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Hi all, I used this forum last year to hire a sprite designer and was blown away by the creativity & quality of the work you guys do!

Now I'm developing a new game and would like to hire a sprite designer to create all the graphics for the game: characters, enemies, pickups, UI & environment tiles.

Here is some background about the game: (I will give more details & a brief to the hired designer)

• The game is for a non-profit in Australia who are leading the charge in helping young people make healthy life choices. E.g. not smoking, not doing drugs, eating healthy, etc etc.
  
  
• We've already got the game concept worked out, and a rough idea of what we want for characters & enemies. The enemies will be "bad habbits" - e.g. unhealthy foods, cigarettes, etc (see here for reference http://catshark85.files.wordpress.com/20...63_org.png - these were characters from a chewing gum ad).
  
  
• The game will be a platform style game like Double Dragon (e.g. you can moved back, forward, sideways, up & down).
  
  
• There will be multiple levels, and each level will have a mini-boss, with a final boss at the end.
  
  
• The style we want to go for is kind of cartoony - smooth vectors with outlines around everything (not 8-bit unfortunately). Not sure if that makes sense. I've tried to find examples of this kind of style around the web, here's what I could find:
  - https://dribbble.com/shots/652401-Dan
  - https://dribbble.com/shots/1451359-Eagle-Sprite-Sheet
  - https://dribbble.com/bevouliin
  - https://dribbble.com/shots/464084-Cartoons
  - https://dribbble.com/shots/603959-Ninja-Dribble-Com
  - https://dribbble.com/shots/684305-Wizard-Whale
  - https://dribbble.com/shots/351310-Sprites
  - https://dribbble.com/shots/1361339-Running-Animation-V2
  - https://dribbble.com/shots/25373-Comic-S...-One-Cover
  - https://dribbble.com/shots/54723-Metallic-Print-Shop
  
  
• The game will be developed in HTML5 not Flash (just in case you were interested)
  

I look forward to hearing and hopefully working with you soon!

Kind regards,
Mitchell

I found some more examples - this kind of style would be perfect: https://dribbble.com/shots/1532880-Game-...-Sprite-01

Not that complex though - we won't have that many movements.

Unfortunately I'm not really sure that anyone here can really give you what you're looking for.

You seem to want vectors, but we work primarily in pixelart here so unless you're okay with a pixelart style that looks similar I don't think there's anyone here that actually does vectors enough to be able to help.

Hi Viper, thanks for replying. Thats useful to know. I didn't realise this forum was only for pixel-art sprite designers.

(06-08-2014, 07:37 PM)ideacreate Wrote: [ -> ]I didn't realise this forum was only for pixel-art sprite designers.

It's not, specifically. As in, we have no specific rules against other types of art. It's just that the community here mainly focuses on pixel art so you're less likely to find what you're looking for here, unfortunately.

thanks for clarifying - you wouldn't happen to know any other sprite designer sites/forums, ones that might have more users that do vector style artwork.

personally i prefer the pixelart games, but for this particular project we need to use more of a cartoon/vector style.