Knox' Sprites etc.

[mav]

How many colors can you use on the weapons? All they need are some well attributed shading. Though to be honest, I would have used a cooler looking weapon, but that's just me...

[Jon]

Yeah, he's got a point...unless you must absolutely use swords or if you sorta have a thing for them, I would go for something like a ball with spikes and chain attached to a stick (I think this is a mace, right?) or perhaps a giant axe, not like lumberjacks have but like something more battle oriented. Spears are kinda cool too, imo. Up to you though Knox I wonder if any one else likes claws like Amarant has in FF9? I do haha...

[mav]

And if you gotta stick with swords, look at the Iron Sword or any of the Knight Swords--their designs are pretty cool.

[jimmyjw88]

Yeah, Iron Sword looks nice, as I suggested for Smash's Ramza.

[Kagebunji]

Wait Jimmy, you suggested? I was first who suggested that, you just agreed with me. YOU LIAR

Btw, what happened with ramzaxdelita sprite? It was shaping nice, but I wanted to sau tp leave the armor gold and change red to blue, it could be better.

[jimmyjw88]

Oh ya, I forgotten about that. Haha. Sorry.

[Knox]

Here's from what i started working on until where i am now, and i know the head is one i took from another sprite, but i got frustrated making a decent face so for now thats the face im going with until i get a little better at it. I went through 10-15 faces from scratch that i had made for it but never matched it correctly so right now im focusing on the body which needs alot of work.

Other then this im still working on my Shrine-esque Delita-headed sprite, i plan to make his hair longer and a totally new outfit from scratch hopefully, i really need to know the limits of the space i have to use on the fft sprites though.
I'd say ive gotten a bit better then i used to be, but not by much.

Just been really frustrated with this sprite in the pic here, i can't seem to do the middle area to a working degree, a belt always looks funny, and im just at a loss- i suppose eventually ill figure something out but I thought id update you guys.

[jimmyjw88]

Well, I think the back of the belt is bit too high. Perhaps lower that would be better?

[Knox]

Yeah im pretty aware of that one, im just having issues with the boots but thanks to Smash i might have solved that, just have to make it look right.

I really loved Smash's little Golbex, especially the colors, so i copied them somewhat, and used them in my custom sprite, its just a concept right now here I'll show you what i did.



I think it looks fairly nice, i took his idea of shoulders from his Golbex attempt, cause i liked the look of them alot, then i extended the arms, might redo the torso area and take out the shrine knight middle area and change the head up a bit when i feel like it lol.

[Jon]

Well, this doesn't look too bad. I like the shoulder armor, but I bet the more experienced spriters will tell you that the purple trim is a bit flat, you need more colors...other than that I suggest that you get rid of the belt and give the tunic some kind of cool design in the middle, like a lion or cross or something that fits to FFT. Also, a little thing- why does the first pose have pure silver/metal legs and the second has gold trim on it?? Last thing, aren't the highlights in the hair maybe too light (I mean the lightest color)?

[Knox]

uh no the hair isnt much different then delitas original, just a different hue.

As for the differences in the views its because i didnt do them yet, i was posting my progress so far, not a finished version lol.

And i plan on redoing the entire midsection, torso and legs eventually, i just havent though of how or what im going to put there im sure an idea will spring eventually.

Hopefully smash doesnt mind me using his shoulder-idea.

I also plan to add a cape.

I'll post an update tommorow, i plan to work on it a little tonight.

[mav]

It's a pretty interesting concept--the shoulders may be a bit too big (he almost looks like the characters from Mega Man X), but I can tell that you're headed in a good direction. I don't know if the purple is flat, like Jon mentioned, but it should definitely be replaced: purple on blue is very hard to see. Anyhow, you're still at work on this, so I'll hold off on critiquing till the next version is posted.

[jimmyjw88]

Looks good.

[Jon]

Sorry if I sounded harsh/critical/aggresive. I didn't mean to seem that way. Also someone should do a Megaman X / Zero, that would be fucked up haha!

[Knox]

No worries, dont even sweat it.

Anyways, heres what i did today, i didnt have time to last night.



Obviously still needs work, feel free to crit because it helps regardless of whether its finished or not, but if they don't match like before its becuase I was too lazy to copy it over to the other side and focused on the main changes im working on.

[Jon]

Looks better, but get rid of that weird belt that the Divine Knights have...and just a question: why do you have blue and purple? You could have in theory blue and gold or silver trim, but the purple is a tad hard to see...

[SilvasRuin]

The purple's fine.  I like it.

Didn't you say you lengthened the arms?  I think you should undo that, or at least fix a problem I think it caused.  It looks to me like the closer arm in the diagonal view is longer than the arm that is farther away.  Significantly longer.
The trim on the boots don't seem to match between the poses.

[Knox]

Getting rid of the belt is planned, but i need a good idea of what to put instead or if i should just take it out entirely, would love some comments on that, or some ideas even afterall if its a good idea im inclined to add it arent i? lol

as for the trim on the boots, i didnt notice thanks.
As for the shorter arm in the back i didnt notice that either but ill fix it for sure
and not only did i lengthen the arms, i also added one block to his height atleast on the frontal view.

any other crits?

[jimmyjw88]

Looks good. I think the purple is nice touch.

[Jon]

The purples are alright, but the blue drowns them out, thats all I meant...its all about complimentary colors (I think purples opposite is yellow?) and how come on the front view there are 2 purple stripes going down the tunic and not in the forward side view? Also, if you make the arms longer, it might interfere with the attack graphic, unless you place the hand correctly, so be careful with that. It happened to me when I only tested in Shishi and then in game the sword was weird looking...as for ideas, you could put a cool design or something on the tunic, but it may be hard to pull off since you have 2 views. If you do put a design, start with the full front view and then attempt the front side view...as for the design itself, I think you the spriter should come out with an idea that blows everyone away