It is indeed (ostensibly) a community project. I welcome opinions of any kind, even those that differ to my own. The only way I can know whether my efforts are worthwhile is through voiced opinions.
You should, however, bear in mind what that means. Yours is one opinion, and I am not duty-bound to do exactly what you suggest just because you suggested it. I will certainly rethink ideas is someone objects to them, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'll arrive at a different answer.
That's an old quote, from back when I couldn't decide what to do about those back sprites. I'm now considering resizing them and cropping them to match the Gen 4 back sprites (see the attached example). Yes, it looks bad because of the pixels, but it fits the perspective of the scene.
It is indeed a separate matter, technically speaking. Having Gen 5 Pokémon or not bears no relation to using larger or smaller battle bases. The choice of graphics for the back sprites would affect the design of the battle screen (i.e. which size battle base to use), but that's not the same thing. However, you've turned this discussion into one about how the back sprites should look (you forced us to assume the Gen 5 sprites are being used), so the distinction is all but meaningless now.
Your screenshots are the point I was making about the perspective, especially the second one with the Charmander/Minccino. I don't think that looks good at all, and I'd rather have larger back sprites (and therefore a larger battle base) to keep the good perspective.Yes, I have made ALL Unova Pokémon edited backsprite to work with the old system, but I agree that this look bad and isn't a good choice to use it (even thinking that this is better that nothing).
To make the BW pokémon to look well, the best option is something like this (isn't made by me):
This issue really comes down to perspective versus pixels - which do you want to be the better-looking?
