Final Fantasy Hacktics

Working on comic book teams for a patch.

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Please feel free to take any of these and work on them.
Comments / criticism is always welcome!

                                                 
                                                 

Adam Warlock: (New) Just palette change from magneto, with gambit head for now.

Archangel: (needs work) lluyd sprite pallette change...


Azazel: (Complete) Needs portrait.

Batman: (needs work) Working on the legs...


Beast: (needs work) Just an idea for beast, I haven't worked on it much and his animations are all screwed up.

Cyclops: (Complete) Choto came up with the base, needs re-color.

Deadpool: (needs work) Rough draft.

Drax the Destroyer: (new) Ogre base.

Dr. Doom: (needs work) Needs a belt and a portrait.


Elektra: (complete) Needs a portrait.

Gambit: (in progress) Basically finished, just needs to be cleaned up.

Hulk: (new) Titan base.

Iron Man: (Complete)

Majik: (in progress) Needs a portrait.

Kitty Pryde: (complete) Needs a portrait.

Loki: (complete)

Magneto: (Complete)

Mystique: (in progress) Pallete change from psylocke. Any ideas to make her look more unique are appreciated!


Psylocke: (complete) Basically done, I might add a belt later.


Rogue: (complete) Needs a portrait.

Storm: (in progress) Needs updated spritesheet.

Thor: (in progress)

Wolverine:(needs work) Need to fix colors and add more shades.

Ah that's my Cyclops dude. I like the ideas... it would be so cool to make a marvel patch lol. Feel free to do what you want with the spritesheet :)

When I first saw this topic, I thought, "needs moar Psylocke." So thank you for delivering. <3

Thanks guys! Yea hopefully i can start cranking out some more soon, my water pipe busted so been busy with that... I worked on psylocke's belt but was still havin' a little trouble getting it correct. Any criticism is welcome too! Or even if u guys have some ideas of other sprites i can do next im all ears... was sorta saving some of my favorites until im better with this. Gambit and Mr Sinister are 2 for sure's that i wanna do. So yea... Here's some things i could really use if anyone's bored!

-Advice on pallettes
-Next X-Men i should work on
-Girls, Portraits.

I think CONMAN made a working Magneto sprite that actually floats around.

One suggestion is using monster spritesheets for bigger ones like Dr. Doom. Also, study the crap out of any of Twinees, Lijj's, and Kagebunji's sprites to get some tips! You may also be able to find ripped spritesheets from other marvel games to use as references at http://www.spriters-resource.com/

Wow thx for the resource choto! Yea I have the magneto one downloaded, it's awesome (that's the sheet i used for batman). Sux havin' to load up fftactics and play a game every time i wanna test it though...

It's Crazy you mentioned monster sprites as well, i was doing a little thinking and i gotta get our beloved big blue beast in here too... So i saw this werewolf sprite-sheet and with a little work i think i can get a beast sprite started, Pallettes for beast/darkbeast too hopefully. What you think?



Here's the other marvel ones i found on the site.

Thor: (qued)
Magneto: (complete)
Loki: (complete)
Iron Man: (complete)

Your posts were only ~ 30 minutes apart, please use the edit button to update your previous post next time.
Double posting is frowned upon, unless you need help and it has been a few days since your post has been buried.

BTW, nice spritework, was wondering when more of these would pop up.

Oooops sorry mr. elric. I was using the edit button cuz i read some posts of peeps complaining about it but didn't really realize why. I will use edit more now and keep my posts to a minimum. Thanks for the encouragement! Hopefully I improve.

looooong time no post... Ya, that's my Thor (and Magneto/Loki/Ironman)- I haven't done much more work with him except tinkering with a helmet for him.  I've spent some time getting fatigued with some different sprites- and honestly spriters just kind of burn themselves out at times(and come back when the sprite bug hits them  :D). Actually I spent some time on one for Elric that frustrated me a bunch.  Any way since you've had some nice things to show (dude that wolvie could be great, but he claws are a bitch) and say, I figured I would show you another one I'm close to finished on (needs a port)

Azazel:

Haha no worries, I DON'T want you to worry about HOW MUCH you post at all, by all means, be as active as you like. That's why we are here :D
Just don't make a double post if its only been an hour since you made the last one, especially when yours is still the most recent in the section,
since the update is likely going to be seen anyway :)

Thank you for understanding.


