Topic: Metroid 1 creatures (upd2: Motherbrain!)

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Posted at December 19, 2002, 4:09 pm:

I've always been amused by drawing characters from old videogames. I think it's interesting to translate the sprite design into something more artistic without deviating from the original design too much.

Below are some of the more recent Metroid 1 drawings/thumbnails I've made. I'm not sure how to finish these. I could use watercolors (cumbersome) or just speedcolor them in PS. Some of the designs are my own spin-off versions of the original ones. I've picked a 'semi-cute' style (somewhere between cute and realistic).


The Metroid was hard to translate into 3d (it's quite flat in the game). Took a lot of attempts before I came up with this more agressive look (one of the mandibles is skew, I know).

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This is my one of my many versions of the sidehopper/dessgeega.

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This grablike thing (Geruta?) is found in the 'bubbleworld'. I've stayed pretty close to the original design.

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Left: A new version of the crab thing. Right: Some ground crawling critter of my own.

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Left: Older drawing of the furry ground crawler in the bubble world. Top: Memu? Mid: Some fly. Right: Another crab thing.

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I gave my Kraid version a godzilla jaw, cuz I fancy those.



More fuzzy thumbnails here:
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/metroidstuff.php

Anothe Metroid page here:
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/gal_metroid.php

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You have such an energy and grasp of character to your designs, prom.

Those are awesome creatures.

Cool cool cool.

Wow, I cannot believe how good of an artist you are.

Are you trying to muscle in on my teritory! he he awesome work p...

Thanks feeb> Like I said on irc, it's something with thumbnails ...

Colored some stuff in PS.

The color really makes all the difference.

prom is my hero.

Cool! I always liked the old metroid drawings on your site.

Prometheus I love your site.

DAMN!!:eek: Prom, every time i look at ur posts, i always say to mys...

hey how the hell do you get the colours so vividly.

...I asked you once,...to do more metroid fan art, because the stuff o...

hiya again .

check out his site, there are some tutorials if I remember that correc...

Thanks for the comments! I finished some new things.

OOOoooooooooggg.

I love your take on motherbrain.

http://www.

These are great sketches.

i really like your style.

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