Final Fantasy Hacktics

Modding => Spriting => Topic started by: Cheetah on April 29, 2010, 03:23:02 am

Title: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Cheetah on April 29, 2010, 03:23:02 am
Okay so here is an official topic for collecting spriting done by our overseas partners. Really it is kind of ridiculous that we haven't formed a better communication network than we have. Zodiac made a major step of creating a forum for them, but then we made the mistake of NOT CHECKING IT!!

http://jp.ffhacktics.com/forum/viewtopi ... 5&p=83#p83 (http://jp.ffhacktics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5&p=83#p83)
(http://jp.ffhacktics.com/forum/download/file.php?id=12)
(http://jp.ffhacktics.com/forum/download/file.php?id=9)

These have been setting on our servers for months. So post links to japanese sites, or others, that have FFT sprites that weren't created here so that we can at least keep these different resources organized even if we don't have great communication with them. I know that we have these links laying all around in this section, but it is always impossible to find any of them when you need them.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on April 29, 2010, 04:23:40 am
Oh shit, who is that guy in dark? And why are there two versions of him? Great portraits

Btw,  is there some program ot translator(not google one...) that will make theirs site understandable to peoples like me?(I'm thinking if there is a way to make their jap letters into english letters, this would estabilish our connections)
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Eternal on April 29, 2010, 04:32:50 am
That guy is Al-Cid Margrace, a member of the Rozarrian nobility in FFXII, and womanizer extraordinaire. He was also a usable character in FFTA2.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on April 29, 2010, 04:39:15 am
Ok nvm about making their site english, I found the option. Now I wonder, when I write in english, will it translate to jap automatically or do I have to use google? I really would love to work with them >:D

ugh, just look how translator translated your post: "I am very splendid. I am wonderful. I wish I continue contributing your work here. What kind of graphic tool do you use?*
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Eternal on April 29, 2010, 04:40:51 am
I'd just be happy to see a complete Llednar or Frimelda sprite. ^_^
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Lijj on April 29, 2010, 06:05:48 am
Oh that portrait of the girl in green is a masterpiece.

 I just met this lady from Japan and told her about this, she seemed into it and I asked if she'd help w/ communication; she seemed into it. We'll see... I just met her and she's seeing my good friend so I'll talk to her again soon.

Funny discovery Cheetah.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: SilvasRuin on April 29, 2010, 06:48:19 am
Wow, sorry, Jimmy, but they topped your Llednar.  Speaking of which, that sprite needs its finishing touches so we can put these together and get it up for download.  The others are impressive too, but Al-Cid's chin looks too square to me.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: jimmyjw88 on April 29, 2010, 07:31:41 am
Wow....These just blown me away!! Simply amazing!!

@Silvas - Haha. Yeah. My Llednar does suck, badly; and that's with Smash's help (Not that I'm saying Smash's work suck but is me who made them suck. Smash, as always did a splendid job). Without his help, my Llednar is much more suck ^^
However, Llednar sprite has been discontinued as the spriter is long gone, unless someone decided to pick it up again.

Anyway, great job japanese guys, GREAT JOB!!
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: SilvasRuin on April 29, 2010, 08:25:40 am
I thought you had taken up that sprite.  You did post the animation for it on this page:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2764&start=120 (http://www.ffhacktics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2764&start=120)

There's enough progress on it that it would be a shame for it to get scrapped.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: jimmyjw88 on April 29, 2010, 08:29:31 am
Well, I was actually helping ehrgeiz, didn't really pick up that sprite. Hmm....

I'll still to try polish up my Llednar portrait, not to challenge them or anything but try to polish up my skills. Hehe.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: LastingDawn on April 29, 2010, 10:23:01 am
Hmm, is that guy in green Doned? I never thought I'd see a mature looking Doned that I would agree with, but his overall standoff-ish appearance from his portrait really fits his character. That's my favorite out of that batch.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: MasterGrand on April 29, 2010, 11:02:46 am
what is this spirte it is very horrible !!! !_!