EDIT:

Quote from: CONMAN on January 13, 2014, 09:35:52 pm
Actually I spent some time on one for Elric that frustrated me a bunch.

HEY CONMAN! So that's where you went?! I wish you wouldn't disappear due to feeling frustrated from that, I asked you primarily since you
were the one that came to mind when I thought of using it :P Since you are the resident Frankenspriter, lol

QuoteHEY CONMAN! So that's where you went?! I wish you wouldn't disappear due to feeling frustrated from that, I asked you primarily since you
were the one that came to mind when I thought of using it :P Since you are the resident Frankenspriter, lol

No worries- I just don't/ post much when I don't feel like contributing much.  Granted, I do get upset with myself if I don't live up to my word.  Also I kind of have seasonal lapse on this site during football season.  I'm a big fan (I play fantasy football too) and only have so much hobby time. 

Wow conman your a badass, that azaziel sprite is sick! Just wrote night-crawler and mystique down on "the list" now, damn you... By the way what did you mean when you said "Needs a port" in reference to azaziel. Im still kinda newish at this thing.

Quote(dude that wolvie could be great, but he claws are a bitch)

lol no kidding. The wolverine was the very first attempt ever at spriting and i screwed up a-lot noticed his claws show through when he lifts his hands up. Im going to try and sling some arms on tonight and will jus edit the post.

Sry i know i type alot... but i had a question on monster sprite-sheets that i couldn't find browsing around. Im really confused about the spr2 file that some monsters have and was wondering how to edit it? THX for the support guys! Hopefully the spriter's bug is contageous.

Quote from: Metal on January 13, 2014, 11:53:42 pm
Wow conman your a badass, that azaziel sprite is sick! Just wrote night-crawler and mystique down on "the list" now, damn you... By the way what did you mean when you said "Needs a port" in reference to azaziel. Im still kinda newish at this thing.

He means that the sprite needs a Portrait made for it.

QuoteHe means that the sprite needs a Portrait made for it.

Oh... doh hahaha. I shoulda' been able to figure that one out.

Check out http://www.comicvine.com that's where i get a-lot of my references.

Got a reference pic your using for the current sprite?

Was looking at the pics and also noticed a skull shoulder-pad in some of his costumes like here:
and
Im sure that's a total pain though, I didn't even know they were putting him in the movies already... 

I worked on this a few months ago so my memory is a little hazy... I tried the skull shoulder pad thing in the past, but that kind of arm work is rough! (I spent a lot of time once trying to recreate the James Earl Jones's Thulsa Doom from Conan)  I believe I tried to base it off the images you put up and also the one below.  I didn't have space for gold colors on the sprite (also the partial chest reveal mixed with a beard looked awkward.)  So, yeah I went with a fusion that seemed best to me. Honestly I hate having clothes and cape the same (black on black) otherwise I would have gone with fuzzy white shoulders and black cape. 

hmm... I may put a little more work in on this guy to get him right, but I was pleased with how the sprite (not so much the character) came together.  Sometimes you find that you can't quite get the depiction of a character the way you want, but like the way it came out anyway.

QuoteSometimes you find that you can't quite get the depiction of a character the way you want, but like the way it came out anyway.

Yea, i assumed that shoulder-pad was a pain. Either way the sprite looks pretty bad-ass i loaded it in game last night n checked it out. Can't wait to see what the portrait looks like i think that's all he rly needs. Didja see the beast i started? Was wondering how that sp2 file works... He works fine as minotaur but then when the next lvl one does aoe the animation screws up.

