Sai'Kar's Sprites and Stuff

[SaiKar]

Random sprites.


I decided that I wanted characters to hold their weapons in battle a few days ago so I whipped up some new idle battle animation stances based on previously drawn character poses. They look pretty sweet, but it's hard to appreciate them with four people in the party when everyone gets all overlappy. I also finished Myrin's set a while ago - here are some of my favorite poses. I'll post the whole set if anyone wants it - I even whipped up a non-dagger idle stance if people want to use the character with some other weapons.


A few of the "Corrupt Heroes" that serve as optional, very difficult boss battles. Their costumes and color swaps are based on early designs for the characters and unusual pseudo-inside jokes about the game. I think badass cape Jason and sexy warrior Sai came out particularly well.


Doing these sprites is great fun, but it does make me a bit sad in that I'm really only doing it for myself. At some point a few years ago I wanted to join an RPG making team as a sprite artist and make a great game that would actually see release. But there were so few serious projects and even fewer that would give me any sort of creative leeway. The ones I found were essentially me just doing requests, of the sort of "hey, I have this character. Here's his sprites. Make me these twenty poses in exactly the way I say I want them" ... which is fine in a way, but not the kind of thing that motivates me to stay up until 1 AM because I'm in the zone. At some point I realized I was getting a lot better at this and I could sprite essentially anything if I wanted to, so CoD2 has given me a lot of opportunities to just let the creative juices flow. I wanted Erika to have a stance similar to Chrono's. I wanted Myrin to dual wield daggers and go all rainbow when she uses her special abilities. If people had been more of the mindset of "hey, here's a description of a character. He's about 20, uses a spear, and has a scar on his face - see what sort of interesting designs you can come up with" then I would have happily joined with other people and been part of a team, but everyone I met just wanted me to work on only their completed vision with no room for adding my own touches.

None of the above paragraph signifies I'm going to stop spriting or anything. Just a random thing I've been thinking about lately.

[A Forgotten Legend]

I bet you could make a large set of civilian characters that a lot of people (including myself) would enjoy using.  That would allow you to be as creative as you want while helping out with other projects.  (Just a suggestion)

But I really like that one sprite in the bottom row in the middle on the first image in your last post.  I dunno, but the whole rainbow thing you have going on looks pretty cool.

[SaiKar]

This was a massive, painful undertaking. I've never sprited a non-human character, much less a robot. Not my best set; far from my worst.

[fruckert]

I love it.

[Emerates]

If that robot's frozen, I think some sparkles on the body might be appropriate.

[Fisherson]

Cool! O.o Robot's in RTP...I don't think it's ever been done. In fact I think it's what made me switch to sprite sized R2 units, since there were none when I was first planing Warped and my various Jet and David spoof games XD Good job on this one Sai. ^_- You're slowly bringing RTP back into style.

[Linkforce]

Go Robo!

[Darkfox]

Hey, not bad for a first, a bit clunky but not bad. Your getting your feet wet in something different, it'll get better over time. Overall I don't think it is so bad. Then again, I loved CT. XD

[SaiKar]

Yeah, it's definitely a bit rough around the edges. Luckily for me, being a robot, it's okay for him to be a bit clunky. I can't shake the feeling that it should be a better sprite but I'm not losing sleep over it.

[SaiKar]

General Greg "Gman" Pinky, in command of Jasonia's air force, the mightiest military machine on the planet Micras. Probably luckily for everyone else on Micras, he is also one of the few trustworthy men with the position. Known for his honor in command as well as a personal willingness to join the front lines if need be, Gman is one of the most beloved commanders in the military and leads entire armies through sheer personal charisma. He has sworn a personal oath to protect President Jason to the death; an oath that nobody, even his political opponents, wish he will actually have to carry out to its bitter end.

Gman is wearing a blue flight suit and one of those WW2 "bomber jackets". His two sword poses are based off ceremonial stances used by the US Marines.


Some Myrin expressions. I couldn't just use mirrored ones in games because her tattoo would shift sides. Rainbow one is funky.

[Fisherson]

O.O LIGHTSABER!!.....Ahem Uh...Yeah good work Sai, mind if I study that Lighsa- I mean sword? <.<

[SaiKar]

And, rounding out the game's pseudo-Jedi...





JDS, aka "Darth John." He's not actually a sith or anything because it's not a Star Wars game, but I couldn't help myself with the double lightsaber.



Tayleth and her two lightsabers, "Trantor" and "Terminus" (kudos if you get the reference without googling or anything)

[Fisherson]

XD!!! I love em both, but I have to say....THERES NO SUCH THING AS A BLACK LIGHTSABER! :O....Though it looks kinda cool <.<

[Darkfox]

Well, there's a shadow saber thing in some games. It isn't SW specific afterall.

[MissingName]

Neat.