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You can comment np.. I was just a little irritated at the moment of writing the last comment. I take back what I said about not liking your art... I saw some pretty cool animations in your gallery. No grudge; critiques are welcome.
guess i just misread that every sprite was 2X the size of the original and not just ultros alone. my bad.
although i dont see why i cant comment on your work since, you know, the white box right below it allows us to do so.
Why are you here.. you've already made your point. I took down Utros copy what else do you want other than to pollute my post?
The original portraits look flat and lack depth. In my, key word, opinion..
and mine ARE the same size if you would have compared the size of the heads of mine and the old you would have realized it. You claim your opinion is fact. lol
Here's what it seems to come down to: you don't like my pixel art.. fine big deal. I don't like yours, but you wont find me crying on any of your posts about it. Read the description and you'll understand where Terra is.
"why would i change the style of one sprite?"
for the same reason you made all these portraits instead of just resizing and adding more details to the originals.
problem with those portraits is that they do not reflect each character at all. and its interesting how you claim that the original ones did not translate well into 40x40 portraits, yet they have even more readbility that you sprites that double them in size and detail. the problem with using such a desaturated palette is that it leads to colors blending in areas with a low amount of contrast between colors, with setzer and kappa as the prime examples.
another interesting fact is that the original ones did reflect each character's personality quite eddiciently, and they all do share an unified style. the only ones on your side that show any kind of character or emotion are Relm and Kappa, with the rest being rather generic ID card photos.
also, i am surprised i didn't notice this before but there is no terra portrait at all.
hmm... Did the original snes version have an esper Terra portrait? How silly I am...I don't remember it; then again it's been a long, long time.
It's not like I destroyed anything by giving modders an option of choosing the addition of the portrait patch or sticking to the old ones. The old ones still exist. In my humble opinion, while it is novel, the portraits in the original kind of suck.. hence the desire to remake them. Watercolor, very 2-d watercolor, did not convert well to little 40x40 pixel portraits.
I think Setzer and Banon are my weakest ones but terrible seems a little harsh. I thought Gau was one of the more bland recreations myself. I personally like Celes, Kefka, Gogo, Ghost and Umaro. Relm is cute but not one of the better in technique.
It's no excuse because Ultros is an enemy sprite; the rest of the images are portraits. why would I change the style of one sprite? It would look stupid and out of place ... unless i redid all of them, but that would be pointless. I said I just wanted a bigger tougher version of Ultros. He's kind of the mascot of the game heh.
edit: removed Ultros; not a portrait anyway still visible at above link.
& I fail, 17 colors; but the bmp was 16 should have known though :(
ultros is 17 colors. your "custom palette" is just a slighty, almost unnoticeable desaturated version of the original sprite's palette. and since you reworked the entire cast's mugshots(destroying the original ones in the process, defeating the entire novelty of them being based on yoshitaka amano's watercolor ilustrations), it makes no sense to not rework ultros as well because saying "the original sprite was fine" sounds more like a lame excuse to not even attemp to do it.
cant deny the soldier looks okay and Relm is great(same with Gau), but the rest looks like poor, watered down versions of the originals. setzer and banon's potraits are simply terrible.
also whats with the lack of terra's esper form portrait.
thank you Tanuki.. I almost re did Relm cause she was one of the first I did but she has a certain charm.. some are definitely better than others as kept getting a better understanding of pixel art as I went along.
I like this. Some of the portraits are a little better than others, but it's cool overall. I like Relm and Biggs/Wedge the most.
No it isn't..
I re-pixeled it and admittedly copied it using my own palette;but why would I want to change the sprite? it's so cool as it is; just too small for my patch. It didn't use any special tricks... wouldn't a filter mess up the colors or something anyway? this is 15color +trans. I don't want much attention about a copied image anyway (yet Ultros is the mascot) and since i did put some time into it- It should be fine. I don't usually copy but this is for a patch I wanted to make for some time now and Ultros rules.
Your accusation is incorrect.
The Ultros is the original sprite with a filter applied (hq2x or another) and then some partial clean-up.
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Good job!