Cingin's Sprites - Octopus Royalty

[cingin]

Stuff i've been working on (Nothing complete so far)

Seeq Lanista (On Hold)


Dwarf Viking (Main interest in finishing)

[GeneralStrife]

:O

[LastingDawn]

Definitely looking promising! I love the look of the Dwarves already, that's for sure! The Seeq doesn't look half bad either, something seems a little off on the color... but its hard to pinpoint for me. All in all, great work! I can't wait to see what you bring to the table.

[mav]

Hah, these sprites are so cute. I can't help but feel like your shading is a little messy though and the sprites aren't exactly FFT style. Did you create these palettes yourself?

[Kagebunji]

Like Mav pointed the shading is a bit messy, and flat too(especially the portrait). I am not certain about the palette as well, just ude existing ones for now(black Mage or Rofel for blue). It is a good start, but needs some polishing. Also, don't forget to keep design simple(mainly looking at Seeq now), too much details will make it look like shit.

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[cingin]

I'm not exactly sure of the fft palette style (I guess I can steal colors from the official sprites to fix that, since I just made my own colors) or limitations of how many colors I can use.
I'm going to note what you said Kagebunji, and see if I can improve the color scheme and shading.

Thanks for the help guys.

[GeneralStrife]

16 colors including background color

[Zozma]

haha sweet! an ff4 dwarf!

[Twinees]

Basically the word to best describe the shading on the FF4 Dwarf portrait and sprite would be noisy, the pixels seem somewhat randomly placed. Also there is a lot of outlining on both.
The diagonal views for the seeq are not isometric, and because of that, it will cause quite a lot of problems in the long run. The shading on this sprite isnt noisy but just looks odd (the weird palette doesn't help with this either). The eyepatch(?) is just one colour, it makes it look like he has a hole in his head.
From the looks of it, the portraits arent using 16 colours so I wont say much about them other than that the shading atm looks weird once again.
Keep working at it though.

[cingin]

Is the shading any better now? (Still trying to find the right colors for beard)

[Kagebunji]

Not quite, it seems like it has two highlights. Here is a small help:


Edit: Forgot to point out, I didn;t want to mess with the palette, but that one purple you are using there could be changed to a more fitting shade of blonde and used for a better shading, it will help a lot.

[Lijj]

Just remember each sprite has a little light above it:

[Wolfran]

Cingin, your sprites looks cartoonish, specially the Seeq. And the Dwarf's beard in the portrait looks ugly to me, it reminds me the tentacles of the pschycodemon.

[Kagebunji]

For the beard on the portrait I suggest using Pisco Demon's tentacles as reference, it would surely work great. Your style maybe is a little out of FFT, but you will adapt with time I am sure. Don't get turned down after an attempt or two, no other advice I can give here...

[cingin]

I know this wasnt going to be easy from the start, but you learn from experience and messing around tell tell you turn out with something half decent.
Appreciate the comments, did some more touch ups (The head is still the main focus) :


After digging around with FFTEVGRP, I notice that King Ondoria has a nice beard I could probably use as a reference portrait.

[Kagebunji]

I really dig it now. Algus body works perfect. Haha, this willl work well for a male Viking, good job! Once you are done with him, do you plan to make his face human too? Two versions would be good.

[GeneralStrife]

Haha, it looks good. I thought algus was a little short and chubby.

[cingin]

Kagebunji - I dont have much interest in making a human version, but if I did, it might look like this (And I dont think it looks very worthy) :


GeneralStrife- I know, He fit the role alot better then that child base I was using before.

More progress :

[Dome]

I like it without a human face
It could be a good special character, or even a monster (Some monsters have humanoid appearance)

[Tea]

Or a job, the bm does not have a face either. Also, does he have a hunchback?