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[deltaConduit]

A while ago I mentioned on my Sonic 1 styled Mighty sheet that I'm reworking him. The same is true for my other sheets (Knuckles, Tails, Ray, even Sonic).

Main reason being: I felt I could do better, seeing as those were made in a time period where my understanding of Sonic 1's style was barebones at best, lol. Also I took some pretty nonsensical creative liberties, which hindered the sprites' appeal, imo.




Going in order of release, here's Mighty so far. So right away the main difference is that his palette is now a more orangey shade of red. His stationary sprite is more or less the same otherwise, meanwhile every other sprite has been overhauled. You may also notice the spindash looks... different. Well, that's because I'm now using the shape of Sonic's Crackers spindash (which in turn originates from Sonic 3&K). The reason for this is that since Crackers' sprites were handled by the same team as S1/SCD, and they felt the S3&K spindash better suited their style, then a Sonic 1 spindash would look more or less like the above! At least, that's how I envision it.



Ray is up next, and unfortunately he is very unfinished. Sorry about that.
I decided to go back on the decision to make his death sprite fully face forward, as it felt a little weird. Same goes for the thumbsdowns he previously sported. I also made his tail move more like it does in Mania, rather than try to copy Tails' flutter (wtf? lol).



Knock knock! Knuckles is getting a COMPLETE makeover, stationary sprite included. I'm taking a Jina Ishiwatari approach this time around, as they were involved both with Sonic 1's sprites as well as Chaotix's concept art. And since Sonic 1's sprites so closely followed their own concept art, I figured why not do the same for Knuckles with Jina's work?

His idle is also closer to S3&K now. You could say the original one, where he just looked around, needed to be more... interesting, I think.



Like Knux, Tails is also undergoing some big changes. Namely resembling concept art more closely, as well as subtly referencing a recently-unearthed prototype sprite (See his tails). He is also in early development in comparison to the others.



And finally, the Blue Blur himself. To put it simply, he will be less sprite edit-y. I'm also ditching MANY creative liberties that, again, did not work with the Sonic 1 style (blotchy shading on 3/4 head angle, too much global consistency with stationary sprite's angle). Of course, this means Super Sonic will also be getting a rework; just much later...

There are more sprites that I purposefully left out, like the big ending sprites for everyone (Knuckles and Sonic have way more finished sprites than I showed, but you'll have to wait for the sheets' releases to see them!).

Thanks everyone for the CRAZY support on the original sheets. I never could've imagined my silly pixel art would do this well, since it's never really been my main thing.

Btw, hate to be that guy, but going forward, PLEASE do not use my sprites for mods of Sonic 1 Forever... as I'm already working on such a mod with a few people! More info on that soon, though. Any other use of my sprites is fine, though I'd like to be asked permission beforehand. This will be reinforced in sheets to come.

All that said, I'm open to criticism. Just keep it watered down, I'm a little sensitive lol.

Anyway, that's it for now. Here's some other characters I've sprited, as a treat.

[KarlEmerald]

Delta out here making peak. See ya guys in Sonic 1 Forever.

[JovialJevil]

 Lookin amazing as always, Delta!