Satoshi Matrix's Bead Sprites

[FamicomFreak]

Oh yeah I remember Sakura....she had a lesbo friend didn't she? LOL jk anyways I love your Mario sprites....those are sexy!

[satoshi_matrix]

Yeah, pretty much. What makes the japanese version of both the manga and anime so much better than the American translation is that the show portrays pretty much every kind of romance without judgment. So yes, you have childhood love, crushes, lesbian love, gay love, even bazarre-o love involving 10 year olds and 28 year olds. It's Japan keep in mind 


Anyway

Here's some more.

Time for me to go back and work on my specialty - color enhanced 8-bit sprites. And this time, I'm working on Megaman X! So here you go, a few X pieces.





Color corrected 8-bit Megaman X sprite. Original sprite from Megaman Xtreme for GBC.



Color corrected 8-bit Zero sprite.


Chill Penguin enhanced.

[satoshi_matrix]

Here's a few more color corrected 8-bit Megaman X mavricks.




Color corrected 8-bit Spark Mandrill.



Color corrected 8-bit Launch Octopus.



Color corrected 8-bit Storm Eagle. This is personally one of my favorite Megaman characters and subsequently one of my favorite sprites I've made.

[b1aCkDeA7h]

At least beads give you a bit more color variety than the medium I use: Legos. Here are my works / commissions thus far:

A certain fighter who likes swords:


Mario from the first (and I guess the second) game:


Link w/Triforce of Courage


Zelda w/Triforce of Wisdom


Bub:


The ending scene from Zelda 2:


And my biggest work to date, Dr. Mario:


Dr. Mario has switchable Pills and my initials on the back, some have nice "frames," I know I made a stand for Fighter and filled in the empty space on Bub so it was more solid looking. The rest were basically just built on solid flat boards that were big enough to accommodate the pixels.

[satoshi_matrix]

Nice. Whatever works for you. For me, the beads are where its at. Great first start. It would be nice to hear from FW regarding my X sprites though. Maybe because it was Super Famicom originally? haha.

[L___E___T]

That mario one totally made me think of the toy galaxy in SMG!

[UglyJoe]

Nice. Whatever works for you. For me, the beads are where its at. Great first start. It would be nice to hear from FW regarding my X sprites though. Maybe because it was Super Famicom originally? haha.

I'm really not familiar with the X series.  I think I know more about the games' horrible Engrish more than I know about their bosses

I liked the Sakura sprites, though.

edit: btw, a Shantae sequel is coming to DSiWare (linky)

[Cult]

Nice works

[satoshi_matrix]

OOO, now I need to get a DSi. Shantae is fantastic.

[Rogles]

who likes swords

8 Bit Theater is a masterpiece.

[b1aCkDeA7h]

Since beads are easier to acquire in varied colors than LEGOs, I think I'll use them next to do a colorized Kirby powerup icon.

[Medisinyl]

Been a while since I've done any beading (or even been on the forums).  Only just un-boxed the Famicom a couple days ago and all the bead stuff is still boxed (need to order blacks as well if I recall correctly).  Things have been somewhat hectic since selling my house and moving to this one.

Glad to see you've kept up with yours, and hopefully I'll be back at it eventually. 

[DDCecil]

Not sure if you guys saw this, but mezmoron over at Digital Press/Nintendo Age made this beauty:

[Rob64]

frggin sweet!

[satoshi_matrix]

Okay time for an update from me after such a long hiatus! Just got a fresh order from Michele and after digging out my boards and finally finding my old trusted tweezers, I'm ready for more beading! What should I do to celebrate my return? Why, Megaman of course!

Note that flickr seems to have changed in my hiatus and no longer allows direct links to images. Due to that I'm going to have to try using imgshack and am not totally sure this will work. Bare with me.

When I left off I had finished the robot masters from Megaman 9, so here's the follow up robot master portraits from Megaman 10.

As before, sprites have been minor color corrected to more closely match official artwork. Think of these as "enhanced".

Blade Man DWN-073


Pump Man DWN-074


Commando Man DWN-075


Chill Man DWN-076


Sheep Man DWN-077


Strike Man DWN-078


Nitro Man DWN-079


Solar Man DWN-080


All together (anyone know how I can create a thumbnail for these?)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30701966@N04/5415471552/

And compared to the their originals
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30701966@N04/5415470316/in/photostream/