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aXl said:
You know, I considered that very thing as I was making it. But then, tbh, the only real thing that makes it look cluttered is the spikes. And I realized that there is an easy way to fix this. I could simply just not give the parts outlines, and mark the spikes instead using a lighter shade. This would represent how they catch the light better than the rest of the body, and it would fix the need for an outline. What do you think about this idea?
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I am mainly concerned with how the claw, which is a major part of the creature, is going to blend into the body behind it in sprite form.
 
Studio534 said:
I am a bit confused as to what exactly I am looking @ to be honest... Are those wings? Its body kinks and bends in unnatural ways it seems.
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It's actually based more on a tiger beetle grub, the body is supposed to have that weird, 90 degree bend in it. The "wings" are developing wing buds. I made it for me wasp concept, so it may have to be changed a bit to fit Doran's.
 
Call me a lazy ass, if you want to >.> I deserve it entirely for taking over two weeks to finish two sprites. But anyways they´re here now:
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I know these bolt lightnings are not very good too see, but they´re sparks, I didn´t feel like giving them a dark outline.

Btw: I think I´ll take a break for now. I have my driving licence to go for. And you have seen what good that has been for(sprite-wise). Altough, I will edit the sprites, if changes are needed.
 
JojoX3 said:
Call me a lazy ass, if you want to >.> I deserve it entirely for taking over two weeks to finish two sprites. But anyways they´re here now:
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I know these bolt lightnings are not very good too see, but they´re sparks, I didn´t feel like giving them a dark outline.

Btw: I think I´ll take a break for now. I have my driving licence to go for. And you have seen what good that has been for(sprite-wise). Altough, I will edit the sprites, if changes are needed.
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They are kind of rough but I think the base is great. I am not even really sure what to say to you as to what to fix... I think maybe the contract is a bit low... it could maybe use a darker shade for the deepest shadows? Also on the adult the face is a bit off. Not sure whats going on with those random lines on the face.
 
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ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!!!

This may come as sad news to some or maybe you guys do not care at all but we are cutting this project short. This segment of the project was supposed to be completed this summer and even though we made amazing progress we did not even come close to reaching that goal.

What we are going to do is to limit the number of creatures per type to 6 instead of the original 9. This means that some concepts will not make the cut and that we will really only be taking the absolute best 6 sets of sprites. We do this only to wrap up this portion of the game development so that we can continue with the development and HOPEFULLY actually get this thing published eventually.

I will be editing the encyclopedia to reflect this new change. If you guys have any questions then please let me know. Thanks!

EDIT!!!!!!

I have updated the encyclopedia. The new one can be found below as well as on the same post as where the old one had been hosted. I have left the old one up as well in case you guys want to review it and argue for some concepts that may have been cut if you feel that strongly for them.

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New 9x6 encyclopedia.

These are not final decisions neccessarily... these are just the concepts that we have whittled it down to for now. As always we just want the best sprites so if you want to redo a concept (Doran, lol) or submit a new one then that is always welcome. Let me know if you guys have any questions.

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Hm. Kinda saw that coming(the project shortening, I mean)

Not sure whats going on with those random lines on the face.
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Red Pandas have whiskers and I thought, I might could add them. But now that you mention it, it looks kinda bad and the young one doesn´t have them either. Expect the updated sprites sometime today.

EDIT: By "make the shades darker" do you also mean those on the yellow lightning marks?

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I altered the darkest shades a bit, but not too much, as it looked off that way.
 
Little bummed that the Ocelot I made didn't make the cut. Oh well.

So, out of our missing concepts, we have one Earth, 2 Metals (surprisingly enough), 1 Atomic, and 1 Water. I have called the Earth Kangaroos, and that would leave 4 left in total. This also means that I need to finish the infants, with both the porcupine and anglerfish not having a finished infant form. Expect these sometime next week, if not this week, as I have lots of homework this week. In addition, I can do concepts for the sea turtle and other adult only forms. If that would be okay, that is. :)
 
aXl said:
Little bummed that the Ocelot I made didn't make the cut. Oh well.

So, out of our missing concepts, we have one Earth, 2 Metals (surprisingly enough), 1 Atomic, and 1 Water. I have called the Earth Kangaroos, and that would leave 4 left in total. This also means that I need to finish the infants, with both the porcupine and anglerfish not having a finished infant form. Expect these sometime next week, if not this week, as I have lots of homework this week. In addition, I can do concepts for the sea turtle and other adult only forms. If that would be okay, that is. :)
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I will also be posting a list of the sprites that we currently have in the encyclopedia that need some serious work/ a complete redo before we can accept them as final. I will likely get to that tomorrow.
 
Energy Storm said:
Apparently, getting thge shading in was harder than I thought. A bit of advice please?

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See Scarmory's sprite. It does the metal effect very well, and would be a great reference.

@Studio: Would it be alright if I were to redo the Fire Armadillo Lizard using my concept instead?
 
Well after the frustration of screwing up the Eagle, I decided to whip up a Water Humpback Whale in to calm my nerves a bit. Since it's a humpback whale, do you think I should add dimpling and some unconformities on the skin?

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aXl said:
See Scarmory's sprite. It does the metal effect very well, and would be a great reference.

@Studio: Would it be alright if I were to redo the Fire Armadillo Lizard using my concept instead?
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Ummm... to be honest, after some QC I think we will be pretty happy with the Fire Armadillo Lizard we have. I also think it would be really awesome to see your juvenile forms for some of your sprites like you mentioned before. Thanks dude!
 
Energy Storm said:
Apparently, getting thge shading in was harder than I thought. A bit of advice please?

