Ha! Just had a fine idea with like a community project. I'm sure everyone is at least in-passing familar with the Suikoden series - well anyway, why not make our own Suikoden sprites as part of a community? We'd need a template I guess ... the sprite would need the basic North/East/South/West frames and a portrait. Maybe later we could even elaborate into a battle sprite. Starting small would probably be best (so like a standing South frame and a portrait).
I'm just not sure about the template. I hate the way the Suikoden sprites are actually made (if you've ever zoomed in on one you'd understand why), so perhaps another template would be appropriate. And of course a size for a portrait. I would say may even trying to follow a specific style for the portrait so the end result would look like a series of characters for the same project (obviously the initial goal though I suppose).
What does everyone think?