Sprite Jam 17 Jan - 23 Jan - ninja/samurai

[buloght]

I'm very unoriginal, so I thought it would be best following pirates with ninjas ...

So, design and sprite a ninja assasin or samurai warrior with constraints:

- 128 x 128 maximum pixels
- 24 colours

[Privateer Puddin']

Don't be silly, you never see ninjas!

[LUniqueDan]

Don't be silly, you never see ninjas!

Just asking, is there any adventure game so far who has a ninja playable character?

[Galen]

Don't be silly, you never see ninjas!

Ninjas are like the wind. You can't see it, but you can see it's effects.

[ThreeOhFour]

It took me ages to decide how to draw my ninja, then I remembered that real ninjas all wear hats.



6 colours unless you count the grey backdrop colour.

From cutlasses to katanas: Who can complain!?

Edit: Similar to last time, here is the character put into a scene, just for fun.



Again, 6 colours.

Ps, nice sprites Evil and SPC

[Evil]

I did both a ninja assassin and a samurai warrior. Old school fighter style in 3 colors!

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Just asking, is there any adventure game so far who has a ninja playable character?

I guess it depends on what you define 'adventure' to be, but there are lots of actiion-adventure games with ninjas, like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Gaiden

If you mean a standard point and click affair, though very simple:

http://www.ampgames.com/game/633/Bowja-The-Ninja.html

[SpacePirateCaine]

Put together a quick entry as a brief break from working on my most recent project. Hope you like!



Samurai. 40x110 pixels, 18 colors + transparency.

Fact: There are also 15 ninjas in this image.
Edit: Added a katana in his right hand, just for fun.

[Misj']

Some initial inspirational sketches I drew to see how to get the oriental look (and some armour things).


Samurai not in armour:
1x


The size-limit was a little too much to do justice to this (actually quite simple) design, so I provide two additional versions to show what the character looks like.
- click for 2x enlargement -
- click for 4x enlargement -

Total colours: 9 (from a classical art point of view, not from a pixel-art point of view).
Line-thickness is loosely based on Chinese and Japanese calligraphy to enhance his oriental looks. Other aspects of the design were kept simple and clean to focus on the fluidity of the stance:

The reason why I didn't give him an armour is because I felt this too would distract from the stance (which is a pity, since I would have liked to have a try and draw the armour). The thickness of the lines also accompany this fluidity of the stance (although I feel I could have done that better).

[Ghost]

As I tossed some ideas around I found antropomorphisation the best way to deal with the theme, so I went for a Gecko.

Geckos make perfect ninjas because they are agile, quick, carry their own poison supply, can do amazing leaps and, most important, are considered to taste nice when dried and put on a stick. They also can toss off their tail, a feat most human ninjas can't copy.

Twelve or so colours, 90x60. No intentional turtle reference at all 


x2

[TheJBurger]

Here is a generic, unoriginal, and unstylized ninja:


2x

Should be 6 colors + background

[ALPHATT]

I really like yours JBurger

edit: and yours Ben

[bog]

my boring ninja...

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I'd love to see Ghost's sprite with Ben's colors and on Ben's background.  And I have done it!

[ThreeOhFour]

I say, good show 

[Ghost]

Whee! Everybody's Kung Foo Fightin'!!

[Dudeman Thingface]

Steel yourselves for the somewhat symmetrial samurai!


- 16 colours

On a side note, while doing this, I found out that things drawn on my laptop may look good on it, but are horribly contrasted and saturated on any other machine.

[Matti]

On a side note, while doing this, I found out that things drawn on my laptop may look good on it, but are horribly contrasted and saturated on any other machine.

Yeah, regarding colors/brightness I did notice that too working with my new laptop. But a few days ago I managed get the contrast right and now everything looks like it was on my old PC.

[Charlo]

my simple ninja
7 colours

[IndieBoy]

He is swift, he is nimble, he is deadly..

..fat