A valis fighting game?

more already? that's great!!

looks so girlish and cute

I always imagined that Kenshin as a teenager boy, but now, OH, he's tough, nicely done

and ... I will leave it for Soldier

betaflex1 wrote:

Looks better than what I usually produce for armor! I also noticed the choice of anchor points for the sketches (such as the balls that formed a head base, hip base,...). I've been trying to work with anchor points as to get the form proportioned properly, but the perspective angles (arms going towards/away from the view) are a killer to draw. I always feel like the perspective attempts end up going sideways.

well, proportions are quite a pain, If I must say..

quite while back, I've never used structure and my draws were a complete shit.. (sorry my french)
so when I started to rethink my style, a handfull bunch of friends told me that I should use structure to make the body..
andrew loomis was a very good guide, I recommend it..
and well, turn those proportions in manga was hardsome, but here they are
hope that you like them
never give up in drawing, betaflex1, this branch of drawing is endless and you can inprove forever, but you have to want to...
that's what I think.

evilReiko wrote:

more already? that's great!!

looks so girlish and cute

I always imagined that Kenshin as a teenager boy, but now, OH, he's tough, nicely done

and ... I will leave it for Soldier

well, taking the concepts of from the old games, well, they were too old..to early 90's ...
like DIRTY PAIR , don't take me wrong!! I love that art.. one of my favorites manga artist is KENICHI SONODA and BUBBLEGUM OVA SERIES where my top anime then..
so... I've just revamped her to make her more... actual? you know..
I've tried to made her spunkier like in the ingame cinemas in that valis game.. so...

again... I'm glad that you like
about kenshin.. well, talking about the actitude...
ah...! can't spoil that
but the thing is that he is over the average teen...
I wanted to make a more phisical character, even with the armor, you can see that he got a worked body... and well, to carry such sword, you need that body..

Rena, rena rena... she turned pretty simple if I can say..
I have quite a headache making her... so in final results, I've just put her in a standar pose holding (an invisible) Sword of Valis
hope too that Soldier like her

greetings and thanks to all

Keisuke, I think that is really awesome, but her face is... ummm.. is showing that she's "older" <--- IMO

oh, BTW, I love how Kenshin came out, so great! but, isn't he suppose to be a good guy? why he has that evil smug on his face? IMO, that smug is turning him to evil.. somehow

Keisuke Nonohara wrote:

and Rena, rena rena... she turned pretty simple if I can say..
I have quite a headache making her... so in final results, I've just put her in a standar pose holding (an invisible) Sword of Valis
hope too that Soldier like her

I can't take a look yet...
Now I'm working in Umbrella HQ...
far from my home, I have internet only in my job... but they're watching me...
and I can't visit lots of sites... they're blocked...
luckily, I can still post here, but I can't watch images or watch videos...
so I guess I'll hafta wait a little more to let you know my comment...

so far, I'm sure she looks so pretty....
I trust your work

Keisuke Nonohara wrote:

well, proportions are quite a pain, If I must say..

quite while back, I've never used structure and my draws were a complete shit.. (sorry my french)
so when I started to rethink my style, a handfull bunch of friends told me that I should use structure to make the body..
andrew loomis was a very good guide, I recommend it..
and well, turn those proportions in manga was hardsome, but here they are
hope that you like them
never give up in drawing, betaflex1, this branch of drawing is endless and you can inprove forever, but you have to want to...
that's what I think.

I took a brief shot at your method of shaping the body, using the balls as anchor points to make a form, and it worked out quite nicely! Too bad I ended up ditching the small paper I tested it on because I did it at work and too many annoying customers broke the flow of the art. -_-

Nonetheless, I think I found a new way to create different forms now. Thanks!

I certainly think the armor is pretty neat! It is certainly waaaay better than what I can ever do.

I swear, Kenshin's outfit sort of reminds me of the armors that the male characters wear in their transformed state in Hiryu no Ken 2 and onward. Was that the inspiration? Or at least one of the "armored sentai" shows like Saint Seiya/Knights of the Zodiac? Just curious.