Is this japanese creates that is amazing !!!
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Cheetah on April 29, 2010, 11:55:59 am
Quote from: "Kagebunji"ugh, just look how translator translated your post: "I am very splendid. I am wonderful. I wish I continue contributing your work here. What kind of graphic tool do you use?*

LOL I sound like a deity coming down to bless his work. What I actually said was "Very nice work. I hope you continue to share your work here. What kind of graphic tool do you use?"
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on April 29, 2010, 12:37:09 pm
Seriously guys, how we will talk with them?! Look what I wrote when I used translator:"Hello, 1 \\ are Kage and I will look forward to cooperating with >:D which you we may make some splendid fairies together! "

Wtf, Fairies??!!!
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: R999 on April 29, 2010, 03:51:59 pm
I used to play the Japanese version of Maple Story a very long time ago (and for years), and I was able to communicate 99% of the stuff in the game, and engage in conversations (60% of the time). But it's been a long while since... I have met some friends in Japan who could speak fair English (though majority (99%+) of Japanese do not understand even partial English, unfortunately...  unless they are college students, which wouldn't have time to spend on stuff like this). Is there something specific you want to ask the Japanese community?
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: DeadManWalking on April 29, 2010, 03:55:45 pm
Kage wants to make Fairies!
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Eternal on April 29, 2010, 04:32:32 pm
Quote from: "LastingDawn"Hmm, is that guy in green Doned? I never thought I'd see a mature looking Doned that I would agree with, but his overall standoff-ish appearance from his portrait really fits his character. That's my favorite out of that batch.

I thought it was Frimelda, although I can see the similarities.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: jimmyjw88 on April 29, 2010, 09:23:47 pm
Well, actually, Google Translator translate just fine.
Look:
My post:
ちょうど離れている私吹くこれら!!
すばらしい仕事、すばらしい仕事。 ええ、どんな用具を使用したか。= They just blow me away!
Great job, great job. Well, what do you use the tool.

Sir Cheetah's post:
とても素晴らしい。/見事だね。私はここにあなたの作品を投稿し続けることを望む。どのようなグラフィックツールは、使用するのですか?= They are splendid. / It's brilliant. I hope you keep posting your work here. What graphics tools do you use?

At first, I thought Google Translator suck, but then, Smash said it actually works better than other translators.

World Lingo Translator:
My post:
ちょうど離れている私吹くこれら!!
すばらしい仕事、すばらしい仕事。 ええ、どんな用具を使用したか。= Me who am left exactly these which are blown!!
Splendid work and splendid work. Obtaining you obtained, used what kind of equipment?

Sir Cheetah's post:
とても素晴らしい。/見事だね。私はここにあなたの作品を投稿し続けることを望む。どのようなグラフィックツールは、使用するのですか?= It is splendid very.Don't you think?/it is beautiful.I desire the fact that it continues to contribute your work here.As for some kind of graphic tool, it is to use?

Google Translator seems to translate quite well. Well, its Google afterall. ^^
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kyousukeee on April 30, 2010, 08:05:03 am
Hmm I'm just wondering , how much of japanese you guys actually know ?
If the answer is nothing than learn at least the basic two alphabets ( hiragana and katakana ) . It will be a start to understand japanese as a language instead of seeing it as random characters .

When using google translator English > Japanese :
Use very simple english to write sentences in google translator and always translate back to see the accuracy of the translation . If the sentence is very long , do it in parts . Do not use slangs or expressions that only makes sense in english ( e.g. run like hell / f**king good ) .
If it is a specific term ( computer / science etc ) use the second link and search the word there , if you can't find it , try english wikipedia and see if there is a translation in japanese . There are a lot of words in japanese that comes from english , though most of them can't be recognized at first glance .
Sprite -  スプライト ( supuraito )
Graphic Tool -  グラフィックツール ( gurafiku tsuuru )
Do not use personal names in the middle of the sentence since the translator may interpret the name as a word and try to translate it into something bizarre . If you are not sure if your name will be translated , use a very common name , like alex and change the name for your own .
Bad example "Hi my name is Kyo" こんにちは私の名前は京は "konnichiwa watashi no namae wa Kyou (kanji used in the words Kyoto / Tokyo ) wa.. " . は (ha or wa depending in the case ) is used as if you were going to continue to say something .
Good example "Hi my name is Louis" こんにちは私の名前はルイです "konnichiwa watashi no namae wa Rui desu" . です ( desu ) is used in the end of a sentence , meaning the sentence is complete . Louis translates as Rui because japanese words are written accordingly to the vocalization ( and there's no "L" in japanese either )

Also take a look at these :
http://nihongo.j-talk.com/kanji/ - translate japanese to 'romanji' ( latin alphabet ). The furigana option is pretty good .

http://jisho.org/ - good dictionary .

