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Its just got to be cartoons!. It totally reminds me of a 'modern' RBY sprite, which is a good thing lol. Plus, I still think he should have won the art poll...
Voted Cartoons. Really, it looks like it's just about to fire of a well aimed punch. The eyes are really in a position as if he is locking on to bring doom to a target. Awesome.
But for the record - I will sorely miss your awesome sprite Doug - it had the best shiny colours and was structured so you could see all the parts, face, gloves, hook and cutlass perfectly even in the backsprite which is damn hard to do! No one else did it as well as you did.
Cartoons has an awesome shiny and backsprite, but chaoscrippler's looks so much more 'natural' and 'ingame'. Cartoons' is just a bit too... well, cartoon-ish for me. Voted Chaoscrippler.