Wow! A Valis fighting game. This is looking really good.

Both Keisuke Nonohara and Shadow blade; You are putting a ton of effort into this and it shows! The music is good and the artwork and coloring is top notch! I also love the select screen with the characters arranged in a hexegon. I hope this select screen makes the final cut.

I can't wait until the final release

evilReiko wrote:

Keisuke, I think that is really awesome, but her face is... ummm.. is showing that she's "older" <--- IMO

oh, BTW, I love how Kenshin came out, so great! but, isn't he suppose to be a good guy? why he has that evil smug on his face? IMO, that smug is turning him to evil.. somehow

for Rena, well, I always though that she was in some way more mature than Amu.
so to make a character contrast, Rena is much serious and mature than Amu
but she's quite reckless in the task of Valis Soldier than Yuko
that's a characteristic that we gonna use, most likely in the representation of the stand of both characters: Yuko and Rena.
'cuz they both are now Valis Senshi (at least Yuko makes a quick comeback in that form) they share similarities in the stand and some basic moves
but the final overall, they are quite diferentes..
Yuko is Left Handed (when facing right) and Rena is Right handed

and about Kenshin
Kenshin is not evil. he is quite arrogant, but not evil at all
let's take some Ken masters and Kyo Kusanagi and and mixing some post-teen actitud that you totally rock anything in front of you
the character was portraited in a way as a confident character like those two that I've mentioned...

iannafei wrote:

I certainly think the armor is pretty neat! It is certainly waaaay better than what I can ever do.

I swear, Kenshin's outfit sort of reminds me of the armors that the male characters wear in their transformed state in Hiryu no Ken 2 and onward. Was that the inspiration? Or at least one of the "armored sentai" shows like Saint Seiya/Knights of the Zodiac? Just curious.

a lot of places are inspiration for the armor that Kenshin is wearing for this game...I could say that..yes.. this could be some kind of saint seiya style ..but...hoho...
the true is that I have a chinese friend...a great artist that he is in love of medieval and tecnological stuff..
and he lent me some desings to make me the things easier..
he's currently helping me to make some other things related to the project
but well, since he's in china and me in argentina, the time distance make the things hard to both of us to be at the same time.
thanks for the comment. this things make us (and me more and more) to keep it up for the making of this game

Silence the Fallen wrote:

Wow! A Valis fighting game. This is looking really good.

Both Keisuke Nonohara and Shadow blade; You are putting a ton of effort into this and it shows! The music is good and the artwork and coloring is top notch! I also love the select screen with the characters arranged in a hexegon. I hope this select screen makes the final cut.

I can't wait until the final release bounce

well thanks to you for the encouraging
the first time Shadowblade contacted me 'bout the making of this title, he only asked me to make the artwork
them I suggested that it could be really cool if the game had full original sprites rather than pixel edited from another games, mostly CvS I recall
and then..well, I was making designs and checking the HOW-TO-SPRITE stuff...
and here we are..
hoping to make something that could really be enjoyable by a lot of people
I'm really fond of making this game and I'm putting some quite effort to make it good for all of you
and yes...seems this game is gonna be quite heavy...
animations, music, opening and endings....holy cow...
the final concept of the game targets like 300 or 350 o even...400 (I should say...500 to make it all ) mb for a simple 6 + 1 characters fighting game..
hoho.... some quite spoiler I've made for a non-complete game yet
well, that's all for today...

I wanna denote that Shadowblade showed me a link of a japanese Valis Forum or BBS I recall it was... anyway. seems that the news about the making of the game is reaching there..
let's hope for their support too

byes for now...