http://kanjidict.com/demo/index.html - just for fun . A 'full' kanji summary - pretty sure it's not complete but has many of the most common kanjis .
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Wolfran on April 30, 2010, 10:17:45 am
Damn, The Lady Frimelda Portrait is just perfect.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on April 30, 2010, 10:26:23 am
No LD, it is not Doned, too girly. I suppose it is Frimelda, whoever she is.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Wolfran on April 30, 2010, 10:41:16 am
Hey Kagebunji, if you want to know her play FFTA2 and if you play it NEVER KILL THE PINK ZOMBIE...
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: DeadManWalking on April 30, 2010, 01:05:03 pm
Should show the Jap fans the active community over here... at least, through Google translator or something.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Knox on May 03, 2010, 12:15:57 pm
I know a guy who's fluent in japanese, though im not sure how well he can read and write it as hes lived in america more than hes been in japan, but he knows the language very well.

I could try calling him, and maybe see if he can call one of these japanese folks over the phone? Longshot but who knows?

I contacted him about it a few minutes ago and i should hear back from him soon, we'll see if he wants to get involved or not, because i know he loves FFT to death so theres a good chance he might get involved. I asked him to be sure, about his reading and writing of japanese, I know he can read some but maybe hes improved it since then because i know hes been to japan every year to see his family with his dad.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kyousukeee on May 03, 2010, 12:31:07 pm
I've found this site a couple days ago , there are a few edited sprites in the bottom of the page .
 Seems like this site is older than ffh , as the posts dates from 2006 . . . there's not a lot of stuff nor is it epic but still worth a visit .

Preview
(http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/907/muhc.png) (http://img228.imageshack.us/i/muhc.png/)


http://www.fucandofft.blogger.com.br/

. . . I really liked the Lulu sprite .
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: SilvasRuin on May 03, 2010, 12:34:07 pm
The goblin black mage is very amusing.  The green and white hooded and masked people look fairly intriguing.  The others... are mostly meh.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Cheetah on May 03, 2010, 12:56:19 pm
These are so much better and done differently than all the rest of his sprites that I believe he got them from somewhere else. These would be amazing bases for someone to work off of. Especially Lulu and Riku.

(http://www.fucandofft.blogger.com.br/lulu.jpg)(http://www.fucandofft.blogger.com.br/rikku1.jpg)(http://www.fucandofft.blogger.com.br/tidus.jpg)(http://www.fucandofft.blogger.com.br/yuna.jpg)

The Vagrant Story art, also not his, is simply amazing. Great find Kyousukeee!
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kyousukeee on May 03, 2010, 12:59:24 pm
Yeah , it says he got it all somewhere else but he didn't say where , unfortunately . I believe none of those sprites are his and if that blog is really older than ffh I doubt we would find a complete sprite sheet . But those poses are nice bases .
There's no e-mail or any other way to get in touch with that person either and I did search few of the names in the characters to see if it would lead me to the source but I found nothing =/
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: jimmyjw88 on May 03, 2010, 06:48:44 pm
These looks great. And yes, Lulu and Rikku will be great start as the base.
The arts are great too.
Great find Kyou, great find.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: mav on May 04, 2010, 02:31:16 pm
The portraits on the first page are damn near perfect. We should team up with them whenever we can.

These last few portraits are neat, but a little amateurish. The second to last one at the bottom is freaking hilarious.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on May 04, 2010, 02:46:44 pm
In all honesty, this is one of most epic things I have seen. Freakin War Chocobo. I always wated to do one, but damn, why is Chocobo's sheet soo messed up?!

(http://www.fucandofft.blogger.com.br/war_chocobo.JPG)

Also, this Samurai is just epic as well.

(http://www.fucandofft.blogger.com.br/hoistats-kairo3.gif)
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: SilvasRuin on May 04, 2010, 09:18:10 pm
Only one of those human portraits I care for is the samurai.  Love the Chocobo.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Lijj on May 04, 2010, 10:05:55 pm
Holy shhh! The war chocobo rules! Is it just a portrait?
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on May 05, 2010, 01:46:50 am
I care only for Samurai too, Silvas :P.

