Cecil Video!

[CidIII]

I decided to make my own topic for my Cecil Edit, cause I kind of hijacked Nagafen's  

I made a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN5-sjwAIQk

It's still in development (obviously), so please post suggestions. I know the helm looks a little pixelated, need to fix shading.

Enjoy the video! See if you can catch the Rydia subliminal message  

Most Recent Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__4s7Murl9c

Sprite Progress (Ignore this):

[SentinalBlade]

Nice Cid...as i said, im really excited about getting this sprite.

Few things though. on the front left/right sides, his helmet looks to flat and jutted. by that i mean... It looks slanted, but nto far enough, it makes it look like he has a pumpkin face with a jutted out helmet >.<

Regardless, i think that is the only issue your facing. Everything else looks extremely well done IMHO <3

[CidIII]

Which one do you like better?

[Vanya]

What's different? I really can't tell.
To be honest the thing that needs the most work is the helmet.
The colors and all that are pretty good.
The angled view of the helmet just looks ... wrong.

[Zozma]

to much of the back eye slot is visible one pixel rotated more should do ... i think

its lookin great

[CidIII]

Now what do you think?

[Zozma]

yes yes!, much better, now see if the top 3 rows of the pixels on the right horn look better moved one to the right...

[Vanya]

And farther down, too. He looks like he's cocking his head away from the viewer.

[Zozma]

well just needs a little more back to the helmet with the darkest color i guess?

[CidIII]

Alright...

[Zozma]

yeah the second looks better

but the top pixel of the horn, by itself, i think there needs to be a little bit of shading under it like the dark brown or something... not sure exactly don't want to overdo it either,

its lookin great

[Kenshin72]

He looks like he has a giant head to me, but the improvements have helped alot. I also enjoyed your video.

[CidIII]

Ramza's head is way bigger than his  

[CidIII]

I do have 2 color slots that aren't being used.

I could add more colors.

[Vanya]

Did he have white horns? I think they're supposed to be the same color as the helmet and armor. The portrait might have had it that color, IIRC.

[Zozma]

his portrait had white horns, but the sprite didnt

[KazeKasano]

It's interesting to note that in the DS version, his face is visible at times when he is not wearing his face cover/visor....
Could that get a sprite as well?

[Zozma]

really his sprite in battles of ff4 it looks like his the helm isn't all the way down, like gaffy looks, but gaffy's helmet doesn't seem quite the same.

[CidIII]

I based mine off the portrait,  I wanted to do a fully helmeted sprite.

[Vanya]

Well, I commend you on basing off Amano's work. I hate it when they have a separate illustrator and sprite artist. They always look so different.