Shrimp Dragonfly Hippocampus monster, animated

Final animated image: http://frankiesmileshow.deviantart.com/art/Dragon-fly-shrimp-hippocampus-1101...

Thats volume 9 of pixel art time! This monster is an odd mix of a shrimp, a hippocampus and a dragonfly.
The game it is for has a resolution of 320X240 so that monster takes up most of the screen in it.

This time around I go one step further by also recording the whole animation process. It takes quite a while. The whole work was over two days, started at around 11h pm on jan 19th, and finished at around 4-5PM on jan 20th, taking around 6 hours of work in all.

I decided to fully animate this monster about halfway through the work, just after I had finished the wings... I had to remove the wings because of that decision: insect wings flap too fast and the details in them would have been confusing (not to mention a real pain to animate).
It is a boss for a game I am working on. Maybe I will animate the death animation next or maybe ill move on to another beastie. I am not showing off most of the sprites I'm making these days because I don't really want to show too much of the game's content before its done, its an exploration-ey thing and all. Most of the fun comes from discovering the game while initially playing it.

The song in the background is one of my all-time favorites, "Country graveyard" by Cherry Five (a band that will later be known as Goblin, they mostly made horror movie soundtracks). If you ever come across the self-titled album this song is from, definitely get it, its a real gem.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Shrimp
• dragonfly
• hippocampus
• monster
• animation
• pixel
• art
• sprite
• game
• boss

[Wayne123q]

Looks like a Pokemon...

I like Pokemon :) 5*

[smaug131]

awesome! but I liked the orginal wings better, and such a big insect should flap its wings slowly anyway.

[builderman1q2w3e4r]

@Turtan4

The fuck?

I know 'Santa Claus' isn't real. It was made up just to make the little bastards go EEITSCHRISTMASNOWICANMEETSANTY­CLAUS

Im not 2.

[Turtan4]

@builderman1q2w3e4r

Shoo!

No swearing or you won't get presents for christmas!

[builderman1q2w3e4r]

@Turtan4

Im not fucking 9. IF you have seen my 'Webcam vids' Then it was my little brother.

I hate that little bastard.

[Turtan4]

@builderman1q2w3e4r

Why so hostile?!

I mean a boy of that age shouldn't swear that much!

What would your mom say?!

[builderman1q2w3e4r]

@Turtan4

THE FUCKING GAME.

[Turtan4]

@builderman1q2w3e4r

What would be done?

[builderman1q2w3e4r]

Hey, when should it be done?

[bathory1234567890]

Great work! Which program are you using?