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[Fire Blazer]

I don't see how you can shade grass; it's not like it's a portrait or anything. There's no definitive light source. I've seen lots of maps and most maps just have patches of grass to make it a little less bland; check out Exxucus's maps, they are professional and some of the best out there. :\

I'm not trying to be an ass about your critique but why fix what isn't broken?

EDIT:



Latest sprite, Rose, short for Rosamia, for Tales of Eborakia.

Made with Louise, Isadora, and some customization. The Louise was probably pretty obvious; much of the hair and much of the middle part of the body are custom as well as the right shoulder (from our point of view). The eyes have been changed and it has been recolored, of course.

[Hughes]

I like the mug, only thing is that some edges seem sharp enough to cut you! I think you might want to try putting the FE7 border on it, and see if it looks better or worse.

Otherwise, very nice!

[Fire Blazer]

Which edges? The collars?

I quickly assumed you were talking about those and lightened them up a little. I also fixed up a few small things. If I have the chance I also want to make it use FE8 colors.

[Blood Falcon]

@The mug: OPV, the bottom right of the hair needs shading, the colors don't go together well, and I'd love to see more customing in it.

@The map: The grass just looks like shading to me because of the direction. You can change if you want. Also, I have seen Exxucus's maps before, I occasionally post in his sprite topic on FESpritez.

[Felover3]

Bottom right of mug (OPV) the lines of darker blue seem...out of place...

[DH_Ninja]

Thanks for the map, once again. anyway, the portrait. Fix up the hair shading at the end, Also the bottom right of the cape. That whole shoulder area looks odd. Also, I say fix the colars a little, I dunno, it looks a little odd to me, though it could be intended to look like one's up and the other is flatish/sticking out.

[Fire Blazer]

Your welcome. I'd fix up the hair shading but all comments have been too vague for me to get a good idea of what exactly needs to be fixed. The collars are meant to look like that and I'll try and edit the shoulders.

[Fire Blazer]

Super-major-ultra-mega-gigantic-necro-bumpdate-post! =D



Just something semi-random I animated to give me a feel of a standard A-A-A combo move in Mugen. If I were to ever properly animate it it'd be slower, he'd move a little more horizontally and much more vertically.

The first slash would knock the enemy back a little bit, after which he throws a knife, jumps slashes into them, and throws a knife diagonally knocking them to the ground. The combo will be quick, especially considering his class is the quick type, but probably not as quick as shown in the animation such that you can't see the custom battle frames I made... LOL. As I said, I didn't actually animate it as I imagined it, I just wanted to get a feel for it.

EDIT: Might as well post some other spriting stuff... not that I've done much spriting...



Latest version of Rosamia, a portrait I made a loooooong time ago for Tales of Eborakia (now called "Tales of the Brave").



Pseudo-final version of Cless from Tales of Phantasia, one of my better protraits, believe it or not.



Custom weapon icons for Tactics Universe & Tales of the Brave, the Fire, Thunder, Fimbulvetr, and Excalibur icons are not mine. THe rest are.

[ElFuego]

I'm really liking the Jaffar animation - It reminds me of that Marisa/Erika game - yeah, Jaffar seems to throw his daggers like crazy and then use his "insane disappear/reappear and kill you" attack. yeah he made me pretty frustrated...

btw, I really like your Kelik animation - he is epic.

Your Cless mug is really well done, I think. His armor seems a bit bright though, and I'd personally shade it some more - but then again, if he's supposed to be a knight in shining armor, he really fits the part. Only other suggestion would be to shade his head band and face where his hair hangs down in front, if you know what I mean.

Rosamia is pretty good as well. The right side of her collar (her POV) looks slightly off, though. It seems it cuts off at the top right before it goes behind her neck. Though I dislike pink, you did shade her hair quite well and her face is also well done.

Overall, these are very cool Blazer - you should sprite/mug people more often.
(ha ha... mug people )
But no really, you seem really good.

[Fire Blazer]

I think I understand what you mean with Rosamia. Her right collar, our POV for the sake of easiness, is too short, needs to be extended a little bit more. Although there is the whole factor of angle it doesn't make up for everything there.

I don't really like pink either, but it's going to come into play at some point, besides the fact that her name is Rosamia. Otherwise I'd probably make her have a darker yellow/gold color hack, something not so bright. XD

Your post has inspired me to work on Cless who I haven't worked on in a long time.

Thanks for the compliment on the Jaffar animation, and I really like that Fire Emblem Flash game, it's just so difficult and I don't know how to do all the special moves... XD. The Kelik animation is old (not sure when/where you saw it) and it needs a lot of improvement, I've been debating whether I should revamp it or not. If I did revamp it I'd do it without being lazy and using a "sprite effect" to make it seem like he's moving... probably make his end-pose after he slashes better... maybe even redo the critical. We'll see about that. I still have to make his promoted and special-weapon sprites for my hack...

UPDATE: Fixed-up Cless. Lots of shading improvement and color improvement, and I fixed up his collar to make it look much nicer (in my opinion, anyway). I just recently updated Rosamia so I don't feel like updating her, and as I said, no update to the Jaffar animation for a while. Haven't worked on Kelik.



By the way, I don't know why I suddenly feel like spriting and animating again... Man I made like a 9 month bump post in this topic!

[boney]

I'm sorry, but those weapon icons are really bland and basic. They
lack detail and color variety.

[Fire Blazer]

Thank you for your very helpful critique. [/sarcasm]

[boney]

Haha glad to be of assistance ^^

[Rujio]

Cless' breastplate seems off. It bulges and twists, and, in FE, armor generally has another piece OVER the breastplate. I think adding that and making it bulge less would seriously improve the sprite.

[Fire Blazer]

I can't alter his appearance because Cless is not my character, I have to create him in his original appearance and his original appearance lacks another breastplate. >_>

I don't understand the "it bulges and twist" part, unfortunately, maybe you're talking about the shading on it? I can see how that might make it look a little bulgy... especially because my shading is so round it implies that the lighter colored area has more light on it, which means it's probably a little bit out more, meaning it would bulge... yeah, I'll try and see if I can do anything about the slight bulge that you might see, I can't do anything about the twist part though because I don't see what you're talking about.

Thanks for the critique...

[Rujio]

For the twist part, it looks as though the breastplate is facing straight towards us.

Try making the left (OPV) darker. I think that would fix it.

[Fire Blazer]

That's actually a good suggestion. I see what you mean... I think. I'll take it to heart later and update this post with it.

I had an Eliwood doing Sword Rain Alpha animation earlier but I seem to have misplaced it somewhere... *reuploads*



Well, me calling it Sword Rain Alpha is just a reference to Tales of Symphonia/Tales of Symphonia 2 where characters stab a lot, really quickly, and then finish with an upper cut move of sorts. This is Eliwood's rendition of this move.

[boney]

You made that? LOL you posted it in the shoutbox when we were
talking about the TES, so I thought that was your glitch XP
That is awesome, except for the lack of white in the palette.

[Fire Blazer]

I ended up making it transparent but didn't realize the mistake until afterwards, unfortunately.

There are some other minor issues too but it's not a big deal considering it's just another test anim.

[andreselrogue21]