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Top Pixel Art - June 2012 (#1)
Hapiel's comment gave me an idea. Can I print this and hang it on my wall? O:
nyno: I used the sprites from the game as references, and based a lot of poses on them, especially on sprites from green/red and red/blue (mew, abra, articuno, grimer, hitmonlee, tentacruel). Tried to match the spirit of the original sprites overall though.
mdog: in a perfect world.
The coloration and poses of the pokemon are bright and dynamic. It's obvious to see that you've put a lot of work into this, My personal favorites are Flareon and Dragonite, they both look so epic.
Absolutely AWESOME!!!
I'm a pokefan and a pixel-art fan so this piece is very appreciated for me. I really like the shadows and their mad and realistic faces.
Wow, so much to learn from every of these sprites. Awesome job !
You're the one who should be paid to pixel the Pokemon characters for the games. This is awesome.
These are really awesome. It's great to remember how different the Pokémon sprites looked back in the red/blue/green days - almost like prototypes of themselves, or 'feral' versions in many cases. You really captured that well here. Some I think aren't as appealing as their modern iterations (Butterfree, Mew), whereas others are much more awesome (man, that is what a Flareon, Marowak and Dragonite should look like).
I assume all of these are updates of old sprites, since I recognize the pose of a lot of them - I assume the ones I don't were from green. Overall great job, great concept, great use of color - simply fantastic. This must be a 'thing' now, since I think Jinn's been working on an updated old-school Pokédex too, if I'm not mistaken.
I have to say, your take on Scyther is fantastic! The rest is wonderful as well, of course.
I used to have a poster with all these. Thatone was by far not this awesome!
I would wish that my version of pokemon blue were lik that
Looks fantasic, studied most of them in detail. Found a single bad pixel (a pixel with a slightly different hue/saturation than the other ones) on Graveler, in the middle of it.
Jigglypuff is pretty wonky, but I personally think that the others are quite great. No real pixelling mistakes there, it's just the design choices, and I like them. But that's me. Sandslash, one of my favs, and so is Mew.
Far as scaling goes, I think Charizard and Charmeleon suffer the worst. Such a shame that you can't just drag and resize things on pixel art :P
Oh, and Hypno's beard. I think you might want to work on there a little bit more. It's a bit off as well.
I really like this, but jiggly puff is the wonkiest in my opinion. His left eye has too much of a side perspective, while being able to see the head on the other side of it. It makes it seem like he has one circular eye, and one oval eye half the size.
Pretty much the coolest thing in the world ever.
You should do a mockup of the overworld now ^^
Not all are perfect but this is truly a joy to behold! The level of attention makes my pixelheart very happy! My favorites are Mewto, Dragonite, Omanyte, Scyther, Rhyhorn, Lickitung, Haunter, Grimer, Dugtrio, Bulbasaur and Squirtle. But so many more are also great. Damn!
Frostbutt: No, I go about pixelling in a more painterly way. I lay out blocks of color with a 2x2 brush and only add lineart when the general shape has fallen into place.
Faceless: I agree about eevee's evolutions (caterpie is also pretty large). I didn't consider scale as much in the ones I made early on. Unlikely to fix those, but I may end up doing some edits on the wonky looking Pokemon.
Well since you asked, the ones I think are most in need of attention are Sandslash, Clefable, Jigglypuff, Persian, Tentacool, Ponyta, Slowbro, Marrowak and Mew.
I also think there's some scaling issues with the three Eeveelutions. Jolteon looks about the right size, but Vaporeon and Flareon look enormous.
Another possible thing is hitmonchan's legs being too short. Again, this may just be stylistic and the perspective, but for some reason hitmonchan is the only one I find truly discontinuous other than maybe hypno and sandslash.
What I really wanted to know is about the process. Did you start each one with line art?
DB: Pac-man! It's pronounced Pac-Man.
cure: Love the colours and the Pikahchu, you made it look like an actual creature rather than a stuffed toy.
wow, I really enjoyed your work, good shading, colors well chosen, you practically "reinvented" pokemon with that realistic style ^ ^
Super mega-boga job!
Well, i like too much of this job.
That's what I call a monster job! But I have to admit; it's a bit concerning that a grown man would spend so much time with Pokemons (or whatever they are called)! :D
Pikachu and mew are some of my favs here. Sandshrew too. And- okay, I'll just end up listing most of them.
