A Castlevania inspired sprite. The lineart was NOT done by me but by a professional comic book artist. I however did color it in. I imagined this is what Castlevania sprites would eventually look like (as far as size and detail go) but alas Konami is not willing to put in that much effort on a 2D Castlevania game.
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With a little more contrast, i would have though SNK, but its not quite. i like the look, but i think you could have gotten away with a little more contrast if you had mixed colors more (conservation here is minimal - though you did use only 16, so you get to have the small filesize). I think that the only thing is has trouble with its its minimalist approach to contrast, which would greatly improve it. go on, get rid of a few of the lavenders and show me some deep purple, you know you want to! That or you like your own style and i should shut it ^^
!! i don't mean to offend by editting, its just somehting i got used to on pixellation that i found works really well for crits !! Here is the sort of thing i mean, by changing some colors around to make a more bold figure that fits in a wider array of background tones: <img src="http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6552/example3br.png"> http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6552/example3br.png
Other than that, pose is great, shading is good, and the minimal outlining really work in your favor :thubsup:
Actually they have put in enough detail, but you gotta realize they can't always use the full 16 million colors on a single sprite, sometimes they have to limit themselves to a palette. And the sprites are often much smaller. You'd need a really high screen resolution to get THAT much detail in a sprite. But enough ranting, it's really good, very good coloring. I almost feel like the
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