• Welcome to Final Fantasy Hacktics. Please login or sign up.
 
March 28, 2024, 07:31:41 am

News:

Please use .png instead of .bmp when uploading unfinished sprites to the forum!


Show posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

Topics - Phlashblazer

1
Thoughts anyone?  If anything, I don't think it would be useful specifically for sprite art, and actually slow down productivity. =\  Just my two cents.
2
RP Forum / Short Story: A Squire's Ambition
July 24, 2011, 05:27:25 am
This is a short story heavily inspired by FFT, it randomly came across my head one night and I rushed through, made a rough draft, and submitted it on another forum.  A forum buddy was kind enough to send me a rewrite, and I was impressed.  I'd like to share it with you guys, first the rough draft in the quotes:
QuoteThe clash of swords howled across the plains.

A towering man's silhouette soared between a young man and the sun. The man's shadow scornfully refused sight of his face at the lowly squire.

"Hold your tongue cur! Bastards like you should not even be holding knives let alone swords!," he snarled. The man pointed his sword towards the squire, his muscular tan figure kissed by the sun's glow. The sun was slowly setting to the east, yet the squire still could not catch a glimpse of the merciless shadow's face.

"Now come forth... nameless squire, or are you too occupied kissing the ground?," The man said with a smirk on his face. The squire slowly stood up, his eyes radiated with fire and his demeanor burning, itching to get into battle. He grasped his short sword's handle and tightened his buckler's grip. "Yaaahhhh!," he roared as he sprinted toward's the shadow, seeming to blaze faster with each step. The knight braced his long sword with both hands, pointing the sword readily at the squire. The squire leaped and slashed fiercely overhead. The knight maintained his poise, waiting for the right moment to strike.

The swords howled across the plains once again.


And the rewrite
Credit to PatientZero
The clash of swords howled across the plains.

The silhouette of a towering man soared between a young man and the sun, his face was a void of shadows, which seemed to scornfully refuse his identity to the lowly squire.

"Hold your tongue cur!" he snarled, "Bastards like you should not even be holding knives, let alone swords!"
He raised his blade towards his opponent, his muscular, tanned figure kissed by the suns glow, a sun which was now slowly retreating to the east.
And still the young squire could not catch a glimpse of the merciless shadow's face.

"Now come forth... nameless squire, or are you too occupied kissing the ground?" came the cutting remark through a smirk bathed in darkness.
The squire took to his feet, slowly, teeming with anticipation, his eyes ablaze with fury, itching for the inevitable battle.
With a firm hand he grasped at the handle of his short sword, and steadied his grip on his stalwart buckler.
He screamed fiercely as he sprinted towards the shadow of his adversary, closer and closer, faster and faster with each step he took.
The knight readied his long sword with powerfull hands, pointing the sword defiantly, unshaken by the savage mannerisms presented to him.
With all his might, the squire leapt and slashed fiercely overhead, but his target maintained his poise, waiting for the right opportunity to strike.

The swords howled across the plains once again.
3
The Lounge / Phlash here, at your service.
July 24, 2011, 05:21:35 am
Hey everyone,

  I've been a member of ffhacktics for longer than year, but wasn't all that active.  I def like this community and hope to contribute to the cause, FFT was an amazing game that was a pretty big deal to me as a young teen.  Little things like the graphics, portraits, were things that I had never seen before in RPG games, even the beginning scene, where armored men, not bearing any flags or symbols, are accompanying a young princess, a knight barges through the church doors wounded, then cueing in the music (night attack I think) oh man it was such a badass game.  The storyline was magnificent, first you're playing as not only one of the most respected families in Ivalice, but the son of Balbanes Beoulve (Nothing comes close to Heavenly Knight, seriously) but your elder brothers are well respected and versed in combat too.  This leads Ramza to find out that everything is not as it seems, and you grow with Ramza, seeing how his sense of justice is torn apart, or should I say remains steady, as the game goes on.

Whoo I'm gettin excited now,  yes so I'm Phlash guys, it's nice to meet you all
4
Spriting / Phlash's Projects
July 23, 2011, 05:48:04 am
Hey everyone, I've finally decided to muster up the guts for my first ever sprite project of creating a custom portrait, and I'd like to share my concept/idea with you all.  This will also be my sprite project thread for future use :)

The idea is that I'd like to combine Gafgarion's fur along his shoulder as well as the unique squire's hairstyle to both be set onto Malak's portrait.  The fur will be set to Malak and I would like it to be very eye-catching.  The hairstyle to be similar to the unique squire however, still with malak's hair color.  I would also like to keep Malak's tan/dark skin tone, with a scar on his left cheek and noticeable hazel eyes.  I'm going for a somewhat foreign look akin to the Balkan's from Ogre battle 64.  If anyone doesn't know the Balkan's were fierce warriors that wore sharp, steel claws on each hand.  Although they were lightly armored, they were very agile and certainly muscular.  I don't remember the lore, but their empire was destroyed and people were enslaved.  It would make a nice game addition to the Ogre Battle series if you ask me :)

My Gameplan:
1st:  Fur
2nd: Hair
3rd: Eyes


Here's just a rough draft (I was in a rush but at least I did something xD)


Please let me know what you think, suggestions, etc. thanks!
5
Spam / New Section: Tutorials?
August 20, 2010, 06:18:24 am
I know I'm new here and all but I see "alot" of really good tutorials out here, and I was wondering why isn't there just a Tutorial section on the board index?  Does anyone else think this would be a good idea?
6
Help! / New Spriter: Looking for someone to mentor me
August 15, 2010, 05:58:38 am
Hi guys,  I'm a VERY new spriter, lol.  I'm a BIG FAN of FFT and hope to make a fansprite animation in adobe flash one day.  I really love the artstyle of sprite art BUT I know that there are rules to it too.  I'm not sure how to get started and I was hoping someone could help guide/mentor me with resources and tools, maybe assign me "homework" and I could submit once a week to, or just someone to talk to incase I get stuck with something, lol.  Well feel free to PM me and I'm sure I will be able to contribute sometime in the future, thanks ffhacktics, great job by the way :)