There are ways to fix the animation I think. Monsters have longer spritesheets for additional animations. Check the Worker 8 spritesheet, it's got a bunch of extra stuff at the bottom.

Also, if you were to create character graphics that adhere to one of the preset animations Frame and Duration selections, you would have a natural-looking custom animation. The glory of monster sprites =)

Ahhhh! yea that makes sense, thanks for the response choto. I will mess around with it more n figure it out. That explains why it kept chopping up my sprite every time i tried to export it.

So a funny thing happened the other day when i was messing with psylockes hair. I screwed up the palette somehow, not sure what happened still but when i loaded the sprite into shishi's i laughed my ass off cuz she was naked. hahahah WHY DID U TAKE HER CLOTHES SHISHI U PERV!. Still dunno how it happened but i guess i got a decent base for other sprites.

Added Elektra. Also Updated Wolverine, added claws to his casting animation and some new arms... Something wierd happens with this one when i attack though. In the attack animations his character gets all split up and bar-code looking. Any idea why this happens? i can't figure it out.... :(

QuoteIn the attack animations his character gets all split up and bar-code looking.

I'm not sure.  I seem to recall having this same problem once and can't remember why.... I think you need to shade Wolvie's head a bit.  I need to download it and look closer but it appears to be a single shade of yellow in most angles.

Quotesome new arms

Curious where you got them.  I wanted to suggest that you use the arms from the green ranger as a base.  It has the perfect shoulder pads.

Man- you love that succubus as a base (for good reason I might add).  I was toying with idea of using it for the scarlet witch....

QuoteI think you need to shade Wolvie's head a bit.

Yea wolverine was the 1st sprite i attempted and it's pretty rough and wretched looking atm, every time i try and mess with him i get frustrated at how crappy he looks and bounce to another sprite to cool down! lol. On the up-side i do have a couple free slots for extra colors... Will check out green ranger arms too thx 4 the tip man!

QuoteMan- you love that succubus as a base (for good reason I might add).

LOL i knew someone was going to point that out sooner - or - later. I really only intended on using it for psylocke and couldn't resist the easy edit for mystique, i had no plan of even making an elektra either... was just too easy, haha.

QuoteCurious where you got them.

Yanked them from the zack fair sprite someone here did.

Im still putting it off but i wanna make a nightcrawler sprite soon, not sure how im going to work in the tail... might even be a MON sprite, sorta lookin' for ideas. Scarlet witch would be pretty effin awesome, start it up lemme know if you need a lazy second eye

I know how you feel, some sprites just drive you mad trying to find a direction. With the wolverine one, it seems the 2 colors on his noggin are much too close. I barely noticed there were 2 until I pulled up magnifixer. I'm sure you're doing this already but make sure you have as many references up as you can while you work, it only helps.

It would be a metric kilo-shit-ton of work, but with effects you can put custom sprite animations on the effect sheet. It would be so cool to do a well-done X-Men hack with all custom animations like that and everything.... but way too much work for any sane person.

Quotewith effects you can put custom sprite animations on the effect sheet. It would be so cool to do a well-done X-Men hack with all custom animations like that and everything.... but way too much work for any sane person.

Good thing im nuts, and mabey I can pick up some help along the way.

Thx for celes LJJ !

QuoteFrankensprite it; adore it; loathe it; fap to it.. whatever:

Check, check check and check.

Rogue:
KittyPryde/Shadowcat:
Majik:

Set a couple of rogues pallettes to match her alternate comic book costumes. Since shadowcat and majik already look very similar (even in the comics) think i will try and add majik with her metal arm and leg, possibly even horns? dunno. Mabey even change the hair too, lemme know what you guys think!

No Omega Red? >: O

Very nice stuff :3

Aww yeah.. I was hoping she'd be the perfect X-Lady base with those tight-ass pants.
Majik looks very good.

