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Linkzilla — Death Ghidorah Custom Sprite
Published: 2010-06-09 09:32:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 3651; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 93
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Well here's something I thought I'd never do. Its 4:45 in the morning, I'm drunk on Cola, and I'm watching Star Wars a New Hope, I start fucking around with sprites. SO for number 104 I thought I'd have my fun at the mighty Death Ghidorah.I owe a lot of inspiration to for the original idea. I was originally going to do the Keiser, but is making it too. I thought to take the pressure off, might as well try combining two sprites to see if I can do it properly.
Now, I really don't like the white on Death Ghidorah. It makes him look skeletal but to me, it makes him look stupid. So I didn't throw that in. Right now, his wings are in resting position, I do have a sprite for their full position, but it's not good. Wanna see it, send me your email address.
The Ghidorah Pieces were ripped by
Angilas body ripped by
Now here's the real reason for my uploading this...
It had been merely a year since the second 'disappearance' of Godzilla. All the world seemed to freeze as the humans watched him die. But then a miracle, all the survivors of the Tokyo swore they could see a mighty figure standing there roaring. But before anyone could get a close enough view, the creature disappeared into the sea. Was it Godzilla? No one knows.
Now a long year has passed, and everyone seemed to forget about Godzilla. Most breathed relief that the terror of the world for almost 40 years was finally dead. But others grieved knowing remembering all Godzilla had done that inadvertently saved mankind. ...but one saw this as an opportunity.
The Rouge Ellias Balvera has been waiting for this day. With the great Godzilla gone and her dark god Battra no longer watching her, the tiny witch now saw this as her chance. Her hatred of mankind was the same as Battra's but she also wanted to rule the Earth and rebuild the Elias civilization...but she wasn't nearly powerful enough on her own.
However she sensed something. Due to destruction of the forests for a paper manufacturing company by the humans, the tomb of the Death Dragon was found. The seal of Ellias was removed and all that was required was to destroy the rock containing the monster. Belvera sought to control the monster inside, but she knew that her little sisters could still thwart her plans. She went after the seal.
Once she had it, she went to the rock. Possessing a human man, she managed to destroy the rock. However, her two sisters had arrived and took back the Seal of Ellias, but they were too late. Suddenly out from the mountain appeared the three dark heads of the beasts. The Terrible Death Ghidorah was unleashed once more and began its quick work of absorbing plant life.
Merely one of the two sinister creations of the King of Terror, Death Ghidorah took after it's creator's power of absorbing the life force of planets. It set fire to the forest that once served as its tomb. It went on unchecked, taking orders from Balvera. Mankind was definitely doomed...that is until Mothra arrived.
However, Mothra knew that in her weakened condition after giving birth, she was no match for the monster. The only creature that could possibly stop a Ghidorah was Godzilla. But she hadn't been able to sense his presence since he first 'disappeared' in 1976. She was going in alone.
She tried valiantly to stop the beast, but her efforts were futile. However she wasn't alone. Her egg had HATCHED! Her child came to her rescue. However, Death Ghidorah was highly unimpressed by the larva's attempt. It nearly killed the baby if the Mother hadn't interfered. However once both attacked the monster, the baby revealed the extent of its true abilities. But both were no match for the Ghidorah.
However, Mothra tricked the monster into destroying a dam and the creature was caught in the wave of water. Both escaped, but the tired Mothra soon drowned in the water. Death Ghidorah had won! Now with no other monsters to oppose him, he did what he was designed to do. He sent the message into space to his Master.
It would be years before the Master would arrive, so Death Ghidorah simply returned to feigning servitude to Balvera. Once he had found his strength again, he took to the air. He flew in the skies watching as the humans beneath him trembled. He was unstoppable and soon he would cover the skies in a cloud of complete darkness. But fortunately a ray of light appeared...a light in the shape of the Mighty Mothra Leo!
