10-14-2021, 06:50 PM
So, I've been absent for a very long time (mainly due to real life stuff getting in the way), but now I should hopefully have more time to work on these dumb custom sprite projects.
Since I have decided to get back into being more active within the community, I have decided to make this thread as sort of an update blog to show my current progress on my recently uploaded sheets and my other big projects (as well as some screenshots of their development process), some other one-shot pieces that could have the potential of being turned into full sheets, and finally some potential ideas for future sheets.
The first talking point here is my most recent sheet, the Amelia Watson SMW-style sheet (and we might as well talk about the entire Hololive customs page while we're at it).
I started working on the sheet around early to mid August, shortly after my Panel de Pon-style Houshou Marine sheet was released. At first I was considering working on a PdP styled Gura sheet, but after the utter hell I went through working on the panel for Marine in the previous sheet, I wanted to take a step back and work on something simpler (although I'll most likely revisit the PdP Gura idea soon); unforunately, my heavy procrastination problem and busier work schedule didn't allow me to work on the sheet much, although I was able to continue working on it around the start of this month and yesterday it was finally finished, and I'm glad that people recieved it well. I was also planning on including Bubba as Yoshi in the sheet, but the I decided not to, although that could also be made as its own separate sheet.
Here are some (although very few) images from the development process of the SMW-style Ame sheet:
Early design for smol ame (only slightly different from the final)
Early attempt at making normal ame's eyes gone horribly wrong
armless ame armless ame
All of the designs for Ame, those being: smol ame, regular ame, cape feather ame and fire flower ame (listed from left to right)
And finally, here is ame dance bc why not
Now about the Hololive customs page in general, I'm very glad to see other talented people make their own sheets; the community is still fairly small, as there are only like 5 sheets at the time I'm writing this, with 2 of those being my own sheets, but I'm sure that as time passes, the community will slowly but surely grow, and I'm very excited to see what the community creates next. For now, I'd like to give a special shoutout to TheCrushedJoyconTSR for their awesome Sonic 1-style Korone sheet and the lad and chad himself Asagohan for ripping all of the assets for Smol Ame.
Now as for my other projects, I've been working on various Sonic related sheets, unsurprisingly, although I won't be revealing what most of them are as of now as to make it more of a surprise if I do make substantial progress on the sheet and to not inevitably dissapoint people if it ends up getting cancelled.
For now, I'll only share info on 2 of these projects, with one of them being near completion and the other one being one I'm very passionate about.
The first one is a Sonic 1-style Mighty sheet, which might seem easy since he's literally just a Sonic reskin, and to a certian extent that does make things easier, it still takes a very long time to get all of these sprites done, but now that I'm only missing a few sprites to finish the sheet, I'm safe sharing my progress so far:
How I made the very first sprite (also a small sneak peek into my design process)
"IDK man, this game ain't gonna play itself"
Modified balacing animation to work with the 4 frame animation pattern
Ok, jokes aside, this animation is fuckin' badass
Sprites that I'm currently working on atm
I'm planning on making more Sonic 1-style sheets for the other classic Sonic characters, such as Ray, Knuckles or the Chaotix, but for now I'm only really focusing on this one in particular.
The other custom sheet I'm sharing today, although not as far ahead as the other sheet, is still one that I really want to work on; this being an expanded Sonic 3 Prototype Sonic sheet.
I don't have as much info or screenshots to share of this project, so I'll just let the few sprites that I've finished so far speak for themselves:
Trying my best to find a middleground between the Sonic 2 and 3 Sonic sprites (as well as taking elements from the actual S3P Sonic, of course)
Hey, so you remember that one unused idle sprite of Sonic sleeping? Yeah, I added that in here too
Some slight tweaks and details to make the sprites more Sonic 3-esque
Now for some of the smaller projects, I have a bunch of JoJo related sprites, so I'll just dump them all here alongside a small comment of them:
Jonathan Joestar, who didn't really take much effort as he's really similar to Joseph to begin with
Part 4 Jotaro (more specifically his Sheer Heart Attack outfit)
Funny hair guy himself, Josuke Higashikata
And finally, theres this really dumb Sonic edit I made as a joke in like 5 minutes
Welp, that's pretty much it for stuff that I can share so far. I was once thinking of updating this thread weekly, but then I just decided to update this whenever I feel like I have enough stuff to share with you guys.
I'd really like to hear what you guys think about all of the stuff I shared here and maybe even some suggestions as to what I should work on next.
But for now, I'll just go back to working on all of the shit I have to get done, see y'all soon!