thanks! The images that I posted are actually just mock ups of the game that I did to showcase prospective worlds to some higher ups before we launched. These are done in illustrator and some of my artists work solely in flash, so I had to use saved out images for anything that was done in flash. This is due to the horrible ability of flash to export anything. But, to be fair, there are not too many objects that were ported from flash. The ones that were are: the cannon, the shark, pottery shards, giant green seaweed plant, and seagull.
The rest of the images probably just lack the quality and consistency of the rest of the game because this was meant to be a quick exercise and nothing to hold up the artists for longer than a day. Unfortunately, I think some of this stuff managed to sneak through the pipeline, but we shall see. As for the face, I definitely agree. But, for what it's worth, I think that it will be able to survive in the game relatively unnoticed.
Also I'm all about making some dwarf fortress sprites! I've never played the game, but I've always wanted to, and many a times I've considered remaking the graphics just so that it could be playable and enjoyable to look at.
