Yeah, that post was made before I had played KoFXI. Wasn’t it in K’ Team ending they mentioned something about her still being alive… dood.
Here you go sir.
http://sdb.drshnaps.com/SpritesNeoGeo.htm#KoF99
http://www.gsarchives.net/index2.php?category=all&system=neogeo&letter=k
One of my favorites… King
Guess I got a thing for women with short hair now.
Elizabeth…
Yashiro
Shermie is hands down my favorite Female character I like shermies mannerisms
Thats some frazy stages you have. I cant find Magaki’s anywhere!!!
I dont know about his stages but here he is.
While I’m always the SF fan, I’ve grown to love KoF just for it’s sprite work. While the SF2-> SF2T’s sprite addtions such as Ryu’s F.HP seemed out of place in light of the older sprites, KOF seems to do better in meshing the old with the new especially when it came to the post 98 series.
We remember Kyo having a new outfit which was a change to his old, however what I found great was the evolution of his new DM which seemed a bit over indulgent into something that seemed more rationale and cool looking:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4931/c03td4.gif
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/9781/c03qk8.gif
Iori also had a change from cumbersome recycling of old sprites in 2k into redrawn straight out of an anime sequences in 2K1 onwards:
http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/8250/d01wp8.gif
http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/2521/c03go7.gif
It’s that same minimal but full of effort incremental improvements that always sort of impresses me about SNK. It’s like a proper tease but worth it sometimes much like one of my fav characters Krizalid went from sort of cool looking to even more cool looking with the simple addition of more pom poms and another trenchcoat:
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/240/a01ul2.gif
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5902/a23ni7.gif
It’s not all consistent though. While SNK seems to want to show that their games are relavent by giving us some instances of smooth SMOOTH animation, Sometimes it looks out of place with the often janky and limited in comparison sprites we’ve come to know. You’ve see Kim’s leg cuffs of hypnotism but one that always catches my eye was Real Kyo 99’s intro.
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/8193/a40xo3.gif
OC
Since I’m biased toward her anyway, a couple more for Kula.
Stumble upon just brought me to this thread. I never would have found it otherwise, but I think it’s really funny that I end up here even when I’m not trying to. This thread is really cool. I have always appreciated SNK’s sprites for their realism. The characters have always looked alot better than Capcom’s. What I really enjoyed seeing was CvS2’s character portraits. Depending on the groove you selected, you could see SNK characters drawn in Capcom’s style or Capcom characters in SNK style.