February 24th, 2012

Beatdown is finally in full color and I really like how she turned out. I’ve been tweaking her backstory for a while and working on stories where she appears (including one in which you won’t recognize her at first), so it’s good to finally have a full-color picture of her. The other new thing in this update is a sprite of Link from the Legend of Zelda. That’s right, the original. The 26th anniversary of the game was a few days ago and I felt the need to celebrate that. An early version of this was posted on the ScrollBoss site on Wednesday, but this picture has a later version of it. Click on the small pictures in this post to see the gallery pages for them. The regular version of this sprite and the mini-logo will be in next week’s ScrollBoss update along with some Graphic Generator upgrades and new backgrounds.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: Beatdown, Legend of Zelda, Nintendo, pixelart

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February 17th, 2012

The title almost says it all, but not quite. I still wasn’t happy with how she looked, so I digitally retraced the lines instead of my usually smudge/contrast line cleaning method. It’s a method that I’m still trying to get a handle on, but I like how it turned out here.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: Beatdown

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February 10th, 2012

Gallery pages are now up for the Ms. Pac-Man and Pooka sprites.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: Dig-Dug, Ms. Pac-Man, Namco, pixelart

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February 4th, 2012

I just updated ScrollBoss with some Pac-related sprites, but I’m a bit worn out and only have a page ready for Ghost Monsters here. There’s a brand new sprite of Sue and a standard Ghost Monster sprite that has been palette swapped for all the original monsters. I’ll have pages for the other sprites ready next week.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: Ms. Pac-Man, Namco, Pac-Man, pixelart

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January 23rd, 2012

The next in the series of sprites for Aaron Pinsky’s “Sheol” is here! The new sprite is Fredrick Steinwald, a man who gets into the tournament to do more than just kick in some heads. Click the preview pic over there to see the full Sheol sprite page and learn about the character. This was my favorite design so far because, hey, it’s a ninja. You know how I am.

I’m splitting work between the next website (currently putting the finishing touches on the layouts and WP theme), this site and ScrollBoss, so updates for both existing sites will be a bit slow and low sometimes. My first fan-art sprite of 2012 at about 97% right now and will be ready in time for both the next Illmosis and ScrollBoss updates next week.

(edit 2012 Jan 24) – The Ms. Pac-Man gallery page was fixed by adding the link to the wallpapers. Yes, I feel stupid about messing that up. Click the picture below to download the pack with 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024 & 1440 x 900 wallpapers.

Why did I just happen to notice this? Tune in next week to find out.

Categories: Illmosis updates, Site News by James Beaver
Tags: pixelart, Sheol

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January 16th, 2012

New Twofold crossover pic! Click the small picture to see and learn more! I also added some of the old filecards I drew for my characters back in the 1990’s. The new cards include Beatdown (in her original outfit) along with two villains who haven’t been posted here before: Chill and Fisticuffs. I also threw in another “Bug-Out” character named Monty Carlo.

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January 1st, 2012

“This is serious, P. Those things you saw up there? Those G–tst—ers? Them herbs ain’t even the worst. You stepped into some ish you can’t step out of because, one way or another, they’ll get all of us if we don’t fight back. Not now, but right now. If you wanna crawl back into bed, go back to dreamin’ and die in your sleep, well, that’s on you. But if you want to learn how to fight ’em… you came to the right dude.”

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: the war begins again

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December 9th, 2011

Endless Duck, whose mind-boggling power rivals that of side-scrolling cosmic heralds, finally has a sprite. Click on the small picture of his head to see the sprite, the mini-logo and a bonus surprise. Meanwhile, that Beatdown pic I drew a few weeks ago wasn’t good enough, so I re-drew it.

BTW: The Passion Tanaka sprite from last week is part of this week’s ScrollBoss update. That update also includes a downloadable pack filled with the unfinished sprite edits (new sprites edited out of old sprites) for the cancelled Baroness project.

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November 30th, 2011

Sorry for last week’s lack of newness but I was working on quite a few things (along with trying to get some rest on Thanksgiving). The Passion Tanaka sprite was almost done last week, but not done enough to show. Check out the gallery page for it by clicking on the small picture preview in this post. The other new thing is a commission pic I drew for XuhanShi on deviantART (and it’s posted here with full permission).

The Passion Tanaka sprite will hit ScrollBoss (and the fake screenshot generators) in that site’s update next week. Expect a few more new sprites of my characters to join her.

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November 15th, 2011

I’m still working on a commission, but I managed to sprite something that I’ve wanted to make for a long, long time.

Yes, I finally made a Nutroll sprite that doesn’t look like crap. That mini-logo also means he’ll be showing up in the this week’s update for the ScrollBoss GFX Generators. There’s a lot of room for improvement, but I still think it’s a good start.

edit: the new Nutroll sprite and mini-logo can now be used in the Graphic Generators on ScrollBoss.

Check out the news post in this link to see what’s in the rest of the update!

Categories: Illmosis updates, Nutroll updates by James Beaver
Tags: Nutroll, pixelart

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