07-04-2014, 12:38 PM
I like your idea for the Nayru sprite, it's always fun to work with 3 colors. There are a few limitations you should look into, though.
![[Image: 7zp72de.png]](http://i.imgur.com/7zp72de.png)
Because of how small the sprite is, on top of the limited amount of colors, it's essential that you cut out some details. Nayru has a pretty simplistic design, but a lot of it needs to be forgotten to convey the overall message that she's a sleek, whimstical, musical Oracle. Making the dress have more flow to it and less bulk accomplishes this pretty easily, though it's admittedly frustrating to accomplish with the right amount of readability. In the original sprite they decided to just give her a giant tarp to convey the simple message of "this is a dress", but with slightly more room to work with you can get in some more details. Unfortunately, at this scale, jewelry just looks clunky and bad (unless you have more colors, of course) so it's something you have to remove entirely.
Since we're working with so little, you have to consider that going from lineart to coloring in doesn't necessarily work out all too well. When everything is completely defined it looks flat and that's what you want to avoid. There's some really good use of 4 color mixing and matching with the Gold and Silver Pokemon sprites. Basically, instead of thinking of it as lines, you want to think of it as shapes that fit on top of eachother to form what you want to make. This applies to most pixels at this resolution, but especially with this limited palette.
Removing the mouth and nose from the front, as E-Man said, makes the character not only look more cute but also keeps things simple and easily readable.
Also made a lil singing version to show how they made it work in the original sprites.![[Image: emot-toot.gif]](http://www.giraffeboards.com/images/smilies/emot-toot.gif)
Because of how small the sprite is, on top of the limited amount of colors, it's essential that you cut out some details. Nayru has a pretty simplistic design, but a lot of it needs to be forgotten to convey the overall message that she's a sleek, whimstical, musical Oracle. Making the dress have more flow to it and less bulk accomplishes this pretty easily, though it's admittedly frustrating to accomplish with the right amount of readability. In the original sprite they decided to just give her a giant tarp to convey the simple message of "this is a dress", but with slightly more room to work with you can get in some more details. Unfortunately, at this scale, jewelry just looks clunky and bad (unless you have more colors, of course) so it's something you have to remove entirely.
Since we're working with so little, you have to consider that going from lineart to coloring in doesn't necessarily work out all too well. When everything is completely defined it looks flat and that's what you want to avoid. There's some really good use of 4 color mixing and matching with the Gold and Silver Pokemon sprites. Basically, instead of thinking of it as lines, you want to think of it as shapes that fit on top of eachother to form what you want to make. This applies to most pixels at this resolution, but especially with this limited palette.
Removing the mouth and nose from the front, as E-Man said, makes the character not only look more cute but also keeps things simple and easily readable.
Also made a lil singing version to show how they made it work in the original sprites.