Doing Sonic 1-sized, Sonic 1-visual-styled sheets for other characters than Sonic

[The KKM]

So.

I've recently compiled a huge sheet with all the Sonic animations I'd like to see done in Sonic CD style, to organize myself.

It's about 1500 sprites and a massive beast, and still has animations missing I didn't include right now:

HAHA I'M ONLY GETTING THIS FINISHED IN 2020

So I got thinking, and decided to first, or for the variety of it, work on Sonic 1-sized sheets first, for other characters.

The objective for each one here is to make enough sprites that someone'd be able to make a Sonic 1 hack.

So far I've started Knuckles...



and Shadow...



Plans afterwards are for Blaze...


(test from a while back)

and Gemerl...


(shading figured out after the attempt I last posted here).

If it'll interest you to see, these are the sprites I'm using as reference, or in the case of Knuckles, editing from (as for stylistic purposes I'm having him be mostly a reshaded Chaotix sprite- Shadow is where I'm focusing on making all-new poses and all since I want to distinguish him from Sonic).

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I've left figuring out what exactly they'll do in the end of game cutscene to the end, together with the continue chibis. And yes, I do intend to have them jump towards the screen.

Anyways, yeah. Who knows, maybe soon enough I'll be happily seeing these in a bunch of Sonic 1 hacks.

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I like Sonic fangames.

I'm always sad though that they mostly go with Sonic Advance or Sonic 3 stuff since there's more availability, since I visually prefer Sonic 1 and CD.

So sometimes I start spriting out of nostalgia. These are never intended to be fully sheeted, at most an animation or two, but I do always hold the hope if I perfect them enough someone else will do the sheeting work. This also means I often do heavy edits instead of just scratch from nothing- if by reshading and resizing and cleaning something I'll have a good-looking result faster, I'll go with it.

So any crit is both needed and wanted, please.

In this specific case, I tried doing the Sonic Advance 1 and Sonic Advance 3 Eggmobiles in a style that'd fit Sonic 1. I'm relatively happy with the SA1 one- could use some fidgeting so it looks more like it in terms of proportions rather than a reskinned Sonic 1 one, and correcting some perspective and shading. The Sonic Advance 3 one doesnt look as good- I'll need a fresh pair of eyes looking at it, both mine and others ideally, but right now I can at least say it looks too rounded and not quite at the same perspective as the Sonic 1 one.



Adding to all that, a few weeks ago I tried doing some Advance poses to Sonic, plus editing Knuckles Chaotix' Knuckles to fit the Sonic 1 and CD language, and this is how it looked before I dropped it temporarily to go work on my Alex Kidd stuff.



In this case, I should add- the pallettes aren't final, as I'm yet to find something that'll fit Knuckles. His head also needs some touching in terms of the shading.

Otherwise, yeah, this is what I have now. Not going to make a project out of it, but it's something I often return to, so I'll probably be back to at least add more characters.

Wait, speaking of, I got this WIP too

EDIT: oh, forgot to mention, this is the process I'm using to do the poses that come from other games and such



Resize sprites to 4 times the size, use as reference for pose and proportions, resize to 4 times smaller, clean up.

And yeah, these are still needing a lot of polish, I'm hoping to get some help once they're done.