Even longer overdue Flan sprite

[Choto]

 Credit to Ryu for the original base sprite that was awesome to start with, and Smash for a recolored version.

Current Progress:

[Panda_Tar]

Good looking thing. If I was ever to use this, would promptly get rid of the tree-like monsters to begin with. Flans as much more FF-like than those trees.

Well done!

[3lric]

This is great Choto, i hope someone finishes it 

[Jon]

One pose isn't really a base, but I must admit that does look pretty good. Here are a few more possible bases:
http://spriters-resource.com/psx_ps2/phantombrave/sheet/5079
http://spriters-resource.com/psx_ps2/phantombrave/slime.gif
http://spriters-resource.com/other_systems/crystaldefendersr1r2/sheet/33280

There's more, I'll post later.

[Choto]

Well it is one pose, but once its refined to a satisfactory level i'll just copy paste it into other poses... I feel like that's not an overwhelming task. Those sites will serve as a decent reference though, thanks!

I mostly posted it to get suggestions from those with a much more talented eye for art, mostly because i dont want to go making other poses and then have to refine ALL of them. If anybody else wants to take a crack at it, can't hurt to have more examples.

Here's how he looks in game:

[Eternal]

Big Flan is big. I feel it should be smaller, myself.

[Choto]

I think I agree Et, Is there an easy way to do resizing in graphicsgale aside from the ol' click and drag?

Also, I tried doing a little bit of recoloring to fill the thing in with some color, while trying to retain the dark patches on the bottom a little bit... thoughts?

[GeneralStrife]

There was a smaller flan laying around somewhere long ago, more complete too. could have been ripped from FFTA though.

[Mobius]

Lets finish this damned thing because its an awesome start. Here is where it was left off, I think Ryu made the original and then Smash offered a refined version, so I took his and messed around with it for a bit. Couldn't come up with anything that looked better in the end, so i'm posting it here for suggestions. Credit to Ryu and Smash, this is pretty much all their work:

Tasty.

Et, there could be two versions, big and small. Remember FFXII?
Or maybe even boss sized.

Anyone know or has a vid on how this idle should look?

[Lijj]

If you finish this you are a hero.\o/
I like the shading on it.
I think the size is good as it is; it'll look bad if you resized it so you'll have re work it entirely if you shrink it down.

[Jon]

Much too big...

that's all I got to say.

[Kagebunji]

Nope, IMO this big sized flan looks badass. Plus it will give more place to add details to various frames, while a small frame would make it hard to put any details. Big flan, big win. I will have to make my Tortoises as big one day, too.

[Pride]

I completely agree with Kage about BIG flan

[Tea]

Attached is a small preview I made using paint's resize and copy/paste tools of two smaller flans, and one bigger. I think the second one from the right is the most appropriate for a normal flan, but the original size looks more threatening. I'm imagening two smaller flans get spawned when the bigger one is defeated myself, and so forth.

[Choto]

That's a pretty neat comparison Tea

As for right now, I'm gonna continue with it the size it is... because its easy and I wont have to worry about resizing. I added another shade slightly less than the shiny brightest shade to give it a little more dimension, seems to be working well... thoughts?

I love how happy he looks ^_^

[Lijj]

Looks great so far!

[Choto]

K, I think i've settled on a coloration that is moderately complete, so on to poses!

Flan can now charge, cast, be damaged, and be critical

I'll keep a reference spritesheet up on the main post and add frames as I make them.

Any ideas for a good evade frame for a Flan? The bottom left small frame is what i was messing around with and didn't complete. I was thinking kinda like the bomb's smirk.. idk what else though. Anyway, here's the latest:

[GeneralStrife]

Yeah, A smirk with eyes closing would be good. Shouldn't be too hard either.

[Atma]

Sweet!  I was just thinking that FFT could use a flan monster and then I found ur work.  Super happy that you working on it.  Good luck, can't wait to see this finished.

[Jon]

You can have the attack frame and evade frame the same- have the flan stick his tongue out!