So I tried one and man you guys are awesome for being able to do whole sheets. Making Marvel characters into FFT form is way harder than I thought and I even gave up. O__O

Here is my attempt at Cyclops in Jim Lee style (Note to self ninja arms are puffy replace with squire when using as base) Only got it done til the front walking frames

I had left Thor alone for a while to see if if you wanted to mess with him anymore Heavy Metal.  I had struggled several times to make a  half way decent helmet.  I just feel like Thor needs that damn thing, or he's just another generic knight type.  Thankfully, with a couple of tiny changes I used from a Seushiro helmet, I feel like the god of thunder can take shape.  This is what I have so far....

ooo i really like the helmet concept bro! a-lot more thor-ish! it's been a while since i have had time to mess with anything. love where your going with it though. i will be back - in - action soon! finish it!

I wanted to contribute to this. I have a full sprite sheet for her, but this is by far the best to show at the moment. (Have to head out for a few hours.)

(Edit: I don't mean for her eyes to be red. I hope to condense the palette a little to add a blue. Though I do have 14 colors, including black.)

Heh, I would prefer a diagonal side view instead, but this is nice too. Frame looks good, bu it's the diagonal view that matters the most, so let's get some of that :)

That looks like a good start Fosil!  Kage is right about the diagonal front/back frames are the most important.  It looks like you have the female summoner cape behind her which is interesting.  I wanted to make a Storm sprite a few months ago (it got tossed on the back burner with about a half a dozen other sprites), but mine didn't look as nice as yours (especially the head)!

I had one issue that kept me from making this character (And i had a similiar one with a Maleficent).  Namely- the weird cape she sometimes wears.  I often see her with a funky arm cape.... wings arms? see below.

BTW Metal, have you consider how quick of a recolor/tweaking Titan could be turned into Hulk?  He already attacks with his classic two armed smash!

I apologize in advance. I just can't work on any other view until the palette and facing-view are well-done. But, I am happy with it, currently.

Keep in mind, her outer cape will be the dark blue like her costume as well. The red is just for the inner cape (and contrast). I'm really fond of Storm's X-Treme costume, so I feel it fits nicely.

Note: I've yet to work on anything else in the sheet since adjusting the palette. So, the sheet contains more than 16 colors.

For the base sprite, I used Balmafra/Balmafula. Hair is from Ajora. Borrowed colors from the following: Female Mime (white) Ovelia (red inner cape), Female Dark Knight (blues), Rapha/Marach (skin tones), and gold from Zelda.

Edit: Made changes to the front-facing. (Shifted breasts up, shifted chongo longo down, to give her more of a mid-section) And began a diagonal. Going to sleep now. Will update later!

I LOVE YOU FOSIL! been considering a storm sprite for a while now... just havn't gotten around to it. your spritesheet is lookin' amazing too keep it up! im not sure what i think about her hair in the front view though. it looks kinda like a turban. I considered the titan rework of hulk too, him + thing would be a really cool transformation from that and wouldn't take much work. Im messin' around with deadpool ideas right now. havn't gotten much down but here's what i have if you wanna check it out.

Quote from: Metal on May 26, 2014, 01:08:30 am
Im messin' around with deadpool ideas right now. havn't gotten much down but here's what i have if you wanna check it out.

spoiler

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1st unedited frame looks like Dare Devil. for the 2nd and walking frames. I would say this is awesome as you got Dead Pool down :)

Thanks a-lot! Didn't take very long at all really. Will finish this one up soon, and it's funny you mentioned daredevil. I was considering just using this template for dare-devil/spider-man and dead-pool. Let you guys know what i come up with!

Also, i tried to load your spritesheet fosil. but with no luck... im not sure why it wasn't loading but the colors were all messed up... do you think you can upload a bmp or the .spr instead?

Quote from: Metal on May 28, 2014, 07:32:08 pm
Also, i tried to load your spritesheet fosil. but with no luck... im not sure why it wasn't loading but the colors were all messed up... do you think you can upload a bmp or the .spr instead?

