well life bars and win tokens are always wanted . a better explanation for revenge than he took my costume would have been nice since the costume is part of there clans woredrobe lol, the backround seems a little empty, would be better if there was somthing behind them. I cant really tell wwhat is going on because it looks like the "freeze" is puncturing him and causing him to bleed but that seems odd, and very imposible. also the foot sub zero has on the ground seems turned in an odd way, the reflection and "freeze" look ok, this needs some more detail and depth, but you are heading in the right direction.
2/5

Ok, well in your description you noted most of the things you knew were wrong with this. Those problems with backgrounds and lifebars can be solved easily. Just go to the MK warehouse, you yourself noted that this BG wasn't good (which shows you did read my critique on this background in your first submission). So if you don't like where your BG creating skills are at the moment, just use a regular stage from the game, and focus on other things first. Anyway, the shadows/reflections would have been decent, but you didn't switch between them in time. The shadows should have ended at the water's edge, not at the arena floor's reflection. Actually, the reflection of that shouldn't be as broad as it is, its on an angle so we shouldn't be seeing this much of it as a reflection in the water. The same goes for the pillar.

I'm glad you didn't shrink the sprites this time at least, it makes it look somewhat better. As for the effects, well it isn't bad I guess. Though, in my opinion, the 'freeze' effect looks alot more like smoke to me. You overused it, and made it look like whisps, thus giving it the appearance of a cloud of smoke or fog perhaps. The same goes with the actual ice that Sub-Zero is using on Smoke, it looks alot like actual smoke when you add those 'puffs' around the outer edges of the ray.

As for this 'fatality', really a description is in order. Normally in Mortal Kombat, Sub-Zero's ice beam caused his opponents to freeze, not bleed as shown here. The blood itself really isn't so nice either, it too has an odd red smoke look to it. And some of it on Smoke himself doesn't really look blood red like it should. Anyhow, this is better than the first I guess, still you should pay a visit to the warehouse and pick up the basic needs for a fake.

Ok, I'm going to listen to you guys for once...
But I'm not using the warehouse without
permission.

~Crow~ Wrote: Ok, well in your description you noted most of the things you knew were wrong with this. Those problems with backgrounds and lifebars can be solved easily. Just go to the MK warehouse, you yourself noted that this BG wasn't good (which shows you did read my critique on this background in your first submission). So if you don't like where your BG creating skills are at the moment, just use a regular stage from the game, and focus on other things first. Anyway, the shadows/reflections would have been decent, but you didn't switch between them in time. The shadows should have ended at the water's edge, not at the arena floor's reflection. Actually, the reflection of that shouldn't be as broad as it is, its on an angle so we shouldn't be seeing this much of it as a reflection in the water. The same goes for the pillar. I'm glad you didn't shrink the sprites this time at least, it makes it look somewhat better. As for the effects, well it isn't bad I guess. Though, in my opinion, the 'freeze' effect looks alot more like smoke to me. You overused it, and made it look like whisps, thus giving it the appearance of a cloud of smoke or fog perhaps. The same goes with the actual ice that Sub-Zero is using on Smoke, it looks alot like actual smoke when you add those 'puffs' around the outer edges of the ray. As for this 'fatality', really a description is in order. Normally in Mortal Kombat, Sub-Zero's ice beam caused his opponents to freeze, not bleed as shown here. The blood itself really isn't so nice either, it too has an odd red smoke look to it. And some of it on Smoke himself doesn't really look blood red like it should. Anyhow, this is better than the first I guess, still you should pay a visit to the warehouse and pick up the basic needs for a fake.

_-Xgthug-_ Wrote: But I'm not using the warehouse without permission.

What do you think it's there for?
Why do you think it's called the MK Warehouse?
Lol, humour it by using it for what its meant for.

hey i like it, it gives off that mk:da feel without those life bars, since they disapear when a fatality is done, only one question if i may, what exactly is sub-zero doing to smoke? is he like stealing his escanese for more power or is he like um, freezing smokes heart so it wont be able to pump and it just stops and it kills him or what?