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Hi everyone. For the project I'm working on, Pokémon Blackguard, I desperately needed a few custom sprites so I tried my hand at making some. I just want to introduce by saying that I can absolutely not draw, which should become very appearant if you look below. So I based the sprites on existing sprites, and tried to copy or be inspired by other existing sprites, but I have had to do some custom work.
The goal was to create front/back sprites and OW sprites for the player character, the rival and a more advanced grunt of the villain team of the game. This is what a simple Team Essence grunt looks like:
It's a cold storage worker trainer from BW. So the goal was to have this style and these colors on other sprites. I begun with the rival:
I copied the hair from the striker trainer sprite from BW for both the front sprite and the OW sprite. All in all, not particularly complicated and I think it turned out pretty well if I may say so. Next up, I wanted to make a very slighty adjustment to the hooligan sprite from BW to turn him into a Team Essence henchman:
A simple recolor of the pants, although I'm pretty satisfied with how the back turned out. I replaced the Sandile crest with Patrat, which is an iconic pokémon for Team Essence. Now the most complicated sprite and the one I'm most conflicted about, in particular because it's so prominent when playing, the player character sprite:
I think the OW sprite is alright - I tried to mimic as much as possible from the cold storage worker sprite. I think the facing up pose is the worst. I couldn't really get the hoodie to look alright, nor the hair. I'd really love some input here.
The backsprite was a real challenge, because there was plenty of custom work that had to be done, actual drawing. I'm satisfied with the first two frames, but I couldn't get the hoodie to look good on the last two frames. I mean, it looks tiny, no way that dude can pull the hoodie up over his head.
All in all it was pretty fun but very challenging, as I've got next to no experience with spriting. Now my questions for you: What can be improved? Is this on an acceptable level at all? Is this something I can put into my game? I'd also really appreciate any tips or resources you can share regarding spriting, as I'll likely end up having to work more on these and for future sprites. Thank you!
The goal was to create front/back sprites and OW sprites for the player character, the rival and a more advanced grunt of the villain team of the game. This is what a simple Team Essence grunt looks like:
It's a cold storage worker trainer from BW. So the goal was to have this style and these colors on other sprites. I begun with the rival:
I copied the hair from the striker trainer sprite from BW for both the front sprite and the OW sprite. All in all, not particularly complicated and I think it turned out pretty well if I may say so. Next up, I wanted to make a very slighty adjustment to the hooligan sprite from BW to turn him into a Team Essence henchman:
A simple recolor of the pants, although I'm pretty satisfied with how the back turned out. I replaced the Sandile crest with Patrat, which is an iconic pokémon for Team Essence. Now the most complicated sprite and the one I'm most conflicted about, in particular because it's so prominent when playing, the player character sprite:
I think the OW sprite is alright - I tried to mimic as much as possible from the cold storage worker sprite. I think the facing up pose is the worst. I couldn't really get the hoodie to look alright, nor the hair. I'd really love some input here.
The backsprite was a real challenge, because there was plenty of custom work that had to be done, actual drawing. I'm satisfied with the first two frames, but I couldn't get the hoodie to look good on the last two frames. I mean, it looks tiny, no way that dude can pull the hoodie up over his head.
All in all it was pretty fun but very challenging, as I've got next to no experience with spriting. Now my questions for you: What can be improved? Is this on an acceptable level at all? Is this something I can put into my game? I'd also really appreciate any tips or resources you can share regarding spriting, as I'll likely end up having to work more on these and for future sprites. Thank you!
