Final Fantasy Hacktics

Working on two different strings from the same concept of a red ramza now.
Which is basically the one most shown here and the original ramza chapter 4 in the same color scheme with some mild improvements.

Will post a pic as soon as i feel its presentable

You'll have to show me, I did what i thought you meant but it threw everything off.
If you don't mind that is.

I'll see what i can do, having trouble implementing the pads from sephy into the sideview.

Here's where im having trouble =/



You can tell i guess its too high? Hm..

I tried it, and i really couldn't stand it. But anyways as for the blue backdrop, My colors seem to blend quite nicely with it as demonstrated here:

I didn't grab it from any certain palette, i used photo-shop for it.

It's not really easy to convert the bmp's palette so i only know how to change the colors via replace color in adobe photo-shop.

I think i got something that might perk some eyes, I stumbled onto this fooling around a bit with the palette and I am pretty excited about how good it looks.

As for Seushiro's input, I love the fierce eyes but am not wild about the hair changes. And yeah the shoulders look so much better.

Anyways guys, tell me what you think:

I really noticed what you meant by pillow shading and did my best to not do it.
But I've taken the sprite in another direction now and I'll explain;

I really liked the way that the new sephiroth sprites shoulders were looking, and am trying my best to make a new ramza for FFhacktics for more variety for you guys. So i used the idea of the shoulders for ramza's more armored look and i intend to mix some new color into it but heres a rough look of it. I'm having a little trouble with the frontal view as you can see here:

I think i know what you mean, about the outlining, but could you humor me and give me an idea of what you mean?
I had Vanya's ramza open using it as a reference, but I'm trying to give it a more detailed look if possible.
And it also is harsh, because I'm trying not to add any new colors too it although i may have to add another shade of gray into it to make the detailing nice.

I really haven't spent alot of time on it and so far its just been a little hobby in what little free-time i've had lately.

I didn't use any colors not already in his sprite to begin with.
I got all the gray off his midsection, if anything its less than 16 colors once i take the greenish blue out all the way.

The main issue im having trouble with is the upper body and hair, we'll worry about the legs when i get to them.

Well this is a little one I've been working on for the last few nights.

Need a little help if you guys don't mind giving me some crits and pointers.

He doesn't HAVE to have the black wing, but anyways a regular version of him would be great first.
As much as i love how its coming i have a few crits:
Somethings off in his front view, i think its that his bangs arent as pointy as the others, and the hair in the back isnt so visible from the front though im not too sure it should be but something to fiddle with.

The back view doesn't match the side view's shape, same with the turned view.
Overall looking very good.

Basically, i spent all day working on sprites, and They end up pretty decent sometimes, but then no shishi wont upload it due to an exception.

Or more often the case is it ends up telling me that there is colors used in it that arent in the first 16 palette entries - still uploads it into shishi but changes the colors to some random hot colors where it says the colors werent in the palette which basically makes me go back and edit i again the best i can trying to keep to the palette even though i didnt use any colors not in the palette the original sprite had in the first place!

Help pl0x!

Well I took the time to edit make a chapter 1 sprite out of Vanya's.
Just needs the portrait fixed. I've been -trying- to make a totally new sprite for chapter for with some kind of update but no luck yet.

Ramza Ch1 Alt (v1.1) [no spikes]
Ramza Ch1 Alt (v1.1) [no spikes].spr
v1.1
Vanya, edit by Knox
Type1