X-Com FTW!

I actually like that grainy look... gives it some character.

Though I will agree that the plants are over-saturated compared with the rest of the piece and it is very much dominated by green.

Otherwise, it looks good... :D

Makes me think of MapleStory a bit. Very cool... :D

This, is too awesome!

I might just have to do something this ridiculous in a space combat game I'm working on... :D

Sly, are you really going to nitpick? It's a charicature. Deal with it. Yeesh.

Anyway, nicely done... :) I like the color selection and the linked source was a great laugh.

You are easily the most talented pixel artist I know. Another job very well done! :D

Very nicely done! :D

@Zeratanus

What about FF4, FF5 and FF6? All awesome games.

I'm actually on your side over this one. I've been finding that the operators of this site have an elitist streak that is rather annoying. I had stuff that was rejected awhile back because they looked similar to Chrono Trigger sprites (wow, I used a reference). I can agree that the 'younger viewers' argument holds no water considering some of the stuff that's already here.

On the same token I can appreciate their view. It is their site after all.

I was gonna say, these look a lot like the stuff from DragonCave!

Looking good! :D

That's the Iron Pig from MapleStory. It's not a rip from the game at all -- there are no frames of animation that look like that.

As for copying from a magazine, is a reference really that much of a problem? There are dozens of works on this site that have been approved that clearly used a reference of some sort.

I can say that one of them is mostly based on Merle's image, yes. I was young at the time. And yes, I did look at the chrono trigger spirtes in an effort to see how I could put mine together. Template? Perhaps.

All of the sprites there were based on the one without hair at the top. If you want to remove the image, fine. It's not a crime against me I suppose. I just thought that someone might be interested in seeing how you could work with a particular style to create a variety of sprites.