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Novaman

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I’ve been on a bit of a Megaman and, by extension, a Megaman sprites kick recently, but it’s been a while since I actually designed an original sprite.

Here is Novaman. His power: Nova Spark. He’s actually based on a design from when I was a little kid, except back then he looked like a total Metalman rip-off. He had the same face, a fireball instead of a blade on his head, same color, everything.

I designed his left arm to be different from his right arm because the right one shoots normal shots while the left one is attached to the compressed star you can see in his chest, and is the arm which releases the Nova Spark. The attack itself would be a slow moving projectile which gets bigger and bigger until it collapses and explodes.

One thing to keep in mind when designing Megaman boss sprites is to realize just how few colors are actually used in the sprite. Novaman here, aside from the necessary black (for the outline) and white (the eyes), only uses red and blue distributed throughout his design in a versatile manner.

Oh, and for those who missed it, here’s some of the stuff I’ve posted previously on the subject.

Garbageman Animation

Sprite Analysis

Megaman PC Robot Masters

Megaman 10 Robot Masters (Clean-Up)

Megaman 10 Robot Master Analysis

Fansubs, Digital Distribution, Shenanigans

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This post is perhaps far too late, and even then, lots of people have more knowledge and insight than me, so I won’t really bother with explaining about WHY the anime industry is in danger. To sum it up, the people in charge need to catch up to modern times. That’s about it.

All this talk though has reminded me that Nintendo is planning on a service for their Wii where a person can purchase something from their online shop FOR another person. You buy, say, a virtual console game, and then the game gets sent to the person you bought it for. And I think this would be a great system to implement somehow for anime.

There’s little doubt that a good number of anime fans love to spread word about their favorite anime, and having the ability to purchase episodes for your friends (because they’re lazy or refuse to watch but you just know they’re going to like it!), I think, would only be embraced by people.

Granted, once the episodes are obtained, it’d probably be pretty easy to pirate them. Maybe there could be some kind of reward system for recommending a show to someone, a way to earn goodies like Naruto headbands or copies of Iroha Gokko and Anato no Tonari. Barring that, I look at the Wii again, with its library of virtual console games, and the fact is, people are ACTUALLY buying them, including the NES ones. You can download the entire NES library for like 50mb onto your computer, and people are still buying NES games.

I know that selling old games isn’t exactly like selling new anime, though.

Except perhaps when the anime isn’t new at all, and it’s just never been released here.

Ogiue in Mii form

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Back when I first got my Wii, my first order of business was creating an Ogiue Mii.

I have uploaded it to Check Mii Out at 9781-2877-1647. It’s based on roughly volume 5-volume 6-style Ogi. I may make one that’s closer to her anime counterpart.

And yes, I will be referring to different periods of Ogiue aesthetics from now on.

You can also use the feature to see the rest of the Mii’s I’ve put online.

I HAVE NO REGRETS IN MII LIFE

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I’ve been playing my Wii lately, except that instead of playing actual games I’ve been making Hokuto no Ken Mii’s.

Some of them look really good, some of them not so much.

My favorite one is Jagi because I had to pull some serious magic with him.