Unfortunaylt, yes, there is only a portrait of that chocobo.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: jimmyjw88 on May 05, 2010, 06:02:27 am
In my opinion, some are cool, some are average, and some are neither. I kinda Victor Rastenvaugh. The Squall is similar to FF8 Squall art. Very nice, but the sprite is bad; very bad, especially if that sprite is Squall.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: mav on May 05, 2010, 08:14:55 am
That Chocobo is pretty interesting. It's not perfect, but it's definitely something to build off of. That Sabin portrait is pretty good too, it doesn't look exactly like him, but it's fairly well done.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on May 05, 2010, 10:35:42 am
Btw, that Kyna Dane from Fovoham looks like a copy of your Female Holy Knight portrait, Mav.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kyousukeee on May 05, 2010, 11:56:53 am
That samurai could easily be made into a guest character in a patch . The 40 years old samurai .
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: mav on May 05, 2010, 05:34:40 pm
Quote from: "Kagebunji"Btw, that Kyna Dane from Fovoham looks like a copy of your Female Holy Knight portrait, Mav.
I was thinking the same thing, but it was a pretty simple edit, so I wouldn't be too surprised if someone had already done the same thing before me. Anyways, where did you find those portraits anyways, Kage? I've seen a couple more like 'em, and they weren't too shabby.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: jimmyjw88 on May 05, 2010, 06:45:33 pm
Quote from: "Kyousukeee"The 40 years old samurai .
An experience great samurai.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on May 06, 2010, 09:44:17 am
I got them from the site Kyo posted, there are more of them there.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: mav on May 06, 2010, 04:47:09 pm
Ah. I looked through those--I guess I was thinking they were from a different site. There's this FFT role-playing forum somewhere, and some of those guys have phenomenal portraits.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: MasterGrand on May 07, 2010, 05:30:19 pm
I like face girl who is like Gefrains it is perty cool  :D
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: BaitySM on May 10, 2010, 07:04:42 am
Hm. This topic caught my attention. So I went fishing about a bit on Pixiv, and found a certain user (http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=969207) (note, account required) that goes by the name 'natu'. Sound familiar? It should, check the OP! He has three more FFT-related works. Well, more like two-and-a-half because there's some overlap. Wait, make that three-and-a-half because he has a drawn Female Mime in there as well (will upload on request). Now to prevent hassle, I'm not going to link directly to the pictures as you would all require accounts to see them (well, signing up isn't hard even if you can't read Japanese but it's still annoying regardless). So with that said:

(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/th_6697526.jpg) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/6697526.jpg)
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/th_7252475.jpg) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/7252475.jpg)
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/th_7860735.jpg) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/7860735.jpg)
(click to enlarge in case it wasn't really obvious)

There are other works that I've found in there, such as a Squall spritesheet, an FF7 one with which various character portraits and a Red Mage with a 'standing' sprite. I'm under the impression that you guys already have the spritesheet based on discussion from me lurking around a bit, the FF7 portraits and the Red Mage are decent at best (though, this is entirely my opinion) so I'll leave them out for the time being.
For the curious, I did a search on the tags 'FFT' and 'ドット絵' (lit. Dot Picture) which roughly translates to Pixel Picture or something like that. A search for "スプライト" (lit. sprite) returned one irrelevant result.

...that War Chocobo put a priceless smile on my face by the way.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Cheetah on May 10, 2010, 12:59:19 pm
Great finds Baity. The problem is that we have found a lot of this stuff over time and then they are spread through all sorts of different threads. If you wanted to post the other stuff as pics and then links too I will put it all in the first topic. So the FF7 stuff would be good too.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: mav on May 10, 2010, 02:35:42 pm
Whoa, that's all by one user? Phenomenal. I say post everything; at the very least, we'll have something to gawk at.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on May 10, 2010, 02:51:16 pm
Yup, and who knows, someone might even wrap a sprite for it...but it is unlikely haha.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: R999 on May 10, 2010, 11:49:28 pm
Wow that Pixiv service is like a Art Tweeter service in Japan. Pretty neat, they even have an iphone app. Maybe I could look up Pixel-related stuff for inspiration on the go here. Thanks for the site!

Found some not-so interesting stuff there on my iPhone: (You cannot use these without permissions of the authors)

(http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2169/img5127q.jpg)

(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/6874/img5128s.jpg)

(http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7955/img5129n.jpg)

(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3546/img5131qx.jpg)

(http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4956/img5130r.jpg)
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Lijj on May 11, 2010, 12:38:38 am
Are  those characters in the 3rd down made by Square? Or is this guy of the Mime class? I wanna try that sometime soon with a whole new job class; In that style.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: BaitySM on May 11, 2010, 03:44:34 am
Quote from: "R999"Wow that Pixiv service is like a Art Tweeter service in Japan.
I'd say it's more like dA, though I can't really backup this claim. As is standard, if you're going to look through, expect varying qualities of work.

