Mercenaries Job Sprite Ideas (update: soon)(Image Heavy)

[Dormin Jake]

3.5

[Asmo X]

Ok some more ideas. Also fixed the neckline

Edit: 1 more

[SilvasRuin]

I vote for the third or fourth one from the other set, still.

[jimmyjw88]

Yeah...Still 3 or 4 from that previous post

[MiKeMiTchi]

I prefer the one you are comfortable working with, Asmo.
But overall, I think 3 or 4 would look better.

[Asmo X]

sorry, i know, I'm being pedantic. These are the last ones I promise!

[Vanya]

Left = gimpy
Right = evil

[Asmo X]

I won't hear a bad word about the one on the left! It's the best one I've done yet if you ask me.

[Vanya]

Left = more accurate to a mask made from a gimpy skull
Right = more accurate to a mask made from a real skull

[mav]

Eh, I prefer the smaller masks from the previous post.

[Archael]

alright I think I figured out why they look strange to me

the forehead / upper face area juts out forward, and the jawline recedes backwards.. thats not how skulls look like.. it should be more proportional

look at this small edit I made



see how much better the skull looks when the jaw / cheeks are a little more proportionate to the forehead?

I also added a little bit of grey (upper hood) behind the upper yellow stripe to give it more of a side-shot 3D view, that reduces some of the protrusion from the forehead bones too

[Vanya]

That's much better.

[MiKeMiTchi]

You have a point there, Sir Voldemort. Looks normally fitting.

[Asmo X]

I can add more gray to the hood, thats no problem, but keep in mind Voldemort added pixels to the double size sprite. So essentially, fractions of a pixel. No wonder it looks smooth. I did add an extra row though and I'll post the results soon. Also arch, this is kind of reinforcing what I said in channel yesterday: You have never seen a picture of a skull before. First off, this mask is nothing BUT an upper face. That's what LD said he wants. There is no jawline; there is no lower head whatsoever with which to compare. Secondly, removed from the facial musculature and skin, the upper head most certainly DOES jut out. If you angle the skull a little, there is absolutely nothing whatsoever under the cheekbone. In fact the only thing below the nasal bone that stops the upper head from being the most jutting-out thing ever is the maxilla. and at any rate this does not curve around enough in that angle to make the top of the head not jut out. Which it's supposed to. I see the changes you made to the sprite but I cant shave or add half pixels to the sprite. I mean, I could add a pixel to the bottom of the eye or under the eye to show where the far cheeckbone could show but really, is this the critical problem?

Look here:



At an angle there is nothing under the far cheeckbone. So the top of the head juts out. Then you come back in and theres a slight dip to show the edge of the maxilla. Frankly, I think this quality is what makes it skull-like. I don't want it to look square. I want it to look like shit is missing under the eye.

Maybe I should just make the maxilla more prominent.

[Archael]

the part that you had jutting out looked more like the forehead, not the cheekbones, that's why it looked so weird for me

[Asmo X]

I'll get back to that one soon. Anyway, after some extensive critiques in channel, this is the female Inquisitor LD likes:



thoughts? Any further work to be done?

[MiKeMiTchi]

Make her purple.
Blue is for blue mage. hahaha.

..and probably try adding a hat?

[jimmyjw88]

Yeah. I think hat is not a bad idea ^^

[Asmo X]

no hat

[Asmo X]

A hat is a terrible idea. Just ask LD