The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Arts => Visual Art => Topic started by: Almaron on October 18, 2011, 03:38:06 AM
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A few days back I was browsing a Spyro RP page, and I got annoyed at the fact that I didn't have any pictures to represent my characters with. In the end, I decided to remedy this by making pixel versions of the characters in the Legend Of Spyro games; ones that could be edited by anybody to make new characters. And here it is!
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/293/3/d/pixel_spyro_characters_by_amcalmaron-d4d6wsk.png)
Pixel Spyro Characters (http://amcalmaron.deviantart.com/#/d4d6wsk)
There's more information on my DeviantArt page - check it out there.
By the way, would you believe that despite me being a fan of it, I've never actually played one of the Spyro games? I got into it one day while browsing DeviantArt and discovering the fandom. I soon plan to remedy this problem of never having played a game (suppose technically I have seen ONE being played by a friend years ago); just need to get the proper game console...already found some of the games at a second-hand store...
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Good pixel art. I like it how you depicted different sexes. Do you plan to make more detailed art of your characters in the future?
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Well, I don't normally draw creatures; generally I stick to things like buildings and objects that are simpler to draw, as I haven't got much experience drawing more complex things. At this moment in time, pixel art's probably the best you'll get from me.
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And here's a follow-up!
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/293/3/c/more_spyro_pixel_characters_by_amcalmaron-d4ddohz.png)
DeviantArt Page (http://amcalmaron.deviantart.com/art/More-Spyro-Pixel-Characters-264337991)
The three characters at the bottom (well, really two) are my own characters; Amperon, Warfang's Archive Master (an old friend of Malefor who was later murdered by him; his ghost is the next figure), and Kavler, a dragon who fled the battlefield and went into exile after losing to Cynder, never removing his armour. The full version of their stories can be read here: ( http://amcalmaron.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d465zfe (http://amcalmaron.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d465zfe) )
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And here's an update at last!
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/002/5/a/pixel_spyro_characters___updated_by_amcalmaron-d5q8g99.png)
http://amcalmaron.deviantart.com/#/d5q8g99 (http://amcalmaron.deviantart.com/#/d5q8g99)
Grr...this one should have been finished a lot sooner. I'd become dissatisfied with my original pixelly Spyro pictures - the males were too fat and the females too thin, to name one problem - and I decided to revamp them late last year. I eventually managed to come up with a better design for the bodies, and was half finished when...some utter monsters broke into my house and stole my hard drive, meaning I lost this, all my files, and all my family photos.
Thankfully, I had my Ipod on my at the time, and it had low quality versions of more than 2/3rds of the lost images, so I managed to use that to replace the files. Anyway, all I had of the work I'd done on this was a blurred and shrunken image of the picture, which, as you can imagine, wouldn't be much help when drawing pixel art.
Nevertheless, I finally decided to confront the damn thing and eventually ended up with a design that looked good, so here's the first part; showing pixelly versions of Ignitus, Terrador, Volteer, Cyril, Spyro, Cynder, the Chronicler and Malefor. In addition to this, it shows all these characters as the opposite gender - to allow a person to picture what other dragons of a specific element may look like - and as a young dragon. As a bonus, I've also tossed in Ember and Flame, and Cynder with her colouring from Dawn Of The Dragon. At a later date, I'll do adult versions of both Ember and Flame, and I'll also do the Dragon Soldiers that appear in Dawn Of The Dragon, and perhaps Sparx - although he's pretty hard to detail that small!
I've also included five Elemental Sigils; based on the images shown in the first game - Spyro's one may seem odd, but it's shown briefly during the final battle with Cynder in A New Beginning, and represents Convexity.
Feel free to edit these and make your own pixel dragons!
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these are real good. could you add the cynder from skylanders who is more purple and curvy?
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Heh, I never got around to adding that design in, but I did redraw all of these several times and used them to make a gigantic family tree of dragons...see it here! https://www.deviantart.com/amcalmaron/art/Gift-Art-Ddraigtanto-Family-Tree-V4-573674945
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Welcome back, Almaron!
Nive pixel stuff!
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nice job on the artwork. glad to have you back.
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I won a Spyro plushie at a theme park. I always liked Spyro despite never playing one of his games. In that respect we are alike.
Great pixel art, i like the red winged grey fire drake.
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Wow that is one massive tree! Very cool! Also welcome back! :rainbowwave
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Thanks, everyone! :)