Final Fantasy Hacktics

Light blue in the coat/hat is a little too bright, I think. Nice highlight color, but doesn't work when half the sprite is that color.

If you have any more colors, adding another shade of darker blue to the coat/hat would probably work.

I tried, I did, but I just can't seem to understand how it is done when it comes to portraits...just look at this crap:

The top hat looks good but not the bottom. That yellow is too saturated and flat. It should be curve rather than straight. Try observe closely of the Bikke portrait. Good luck ^^

What Jimmy said, and one question, you will leave himm with those clothes or this portrait is just to show hat attempt?

Hat attempt. ;_; I am just not cut out for making portraits...oh yes, by the way, I added one more blue color, now there is the same light blue, the new blue which is just slightly darker than that, dark blue and then the dark teal blue that Kage changed. I will post it when I do another row or something...

That's certainly an interesting looking hat...Anyhow, the yellow/gold trim needs to be a little less linear (curve it out). Overall, the portrait could use some different colors: the yellows are too bright and the blues are too dull. Focus on the sprite first, then work on the portrait towards the end.

15 views + all arms done (they are not all shown here though) + color problems fixed, works fine in Shishi

I will probably just forget to make a portrait at all...I give up with portraits...lend me your skills Mav...

Hahha, this admiral/captain/seems very well done, seriously !
The main bother is the leftmost view, with the hat ressembling.... well, a broken melon ?

Otherwise, It looks very nice.

I do plan on using it, with your permission, of course

Hahaha! A broken melon indeed! Thank you and yes, I am working on the leftmost view, it bothers me beyond words. And of course, you may use it, but wait until it is finished, unless you only want a walking unit.

Hmm, I took a look at the side view (keep in mind that I'm not much of a spriter) and this is my edit--I hope it fits...

The shading needs work, but my main goal was the shape.

Looking good Jon. Mav, that looks better. Though, maybe the side of the hat (frontside) move up a little bit.
Well done, keep it up ^^

Thank you Jim for the kind words and thanks Mav for the hat. I used your idea, but not the exact hat you made, and recolored the pillow shaded cap part. I really like what you did with the front, but for the back I will use my other new version. The front stays more or less the same as yours (changed the shading a smidge) so thank you. Also, finished all those middle weird half body things, finished 1 dead pose (which I am quite proud of, not to brag but that was a nightmare) and halfway done with the headless attack body poses. Probably will finish the Cannoneer off by either tonight or tomorrow sometime (I may still recolor and work with the shading, though)

Once you get the basic sprite completed, you can always continue to touch up the shade and whatever else you see wrong with it. If you've made some more updates, I think we'd all like to see 'em. Keep up the great work, man. I'll take a crack at the portrait today, since I'm not really doing anything.

Whoo yeah! Thanks a million! I probably would never be able to do diddly squat when it came to the portrait. Almost done now, just some attack poses (those are quite tough to get right) and wounded poses (practically done, did all back views). Tomorrow it will almost certainally be done, then I was thinking of doing something strange, tell me all what you think: I want to make a Leviathan out of Altima(the 2nd version), which will probably be extremely tough, but I don't care...Leviathan is the coolest boss and enemy besides Odin, haha...

The hat could still use some work, but it looks good, keep it up.

You know what, why didn't we just take Bartz's hat directly from FFV? He is the inspiration for this sprite, after all.


Take his hat, modify it, re-shade it, and you should be set.

Damn Jon, now I wanna do some summons sprites, first would be Odin, second Ifrit, I dunno what next, but this is certainly good idea

@Mav- haha, check page 1, I did exactly that. I used Bartz's hat reference the whole time I worked on this. It helped tremendously for the front-side view, but not the left side view(1st pose)
@Kage- Yeah, let's do some Summons

Here is my current standing with the Cannoneer, almost ready for combat now (ignore the reds please, those are my problem, no worries they will be gone):

You are moving preety fast with this, but you MUST do two things, first darken the second white, I did it in my attempt, the second thing is to lift the hat in the leftmost frame in first row by one, I did it in my attempt as well, I s'pose you didn't used it at all huh?