finally back to lerd,
another of the very old 2003 monsters, redrawn at ten times the size with slightly more competent animation.
marginal progress, major reminder of how stupid my life is, which I do not need, because I do not forget.
the movements of the tail appendage do not match on each angle, but they do not have to, merely not look terrible, and only the back facing one does, along with the arms, that look more like a low-impact exercise than a motion to pull the body along a floor but it looks better than the old version, to me, and inside that game the old one looked fine so I will be impressed to see how this ends up being worse.
the mid-section is a different color now but I can palette-swap it to green in-game. And I can also NOT palette swap it to green, in case you were wondering why I’d bother to discolor it at all. the colors only need to be distinct, not specific.
keeping the color zones distinct and mapped to indices on the game’s 256 color “palette” means they can be changed separately from each other, to colors which are not necessarily on the palette but for the purpose of preparing this example quickly they are.
There was never a reason for lerd having four breast orbs before, as it only had two arms. maybe it looks unique but I don’t want people to think I have a fetish for bare cartoon breasts considering how much other fetishy junk I have attached to my name in the intervening years. ALTHOUGH if, as today’s commenter suggests, having just two makes the problem worse, I can change them back or try something else entirely.
i will start the next non-snake comic strip page next. probably. you might think i have spent some of the long period since posting the most recent page figuring out what is going to appear on the next page but you ought to know me better than that!
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SoupColor sez:
Original lerd was definitely one of my favorite old sprites you did.
The remake looks good but I don’t know about the breast changes and the discolored crest.
Makes it look more like an oddly well endowed cartoon character rather than a freaky frog mermaid thing.
I’m not sure how to describe it but it having just one pair of breasts is somehow more weird to me, like they seem more so unnecessary than before.
For the old one the 4 added a real freakishness to the character that I think worked well with the whole design overall, but now it just feels weird to look at.
I think it reminds me of how weird it is when anthropomorphic animals wear pants, in the sense that they feel more “naked” with them on than without them.
Sorry if this sounded too negative, I still think its a good remakes as pretty much all of them are.
Glad you’re still working on this!
Frimpinheap sez:
thank you for the backfeeding! so far that is all I have received. I was thinking more of somewhat flabbed pectorals than “breasts” on this version, at least by the time i got to the side angles but admippedly I do not have experience with depicting that and I can certainly change any part of this at any point.
and the color is changeable within the game, as I perhaps did not explain coherently.
keeping the color zones distinct and mapped to indices on the game’s 256 color “palette” means they can be changed separately from each other, to colors which are not necessarily on the palette.