Hey everyone! How about thinking about recruiting more artists! Think of who might be into spriting, and find them on Myspace or Facebook and get them over here! There's just not enough happening in my favorite section. Too bad I can't find my old class mate Sokhan Suth! He'd take the cake here. Maybe he's Smash...
Our biggest issue has always been the amount of researchers; no one is willing to do it. Everyone that would be willing to can't because they are making their own patches. I'm not saying that I don't care for more spriters though.
There are a lot of myspace/facebook haters here. You might want to aim at online graphics community, and even then you shouldn't target people that aren't obsessed with FFT.
I have mad respect for the hackers and thier work. can't wait to play some of these patches.
I tried to recruit a couple old students from animation classes today. I'm pretty sure one of them will try to sprite. Emphasis on try; it's hard.