[Showcase] ShantyTown's Sprites

[ShantyTown]

Hi, everyone. This was originally a thread for a single sprite I wanted critique for, but I decided to make it a real thread. I'll just be posting various sprites I make for my hack, Pokémon Maize. If you want to use them, please let me know.

Trainers:

Pokémon Devamps:

 

[IggyKoopa]

It's good, but I'm not too happy with the large white areas in his coat and hair; you have a lot of room to give them some texture and you never made use of even a little dithering on them.

It is actually possible to smooth out 2x2-pixel circles a little, at least better than you have with his buttons; it'd just be a checkerboard-ish pattern with black and the darker shade, and it at least makes them look less square.

Also, and this is some huge nitpicking, to keep it true to the first-gen style, I think you could have been a bit more generous with antialiasing than you have been, especially on his pants where there are large clumps of black pixels.

 

[ShantyTown]

It's good, but I'm not too happy with the large white areas in his coat and hair; you have a lot of room to give them some texture and you never made use of even a little dithering on them.

It is actually possible to smooth out 2x2-pixel circles a little, at least better than you have with his buttons; it'd just be a checkerboard-ish pattern with black and the darker shade, and it at least makes them look less square.

Also, and this is some huge nitpicking, to keep it true to the first-gen style, I think you could have been a bit more generous with antialiasing than you have been, especially on his pants where there are large clumps of black pixels.

Thanks for the input. I'm going to try and add some more texture then. I definitely agree with everything you said.

 

[ShantyTown]

Here's the second iteration (The original is underneath so you can compare):

New:

Original:

 

[Fairy]

Hi there! Usually the "recolor and fusions" thread is where to post small, single sprites like yours, but I can understand the name being misleading in this case, so don't worry about it. And since you're actively looking for constructive criticism and posting new content, I'm not going to close this thread. But please most more of your work because you have an amazing sense of first gen spriting and I, among many others, want to see more of your character models please!

Otherwise, your latest rendition of your sprite is excellent. It's actually looking like an intellectual character as opposed to Walter White, know what I mean? The way you tightened up the hair and dithered out the coat is much more emblematic of first gen sprites. Please keep it up. :)

 

[ShantyTown]

Hi there! Usually the "recolor and fusions" thread is where to post small, single sprites like yours, but I can understand the name being misleading in this case, so don't worry about it. And since you're actively looking for constructive criticism and posting new content, I'm not going to close this thread. But please most more of your work because you have an amazing sense of first gen spriting and I, among many others, want to see more of your character models please!

Otherwise, your latest rendition of your sprite is excellent. It's actually looking like an intellectual character as opposed to Walter White, know what I mean? The way you tightened up the hair and dithered out the coat is much more emblematic of first gen sprites. Please keep it up. :)

Thanks for your advice. Maybe I'll put in the other stuff I've done so it's a legitimate thread. My other stuff is mostly devamps.

Haha I didn't even notice the Walter White thing. Thanks for the feedback!

 

[ShantyTown]

Here's a trainer sprite I worked on today. She's the fire-type Gym Leader. Feedback would be awesome:

 

[ShantyTown]

I did a second iteration because I didn't like parts of the first one:

New:

Original: