np.

Wow, the new one looks friggin brilliant.
What exactly do you want the highlight to do that it isn't?
Is he going to be talking like that in the game or will the frames match certain letters or be randomized, or are they just going to be stills?
Just curious.

Thanks  a/b the highlight... I'm not sure if it's conveying his cheek properly. Maybe it is and I've just been staring at it too long. Right now I think the animation will pretty close in-game to what you see here. It would be cool to have their mouths match the text, and probably more fun to animate, but code-wise that's a lot of work. That's one of the reasons I'm going with the "siss siss wow" Anime-style talking animations.

One small discrepancy i notice between the sprite and the portrait... the armour seems to be a different blue in each one. The sprite's looks more teal.

Yeah I pretty much blew it as far as consistent colors go. I'll go back and fix that eventually.

Thanks for your edits everyone... those of you who say the eyes are too close together are problably right, the more I look at it. I may try simplifying the eyes even more like in Xion's edit. The delight of making ruby-like lighting effects sort of distracts me from making them look like eyes, so maybe I need to excercise more constraint.

uh....you have got GREAT lines. it seems in small sprites since you dont put as much detail you do fine. But the bigger you go, the more overcomplicated it gets, and the more you screw yourself over.

You shaded the new portrait with ridiculously excessive AA, it is so much it starts to be pillow shading...that's a frist!.

I guess I get excited and carried away when I have all that space to work with... *smacks wrist*

BTW, you're not DarkfalzXL are ya?....the way you shade big stuff is starting to remind me.....nah, he wouldnt say he is bad at animation but DAMN

I don't know who he is... should I be worried that I'm being compared to him?

Thanks for the reference pics... I'll post a new version today hopefully.

Adam: Wow. I'll have to take a closer study of your edit in the morning when I'm not half asleep, but I think I see what you're talking about now.

Zeid: Yeah, the huge eyes are just my style... I guess it's influenced by Bryan O'Malley's work, or American cartoons from the early half of the 20th century, but it's intentional, believe it or not.  I agree that if I was going for a purebred Anime look they would have to be altered like in your edit, but that's not exactly what I'm going for.

I think what happened was that I started taking too much reference from the original portrait and not enough from the sketch.



Slight modification. I tried making it a little closer to the original sketch. I don't want to make the shoulders too much lower because I think that the original sketch's shoulders were too low and didn't match the in-game sprite.