Sage's/Forte's Sprites and things

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

I've actually been doing that now with the stuff on this page, starting with the Lyn sprite. I'm not really good at posing, so I see what you mean.

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

Kinda small update, but I finally around to finishing these. The girl, who I decided to call Haizea, will be my new Avi when I finish the idle animation above because I really like what I did with her.

Also, I'm gonna stream on Friday. Stay tuned.

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

A new child to add. I think that he still needs some work, but I'm not sure on what exactly. Also updated the others.


All three with their Names:


Some information about each and other stuff:
-Vince's storyline will be the main character of the first story, Wayne(originally called Win)'s original storyline: He's a rebel that fights in a gang.
-Haizea's storyline will focus on her trying to be hero like her father and his friends.
-Hwan's storyline will focus on him trying to outclass all of the original protagonists due to the hatred he has for his mother's legacy by defeating all of the children of the protagonists.
-Vince is very cocky and arrogant, kinda like Wayne, but worse, and his cocky foolishness usually leads him to lots of trouble among his peers.
-Haizea's is very peppy and happy unlike her father. Although she gets very snappy when she gets told what to do in regards of her safety by her parents.
-Hwan is a fierce fighter that only cares about defeating his opponent, no matter the cost. Unlike his mother who values the lives of all, even her enemies, Hwan can care less how about his enemies or how others that try to help him feel. The only thing that satisfies him is watching his enemy's hope and confidence drain away slowly.
-Haizea and Hwan meet each other sooner or later. Afterwards, Hwan finds out who she is and hunts her down. Haizea defeats Hwan when she finally decides to be brave and face him. However, this lead to Hwan's rage growing to a point where he wants to kill her out of frustration.
-Vince doesn't meet Haizea until she starts getting hunted by Hwan, but he does meet the children of the other main protagonists before they get assaulted by Hwan. Afterwards, he fights Hwan, but gets defeated due to underestimating Hwan.
-Hwan eventually decides that just outmatching the children of the main heroes wasn't enough to soothe his hatred, so he decides to offer his hands to a group called The BioHex of
Evolution Resurrected, an organization that was destroyed by the protagonist of the time they started to reek havoc.
-Haizea has an EX mode. Hwan and Vince doesn't.
-All three uses the same elements as their parents. Vince uses Lightning, Haizea uses Wind, and Hwan uses Fire.
-There is no true focus on one character in the 2nd Gen arc, meaning that one character isn't gonna get the most attention.

This trio is kinda gonna be like Ragna, Jin, and Noel from Blazblue later on in the story.

Also, I'm gonna stream both tomorrow and Saturday at the same time: 7 PM central time. Prolly a bad time to stream considering EVO, but wouldn't hurt to try, right? Stream link:
https://www.picarto.tv/live/channel.php?...softheArts

[StarSock64]

Sorry if these edits are frustrating. I think edits that change the original work a lot end up being nice because then you don't get so tied up in trying to mimic what the editor did... but I don't think I can put the time in to make a lot of changes right now, so they're not that different...!

Anyway, I personally think backgrounds like that are really hard to see anything against, so I changed it for myself. When I changed the background, I noticed Haizea's hand is really quite weird... I didn't finish messing with it so mine isn't right either, but I think you might want to try adjusting it.

Don't feel like you really have to  define all five fingers...you should try to imply them more than literally make them each visible.

I also found her lacking in contrast and it was really hard to read her face, so I played around with the colors and some of the pixel clusters and whatever else. I don't know what I was trying to do with the legs, so you can ignore that if you don't like it. I also tried to give her shoulder more definition; you had the whole upper part as a bit of a blob, though it didn't look that bad. I could've taken it all further, but I have to start studying for a test soon...

I ended up adding another color to her white parts because I thought her hair was looking really flat. I think sometimes the sprites that I imagine you're being inspired by (SNK?) use a similar way of coloring for their hair, but I don't think it's working for her.

I didn't do anything to Hwan, but I tried to give Vince more definition in his shoulders (but I didn't finish the shading or anything so it looks kind of pillowed) and I tried to re-shape his pecs. I guess I put some sort of highlight under his pecs... That's not supposed to be "correct," but it was just there to remind me to say that I don't think the whole area under his pecs should be in shadow

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

I honestly don't mind edits. Somethings usually can't be explained in words, so I understand. I'll look more in depth to your edits. Thanks for your help.

Btw, Just asking, but were there any other gripes that you didn't have time to edit?

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

Lynn from RotD for a contest. REALLY like what I did here.

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

After looking at StarSock's edit, I changed a few things. I personally prefer to defining all the fingers, namely the hands a bit easier to read. Everything else was really helpful. Again, thanks for the suggestion. I really like your idea for Vince's Pecs, and I think I know the issue with Hwan: low contrast in some areas.

[StarSock64]

That's looking better! I agree with Hwan needing more contrast

That Lynn is probably the best of the bunch, nice work

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

Thanks!

[EDGINESS INTENSIFIES]

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

Done for now. This character is for a separate Game Idea that I have.

EDIT: Slight Update.

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

Finally around to Zatara. Which one should I go with? I'm not gonna shade it until I finalize a design btw.




Also more updates on these.

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

:Before

:After

Decided to go with Design 1 with design 3's Palette.

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

Haven't really posted as much since I've been busy irl, annnnnnd I'm still having a hard time grasping anatomy and I delete anything that I start on cause it doesn't look right in the starting process to me. Anyways, my recent addiction to the Fire Emblem series made me wanna make some weapon welder sprites.


The girl on the left is a Mercenary and the guy on the right is a Blade Knight.

I wanna make a series and I have an idea already, but I wanna get better in the design process and focus on my anatomy. I know that it's gonna take a while, so I need to find a way to deal with my impatience.

Small self-observation aside, how do they look? What do I need to fix? Etc.

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

Remaking Lyn to looks somewhat accurate to SSF2. Haven't shaded it yet cause I'm sleepy.


Also updated these today.

[SageHarpuiaJDJ]

Annnnd done. When I perfect the base sprite I'm actually gonna practice sheeting using it.