Ah hah.



The concept of an underwater arena is quite intriguing. What I don't understand is the color scheme. Everything in the background is blue and then all of a sudden the floor and subway entrance (terrible choice of a prop, by the way) are a hideous poop colored green/brown mixture. Why is there graffity and posters in this arena? That just makes zero sense.

I like the glowing effect on the light bulbs.

Those bubbles are way, way... WAY too huge and look very out of place.

Is Shao Kahn's blue tower supposed to be a miniature model or what? There's no transition to what's up front to what's going on behind. No gate. No wall. Nothing. Just a floor and then BAM there's a tower in the back.

Help me understand this better. Is this (as in the MK3 streets props area) where the characters are fighting within some kind of chamber that has an air supply? And what we see in the background is the area submerged in water? If so, at least put some effects in the backdrop to make it appear as if it was glass of a window or something. Or put up some walls which contain small windows because I highly doubt glass could withstand so much pressure.

What would even be more cool is to add a glass cracking effect with water pouring in, and if the timer runs out it floods with water. Add some dangerous swimming animals or something to make it interesting.

The underwater arena idea is now trashed XD (Sorry, I tried at least though).

Do you wanna know what made saiZero so good? She took in criticism and ideas from others and actually applied them to her initial attempts.

She turned this...

Into this:


And this...

Into this:


And this...

Into this:


And the most impressive improvement of all... this

INTO THAT!!


So before you give up (which is only what losers do, by the way) why don't you keep your idea and just try again?

Goobie you shouldn't give up so easily ...We all agree that the concept is great , just needs more fine tuning..Maybe add a few more elements (a glass dome or something) and try to get to colors to match...I myself still have problems with matching color and hues , but where I do not know what to do I ask...Saizero , Bs , Tetra_vega , riki and all the others helped me out , they wanna help u improve not make u quit...I'm a big fan of custom arenas and would hate to see u stop making them...

goobie isnt a quitter. thats why he's going to try again.

Yes. I shall try again! WITH ALL MY MIGHT. Nope! Just kidding. Sorry guys, but the idea has already been scrapped. I'll come back to it later if I really want to.

*sigh*



And how long after you posted the original did it take you to decide this and edit your message?

I trust you're moving on to a better arena and/or fake concept?

Just a random fake I made, maybe it's good, maybe it's not? Meh. Well, anyway, this is "Spider's" Fatality called "Catching a Cold." Spider is a pink ninja who has half of his body transparent (legs, chest, etcetera). I hope you like it!

Sorry for the double post, but I just made a new arena that I actually think is pretty cool. It's basically Mario Bros. X Mortal Kombat? Apparently so:

8bit kombat = kick ass

Looking forward to seeing mini MK sprites in that arena.

Suggestion: design some props to give an "MK feeling" to it. It looks to mario and needs some "outworld influence" in it. Having just a floor from MK doesn't match the 8bit looking background. If its Mario X MK, then they should be fighting in a mario-like world. Not just with a mario background on the floor of an MK background.

Found this on google... hopefully it gives you some ideas:

BlackSaibot: I'll definintely look into it! Good idea with the "Outworld Influence" thing. By the way, did you see my previous Fatality fake?

A mk 8bit world would be great...But it might be kinda hard to make this happened ...Maybe u could make a recreation of the mario world using mk props...Something along the line :

http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee513/SnakeEyeTony/Stages%20and%20Fakes/Mariofakeconcept_zpsf232e046.png

Just to give u an idea...

You guys realize this isn't a project, right? Just a little fun experiment.

1. I am not fond of your use of black font for "Spider" I can barely read it. I suggest you cut and paste letters from pre-existing MK character names to come up with lifebar names. It will look a lot better than typing them in with paint/gimp. Same goes for the timer.

2. Don't copyright something you don't own. NRS owns this. Plus we all know it's a fake copyright anyway. Just a watermark of your username will suffice.

3. The fatality itself is original, but the death scene doesn't have... well......... any real death. What we're looking at is the "kill" about to happen. The spikes haven't even entered Noob Saibot's mouth yet to impale him. Therefore, the fatality sign should have been removed. This would have worked better as a two (maybe even three) frame fake if you want to show the "before, during and after" of the fatality.

