#bond man

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a take on bond man

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[missjukebox8bit]

I think Wapeach and Bond Man should be friends

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I reshaded ZEDIC0N's Bond Man sprite to fit the Wily Wars style.

(Click "Keep reading" for some development tidbits!)

I was listening to Woodfrog's Wily Wars cover of Glue Man's stage theme from Mega Man Unlimited when I realised that considering how short the loop is, it could actually work really well as a theme for Bond Man. So I got the idea to reshade a Bond Man sprite to fit with Wily War's style.

I initially used MarshadowSlime's Bond Man sprite, but I realised soon after starting that...the sprite doesn't really lend itself well to the Wily Wars art style, though an attempt was made...

(No hate for MarshadowSlime's original sprite at all by the way! It simply works best in 8-bit.)

So, I started over using ZEDIC0N's Bond Man sprite, as Wily Wars often completely resprited the robot masters, so I considered Morshadow's sprite the regular MM1 sprite, with ZEDIC0N's being the theoretical resprite for Wily Wars.

I wanted to utilise Wily Wars' colours as much as I could, so instead of keeping the bright orange from the original sprite, I opted to use a more pinkish orange, seen in some of Mega Man's palettes. I also used Mega Man's shaded skin colour for the additional shading.

I knew that Wily Wars also liked to give the robot masters eye colours, so I wanted to replicate that too. I actually opted to use a few colours from Mega Man's Metal Blade palette, with an additional colour simply taken from Bond Man himself. I think it ended up looking good.

As for the shading around his black parts, I didn't know how to go about it at first, as you saw in the early sprite attempt. However, I actually ended up taking a few notes from Elec Man's sprite:

There, he uses a sort of purplish shine, and it's rather subtle. I admit I may have not done the best job at it, but I'd say it's certainly better than the early sprite's attempt at it, haha.

The feet were extremely hard to do and I'm not exactly proud of how I did it. I suppose it works fine enough though. It certainly could have been way worse.

So yeah, that's sort of the "development history" of this sprite. I actually had a lot of fun writing about it, so I might do something like this again with future art (if there's anything interesting to talk about). If you made it to the end of this, thanks for reading. It means a lot. =>

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I finished my first Custom set of Robots for my Electric Heart AU. Two of them aren't necessarily original... but I just think it would be cool to see them in a proper group is all. This adventure happens in place of the first four gameboy titles, when Dr. Wily randomly kidnaps and brainwashes the robots of a young scientist named Dr Lindsey Melody. As usual, Xaiver dons the persona of Mega man and sets out to track down the brainwashed bots, unaware Wily has an even bigger surprise for him later.

First, finally getting some spotlight, Bond man.

Based on one of Dr Light's scrapped concepts, Bond man is a construction robot who uses a strong adhesive where nails and bolts just don't seem to do the trick. He's big into building things with his hands and using his glue for any kind of job, be it a large scale construction project, or a simple paper craft he makes at home. His weapon, Bonding agent, is a glob of construction glue that freezes enemies in place, and it sends flying enemies crashing to the ground. I don't really know if Glue fits with any element... so he's Tech for it being a construction tool. His weakness is the Arctic Spiral, since cold temperatures can make some adhesives weaker and brittle.

Next is Geo woman, my AU equivalent to Quake woman from the archie comics.

Geo woman is a mining robot who specializes in collecting geological samples for scientific studies, who also likes to collect ores and minerals on the side. While some of the other robots find her hobbies a little boring, she's very polite and passionate about what intrests her. Her weapon, the Geode grinder, is a drill that digs along through the ground before turning sharply upwards when it hits an enemy or wall. Her element is Earth, and her weakness is Destructo Blast.

Now for my first original robot master, Kindle man.

Kindle man is a small furnace cleaning robot who cares about his mental spiritual well being. Despite how grumpy he looks, he loves company, and will even share his scented candles with anyone who asks politely. He also likes to attend meditation seminars with Magnet man. His Weapon, the Kindle Blaze, is a flaming match that splits into two flames when it hits a wall, floor, or ceiling, and it sets some enemies on fire. His weakness is the Water Spout, and his element is Fire.

Battery Woman

Battery Woman's job is to build and recharge specialized industrial grade batteries with multiple uses, and she has electrically charged hands and a high powered generator on her back to help with this. Knowing she's a really tall robot, she takes great pride in her height, able to look Guts man in the eye. Her weapon is tge Battery bomb, a battery shaped grenade that bounces around a little before exploding into electricity. Her weakness is the Geode grinder, in reference to electrical grounding, and her element is Tech, since batteries are a machine component.

Destructo Man, cause sometimes you want a TNT plunger robot.

Despite the stylistic fuses and old looking appearance, Destructo man doesn't actually launch bombs. To aid in his demolition of Wily castles or mining, he can send out an electronic signal to detonate any explosives set up by his assistants, or any of Wily's leftover Weapon cache. He has a bit of a temper, so to avoid blowing his top he tries listening to calming music when off duty. To Weaponize his ability, Wily modified his Destructo Blast to send out a specialized signal that causes weapon based electronics within his opponents to self destruct. For mega man, this is a screen wide attack that deals explosives damage to all enemies on screen. His element is Tech, and his weakness is the Fan Slasher, in reference to bomb defusal.

Meet Arctic Woman, who was inspired by some of Chill man's concept art from mm10.

Arctic Woman was built for arctic exploration and research as her name would imply, and she's able to modify an areas temperature to combat the effects of global warming lingering from past generations and the sadly slow efforts for clean energy in some areas. She also likes ice sculpting in her spare time, and she refuses to go anywhere without the special Scarf Needle man knitted for her. Her weapon is the Arctic Spiral, a sheild weapon that spirals outward to attack before returning to the user for defense. Her weakness is the Kindle Blaze, and her element is Water.

Spout Man, who was initially inspired by MM2 concept art for a water boss... but ended up straying away from the faucet nosed design I wanted to mimic initially.

Spout Man was created to maintain the irrigation system of a gigantic green house, and to water the plants inside. Despite his element being Water, he has a wealth of knowledge about gardening and plants. He absolutely dispises locusts, due to how quickly they can devour plants. His weapon is the Water Spout, a pressurized stream of water that bounces on walls, which bursts into splash damage that can hit multiple enemies when it hits a target. His weakness is the Battery bomb... because his water is full of nutrient rich, but conductive minerals.

Finally, there's Sky Woman, who was originally going to be named "Fan woman" but someone else suggested changing her name.

She was built for repairing wind mills, and using the fans on her back to help produce wind energy on days the natural wind gets a bit too weak. While she can blow enemies away from her with those fans, specialized joints they're connected to allow her to angke them or even fly. She loves flying, but hates Seagulls specifically as they seek to go out of their way to fly into her fans on purpose, causing her to crash land. Her Weapon us the Fan Slasher, a throwable blade that hovers in the air a bit, before fkying backwards like a boomerang, only it doesn't come back... Her element is Air, and her weakness is Bonding agent, since the glue stops up her fans.

Of course... there's a special smaller set after this group before I finally Draw the MM5 crew. How did I do?

[you-cant-fuck-megaman]

“the name’s bond. bond man.”

more like gone’d man. you can’t fuck bond man because he doesn’t exist. they cancelled his production before you could even get your hands on him and now all you have left are the blueprints of what he could have been. he can’t shoot his glue anymore. his pocket cannon is non-canon. you try and get equipped with his schlong and you just start grasping at empty air.