Cuttlefish sprite redesign - finished

[thespaceinvader]

Though that will only be for special cases - like boss villains. Like the Kraken, I presume... Don't make it tooooo big, but don't worry about hex breaking.

[Mefisto]

I'm tired. Done so far:

[Mefisto]

Finished poison attack animation. What remains is melee animation and death. And probably floating? The pose of cuttlefish in a frame I'm using now as standing looks like a threatening and I'm thinkin about treating it as kind of "Draw weapon" frame.

[Captain_Wrathbow]

Beautiful.

[Limabean]

On the subject of the Kraken...
It's a giant sea creature that crushes entire ships. What is wrong with giving it an unusually large sprite?

A remember reading that when the fire dragon gets remade, it will be significantly larger than a hex. The Kraken is basically the sea equivalent, so it deserves an equally large sprite.

[Gambit]

This cuttlefish is actually large enough to wrap around our current ship sprites.

[A-Red]

This cuttlefish is actually large enough to wrap around our current ship sprites.

Yeah, but so is the Peasant.

[Captain_Wrathbow]

Yeah, but so is the Peasant.

Maybe the ship sprites are due for a tune-up?

[Fog]

Ships would take up entire maps if they were at scale with regular units. Though, they could be bigger.

[Captain_Wrathbow]

And units would be much much smaller if they were to scale with the terrain. (trees are knee-high to our Lvl0 sprites and a Lvl3 is easily the size of a mountain.)

But enough off-topic! Somebody post on-topic to get back on track.

[Mefisto]

Work in progress. I made blocking animation of melee attack and tired to simulate in-game appearance. It looks like that:

[Sapient]

I think you may have chosen a baseframe standing pose that is too passive, although it is based on nature. This is not a normal neutral animal, it is a monster which should inspire some fear at its initial appearance. One of the frames from your attack animation would probably fit the bill, IMHO.

[Mefisto]

When you see a triangle fin over the sea sufrace coming in your direction you are becoming frightened enough, though the owner of this fin didn't even open his mouth and his moves aren't rapid. I think cuttlefish monster doesn't need to wander everywhere with tentacles spread to induce fear in potential victims. The same with every large predator.

[Mefisto]

What do you think about Metasepia pfefferi as a model for kraken? (No worries, I'm still working on cuttlefish).

[Peter the Great]

Seems a tad small to be a giant ship sinking Kraken.