I think you did a really good job on most things with snouts.Like Vulpix.Certainly different than what we are used to, but it just looks so cool.
sanfrouah: tough to say, I just worked on them in spare time. maybe 200 hours? too long.
frostbutt: the green mew looks pretty grounded to me, the awkwardness is why I love it.
faceless: agree. with 151 there are bound to be some slackers. feel free to point out any particularly awkward pokemon (my own choices would be sandslash, nidorino, vulpix, persian, machop, farfetch'd, and hypno)
I'd like to now how many hours of work on this masterpiece?
Whoa, so much to learn here, yet sooo so much to enjoy. The ambition and consistency is mindblowing, as is the final result. The colors and shading are absolutely amazing. The poses and the slight bit of biological realism here and there are even more impressive.
One thing though, I love how you used the green version mew, which is a very stylish choice, but I think what makes the green version sprite work is how the green version's mew's pose looks more like a floating in the air, and the feet are very elongated, which balance out the massive head. Your version looks like a standing pose, which makes it look very awkward, even more so with the smaller feet, if this makes sense.
This is extremely cool first of all, but also very consistent, and true to the originals while keeping a personal touch.
Some of these are really awesome, but I find a lot of them quite awkward looking...
Standouts for me are Charmeleon, Blastoise, Zubat, Venamoth, Drowzee and Kabuto.
aw shite man I almost remember all of them. good work cure though some might have been better in a larger scale.
Wow! That's an incredible amount of awesomeness at once! Amazing work!
Ah, I hadn't seen that Mew sprite before. Looks quite different than any versions I've seen before.
As for the Pikachu and Eevee I think it's just the way you rendered the noses/snouts or something, can't quite put my finger on it exactly. I don't think you should worry about it too much though, just the realistic way you decided to render some of them made me go 'that looks cool!' and with others it made me go 'that looks odd.'
So cool! I like your interpretation of the different Pokemon and how they have a touch of realism to them.
I was without a doubt speechless when i clicked this. You did an amazing job, i simply have no words to describe how much character you were able to give to these...it's just...wow! Great pixeling
This is indeed awesome. I feel like some are too dark, like Meowth, but most of these are exceptionally well done. Great job!
Dr. D- Eevee was a quickie and could probably be improved. Dewgong was also a quickie but its design is pretty boring so I wasn't too dissatisfied with it. Pikachu I actually like, but this is the second time pikachu has been mentioned, what exactly do you think is off about it? Mew I'm quite happy with, it's a reference to the sprite from green, which may account for it looking odd:
Ahhh these are all rendered so amazingly well.
Standouts/favorites for me include: charmeleon, wartortle, pidgeotto, sandshrew, primeape, alakazam, tentacool, rapidash, haunter, weezing, tangela, goldeen, mr mime, scyther, jolteon, flareon, zapdos, moltres.
Sandshrew and moltres are just absolutely perfect. Now apply to gamefreak and tell me when i can buy the new pokemon game.
Pikachu, Dewgong, Eevee and especially Mew look a little off to me, but it's mostly minor gripes.
Other than that, this is FANTASTIC. Good work, so much eye candy here.
Just a small crit, the white highlight on Clefary is pretty great but it makes it contrast quite a bit with the other sprites in style. Too bright, imo.
(but again, thats the only thing I saw that I would consider a bad thing, and I have been staring at this for hours)
Fuck yes. Been keeping an eye on the updates on dA, great to see it fiished.
From now on, everything that I own, belongs to you. Just ask!
OH MY GOD MY EYES ARE IN A STATE OF NIRVANA! THE BEST ART IN THE WORLD!
Hnnnrghnh I love this. Makes me want to lick my screen :D
I really like the realist-esque take on Pokemon, here. It's well shaded and posed on each one, and the colors are great.
Some look a little funny, like pikachu, but it's only a few. Great job!
I can hardly imagine how much time it must have taken. I love Tentacool's eyeball.
OMG, it was too beautiful, I love pokemon, and his work was great *-* !!!!
When I saw the preview pic on the main page, I knew it was yours. Then I clicked and was like "OMG HE FINISHED IT!"
Huge quality and quantity here <333
He finished them. He didn't make 'em all in one go like that. :O
Was about to rip you for not including Snorlax, and then I found him.
They are pretty cool cure. I love the looks of bulbasaur's eyes and squirtle's head.
WOW