Mighty Redone - a sprite mod for Sonic Mania Plus
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Mighty Redone - a sprite mod for Sonic Mania Plus
howdy all! i've been posting about this plenty on twitter and occasionally in my thread in art showcase, but i've been working on an art & animation mod for Sonic Mania Plus that reworks the sprites for Mighty the Armadillo, one of the two characters added to the game through the Plus DLC/retail expansion. both characters added in Plus are lacking in a few ways, art-wise, but i have a specific attachment to Mighty that fueled me working on reshading, redrawing, and reanimating him to this degree. (Sonic Mania has a lot of animations per character and a lot of frames per animation!!!)
the mod isn't finished yet, but it's getting pretty close! the above video showcases Mighty's original sprites vs. my edits in a simple playthrough of Green Hill Zone Act 1 and has a voiceover where i go over the goals of and motivations behind the project.
if you'd like to see more, i've posted a bunch of animations and videos on twitter already like i mentioned up up! you can find a bunch of stuff scattered in my media tab, or you can look at this comparison gif thread to see a lot of the content i've made for Mighty Redone:
https://twitter.com/crappyblue/status/1 ... 3089410048
i'm hoping to get this thing wrapped up somewhere in the next month, hopefully! out of effectively 80-ish(!!) animations, i've got roughly 10 left to do, but one of them is a 24-frame monstrosity:
and another is a subpixeling mess:
both of which involve a lot of redrawing since their base sprites are different now... which is why they've ended up in this final pool of "animations i put off until this point"
Re: Mighty Redone - a sprite mod for Sonic Mania Plus
This looks great! I never even thought that Mighty's sprites needed improvement, but the subtle changes do add more personality to the character. I did always find his victory animation a bit strange, so that replacement in particular is very appreciated. It's too bad I only own Plus on PS4
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Re: Mighty Redone - a sprite mod for Sonic Mania Plus
i finished all the mini mighty animations for Metallic Madness Act 2, so i made a silly little video to showcase a bunch of them in gameplay!