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I think this is actually a decent start! I know this shading is probably a pain in the ass so I understand why you may have decided to move on from the concept but I am actually interested to see where it goes. I would just suggest that brown does not feel super metallic but the metallic shading is good and could even be a little more subtle which would be less time consuming, lol.

Energy Storm said:
Well after the frustration of screwing up the Eagle, I decided to whip up a Water Humpback Whale in to calm my nerves a bit. Since it's a humpback whale, do you think I should add dimpling and some unconformities on the skin?

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Just a couple of things...

I am not really loving the pose on this one. It just does not really fit well with the concept of them interacting with things... it looks more like it is jumping out of the water, which while cool does not work for this, lol.

I had a doodle I did @ work the other day for this guy which I liked and I was going to scan it and upload it for you but my printer/scanner is out of ink so it wont let me access the scanning menu... yeah, I know, dumb. I will try and get it up later if I can find a friend near-by who has a functioning scanner.

ALSO! Concept-wise I worry a bit about having a whale with circles on its fins like that because it might be too close to kyrogue from pokemon.

Thanks for trying though!


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I just ended up taking a picture of it with my phone. Sorry for the poor quality!

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Its not clear in this crappy picture of it but the dark grey on the face and along the back is like an armour made of barnacles that protect it. ALSO something the is not apparent is that there are blowholes running all along its spine.
 
Doran Dragon said:
adult Metal scorpion,

not too pleased, but definitly passable

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Doran Dragon said:
ummm....john?
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OOPS! Sorry Doran! My bad!

I like it! It is definitely as you said "passable", lol. It is another great sprite by a very talented spriter!

With that said I do have one comment for you....

I feel it could use more differentiation from the juvenile form physically. I see the double pronged tail but besides that it feels like a reposing of the juvenile. In the original concept sketch that albinoloon posted, and that I can only assume you are working from, there was a bit more difference between the two. What do you think? It is a great sprite I just want to make sure it is different enough to pass as a new form besides being bigger and the tail prongs.

thanks!
 
Since I am posting a ton of crap anyway...

My project manager sent me this message today and I figured it was good information for everyone to see. He raises some good points and since alot of it was on my list already this save me time typing it up, lol. Enjoy & let me know what you guys think.


"To start with I am not being critical, I just wanted to share all of my thoughts about the current sprite list. You are the art director, so if you disagree with anything just do what you want and let me know. Most of this we have discussed before, but it helps me anyway to have a written record to refer to. If you have any additional thoughts please let me know.


WATER
Water sprites look fine. I like the baby platypus. The adult isn’t my favorite. I think he might benefit from a change in pose. Maybe something like snorlax with the feet up like that, or maybe more of an action pose (with careful consideration not to be too similar to golduck). He is a lot better than some other sprites though, so I wouldn’t make this a priority.

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FIRE
Lion king sprites need to be completely redone. I love the concept they made of a fire lion but lets face it we cannot put simba and mufasa into our game.
Is the fire lizard to similar to Rhyhorn? They are pretty similar, but maybe different enough?

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I like the cardinal, but is there something we can do to make the adult form a little more different from the child? Maybe add longer sharper claws or something? Really any little thing to make is more hardcore.
No offense but the rat needs some work. Also it is pretty similar in stance etc. to Raticate.

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ICE
Ice is actually fine. LOVE the new ice serpent. Actually might be my favorite sprite. Only thing is that the brown thing (what animal is that?) is not very ice-themed. Any way we could either add some ice to it or give it a warm shaggy coat or something that indicates cold?


SHADOW
Shadow is looks really good. We have some awesome sprites in there. I don’t disagree with your choice to take the bird out of shadow but I do like the sprite. Could we make it atomic instead or something? Alternatively we could keep the bird shadow and make the yellow alligator thingy rock, water, or steel? Just a thought. Also the coloring on the alligator could probably be changed slightly. Otherwise I like what I see.


SOLAR
Solar is alright. I like the owl. Any chance you could turn the head a little for the chameleon so it isn’t just a side view? I know that is tricky but it would look better. Sloth is good. I like the concept of the triceratops, but I’m not a huge fan of this implementation. Also the baby triceratops looks kind of silly. Peacock could use work. I don’t like the pink a lot. The last guy is good. You might want to change the nose though. The little one kind of looks like Rudolph.


ATOMIC
Atomic is AWESOME. Did you have thoughts on what the last one would be?

METAL
Metal isn’t bad. The second guy there needs some sort of shading or texturing or something. It currently doesn’t look very metallic. The scorpion is sweet. Actually because the scorpion is so awesome you might consider making it the adult. I had an idea that maybe you could use a cockroach looking thing like this for the child. If you have an idea for an even more awesome adult form though, please do that instead. Turtles are good. What are the final two going to be?


ELECTRIC
I really like the electric ones now. No suggestions there.


EARTH
Earth is okay. For some reason the elephant thing doesn’t quite do it for me. It could probably be fixed with touch-up work though. Question: didn’t you make an elephant sprite last year at some point with tree-trunk legs? Or was that for something else? The next one (bug thingy?) is kind of bad. It is turned completely to the side. The porpoise is good. The last one is weird but good. Could probably use a recolor on the green though? Do we have plans for the final one there?

My favorites are the ice serpent, shadow tiger, shadow octopus, radioactive fish, radioactive deer, electric bullfrog, electric bee, and rock dinosaur.
Honorable mentions to shadow monkey thingy, solar owl, atomic cockroach, and electric badger thingy."

- Thomas

 
Albinoloon said:
Can I make a concept for the new fire lion? Btw, I may not be on for a while because of my copy of pokemon black. :D lol
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If you want to, though since you are going away I will probably ask others who want to to do so as well. This portion of the project needs to be finished really pretty soon. Once creature creation is done I have some other things you guys might be interested in working on but we really need to finish making these guys.
 
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