Wakka WIP (first attempt)

[Krobelus]

Well it seems my last topic was lost among the server transfer (or someone is playing a mean trick on me =/)

In any case, I posted a Wakka sprite I whipped up in a short amount of time, and got some great Crits from the public, which really made me wanna fix it. So here it is again, the original:



Here is my update:


What I changed:
-Made his left hand equal the height of his right
-Made his shoulder guard a bit smaller (it really isn't supposed to be up to his head, but I figure FFT sprites are more "smushed" together kinda)
-Tried fixing his torso, fixing the straps and adding his little necklace plus tried fixing his groin area
-Fixed the sandals. Hopefully they look like sandals now.

Criticism welcome!
-Krobelus


Edit: I have an idea to lower the shoulder pad by one pixel, which may make it look a little better. I'll see what I can do.

[MiKeMiTchi]

how's gbatemp?
I'll try one, then you could start from there if you want.

[dwib]

Head looks good and the sandals are looking better, although his right foot is lighter than his left foot, which is strange for a front view, they should be the same
Also, it looks confusing and messy right above the pants where the greyish color is

Is this 16 colors? Get a pallete before you start spriting

[Cheetah]

Nice work, he is looking quite good. Are you using the archer's padded arm to do Wakka's armored arm?

[Twinees]

This is looking good, hair looks nice =D. FFX ftw...

Anyway... your trying to put too much detail into the sprite i think, the arm shape is looking good but as i said before, too much detail (if u remove some of the detail you could do some more shading). The shirt/body is also suffering from over detailing too. The shoes dont look like sandals im affraid, but keep trying to get the shape and colours right.

Also, that doesnt seem like 16 colours to me...

Good Luck with the sprite. =D

[Zozma]

i agree that you are trying to put too much detail into the sprite.

its looking fine but too much detail on such a small sprite will make it look odd

[jimmyjw88]

What they said ^^

[Seushiro]

Yeah here a little history from what my first attempt looked liked when I tried everything and how it looks now

Old by trying to add everything



New concept: Dropped down to shoulder pads, belt buckles, hood, and bracelet as accessories. No more red net stuff nor "jecth family symbol"

[RolyTunedIn]

looks good seushiro,but definetly needs work on front and back frame (especially in the leg/feet areas).the back diagonal frame looks a little funny too. i think one of the biggest problems you have with spriting is mostly in the feet area... good job on the hair. and it just dont seem like tidus without the family symbol.

[jimmyjw88]

Yes. The feet is your main problem. They're straight left and right rather than diagonal. Overall, it looks good and nice hair.

[Seushiro]

hahah I was just posting that as an example. ..  had that ever since Jap_tac came out and Twinees made Tidus edits. . . those were the bad times  of my patching ^__^ but definitely not lazy back then. . . back then the backward diagonal was used in a signature I had that is why he was facing up to the sky with yuna's pic in the clouds.

@Roly: you mean a single red Y looking sprite on his right leg will show he is Tidus?!!! atleast he has the small family symbol at the back ^__^

but now back to the concept for Wakka's Sandals (just ripped it out from Celia):

[jimmyjw88]

Looks like barefeet but looks better. Well, with that outlines at the bottom, it won't look much like barefeet ^^

[RolyTunedIn]

no no seushiro, that's not what i meant. i think it looks more him with it. but yay wakka's feet is fixed! huh? but what is this? he... he has PINK TOES!!!! lol

[Seushiro]

Zoomed in 6x. . . Pink toes where!!!!! anyway while literally just ripping the parts I did not try to color reduce it yet which should always be the first step. . .

[Krobelus]

Thanks everyone for the great criticism!

@Seushiro - Those sprites look awful :O! Well not really haha, but I do see your point. I think I'm gonna learn from that and fix Wakka as best I can, to match FFT but keeping it bland and nice looking.

Also nice sandals. I think we'll have to recolor them however, to brown or green or whatever (I'm color blind =/).

I'll post back soon!
-Krobelus

[Seushiro]

haha. . . they were more than awful. . . still had the worst sprite for keeps in the first page of my thread. . . ^__^ now u know why I dont post concepts anymore. . . atleast you know you are in better shape than i am on your first attempt keep it up!

[jimmyjw88]

That's nice looking Ryu and Ken Seu ^^
Well done.

[RolyTunedIn]

seu, are you planning on finishing tidus?

[Seushiro]

twinees is working on it so nope those will stay only for examples sake. . . but i did use the head for my signature. . .

[RolyTunedIn]

why don't you hand it over to twinees to work on it. his spriting skills should be good enough to finish it.