Drum Arena? Except for the drummers, this looks like um... the mountain stage, with the deathtrap where they kick you into the wall & budda statue drops on them.

The bazooka shading looks like a cut out screencap. It looks pretty much perfect, just touch up the rear end a bit. The shading on Jax' pants is too smooth.

I don't know why you abandoned this, it would've been a fine contest entry.



Ka-Tra

I've always wanted to try my hand at one of these...


Very good job on Jax's sprite. Only thing that looks weird are his boots, arms, and hat. A very good improvement over the work in progress you showed me. The rocket launcher is very good for being hand drawn, but too blurry. There should have been fire coming from the launcher as well.

You get a F for not finishing Kano's MKDA sprite... but LMFAO @ HIM PISSING HIS PANTS!!! Konga (sp? - The drummer) looks good, but he's supposed to be a bit wider (muscular). For some reason your sprite makes the guy look fat-bellied rather than having a built upper body.

As far as the arena is concerned, everything is good except the backdrop. It does not fit at all. What the FUCK happened to no more Google images? Great use of MK1 props (damn you like MK1 don't you?). Awesome job with the floor and the dragon logo on the gravel.

The life bar text sucks. The shadows are HIDEOUS. I can tell you wanted to make them angled, but... no. Just no.

One silly thing that bothers me though, is the logic. How could Kano have pissed that much urine out of anxiety? Unless Jax was standing there for quite some time with the rocket launcher taunting him BEFORE he decided to pull the trigger. Okay, I just answered my own question. Ignore me.

I don't think she had the wrong idea...

A pretty difficult arena to recreate in 2D. Although, the Golden Desert is similar (only with respect to the fact there's an Asian building in front of a mountain), the buildings are obviously VERY different. I think she did good with what she had available to her.

It's an entertaining concept. The stage comes together well except for the blurry stone wall mesh in the background. Some of the coolest parts of the drum arena were the blankets of sand that blew around on stage. It would've been nice to see that effect represented here in some form. Now that I think about it MKDA had some great graphics that still hold up to this day.

I agree with ultimateryu...the stage looks great ,except for the stone wall.
The concept behind the fake is good,but the shadows are not at all great(they are to tilted)...Also (maybe it's just me) jax's right hand position seems a bit strange...

By Drum Arena, I was thinking the Wu Shi Academy.



Ka-Tra