?

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by Ragnarok-X

Well, basicly the entire topic is difficult. Yesterday i tried to make a small hulk sprite (think hulk or abomination from the hulk or resident evil franchise).
I knew doing it from scratch wont work, so i took the lower body from great lion. I then tried pasting the extremeties of agartha-oracles and i then tried to make the head right between the shoulders so it would like massive shoulders/neck with the head in between the muscles. But i didnt work, it just plain sucked.
Before that i tried to morph a werewolf / werejaguar but whatever i did, i didnt work out.


Do you have photoshop ? Here are the templates for the lion-brute.

In general, how would YOU go about creating a hulk-like thingy ?

Sorry, I have no photoshop.

Actually, I have made a "hulk" sprite. See my Alugra mod for an example. That was one of my earlier works.

You shouldn't really try to frankenstein too many different kinds of sprites together, especially with the sprites you mentioned being from completely different eras of Dom. They are going to stand out apart just from quality perspective.

As for Hulkish sprite, I'd start with the standard naked caveman. It's a good quality sprite that has the basic structure you are going for. If you need it to be bigger and more badass, it's easy to make a sprite couple of pixels taller & wider. See the step 24 of my sprite editing tutorial. Basically just select half of the sprite, copy, paste and then move the selected piece a pixel or two. It will leave a ugly line, but you can cover that up by careful application of the smudge tool.

If you then want to make the dude a bit animalistic, you could give him the legs of a pan or a animal head (like the fomoria dudes or the lanka demons). With the Pan-legs, you could use the loincloth to cover over the transition between fur and skin. It's your choice pretty much.