Hi there! Please move this topic if this is in the wrong section. Still kinda new here so don't know where everything fits, but I've been chatting a bit in Discord and the good folk over there sent me here.
I'm currently in the (very slow) process of making a Pokemon game (several, actually, but want to get this first idea off the books first) via Pokemon Essentials and RPG Maker XP, but I have not sprited before and want to enlist the help of a sprite artist for some of the main story arc sprites that are relevant. I think for a basic start, I'm going to be using the Essentials FRLG tilesets and using their trainer-sprite styles, and their overworlds.
Basically, I would need the standard makings of any Pokemon game, but with a few twists. For example:
1. Custom villainous team Grunt and Admin Sprites, possibly a Boss sprite but not sure on that one yet.
2. Nine (yes, nine, not eight) Gym Leaders the 9th Leader is technically a "Bonus", but still is required to be defeated before Elite Four. (see: with a few twists)
3. Custom Elite 4 and Champion sprites
4. Custom Trainer sprites for both the beginning/standard Male and Female players.
5. I kind of want to implement some sort of "embodiment" of myself into the game, for like a 'bonus/post-game' event, so if you can sprite something Pokemon-style based on(off?) a real-life image, like a selfie, that'd be cool too.
And those are just the very few I could think of right off the top of my head so far. There will be more to come probably, but it'd have to be a long-term project we'd have to collaborate on/discuss with one another. I think this is the most custom spriting I'll need done, but if anything changes I'll notify/ask the artist right away if they could do more work
Please if anybody wants to help me out and you are interested, let me know :D
Thank you again.