The caterpillar that Death Ghidorah had foolishly allowed to live had survived even from its premature birth. It had metamorphosed into a moth after all! But a Mothra was still a Mothra. This one was bound to be as weak as its mother. Unfortunately for the Ghidorah, that wasn't so. Mothra Leo unleashed a barrage of attacks onto the beast inherited from his father and used wisdom to outsmart the monster inherited from his mother. Death Ghidorah had assumed too much.
Soon Mothra Leo drove the creature back to the rock it was originally trapped in. Then the Seal of Ellias was used once again, trapping the monstrous demon dragon once again. Even if he did once again escape, he would never be able to fight again...but his Master was coming, and the new Mothra was no match for him.
The Son of Mothra and Battra was victorious. Using one of his seemingly infinite powers, he restored the forests that his opponent had destroyed. The Earth was green with life once again. It seemed that Earth was in capable hands. However, inheriting his mother's memories, he learned of the old friendship of her and Godzilla. He soon became intrigued by how much Godzilla had changed. He sensed as his mother did that Godzilla was indeed in trouble...but he did believe that he was indeed alive. He soon began his trek across Earth looking for the Monster King.
I won't tell you my ideas on his origins right now. I'm saving that for Godzilla Month in October.
Death Ghidorah, Mothra Leo, Shobijin, Godzilla all copy write Toho.
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I can tell that you worked really hard on this. breaking sprites apart and reattaching is a drudgery to endure. I know this because I'am designing Kaiser ghidorah. Usually when I try making a sprite sheet for a kaiju, I always work on it by my "ingredient industry" method. Kaizer is some what easier then desghidorah, but I can't pogress because I don't have a functioning mouse. Here is how I would start:
My Ingredient industry method:
- Pick spritesheet that contains most of what you need. Palattes are usually not a problem. I'am using lion king, simba's sprites for Kaiser ghidorah. All I need to do is take the sprite sheet and scale it from all sides until it resembles a close shape for the dragon. In desghidorah's case, I think the Hyena boss from Lion king may work well because of all the 4 legged animations in that character. Sprite sheet is also available.
- Next is finding parts of desghidorah that match the sprite and desghidorah himself. If you are using the lion king sprites, then you don't need too much to work with. Now desghidorah's most defining features are his wings, heads and tail. Here is a boss character that has wings and head very similar to desghidorah.
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The mermans in the castlevania series possess a tail very similar to desghidorahs. Since there are many types of them you'll have to pick those on your preferences. I think the one from the link above has a nice finned tail, but I recall bigger and nastier versions of those creatures in later installments.
Alternate Body for desghidorah:
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I won't be able to provide the sprite sheet since I don't own the emulators or roms. If you can find the sprite sheets on the internet then kudos to you.
- Next, make three copies of the hyena sprite sheet. Its important that you don't move any of the sprite from their positions, and only apply effects on them such as scaling. This is important because when you'll be done coloring the modified parts, you'll have to past them all at once in one sheet. The first sprite sheet consists of experiment scaling the main body around to match its desghidorah's body proportions. This is the most important body piece as you would be attaching the necks, tails and wings to it first, so you may want to scale the those appendages according to how you scale the main body. The second sprite sheet should have all of the body cropped, leaving only the feet. Experiment scaling on the feet to make them look like large sauropod feet. The third sprite sheet should have all of the body cropped except for the legs. Repeat the scaling procedure for the legs. Remember, it does not matter how distorted the sprite and its color becomes, as the shape is what matters and you'll recolor everything anyway.
- Next, is to color them. If you have Paint shop pro, its easy to manipulate the body's rough texture on the distorted pixels of the sprite, by replacing the pixels colors with the desired color. If for some reason, the palette does not allow you to replace the color easily, then I'am afraid it has to be done either manually or with a new base.
- When you are done coloring every body part, put change the background color of the other 2 sprite sheets to white and then copy the entire legs and feet sprite sheet and past them on to the body with transparent selection. Then attach the wings, necks and tails and you are done.
Well, thats the main crux of it all. You have designed a sprite sheet. Feel free to make changes to this method if you intend to try it out.
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lighter background would be nice though...
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Needs more grey highlights and whatnot. Other than that, good work.
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