Sprites by Circles

[circleseverywhere]

I'm working on a RWBY crossover hack, and thought I'd share some of my sprites.

Battle animations:

Weiss
Video link with custom sound effects

My first ever battle animation, started out as a simple Eirika edit.

Pyrrha

Video
I managed to get the pre-battle frames working. You can have a short (30-40 frames) animation at the start of each battle if you remove all C commands from Mode 9 (or 11 for ranged) and add 10 idle frames before the start of your dodge and after the end of your attack.
There's no crit yet, just a scribbled concept.


Blake

Video
My favourite so far, a mashup of Lyn/Myrm/SM.
Stick figure WIP version

Yang

My first attempt at a full custom. Ended up being only mostly custom.

Ruby

Portraits

To be honest these don't interest me very much compared to battle animations. I've done a lot of the characters but the quality ranges from simple splices to straight recolours. Have a look anyway:

I'm slowly updating and adding portraits to replace the splices/edits with customs:

Ruby


Weiss


Blake


Yang

Qrow

Cinder

Emerald

Torchwick

Adam

Coco

Jaune


Nora


Pyrrha


Ren


Sun


Scarlet


Sage


Neptune


Penny


Winter

Misc.

Weapon Icons

Edited January 27, 2016 by circleseverywhere

[Lord of Gabriel Knight]

Those battle sprites are really nice! Very smooth and clean, nicely animated.

[Sweet_Basil]

That Blake battle animation is adorable! It's my favorite of the group but I also really like the first and second a lot too.

[circleseverywhere]

Fixed up the scythe a bit, the transformation also makes a bit more sense now. I think it still needs work, but I should buckle down and get some work done on Yang's sprite first.

[Klokinator]

Why is this using Yeti's Soldier sprite?

[ghast]

probs a combination of yeti's stick person bs tutorial and then his bases as reference from his other sprites :o

animations are pretty spiffy, and your mugs are decent too.

I know exactly what you mean by battle sprites > mugs kek

Edited August 28, 2015 by Uncle Ghatsu!

[circleseverywhere]

Why is this using Yeti's Soldier sprite?

Because I came across an old thread with his stick figure WIPs and it seemed like a good idea. So I grabbed a frame with just the enemy and used that for my own stick figures.

[Klokinator]

What's funny is that despite the faces being basic splices, they match the RWBY characters pretty well. Maybe that just means RWBY's characters aren't as unique looking as we thought :P

[circleseverywhere]

Figured Nora deserved better than a simple Farina recolour. Incidentally, boob windows are really tricky.

[circleseverywhere]

Made a bit more progress on Yang's stickfigure, this time with a crit flourish. I think the punch needs some more weight, because it doesn't feel as powerful as it should. Maybe I could speed it up, or anticipate it more, or something. Alternatively I could make it an ORA ORA ORA barrage. What do you think?

[Klokinator]

You could also do a big time screen shake, Ereshkigal style, when the punch connects. It's a simple eventing command apparently :O

[circleseverywhere]

Oh yeah, forgot about screen shake. Normal hits and criticals already have screen shake automatically, plus C14 and C15 for pseudo-hits. Speaking of which, I should add those to the Blake animation.

[Klokinator]

The part where she has the power-up aura at her feet is a prime spot for the screen shake, just imo.

Edited September 6, 2015 by Klokky-Kuuuun!

[Maritisa]

I say give her some more buildup to the punch as in like have her pull back and then ROCKET forward for the connecting hit. :D

Also absolutely yes screenshakes, they do so much for an animation.

[circleseverywhere]

Added some faux-screen shake.

I wasn't super happy with the old ending frame, so I'm trying out the Rogue pose instead. Better, or should I go back to the old one?

[ghast]

somebody is turning into one of my faaavorite spriters hurrrr owo

that impact is way better. Makes me want to start animating again

[circleseverywhere]

somebody is turning into one of my faaavorite spriters hurrrr owo

that impact is way better. Makes me want to start animating again

Yes please by all means I want to see more of your animations

Meantime I've added a basic return and fixed up a rather glaring error where she was pulling back the left hand but punching with the right:

I think she's about ready to block in.

[Klokinator]

Yeah, the screen shake REALLY makes the punch have some whump.

[Keystone]

These look really cool! I'm interested in seeing what the finished Yang animation (Yangimation?) will look like. I also like how you incorporated Blake's mirage power into her animation, it's really slick. I can see why it's your favorite one ^_^

[circleseverywhere]

Very minor update: Weapon icons for team RWBY!

[ErrantDShepherd]

Oh snap... Bud you make me wanna try animating. These are damn cool. :)

Latest icons look nice. :D

[circleseverywhere]

Oh snap... Bud you make me wanna try animating. These are damn cool. :)

Latest icons look nice. :D

Your battle sprites are pretty great, you should totally do it!

In other news, I rather like how this dodge animation turned out.

[Eliwan]

I think it's too snappy; personally. Since it looks like it's based in the Mage animation, it looks like it desperately needs part of the turn-around as she disappears into the petals. It kind of looks more like an image, comprised of roses, is split apart by the attack-- instead of her actually dodging it.

Ruby isn't a magician, she's a speedster.

Either that or the compression of the gif is making me completely unable to see it; which is certainly also possible.

[circleseverywhere]

I took my cues from the Red Trailer:http://gfycat.com/ShabbyNaturalAustralianfurseal

Cleaner comparison:

[Klokinator]

Yeah I had the trailer in mind when I saw it myself. A perfect appropriate dodge animation.

Tbh the biggest issue is that her outfit is still very F-magey while her sister gets a full custom attack, as does Pyrrha. Blake likewise needs to be less of a Lyn Lord. Use those newfound animation skills!

Edited September 27, 2015 by ♥Klokinator♥