It's a PNG. Use something like GraphicsGale to turn it into a BMP. Works fine for me.

QuoteIt's a PNG. Use something like GraphicsGale to turn it into a BMP. Works fine for me.

Yea was just being lazy. found out with the file-size can only use it for priest n stuff tho. Got it to work now however, i like where he's going with it! minus the tiara.

Quote from: Metal on May 28, 2014, 11:49:50 pm
Yea was just being lazy. found out with the file-size can only use it for priest n stuff tho.

Um no? If its TYPE 2 change the slot you wanna insert it to to TYPE 2 in shishi (SEQ and SHP) same goes for TYPE1 and MON
lol

(unless you are doing something wonky like editing WotL or something)

Yeah, I apologize for the unusable sprite sheet. It was just for show that time around.

I'm going to be leaving for the weekend, but this is what I've got so far. I hope the hair looks good, as I struggled getting it "right."

Also, the palette changed ever so lightly. The darkest red was replaced with a dark orange from the Bomb's palette. Yet, I still need to source some "true" (from other palettes) colors to replace the colors I made myself, if I'm to do it right.

Here is diagonal, front, and mid-walk/mid-cast/armless view. See you next week!

Quote from: Fosil on May 30, 2014, 12:46:38 pm
Yeah, I apologize for the unusable sprite sheet. It was just for show that time around.

Don't apologize, I actually prefer when people post as PNG over anything else.

Also, nice job so far, this Storm is looking great.

Yup, great looking Storm you have here. Good luck with the sheet :)

Just wanted to post an update. Progress is going slower than I would like. (Work and crap, meh.)

The palette it down to 15 colors, woo! If anyone has a suggestion as to another, if any, to add? Also, I might like to thin the gold band around the bottom of her cape. Thoughts?

After I finish it, I can see making a new 'Sorceress' job from this by altering her palette. (That may very well require the 16th color palette spot, depending how it goes.)

Well I like the gold band the way it is it makes it unique and matching to the sprite. But it will have to be replicated in the walking frames and arms if it will be attached. It will be rough

It'll be awesome if you can pull it off though, and a great reference for others who attempt to do similar things in the future :) keep up the good work Fosil

Cool Storm sprite!
There are a couple things that look off though.. the angle of the collar mostly. and the black tiara.. which is really hard to get right at this size. I don't even know if I got it right but I went ahead and tried editing that a bit too. Added 1 more color so now it's 16 total and the skin is better separated from the outfit.

(http://i.imgur.com/YDwqBMg.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/4r3QyYj.png)

This is one hell of a sprite.

Great looking Storm sprite. I was very impressed with Fosil's base and didn't see room for improvement, but Lijj's edits are spot on.

Thank you for the collaboration!

I took Lijj's effort a few steps further and smoothed out some things. Although in retrospect, It could be said I am stepping backwards, as I used her skin tones again in odd places. (Will making converting it to another palette harder.)

Nice fixes on the collar and well done smoothing the collar out.. I'd say you definitely took it another step forward.

I think I'd like to help with the other X-Men/superhero sprites as well after I finish. No promises, though...

Getting closer on this Thor.  Definite work needed on attack arms (hair gets covered by cape portions on the arm).  Also another weak port attempt reveal.

Ever finish that Thor?, or Storm? those were awesome... Was hoping i would see more of those.

So I broke my computer, got a new one but lost a-lot of old stuff i was working on and became frustrated. Lately I have begun spriting again but have forgotten things.

Here are some frankensprites I started fiddling with based on the Titan and Troll sprites i found here (will give credit later when i find out who made them). Also, the portraits are not FFT style and i obviously need portraits made... these are really weak starts, but i figured i could go ahead and post what i have and get feedback before i start. so lemme know what u guys are thinking!

Hulk:
Drax the Destroyer:
Adam Warlock:

-can easily pallette change redhulk, greyhulk, greenhulk too which is cool...