Quote from: "R999"(You cannot use these without permissions of the authors)
This is probably a given already. Most artists on Pixiv will give you the thumbs up to use their images after asking though.

Quote from: "Lijj"Are  those characters in the 3rd down made by Square? Or is this guy of the Mime class? I wanna try that sometime soon with a whole new job class; In that style.
All made by the same person. Of note (because I forgot to mention it), the second and third ones were tagged with '光の4戦士' a.k.a. 'Four Warriors of Light'.

Ok, so...
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/th_8047606.png) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/8047606.png)This was marked under RPGMaker (well, RPGMakerRTP to be exact) so I can safely assume that's the source for the 'base'. Doesn't look like what a FFT portrait 'should' look like (I'm talking about style) but it's still nice in my opinion.
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/4435244.png) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/4435244.png)Red Mage! Standing sprite looks a bit weird to me, but the portrait is nice. And yes, the original is that small as well; so this only works as a reference image.
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/th_6316238.gif) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/6316238.gif)Hm. Hetalia sure is popular. Guess I'll nag FFM to pass m- oh wait I already did.
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/th_6805470.gif) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/6805470.gif)Pokemon-related. No, really. HGSS, etc.
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/th_4741530.png) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/4741530.png)Worth a mention. This one was tagged with 'リューサン', and also appears to come from FF11 after a bit of digging around. Why I'm seeing a lot of pairing pictures with Mystia (http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Mystia_Lorelei) when doing a search on said tag is beyond me. Hm. Hmm. I do believe I'm missing a part of the picture here. Oh well.
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/th_5689711.png) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/5689711.png)So is this. Looks a bit strange though. For the curious (http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Ichirin_Kumoi).
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/th_4737302.gif) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/4737302.gif)Standard? Looks alright though.
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/th_4638273.gif) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/4638273.gif)Unfortunately, this isn't the entire cast. Oh, and AC!Cloud. Don't know what to make of the swords to the side. But hey, at least it's something.
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/th_3971069.png) (http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/3971069.png)The Squall spritesheet I'm pretty sure everybody has seen at some point. If not, then behold!

I've left off a few of them (count: 3-4). There was also one FFTA-style 'set' of standing sprites from Etrian Odyssey (II). I say this because of the colours used.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on May 11, 2010, 11:09:01 am
Man, you completely screwed uploading, when I downloaded that Squall shet and FF7 ports and wanted to look closely, but everything just screwed up, all was fuzzy and blooby. Reupload it again, but as PNG this time, okay?  Other than that, they look great.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Cheetah on May 11, 2010, 12:09:22 pm
Great finds! I know I have never seen all those FFVII portraits and sprites, and the Squall is the best version I have seen. Very good contributions.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: BaitySM on May 11, 2010, 07:55:43 pm
Quote from: "Kagebunji"Man, you completely screwed uploading, when I downloaded that Squall shet and FF7 ports and wanted to look closely, but everything just screwed up, all was fuzzy and blooby. Reupload it again, but as PNG this time, okay?  Other than that, they look great.
I'm not seeing the problem with either one; and the Squall sheet was already in .PNG .

