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[Ziose0]

I'm gonna say most people don't know who these guys are since their from a book by an Australian author. Although I think I've heard that her books have been imported into the U.S.

Regardless, these are the Axewielders: a military group who is in service to the Seneschal, the dominate religion of the era.


To the top left is Axis, leader of the Axewielders, known as the Battleaxe. I'm either going to use the top sprite there or a hero for his class. Going across from him is Belial, his 2nd-in-command. I'm probably going to make a custom class for him, but in the meantime, he will just be a calvelier or the paladdin seen there. Going down from Axis is another mug of Belial(I don't know which one I'm going to keep). And across from him is Timozel, a boy who in the beginning is an ally, but due to his personal dislike of Axis, is driven to be an enemy. His sprite is the calvelier in green. The calvelier with a red spot will be Arne, but I haven't finished his mug.

[Shu]

I think they look sweet. Keep up the good work.

[Fire Blazer]

Hey look an interesting topic title.

The sprites have tons of problems with them. I'll go over a few.

The colors aren't good. If you are using MS Paint, don't use default MS paint colors. Get other portraits (www.feplanet.net) and use the eyedropper to get colors from them or make your own colors that aren't so bold/bright and such, using Colors->Edit Colors in MS Paint. If it's another program you can do the eye dropper thing and there should be some option somewhere to edit colors (double-clicking on colors usually works).

The top of the 2nd portrait (top-right) is cut-off and some of the other portraits look a little shabby with the outline and such. A good recolor using better colors would definitely help.

The 2nd battle sprite is shrunk down, sorry but that doesn't look too good.

The first one is OK but once again the colors (which apparently you like white/grey/black xD).

[Ziose0]

Thank you for the honesty. I appreciate good criticism.

Their colors are black grey and white so theres where i have to protest. It's the basic of their uniform. However you are right. I could just find some other shades of them. As for the 2nd mug, I actually didn't see that thank you.

And for the 2nd sprite I'm going to change it anyways.

Thank you for your criticism.

here's what Axis ACTUALLY looks like.

[Fire Blazer]

btw the image is gone now... xD

So which of those portraits was supposed to be Axis, the one Pent-like one? Good luck making your sprites and keep on posting them so we can try and help you, there are a few decent spriters here xP

[Ziose0]

Ok I've fixed them, but I haven't really found another pallette for them yet.

Yeah the pent-like one.

[Dath]

Hm...well, you use the same mug body for two of them, and that's a no-no.

[Ziose0]

I was trying to go with the fact that they wear a uniform but i guess you're right.

[Tsuki-Hime]

Is he? I really don't see why using the same body is a "no-no"

If it's within a limit of 2~3 characters and it's uniform I think using the same body is perfectly acceptable. After all it'd be unusual if each solider had their armour custom styled.

I think they're pretty good, though Blazers comment on the eyedropper sounds true, there really isn't too much black in FE characters. (If I can't find any I usually use the same colour just 15~20 darker/lighter. But where the eyedrop can be used by all means use it.

I'd change Timozel's mugs shirt colour (The fluro greeny one) with a darker shade of green.

[Ziose0]

Thank you for your comment. I actually had been experimenting with finding pallettes with my last sprites. Although I've had some "strange" new about one of them, it is 100% completely understandable.

And I think I'm probably gonna keep the black, white and grey unform, but any other color, will be changed.

[Dath]

[Ziose0]

If you look close enough at the armor, they all are really the same thing it seems, but just from a different angle or position. For instance Kent and Sain. They look differently because of their stances and positions, but their armor is basically the same.

I'll look into to it though, and reply back when I have my final answer on it.

As for the coloring, I have to say, they are all going to still have the same color pallette as far as armor goes. The unfirom is exactly the same for all the axewielders and even if I change the armor or uniform itself, I have to keep the traditional form of them by at least keeping their colors.

EDIT: Okay so this is Yr and Faraday
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Faraday is the dutchess of Skarabost, and engaged to the pompus-ass Borneheld, who pretty much rules the entire land. The problem is that she loves Borneheld's half-brother Axis (yes from the first post) wich = big problem.
Yr (who actually is a cat for most of the beginning of the book) is one of the Sentinels, who possess special mystical powers. She has the ability to revert into a cat and used that guise to roam the lands freely.

I really couldn't think of a class for either of them, and I don't want to make Yr laguz so she could have a cat class, cause that would kinda limit her.

[Fire Blazer]

Verbal warning; you just posted 3 posts right next to each other all in the same day without good reason. It's against the rules to double post so frequently/when unnecessary. Next time just edit your post or only make one extra post instead of 2 (I allow some double posts if the time between the original and the 2nd isn't a short time and if the topic is a gallery/hack topic or any topic that is "updated" by a person). Read the rules if you need to.

Well, now that that's done, I'ma sorta merge your posts. I'll comment on your sprites later, perhaps.

[Ziose0]

Okay, this is how I'm going to organize this topic. I will post Dukes, kings, other soldiers, etc. here in this post, any more Axewielders in the one with Axis, and other characters in the post with Faraday and Yr. So, now that that's cleared up;


This is Margariz, one of the reigning Dukes of the era. He begins as an enemy, working for Borneheld, but later betrays him, to serve Axis. Later on, he actually ends up getting married to Axis's long-lost mother.


This is Gauntier, Borneheld's loyal vassal. There really isn't that much info about him, except about his undying loyalty to Bornelheld, and his great dislike for the Forbidden (In the storyline, they will be changed to Laguz).
He's a paladdin, but I'll come back and do his sprite

[Fire Blazer]

The first guy has that weird greyish color in his hair that is weird and it's like there is a dent in his cheek (left side), fix that area.

The 2nd one, the purplish color in the armor doesn't look good (make it darker), the left side of his hair is weird, and the eyes look shrunk as well as the face as a whole... :\

[Ziose0]

For the first guy, he's supposead to have a silver streak through his hair but I had no idea how to do it.

[Destran]

By any chance did you steal parts of sprites from other people?
You've already done so for your main mug, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was more.

[Ziose0]

No I have not.

Everything else here is 100% custom.

[Blood Falcon]

[Fire Blazer]

Ziose updated the first image and I didn't realize he did, otherwise I would have SO noticed Swordsalmon's Axe Knight sheet... However, to be sure, I took a closer look, and there ARE significant differences besides a horrible palette. I will call "A1" Swordsalmon's version made for FE4 Advance and A2 will be Ziose's version.

A1 grabs it at the end of the handle, A2 grabs it mid-way. The top of the axe in A1 is a different shape than A2. The palette is so... bad that it's hard to tell but there are minor differences, and so these make it possible that he either edited SS's version or he actually did it himself.

Alright Ziose, I'm giving you your final warning. Do not steal other people's work or you will definitely get suspended. I can't assure anything at this moment but it seems likely that you have been finding things and editing them. One more supposed offense and I will have to suspend you which I don't want to do. It's just a matter of respecting people's work. :\

EDIT: Locking topic, see the other topic Ziose made ("Custom Sprites") for why.