Keisuke Nonohara wrote:

Spoiler:

I finally see !!!!

she looks soooo pretty...!!!!

congratulations Keisuke... you're very talented...
I'm still supporting you guys... it's just that now I can't post so often...
and I can't watch pictures in my job...

but I fully trust you!
keep on the good work!!!

not too much to say but..
i've finished inking the new portraits

the rest is on SHADOWBLADE to add color

here is a compilated image of the six characters

warning! the images is quite big on the sides

2838 x 943

Spoiler:

thanks again for reading

OMG that's fantastic, and pretty fast

nicely detailed, clear and beauitful

Thats not bad! I'll put that in my archives of Valis pics.

Well, some pics finished, this format will be used to the character profiles in the VC webpage:





And work on the other characters.

that's so neat & beautiful !

looks so... ok, I will leave this part to be described by Soldier

and... finally she was drawn with red eyes I love her smug and pose totally awesome work, keep it up

I'd like to see Kenshin in color, but I like Lena's and Reiko's revised pictures for the profiles.

Kenji (yes... name now is "Kenji Yanase"...) profile available and the Rena and Reiko too, you see it in the webpage:

http://valiscoliseum.awardspace.com/chars.html

BTW, I need to made some fixes in the "button" characters, but first, I need to finish the university homework (*UCK!!) and then some rest...

Comments about profiles are welcome.

Kenji The First Valis Fantasm Male Soldier Nice touch!

Kenji huh? that's so great I like how he turned out and I think his name now is better than before

wait a second.... what's that behind him!?? it's Leethus! he's holding Leethus no doubt

Valna wrote:

Kenji The First Valis Fantasm Male Soldier Nice touch!

Well, Kenji wouldn't exactly the first male hero of the Valis series. That is, if you count Asufal/Asufar (true, he wasn't in the SNES version of Valis IV, but was in the PCE version).

Anyway, good job with the art so far, Shadow Blade! I especially like how Kenji's armor looks a lot like a masculine version of Yuko's Valis 3 armor.

Valna wrote:

Kenji The First Valis Fantasm Male Soldier Nice touch!

iannafei wrote:

Well, Kenji wouldn't exactly the first male hero of the Valis series. That is, if you count Asufal/Asufar (true, he wasn't in the SNES version of Valis IV, but was in the PCE version).

well.. I guess meant Kenji is the First Valis Fantasm Male Human Solider because all are males, but not humans

evilReiko wrote:

well.. I guess meant Kenji is the First Valis Fantasm Male Human Solider because all are males, but not humans

Yeah, you got a point there.

I think Kenji would be the second Human Male Fantasm Soldier. If ya recall in the PCE version to Valis 3, there was a cutscene about the history of the swords, displaying a female and male (barbarian-esque in a way) with both Valis and Lethus (Leethus? Lethis?). The female had Valis, while the male had Lethus.

I finally was able to ta a look....

Shadow Blade wrote:

Spoiler:

looks so strong... so full of life...

I love her eyes...
I can't wait to check the full game complete..
the story... the chars... the game...
my sweet ....
keep on the good work!!!

I knew that would turn you on. Well duh!

Shadow Blade wrote:

Well, some pics finished, this format will be used to the character profiles in the VC webpage:





And work on the other characters.

:: gives a standing ovation for these pieces ::

Wow...that just looks awesome.

Finally, character section has been updated, new chars' buttons and the profile of Rena, Kenji, Yuko, Reiko and Amu are available, of course use Babylon Fish to traslate languaje:

http://valiscoliseum.awardspace.com/chars.html

Comments please.

Of course, we work on the game.

Lookin' good, there! Makes me wonder who the last fighter will be

OOOOH! OOOOH! Im betting Valna is next! WOOT! Nice selection.

oh is so adorable with her Leethus sword and black stockings (wait a second, is that really leethus in her hand )

is also amazing with her yellow dress, I think she had more of green dress in the original game anyway, the yellow looks awesome too and she has new blades

oh guys, don't you think you forgot to place with them

evilReiko wrote:

(wait a second, is that really leethus in her hand)

Yuko's sword is an semblance to the original Valis sword showed in the old anime promo for the NES version of Mugen Senshi Valis, same the Reiko's sword, the Leethus sword is now in Kenji's hands.