El Pirahna Plant :: Pixel Art Detail

PLEASE! GAME! PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS! Is there a PETITION I can SIGN somewhere? GREAT ART!

Tets, INDEED

i would love to play a mario remake with this kind of sprites.

looks like the chrash bandicoot plant but still very awsome

↔ This is going to sound very primitive, but you could use a transparent background for each frame, then animate them in a simple free animator such as Unfreez. I would think that would be the most simple way to have a transparent animation, as far as I know.

Hahaha! Cool style.

I think the animation is fine, if not excellent. 

Love It! It looks like one of them flowers from Mario!

flippin' awesome

The animation is very, very good. The plant really looks like it's alive.

love that animation !! powerful

It's great I love the animation

I guess I should have read the description first. Awesome job.

Amazing! you may not have meant to but it reminds me of the countless hours I spent playing Supre Mario Bros. on the original nes.

Amazing animation! (*_*)

as i said on DA, great stuff.

amazing man...

By the way, i use Gif Movie Gear on my animations, and its very simple to make the transparent backgroud, you can find it at www.superdownloads.com.br

Oh my sweet jesus I love this. VERY retro like, and the animation is incredibly lively. I absolutely love your style, keep it up!

This is purely amazing. The animation is so...active! I mean it's hard to spot pixels that stay the same, or are even cheaply moved. Looking at how active it as and how many frames it is, I think you deserve major props. That's an insane animation man. I hope that you either have a job as an animator (or go to college to be one) as you have what it takes!

amazing animation fav!

I could stare at this for hours

Yikes! Hate to be bitten by that! Nice, and good color set. 5+/5 P.S. You should animate more, they're cool and would look great!

This is what I'm talking about man! This rocks! It's awesome now! You deserve to be added to my favourites!! Hell yeah! BIGUP Supermario is toast if he meets this plant hahahahahahahahha!!!!

Nice!  Looks many times better.  I still feel that she holds her mouth open a microsecond too long, but I'd say it's done.  Great work.  Thanks for taking the time to listen to our C+C and make edits!

update***

I just changed the animation a wee bit

1) I highlighted the plants lips throughout the frames so it doesn't look like they are changing colors as it moves

2) I gave it a wider mouth and horizontal chomping distance, so it can open it's mouth before it reaches its max horizontal peak.

Thats about it for now. The older animation is still in the preview box, so you can compare the two...tell me whatchya think peeps: better, worse, or wtf?...no matter the answer, I'm still willing to change it to please...

It looks taken from Pink Floyd's The Wall movie, in the animated section with flowers eating each other. This is a super cool pixel art, i'm addin it to my favs. :)

Another awesome Mario-related piece! +Fav

this is freaking awesome

haha, ryumaru i was about to demand the same thing and then i read your post. good call.

Great smooth stuff :)

I love this. The little details add so much to this peice.

just fucking amazing, make a game with these already.

though im using imageready 7.0, i was able to give it a transparency by selecting the green in the color table and then clicking the checkered box icon at the bottom of the window. above the image there should be tabs labeled "original, optimized, 2up, and 4up" click the optimized one to preview it if the BG shows up transparent then export optimized again this should work i did it in like 2 seconds.

hahaha Ryuria says it so well

+5 from me ;)

Fluent and Amazing. I wanna fuck you. XD

<3

Wow man, really awesome. Easily a favourite.

B.O.B I'm really sorry about my lame crit before. Actually I like this pic alot! But when I wrote my previous statement I was drunk and I couldn't see straight!  I know it's a lame excuse but it's actually true! My bad! Hehe! Here comes my real and only crit on this piece: I think he should open his mouth earlier.. right before he "stabs" with his head.. Maybe even as he loads up turning his head away. Because now it looks like a delayed reaction when he opens his mouth.. A little akward if you ask me! Otherwise it looks cool! Once again, sorry for my last crit!

i slowed the frame rate down with imageready, and i must say, its just amazing. to see the way the plant changes through the frames, its just amazing attention to detail and movement. I am speechless , u should definitely make a game with your new style mario graphics, it would be stunning. i think this is my favourite of all yout animations, if not works. the movement is just perfect for this character. not only did you get the movement right on each frame, but u got all the shading and aa just perfect. I favourited this a few days ago, and i have only got round to commenting on it. @chanfan: WTF is wrong with you, this is a masterpice of pixel art AND animation.

I use gif movie gear too.  How can I not fave this?

I know everybody said it but... BRILLIANT!

