While I like what you're doing with color, in terms of character and technique i can't really consider these guys an improvement. They continue to have a lot of the problems of the '08 versions (radical differences in rendering and anatomical forms...the hard part of character designing isn't making guys that look different, it's making guys that look different but feel like part of the same world!) without so far as i can tell brining much new to the table (except the color stuff which is fun and partially successful....although i'd urge you not to simply alternate temperature with each step on a ramp, it becomes predictable and "jagged" (not the right word but it's the closest i can think of...) rather than subtly fresh).
Oh and the flames shouldn't darken the pants when they reflect. Light does not stain.
You got a ton of good crits in your old thread, but the spirit of them (attention to consistent detail and emotive presentation) needs a reread. We could go on for a while talking about the pixels here but I think there's a cognitive roadblock that needs addressing first.
forgot about my old thread completely fffffffffffffffffffffffffff
i'll go look over that now
also
first post/title worded it kind of weird i guess, but
the point of me doing this was really just to fix all the things that are bugging me about the last ones. like, i know they were *good enough* but
i hate them.
i really didn't try as hard as I could have on them/didn't make them as good as they could have been and that's bugging me
there won't be changes as extreme as the ones from the 07 to 08 versions because a) i'm essentially just 'finishing' the 08 versions, and b) i pixelled way more in the gap between the first two and as a result I was able to improve fast enough to make something that much better than the originial
pretty much sums it up
i didn't really intend to completely redesign them
i just want to remake the old sprites so that they aren't lazy half-attempts (they probably don't really look like it, but as the person who actually worked on them, i feel like I didn't try as hard as i could have on them)
but yeah i'll go look for that thread now
edit: apparently i left this out of my post
i understand the problems going on with them, the body types really share no similarities at all
the problem is
i have absolutely no clue how to fix this, the only thing i can really think to do right now would be to make the top hat guy have more of a ripcage/wider upper body and hope that is somehow magically fits in
but i need sleep, i'll try to think of something tomorrow