Custom Style Trainer OW Project

[Fblaster]

Hello there. I am creating this thread to showcase, and search for, fellow spriters who want to embark on this art project.

WHY AND WHERE DID THE IDEA COME FROM?

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Long ago, a spriter friend of mine designed this custom style for a game some people were working on. The game died long ago, but the art style was really interesting and dynamic, and my aim right now is to take this style, and the progress we had made creating characters in it, and expand the collection, looking for people who want to contribute and take part in this project.

WHAT'S THE GOAL?

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The goal is simple. Make every character we can in this style, so it becomes usable by the public. Create a realiable resource, so we can make a sprite style that can enrich the fan-game panorama and bring to the games characters exclusive to other platforms (or times), such as TCG characters, old style characters revamped, anime characters, movies, etc.

WHERE TO CONTRIBUTE?

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https://pkmnspritesdatabase.deviantart.com/

Right now the sprites are located in a group in DeviantArt, where everyone can join and contribute with their work. Eventually a new platform might be used to make managing and organizing sprites more organic and simple, perhaps something like a shared cloud drive.

Discord server, feel free to join.

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https://discord.gg/6C7wvDs

The collection right now stands at this point:

The templates for the characters are available here:

Trainer battlesprites are also welcome in this project, and in a later point in time will be organized to make it easier to sort what is available and what is missing. This is an example of one I made:

 

[silver-wind]

that's a really nice style.
I've pasted them on a pokemon map screenshot, and they work well.
is the plan to make walking sprites too, or just the front view?

 

[Fblaster]

The plan is to make walking animations too. For now, as I'm currently doing it alone, I'm focusing on the front sprites for reference. A few of them have walking animation sprites already.

Eventually, if more people join and help out, the focus of the project will change to usability, that is, to make the animations.

Just did one more, I'll leave it here for feedback, if anyone has any to share:

 

[Fblaster]

Again, just looking for feedback:

I'm trying to figure out a template to put everything together. Any suggestions out there on how to do it?
This is my starting point, to get the general idea of how a character sheet should look like.



Also, created a Discord server for this project, feel free to join:
https://discord.gg/6C7wvDs

 

[robinjea]

Why do I feel like they all look like Binding of Isaac characters? Hahaha. Am I the only one?

 

[Fblaster]

I'm afraid I don't know how Binding of Isaac is supposed to look like :P

Anyway, the past few days I've added some stuff.
The latest one was Gym Leader Koga.
Here, I grouped together in a cleaner format the Generation 1 sprites. Might be easier to figure what's done and what's missing. It's still a WIP, I still need to add the names of the missing characters.

 

[Fblaster]

Yo guys!

Today created two more, Team Rocket Jessie and Trainer Sage, from the Bellsprout Tower.

I'm also adding to the improved organization of the sheet.

Please guys, I really need some help in this project. I hope some of you can join me in this.

Here we go:

 

[Desox]

Wow, the sprites look really refreshing and they also feel like they'd still fit on a Pokemon game.

 

[Fblaster]

Thanks, we owe that to the original creator of the Template, he's got crazy spriting skills.
Yes, the aim of this project is to keep the essence of the games, but be able to give them just enough detail to be able to craft sprites for a wide array of characters with unique looking visuals.

Eventually, we aim to make them usable for fangames, making the movement animations for each one of them.