It is hard to be original with thousends of shooters out there.
I remember takking the guns form Thunder Forche IV and putting them on a flattened R-type fighter.
The new fighter I have is slightly more original, but then again... is it?
My advise, take a good look at all the shooters out here and get inspired. Not focus on just one.

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Well? does it look like shit/does it look good ?

Its a start. It needs a little change. I'll try to change it a bit

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What's wrong with using the original and changing it a bit? Konami won't prosecute you.

Nemesis 1,2,3 all have different ships. If I use the same ship as SM1, then you might say: "hey it's spacemanbow 1 with new levels".

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At least ppl need to know which colors you can use together, if you layer 2 sprites then you can choose only 3 colors, but which ones depends on the colors of the 2 sprites. Without this info ppl could be drawing something that can't be reproduced properly..

2 colors per horizontal line.
3 colors are also possible, but then only these combinations:
Red, Yellow, White
Black, dark grey, red
black, light grey, red
light grey, dark grey, red

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I like the idea of having no wing at the top.

experimented a bit and came up with these 2:

but maybe its an idea to start with the shape first.
Leaving it only 1 color. If the shape is nice, then color it
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I liked your first version better. Only cockpit could be 1 pixel forward or something so that the ship would look a bit longer. I don't think that it is bad to have sprites that look pretty much like original because AFAIK this is supposed to be sequel to Space Manbow... and what comes to top wing, I think that the sprite should look like Manbow... at least a bit.

But is it still a manbow ship? It should be inspired by a fish i think (hence the title).

The right one looks exotic enough to be a fish

the right one is a spacecraft on skis ^_^

allright, I made a little attempt too, but how can I attach the picture here ?

try imageshack and past the picture's url here

http://www.dropshots.com/day.php?userid=152250&cdate=20060727&ctime=173412

nifty site but img src tag doesn't work, so ehh how do you paste a picture in here?

ever clicked the Reply button here, rather than Quick reply?

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wow....

doesn't seem to support deeplinking ro?

Crap... and it seemed such a good idea

mail it to me, I'll host it..