Well, chanfan, what I'm impressed by is that it's frame by frame.  BOB didn't just copy the previous frame, change the character's head, and then repeat, he changed the whole body movement of this sucker in every frame.  That makes it more realistic and fluid.  Try animating something that's realistic and fluid, and then comment on how hard this was to animate.

This blows my mind. Dude.
Very groovy.

Care to go a little more in depth of your crit, there chanfan? I'll tell you right now, that it's not in the least bit constructive to help me change it to your likings...

I dont get it? What's so amazing about it.. looks wierd! All he does is to shake his head? Hard to animate? Hardly! what are everybodey so impressed by?

That's just about brilliant!

Btw, animation is just amazing. I'm thinking about creating some kind of this plant for an upcoming Aqualife 2 cellphone game. The only problem is the number of frames but I'll try to find the key frames here. Thanks for the inspiration.

http://gas13.ru/newskul/pirahna_plantopt_transparent.gif (Edited with Gif Movie Gear 4.0)

again i suggest GIF movie gear because it is cheap (only about $40) and if this is for fun you can find an number of reg keys just by googling (if its for real distribution of any sort they can sue your ass for hacking, but like i said $40 is cheap)

Please! get someone to do a game of this! It's fuckin' amazin'!

*ahem* Be my wife.

  Thanks for the crits every body. I'll try and see if I could tweek the timing and look of the actual "chomp" action you guys are talking about. And about the whole tranparency affair, only Adobe Imageready is available for me, but the other Adobe Photoshop CS program that came with it won't work (they were both ripped and put on my computer, yet only the A. P. CS program denies me access).

  Because of this, I draw every frame on MSpaint, and copy and paste them onto each frame of image ready. I than optimze the file and save it as optimized. However, I choose the transparency option, but it won't let me choose the color to make transparent....ok, nevermind, I am going off topic here.

   Once again, just here to say thinks for the helpful crits. I'll be fixin' this sucker up in while, so be expectin' some edits, and more added animations to it. Thanks again...

the chomping seems delayed and awkward, his mouth should be closed the second its head is completely turned to the left(our left) the mouth should be closing while its whipping its head around. the animation is good but  the timing on the chomp could use some tweaking(looks like Faktablad is describing the same thing im trying to) its the principal of overlapping animation for a more natural feel. Yes, imageready does support transparencies when you export optimized gif it should prompt you with settings basically tell it what color to use as your transperency

This is brilliant. Amazing work.

Supaer cooel. My only critisism is that the chomp isnt quite large enough on first glance, to me anyway. That could be to do with the anatomy of the actual plant concept. Yet well done man, it's very stylish. ^_^

I almost shit my pants at the beauty of this!  Incredible work and the animation's frame rate seems to go very well with the style.  Doesn't need to be smoother or choppier, it's just right.  5/5 and Fav!

Man this should be in a real mario game

Unbelievable work Bob.

I do all my pixel work in Photoshop/Image Ready and it is pretty easy to export with transparency.  Select Save for Web in Photoshop and then select Transparency.  The settings will transfer over to ImageReady automagically.

 Brilliant.  I love your traditional approach to animation, rather than the "just animate one part" that we find too often in pixel art today.  I agree that the lips are too dark when the creature is pulling back; Preferably you'd want the same colors throughout.

In critiquing the animation, I feel that the snapping jaw action would work much better if the jaws were closed at the extent of the creature's reach.  Right now, at the extent of the creature's reach, the jaws don't open until the full extension.  In reality, the jaws should open some time before the full extension, during the actual striking motion, and then the jaws snap shut right when the creature has stretched her neck as far as it will go.  To illustrate this, try snatching up an object quickly with your hand.  Do this before reading the next paragraph, noticing what your hand does.

You'll notice that your hand begins to open while traveling to the object.  When your hand reaches the object, then it snaps shut.  Remember, your creature is trying to pluck poor defenseless Mario from where he is standing.  She is not trying to smack him in the face with one of her jaws.  In fact, you might want to try widening the size of the frame, because with this limited frame size it appears as though her jaws are just bouncing and squishing off the sides of the frame.

beeery nice.

forf gif's i suggest GIF movie gear, google it

wonderfull animation only I dont like pallete

brilliant animation, VERY good palette

great, great, great!
(In IR click the optimized tab then check the transparency button on the settings window)

That is super sweet!

The only complaint I have is the lips getting a bit too pink and dark when it moves it's head back to strike. Overall it is exceptional though.