4. There is no "Spider Wins" text to match your Fatality sign.

5. Spider seems to be missing legs. Are parts of his outfit supposed to be transparent? Or is that just a bad copy and paste?

6. Spider wins yet he has no icons under his health bar to indicate the amount of rounds he won.

Remember... fakes were created to fool the audience. By now, of course, it's an expression of art but most fakers still pay homage by maintaining believable elements that are consistent with the game.

A few amateur fakes...Just practicing matching colors for stage props and keeping goobies thread going :D
Fake 1:

Fake 2 :

Fake 3 :
Sheeva nudeality (go to link)
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee513/SnakeEyeTony/Stages%20and%20Fakes/SheevaNudealityfake_zpsf00fd21d.png
Credits:ghost sprite by Arctic
And a few abandoned stage concepts:


These started as an interest in the tekunin flesh pits concept, but i am not satisfied with how they turnded out(i suck at drawing liquid) , plus the guy asked for an animated arena ... Edit: deleted the Dune Stage from photobucket...

Smoke vs Nightwolf - Great looking fake. I like the mix of human and cyborg showing a more hybrid form. The only complaint I have is Nightwolf being grayed out (including his glow effect). That makes the fake a little plain as far as eye candy goes. The life bars are really great but I'm not liking the win counter font.

Ermac vs Liu Kang - Great job with the telekinetic glow effect. I've never seen his telekinesis used for such a body ripping and painful fatality. The arena is good too, except for the discolored trees. The trunks should be more on the brown side and the leaves look too blue and need to be closer to the green color spectrum.

Morgue Arena - Very good job. I love the little fans. Everything looks well fit together. You should add at least one uncovered corpse on one of those stretchers.

Lab Arena - It's a great start, but needs some work. The wall's pattern kills it. It's way too repetitive. The bubbles are huge and are follow a pattern and aren't randomized enough with their placement. The corpse has an excellent mixture of both red colored flesh and "acid melting" flesh. Great editing.

Dune Arena - The placement of two skulls so close to each other doesn't fit right. The only time I've ever seen sand that color was at a Caribbean beach or at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Not liking the color scheme on this one.

I will not lie, you've made better before, but that is not to say these are all terrible. Keep up the great work and continue your improvement.

Thanks for the feedback bs ...
The trees stage...made the mistake of merging the layers and not saving progress...I know i messed up there , i'll remake it when i have the time...
The fans and strechers are props from sftm chunli stage...
The dune stage was suppose to be a widder stage(800 or 900 px) with statues from Primal rage and a few more props , this is the short version...i might get back to it sometime...
As for the lab stage , the wall looks like that because it was supposed to look metalic...The corpse isn't edited,it is part of umk3 reptile's fatality...I don't really draw stufff , i take preexisting props and modify them...

Made the stage again ...Made it in a hurry ,so hope it's ok .
Edit1 :
Was messing around with some props and this turned out...

The "Forest" stage looks a lot better now.
Very awesome soul steal. I've never seen it done that way before. That is quite the creative idea.

We-he-he-herd! (WORD!!)

Very interesting fakes. The forest is an especially nice change.

We need more forest/garden/Edenia ruins or House of Pekara type stages.



Ka-Tra

That garden looks awesome! Very creative use of sprites!

I made a flayed Sheeva this morning. I've no idea what to do with it though. I had a go at having Sindel scream her skin off but it didn't really work well. Thoughts, ideas, critiques are more than welcome.

That looks pretty good... The Sindel scream fatality idea is not bad , but the sprite seems like it might fit better in a Tremor fatality scene(a sand blast ripping the flesh of her boddy) or maybe in a Fujin fatality(a powerful wind blast)...Anyway great edit.

This is something I made last year(sorry i didn't have the time to make a new one this year...)

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
And to all a ' Flawless ' New Year !!!

Woa I didn't even notice your Merry Christmas post. What a shame. Very creative "Mrs. Clause" sprite. Keith, awesome Sheeva sprite edit!

Here's yet another Mortal Kombat Trilogy Nitro select screen.

I love it. Looks very legit.
It isnt cluttered with 100+ retarded faces like those ridiculous mugen games. Haha u added Emerald, nice!!