Taiko554's Pixel Stage

This is my entry for the most recent monthly contest over on the PixelGrid forums. The idea was to create a sentai team of rangers based on the winter season, winter holidays, or Christmas. I went for the general winter season for mine. This is Fuyu Sentai Kohruranger (ふゆ戦隊こおるレンジャー). Fuyu (ふゆ) literally means 'winter' and kohru (こおる) means to freeze or to freeze over. So their name is pretty much Winter Sentai Freezingranger.

Since they're based on the winter season, they all feature white and silver more than their actual ranger colors. I thought it would be a good idea like this so that they can blend into snow more than a dominantly red, blue, black, etc suit. Each of their roll calls deals with some wintery, cold, adjective and a royal-like title.

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"The Frigid Duke! KohruRed!"
"The Chilled Baron! KohruBlue!"
"The Iced Countess! KohruYellow!"
"The Solid Earl! KohruBlack!"
"The Numbed Lady! KohruPink!"
"The Arctic Lord of Winter! KohruFrost!"

"Winter has come to freeze evil in its tracks! Fuyu Sentai...Kohruranger!"

More information on their designs: The suits in general were meant to resemble thermal snowsuits that would be worn in cold temperatures, which is why there are curved lines going down the white parts. The gloves, boots, and collars are all extended, another piece meant to give off an insulated feel to the suits as they'd want there extremities to be warm. Each ranger has a snowflake on their chest representing the winter theme, but also the six members of the team as the snowflake has six spokes and six outer circles.

There are 'W' shaped markings on the gloves (though seen from the side as more of a 'V') and on the boots. The 'W' is for Winter. Their belts are a combination of a small snowflake on top of a W crest. KohruFrost has two extra 'W' shapes on his shoulder armor, and his gloves and boots feature sharper angled W shapes. His gauntlets have blades on them that were modeled after ice skates. I originally had the idea for each ranger to have ice skates built into their boots, but scrapped that idea because it was dumb.

The helmets are the most individual part of their designs. Firstly, the helmets are based slightly on hockey helmets to go with the winter theme. Each helmet has a different visor and mouth plate shape. Also hidden on the silver above the visors is a ranking system of bars, with the lesser amount, the higher rank. Red has a single bar, Blue two, Yellow three, Black four, Pink five, and Frost zero. Frost actually has a diamond shape instead of lines standing in for zero, but also distinguishing him as higher ranked than Red. The top of each helmet is also slightly different for each ranger.

Everything here is my hard work. Please don't touch anything without permission. Thanks. Happy Holidays/Winter!
 
Thanks.

I'm sure you're just as creative, you just gotta try. I find sketching the designs on paper first is really helpful. It's just easier that way for me to toy around with lines and shapes. Then I try to translate those designs to the pixel templates I have. Give it a shot. I'll help out and give advice if you need it.
 
The thing is, I have no idea what to do with lines. I can't figure out how to create a suit that resembles other suit but at the same time looks original and looks more spandex-y like what you did...
 
You just gotta mess around and try different things. If a line doesn't look good at one place, try another. Nothing's gonna be perfect the first time around.

If you're basing a design off of an established suit, do a google search to find what kind of suit you're trying to emulate. I looked up thermal and arctic suits on google when designing the Kohruranger suits. I looked at different styles and tried to kinda blend them with their common points.
 
Remember when you started these with your kiva stuff. I'll never figure out how you did that chess board. Keep up the great work man, these still look awesome!
 
chess board? can someone please tell me what is that supposed to mean? I am kinda noob when it comes to terms...
 
I think that user may be a fake/spam account. Because I think that's almost word-for-word from an earlier comment in this thread.

The chess board refers to a pixel chess board I made long ago to go along with my Kamen Rider Kiva pixels. It's not a term or anything, just a chess board with pieces.
 
Uchuu Kitaa! (finally)

I've finally gotten around to making a pixel of Kamen Rider Fourze. I just kept putting him off until I recently played catch up with the last 7-8 episodes of the series, so I figured it was time to make Fourze into a pixel. I've kinda warmed up to Gentaro himself, though I'm still not completely wild about the design save for Fire States.

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On the left is Gentaro Kisaragi himself, the man who will befriend everyobdy. I gave him an obnoxious smile just because it fits, I think.

The forms, from left to right:

Base States, Elek States, and Fire States. I've also included the Fourze Driver belt along with different states' weapons. The sword-like weapon is Billy the Rod and the gun is the Hee-Hackgun.

I noticed Elek States doesn't really have the same lines as the other forms in the show, but I really thought it looked better like this. I tried to make it look somewhat shiny, but I don't think it came out too well. I'll keep tinkering around with that form periodically to see if I can get it better.
Likewise, I'll be making the other forms and adding them to this picture to make it a big picture of Fourze's states. However, I don't know if I'll be doing all the individual modules. So please don't ask. There's 40 of them, some are incredibly stupid, and I just don't feel like making them at this moment.

Everything here is my hard work. Please don't touch anything without permission. Thanks.
 
hey, is that english Gentaro? he looks a bit white-y. maybe my eyes are wrong.

good one, as always, but the Elek State kinda...dull. I mean, the color is supposed to be shiny yellow. brighter than the yellow lines in this forum...
 

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