Well, it's been a few days in and, so, here's my two cents:
@ Wyverii- Out of all of the submissions that I am seeing thusfar, I would have to say that your set is one of my favorites. I agree that the shortening of the horn on the female is a little overdone and, thus, I find the idea of making the eyes a different color and taking away the scars on the female would be a clever new twist. The color choice for the shiny also is really good.
I do have a suggestion that you may consider: I am not sure if I find the yellow eyes on the female to be very... er... feminine on the regular colored female (its fine on the shiny since the yellow stands out), so I would suggest changing the eye color to make it seem a little more feminine (I was thinking a light blue to that end, but whatever) and seeing whether the yellow or the other color would look better. Either that, or you could keep the eyes red and remove the scars for the female. Just a thought.
@ chomzloh- I rather like this one as well. Although the teeth are missing at the moment (and I hope somebody can help you on that soon since you already mentioned that you're having issues with that), I can see this one comming out quite well. The posing of this guy seems give him a sort of taunting demeanor that I enjoy seeing.
I do have a few suggestions that I can offer.
My first suggestion is this: in regards to your issues with the teeth, I think if you have him grinning rather than having his mouth completely open like your sprite currently portrays, that might make things a little easier. At least, I would think that would be the case- I can't sprite since I don't know how, so I therefore would not know.
Also, while bold colors tend to be a halmark of the fourth gen sprites, I think that if you take a lighter tone of the brown you already have, then you should get a pretty good sprite that has the same sort of pastel appearence as Cyzir's art.
@ KoA- I'm not entirely sure what to say but that this sprite is a good demonstration of your skills as a spriter, which we all can appreciate. I also believe that you have a wonderful shiny coloration as well. I certianly would like to see a back sprite to this guy.
That said, I do have a major concern with yours that I need to address. While I do like the dynapic posing of your sprite, my fear is simply that the fact that the pose is so dynamic will make the sprite inconsistent with the official fourth generation sprites. What I would suggest instead of having such a dynamic pose is making the sprite animated (like Syclant's sprite is), where this fellow is bursting out from the ground like a bat out of Hell and ready to take on secondary effect users... exactly as this still sprite is positioned now.
@ Cartoons!- Yours seems to be the most popular, and the popularity is well-desevred. It totally gives the "just try something you little bastard" that you were going for with the expression and posing. Out of all of the back sprites avalible so far, I must say that yours is the best out there.
I just have two things that I need to comment upon.
First of all, I find his head a little too much of a cubical shape in comparison to Cyzir's original art. It is my opinion that you can vastly improve this sprite by going in and making the head a little rounder.
Second of all, out of these three possible shinies:
The one on the right is the best one, although the black drills on the leftmost one work too. I would actually would like to see what the one on the right looks like with black drills just for comparison's sake.
Overall, I must say that everyone is working hard to produce good sprites for our beloved CAP9. Good luck to you all.
Edit:
On the contrary, I believe this cubical style is what makes it seem like a whale, not a huge sand worm. Its the noticable angles that create the illusion of it looking "down" on you, not "at" you.
Elegy of Emptiness, you do provide good points and I agree with that analysis of the cubical shape. My only concern is that it is simply inconsistant with Cyzir's artwork, as previously stated. I merely pointed it out because I would be messing around trying to make it remain as imposing as it is while still making it consistant with said artwork.
I also would like to make a disclaimer and say this just in case my message was unclear: I don't post with the intention of saying that something MUST be done, but with the intention of saying that it is something that should be strongly CONSIDERED and, in this case, I certianly hope that I did not portray the former in all of my above comments towards the aforementioned artists. Obviously, what I post is an opinion and, therefore, open to disagreement (so long as you expect that I might say something.
I also would like to point out that I did adjust the wording slightly in my comment about the cubical shape to make my message a little more clear if anyone cares.
