beat 'em up!!

[Kelvin]

Looks like a little ball of lightning. Seems appropriate, since Luigi uses lightning, so Crappy could use a lightning yoyo. ^^

[Crappy Blue Luigi]

Looks like a little ball of lightning. Seems appropriate, since Luigi uses lightning, so Crappy could use a lightning yoyo. ^^

eheh... i hope nobody else makes that connection. i'm actually trying to distance crappy from luigi as much as possible.

anyway, new animations:



crappy taking minor damage



crappy's jump



gsgal's full series

[FarmerM]

Really smooth animations. I look forward to seeing them in action.

[PurplePixel]

It could just be me, but some of these sprites have a very "Scott Pilgrim" feel to them. Which is in no way a bad thing, as that was an excellent beat 'em up as well.

I look forward to seeing more from this project. Keep up the good work, everyone!

[Crappy Blue Luigi]

update time!

first off, the creator of gatsby the crab has left my life as well as this project, so gatsby won't be a playable character anymore, or otherwise featured in this game or my other projects. as such, if you have the support button for bmup in your signature, i humbly request that you replace it with this one with gatsby's spot taken by spiny.



alright, with that out of the way, let's get to the good stuff.


we have a new addition to the roster! ... at the cost of an existing character. virt dropped his human self-insert for trollerskates to add more diversity to the character selection. this isn't much of a loss, since virt hadn't developed his character within the game's mechanics yet, so all that was cut was one sprite. virt also made portraits for trollerskates, which you can find here.


aki's sprite was given a minor makeover by me on a spur of the moment. i did it to make her sprite better match the way she draws herself--examples here and here. i sent it to her earlier and she animated it like so:

pretty good for someone who only started working with pixels a couple of months ago!
i simplified her frames and messed with the arm motion, fixing shape consistency errors in the process.

she liked my edit, so this might be her final idle unless she has some changes she wants to make or she wants to try editing her original animation herself with this as a reference.


every character has four "variations"--default costume, default palette; alternate costume, default palette; default costume, alternate palette; and alternate costume, alternate palette. in the case of crappy, he appears as both blue crapsman and crappy blue luigi. i'm slowly working on editing crappy's existing animations into his alternate costume:



here's gsgal's alternate costume.


dev's sprite has seen a minor change in order to make this little-mac-inspired alternate palette work.

that's all i've got to post. i know a couple of members on here have done some wip work recently, but since it's not finalized stuff, i won't post it. they're welcome to if they'd like, though!

[Garamonde]

here's gsgal's alternate costume.

I didn't know Bloom was in the game

[Crappy Blue Luigi]

that design's actually directly taken from old bmup. that game was going to have alternate costumes, too, and gsgal's was the same. it was based on her concept art of a merge between gsgal and the sentient balloon she carries around with her for some reason, patricia.

any resemblance to frilly plant people is coincidence.

[Crappy Blue Luigi]

HECK YEAH, FOUR-WEEK BUMP

bmup got a surge of productivity again, mainly because mit came along and was like "ok i'm going to do all the stuff now" and we made a new tumblr blog for it and fkghskd

--NEW CRAPPY STUFF--

grab series!

(i didn't put anybody in his grasp this time; i felt spiny didn't deserve to get pummeled)

air special!


up/down dodge!


--NEW MIT STUFF-- (even though he already posted some of this in his sprite thread)

idle/bored!


series!


idle special!


walk!


run!


--NEW GSGAL STUFF--

walk!


--NEW SPINY STUFF--

portraits!


--NEW AKI STUFF--

bored!


portrait!

[Crappy Blue Luigi]

WAHEY, more stuff
mainly from mit, the sprite machine

-CRAPPY-
i updated his run special animation!



there are a couple of minor tweaks to crappy's movement, but the biggest change is in the yo-yo. recently, i started to feel like the effect i had on it before--glowing, sparking, whatever--felt out-of-place with the rest of the attack animations. to make it more consistent with the details of other attacks, i made it grow in size, much like crappy's fists and feet do in most of his attacks. i think it really sticks out better this way. it also makes it possible to tell that the icon on the yo-yo is a star, heheh

i also did THIS'A THING



crappy's back throw attack! it's a slam, based on one of axel stone's moves in streets of rage 2/3:



i had mit make hurt and k.o.'d sprites so i could animate this properly without beating on spiny any more. he's a good sport, that mit.

-MIT-

mit did a lot of stuff, yo. he also animated all of it manually, like i've been doing. props to him for going that route and making it look really smooth!



mit's run attack, flying headbutt!



mit's jump!




damage sprites! yeeowch.

-AKI-

aki did all of her portraits!

[Mit]

hello, not-crappy here with a tiny little SPRITE UPDATE

mit's various hit frames, and the KO animation. as of now, there are 2 different frames for minor damage, and 2 different frames for major damage.

mit’s running special, the item trip! the item being thrown changes each time.

mit’s vault is more of a roll than an actual vault, but it works all the same!

mit's dodge has him backflipping into the background, and frontflipping into the foreground.

and the last thing mit-related, mit's alt isn't a costume like the other fighters- it's actually a separate character, anne! they'll share the same general movements and stats, so it's more of a skin than anything.


here's a new fighter- colton, aka saltonara! he fights with his ghost partner, linguine!

[Crappy Blue Luigi]

thanks for breaking up the monotony of my repeated posts, mit!

how's about EVEN MORE STUFF?!

-CRAPPY-


i updated his vault animation again. i added an extra frame after the apex of the vault and tweaked the frame delays so it looks smoother in general.


and then i did all of this madness! crappy takes a beating from either nothing or someone invisible.

-AKI-


meanwhile, aki is working on her idle/walking attack series. the last attack isn't finished yet, but here's most of it!

[The KKM]

jesus christ impart upon me your ability to animate small sprites, that all looks so good

[Crappy Blue Luigi]

crappy's sheet is done, guys!!

full sheet

and here are the last two animations:


crappy's front throw, yo-yo upper


crappy's round clear pose

i guess the next thing to work on would be either gsgal's sheet or finally working up the nerve to try conceptualizing stage art.

[Mit]

wow, an update!!


mit's grab series!


mit's throwing animations!


mit's jump attack, the cannonball!


mit's jump special, the chestnut stomp!



mit's round clear animation!

and...

Spoiler

...mit's sheet is finished!!

outside of the mit department, colton's been working on his sheet too!


colton's portraits!


colton's bored animation!


colton's walk!


...and colton's run!

[recme]

oh my goodness, all these sprites are sexy. its making me want to make one just for the sake of making one

keep up the great work and fluid animations!