Final Fantasy Hacktics

Valkirst,
I do try to pop in to FFH from time to time but as the years have gone by, somehow I missed your Ashley Riot sprite. I made the one in the Custom Sprites section back in ...2008 (has it been that long...?) and I must say yours is an improvement! I remember struggling with the JRPG hair and the color palette. Happy to see that you figured out how to add in some blue and red. Nice work! I will be attempting to set up The Lion War so I can see it in action!

It's ok, I just hit a snag but I eventually figured out the issue ( 3 frames were in the wrong places ) and fixed it. Ashley looks great in-game, I'm really pleased. He's not perfect but this sprite is the very best that I could do. Almost every frame in the sheet is a custom job and I really feel that it's an accurate portrayal of Ashley Riot within the FFT universe. If I can get my emulator working (I put him in-game on psp) I will post up some screenshots in the near future.

Ashley Riot from Vagrant Story updated
100%
Type 1
Sprite by stewelement
Portrait by Smash

Updated first post with completed sprite.      

Updated first post with request.

Hey all,
I'm requesting some help on this sprite. I need some extra sets of eyes to look over the animation frames, particularly the back attacking/blocking frames. I am having some trouble fitting the pieces together and I've mostly patched up the front animations but, I need some other people to take a look/touch up/help me out. I really want this sprite completed soon and the animations are kicking my butt. The updated sheet is below, fire up ShiShi and take a look. It's ok to make changes. Post up/pm any hints/advice/suggestions/fixes/changes. Thanks everyone,

stewlement

@ Smash
Nice portrait update, it's good that you're back.


I thought that after the sprite was done and I polished up my own portrait, I'd provide a spritesheet with each portrait in place (mine, smash's, and the japanese one ) so all efforts would be showcased.

I disappeared for a bit but I've been working on Mr. Riot whenever i get a chance. Anyway, here's a 90% version that I am really happy with. Currently I'm playing with the red crosses on his bucklers and adjusting his combat animations arms/faces, as they're a bit wonky right now.

Probably Sydney from Vagrant Story, same hair and the facial expression looks like some of the official artwork.

Ashley Riot's portrait....wow. Great find. I'll have to think about it but I might have to steal it too.

WIP Portrait that I started about a year ago :

Ok..it's time for a MEGA update....it's been a long time coming. Right now there are some big errors with the arm animations ( I'm using Monk arms as a placeholder) and not all frames are complete but I think I've really come a long way with this sprite. I'd put it at about 70% done.
As an added bonus, I did not give him butt pants. Check it out and let me know what you all think. I'll check on the thread periodically until this weekend, then I'll be gone for 2 weeks to my annual Army Reserve training. I'd hoped to complete the sprite by then, but it's not gonna happen. It's better not to rush things anyway.

P.S. If anyone knows where Smash went, can you tell him to take a look at this sprite for me? Thanks

@ Cheetah and mav :

Please clarify, which poses need more pixels and where do they need them?

Looking again, I'm going to take your advice Kuraudo and use the newest lightning bolt hairstyles for the critical health/ getting hit poses. Sometimes its just difficult to leave artwork alone and not keep on tweaking it. I'll just have to force myself to quit working on the hair.

The front pose is being difficult but I managed to curb the ridiculousness of the haircut while keeping the sharp angles. I think they will work better in-game than the squiggle looking hair.

@ Zozma : I certainly plan to keep quality levels high and suck factors to a minimum.


--Looks like I messed up the scaling a bit on the preview--

Looking at the last preview, I realize that I have done exactly what I didn't want to do in the beginning...go overboard on the haircut. I'm keeping some of the lightning bolt styling but I'm also reverting back to the 2nd style back antennae on the front 3/4 view.

I touched up the hair and removed an extra row of pixels. I made the hair more lightning-y and it's started to really grow on me. I am concerned now that the hair is too tall on the front 3/4 view, can anyone confirm this for me? ( I don't have shishi on work pc )

I've started filling out the rest of the sheet slowly but surely. Barring any major setbacks I'd put the sprite at 33% complete, with most of the body animations complete.

Also, you may notice that there's no red crosses on his arms in the preview. I am working on the arm animations now and I'm not sold on them just yet, and I think he still looks good without. We'll see.

So I gave the JRPG hair a shot, and it doesn't look so bad. Granted, it took forever, much longer that doing Crono's haircut. Thoughts? Comments?

Ok, attempt number 2 at the haircut.

Worked on the 3/4th view and TRIED... yes, I tried...to get the JRPG hair to work. I'm still not sold on it yet. Anyway take a look and let me know. It may come down to a vote on the haircut.