VeganFlapjacks Various Creations (recreations and legacy costumes)

[VeganFlapjack]

Here's some stuff I've made, hopefully you enjoy it. Criticism and advice welcome, however I do have a preference for keeping designs simple, so I'm unlikely to use a lot of patterns/stickers/etc, as I think it makes it look messy.

YOSHIMITSU LEGACY COSTUMES

Spoiler: Tekken 1

Spoiler: Tekken 2

Spoiler: Tekken 3

Spoiler: Soul Calibur 1

KUNIMITSU

Spoiler: Tekken 1

Spoiler: Tekken 2

MISC LEGACY COSTUMES

Spoiler: SIEGFRIED! (Soul Blade Nightmare)

Spoiler: SC2 Ivy 2P

Spoiler: Soul Blade Cervantes

PS1 HEROES

Spoiler: Raziel Soul Reaver

Spoiler: Fargus Pandemonium!

Spoiler: Abe Oddworld Series

Spoiler: Tekken 2 Devil

Spoiler: Daniel Medievil

Spoiler: Laguna FF8

Spoiler: Laguna Galbadian Soldier FF8

MISC

Spoiler: Creature from the Black Lagoon

 

[Rusted Blade]

What a great collection of retro throwbacks--I hope there's more to come!

 

[VeganFlapjack]

What a great collection of retro throwbacks--I hope there's more to come!

Thanks! There's plenty more to come... though I'm not sure how long it'll take to finish them.
I've pretty much uploaded my best creations, so the stuff I'm working on now (Tekken 4 Yoshi, Soul Cal 2 Yoshi, Tekken 7 Yoshi) are the creations that have been giving me the biggest grief.

 

[Heniek]

Those are indeed great but that Raziel absolutely destroyed. Neat!

 

[Gatsu]

Haha see Fargus and Abe took me by surprise, definitely characters i did'nt seen from a while :D

I think at the moment TK3 Yoshi is your best one, but i believe with a bit of refinement SC1 Yoshi can steal his crown

I allow myself to give you a little advice only because you asked for it:
Give a chance to patterns and stickers.
You said a big truth on the risk of fall into the messy side, but you ever have the control to keep a texture "soft" over a surface if is what you prefer.
I see you got good eye for colors too, wich help greatly at that

 

[VeganFlapjack]

Haha see Fargus and Abe took me by surprise, definitely characters i did'nt seen from a while :D

I think at the moment TK3 Yoshi is your best one, but i believe with a bit of refinement SC1 Yoshi can steal his crown

I allow myself to give you a little advice only because you asked for it:
Give a chance to patterns and stickers.
You said a big truth on the risk of fall into the messy side, but you ever have the control to keep a texture "soft" over a surface if is what you prefer.
I see you got good eye for colors too, wich help greatly at that

Pandemonium! is my childhood game, I've made Fargus from the sequel as well, but it's currently... lacking.
I'm going to give SC1 Yoshi another go, but can I ask what you personally think it's lacking? I'm actually not super familiar with SC1 so it's hard to find reference pictures.

Anyway, here's the second batch, not quite as polished as the first batch of characters, but I started by posting my best characters.

YOSHIMITSU LEGACY COSTUMES

Spoiler: Yoshimitsu SC2

Ugh, I'm not happy with his arm, but the more detail I put into his arm the less I can put into his face, so it's trying to find a decent compromise

PS1 HEROES

Spoiler: Nikki Pandemonium!

Spoiler: Nikki Pandemonium 2

NES HEROES

Spoiler: Link Legend of Zelda

I feel like ever since SC2, it's been a tradition for people to recreate Link, I wanted to do something a little different than the traditional OOT look though.

Spoiler: Simon Castlevania 2

Not 100% accurate, but I wanted to go for something inspired by both the artwork and the original pixel art (White Gloves!)

MISC

Spoiler: Ashley J Williams Evil Dead/Army of Darkness

I'd been trying to recreate this character perfectly for ages, and it looked lame and lackluster, so instead I opted for quality before accuracy, hopefully I still captured the Ash vibes...

Spoiler: Frankenstein Van Helsing Inspired

Pictures don't really do this one justice, I've used clipping objects on his chest to give the illusion of a flashing electrical core (like Necrid)

Spoiler: Jason Voorhees

A bit of a boring one, but it's actually just a palette swap of the NES Jason, which I made first

Spoiler: Jason Voorhees NES

 

[HappyColour]

That Tekken 2 Devil brought back my historical trauma just by looking at it! Some great creations in here, but that one in particular stands out to me. Haven't seen anyone think to do that yet, and it is pretty darn spot on. Nice one! : )

 

[Rusted Blade]

I allow myself to give you a little advice only because you asked for it:
Give a chance to patterns and stickers.
You said a big truth on the risk of fall into the messy side, but you ever have the control to keep a texture "soft" over a surface if is what you prefer.
I see you got good eye for colors too, wich help greatly at that

Normally I'd agree with you that patterns/stickers are essential for giving almost any design a sense of polish and completeness. In this instance, however, I think the simple colours and contours are a big part of the charm and part of how the designs replicate the original low-res surfaces and shapes of the alluded-to originals.

 

[Gatsu]

I'm going to give SC1 Yoshi another go, but can I ask what you personally think it's lacking? I'm actually not super familiar with SC1 so it's hard to find reference pictures

No problem, here the pic

https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters4/soshi-sc-stand1.jpg

If you want give a try i think you can work on the green cloth areas to go closer to the render pic, other possible improvement i think may be reconsider the waist piece choice, sadly SC6 does'nt offer many options at that (specially japanese style ones) but i think Redemption (siegfreid's piece) or white knight pieces can offer closer result[/spoiler]