However, as a just in case kind of thing have an ImageShack upload for those two:
http://img32.imageshack.us/i/4638273.png/ (http://img32.imageshack.us/i/4638273.png/)
http://img169.imageshack.us/i/3971069.png/ (http://img169.imageshack.us/i/3971069.png/)
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: jimmyjw88 on May 12, 2010, 01:24:48 am
These are just great!! Great finds!! Love the portraits!! Those FFVII portraits look really great, especially Vincent. Very nice.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on May 12, 2010, 09:46:25 am
Hm, now I can look closely. Squall definitly looks great, we have better portrait though, Seushiro did one. FF7 port's are nice, but Cloud and Zack are better on our site IMO. Sephiroth is definitly better than our current one(I am talking about portrait), I never liked those white things on Seph's face in Smash's concept(I know it is hair, but looks uber weird to me). About Tifa, hmm, I dunno, both are good, if we were to make her more happy on this version, I would definitly take it. Vincent is better too, we should resubmit him again with this portrait. Yuffie is good too.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Lijj on May 12, 2010, 02:29:54 pm
That green haired sprite reminds me of my own Terra. It's thief basedand has  green hair. Mine is more customized version of female thief though. Different collar and shorts.
Great portraits; I like the Yufi most.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: mav on May 12, 2010, 09:08:00 pm
Interesting stuff. For the most part, most of these look like edits, but they're still good. I actually like those RPGMakerRTP portraits a lot. Thanks for posting all these goodies.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: jimmyjw88 on May 13, 2010, 01:43:02 am
Quote from: "Kagebunji"FF7 port's are nice, but Cloud and Zack are better on our site IMO.
Haha. Well, my brother said theirs/he(?) is better. Lol.
QuoteSephiroth is definitly better than our current one(I am talking about portrait), I never liked those white things on Seph's face in Smash's concept(I know it is hair, but looks uber weird to me).
Smash has made such amazing portraits but I have to agree with Kage on this one. The Sephiroth's hair kinda not working for me.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Miroshi Beshima on May 13, 2010, 07:13:38 pm
Is it just me or does that Tifa portrait look oddly familiar? Reminds me of the Garnet portrait someone did or something, i think...maybe not...but idk i swear ive seen it before somewhere on this forum or something smilar....maybe its just the style of shading...ugh idk XD. And i love their tifa sprite! XD Way better than mine
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Cheetah on May 13, 2010, 08:21:10 pm
Quote from: "Miroshi Beshima"Is it just me or does that Tifa portrait look oddly familiar? Reminds me of the Garnet portrait someone did or something, i think...maybe not...but idk i swear ive seen it before somewhere on this forum or something smilar....maybe its just the style of shading...ugh idk XD. And i love their tifa sprite! XD Way better than mine

I'm assuming you are joking considering all the attempt that were made, especially you, to reproduce this exact portrait.

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=762&start=140 (http://www.ffhacktics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=762&start=140)

I suppose they are a little different, but very similar, even to the earring.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Miroshi Beshima on May 15, 2010, 08:34:43 am
I wasnt joking, but it's not the portrait, its just the style of shading. It reminds of someones portrait cuz the shading style is similar. :/ Sorry, it just looked familiar, thats all.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Kagebunji on May 15, 2010, 09:22:18 am
Quote from: "jimmyjw88"
Quote from: "Kagebunji"FF7 port's are nice, but Cloud and Zack are better on our site IMO.
Haha. Well, my brother said theirs/he(?) is better. Lol.

Btw, I meant the one you are using as your portrait, the current one on site is not lookind like AC Cloud.

And I think we should change the portrait of ours Sephiroth's, Vincent's and Tifa's to these ones. But I don't wanna do it alone, since some reople will get mad I am sure. So, let's vote:
1.Change Sephiroth's portrait,
2.Change Vincent's portrait,
3.Change Tifa's portrait.

I vote for 1, 2, and 3 ofcourse.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Cheetah on May 15, 2010, 12:11:55 pm
I think we need a website feature or place just for putting portraits. Then anyone can put them in if they like without looking through the entire spriting thread to find them.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: jimmyjw88 on May 15, 2010, 12:41:06 pm
Quote from: "Cheetah"I think we need a website feature or place just for putting portraits. Then anyone can put them in if they like without looking through the entire spriting thread to find them.
If we can do this, that would be great.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Zozma on May 24, 2010, 09:16:21 pm
you know, i would REALLY like to see the intended sprite sheets for all these well made japanese portraits, i have no doubt, for one, that they are using the beatrix sprite i made with their portrait, but as for the others, no one has really made them on this site so i cant help but wonder if they really have complete sprites for them.
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: Knox on May 24, 2010, 09:31:00 pm
I've been in other situations where the japanese artists often have alot of their work locked behind passworded pages and whatnot.
I dunno if this is the case with these folks, but chances are if they DO have the sprites ( I don't think they'd make portraits and not sprites impo, but maybe they did. ) and theyre just in places we can't reach.

I know we are trying to communicate with them or something? Or is anyone actually making any progress? I DID speak with my japanese friend and he said his japanese is too rusty and he apologizes that he can't help.

I could try to find a fellow gamer whos japanese on one of the boards i follow but i dunno what luck I'd have.

Perhaps you guys could put up an add somewhere seeking a translator so we can speak with them?
Title: Re: Japanese Spriting
Post by: jimmyjw88 on May 25, 2010, 01:18:15 am
So far, we've seen many great portraits by japanese but yet on sprite. Hmm....Now I starts to wonder if they really did make the sprites of all those portraits or just portraits for fun.