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Well, since I was able to salvage one sprite from my tint fiasco. I thought of putting it out so I could get some pointers. He's the first one I did where I tried to mix different sprites. ( Ephraim and rogue mostly, I love the Rogue's animation ). ( 7 frames in this ) I have other frames with this guy, but they just don't fit in right now. What I really want to know is if I'm using too many frames for the slashing. The blur isn't all that great either, but it's as good as I could do at the time. I want to finish his animation as soon as I'm done with the portraits. I still want 2-3 more males characters. But anyways, since I won't have much time to work on this, I wanted to get a head start on what is good and bad for animating sprites or just general tips! ( I read that too much movement breaks the ''FE immersion" or something--??.) Thanks, I appreciate every little bit of help!

This looks fun. Here's mine.

Cool, thanks! Fixed the 18 colors. I can put him as done for now! Thanks! Okai, I'll revert her back to her previous eye position. And fix it another way. Also after changing the weird sensation going on in her head, I should give her more colors. Cool, I've fixed the hair, Thanks! When I get better at splicing I want to change her dress too, or add some more colors. I'll consider her done for the moment. Nice, did the back of the headgear look a bit out of place to you? I'll consider her done after the headband fix. Honestly, I don't know how you saw that, I don't have an eye for that kind of detail yet/or at all. I was impressed. I tried 2 methods. First is : one pixel to the left, which I thought turned out better. I can be wrong lol Second is : one down, one left. I thought it gave her a bigger forehead. What do you think? Also, she needs different color! I had to change some of the older. Still WIP, think they're better than what they started as? His hair is meh, and his metal plates are still using fe8 colors, I didn't know what other color to put them as of now, they stand out a bit too much. I think he's a bit better than he used to be. His collar should be a different color. These 2, I mostly tried faces, and stopped at these 2. First one has some hair problems on her left shoulder ( our right). Other than that, not much changed. Second one, same thing, face change, and now the more I look at her, the hair going on her left cheek is longer than intended. This face gives her a tomboy'ish look. Overall, which face do you think works the best? Maybe both aren't good? And, 2 new portraits. Not much to say, I still have 3-4 free colors on the woman. I'll most likely change the scarf/cape's color. Maybe the eyes should go too? Could be using too much of Lyn's face. And the man. I had him for awhile. I wanted to get someone's opinion on him. I tried to base myself on King Kashue. Once I get better, I'll try mixing armors for him. The mustache looks a bit like it dosen't belong there. What else am I missing? I won't be making much progress in the next weeks or so. And I also want to attack battle sprites next, as soon as I'm happy with this merry band of heroes faces! Thanks for your help!

It's all good, I got what you meant. I'm using the sheet you posted, so I don't have to worry bout it. In the meantime, I've been updating the portraits! I, hopefully fixed the problems and made #3 better? I played around with the Sue portrait a bit too. And..do you ever do stupid faces like these? The Red has an ET'ish look. She knows when it's time to change your boxers. Okai, I'm done...

Yo, good stuff Capibarainspace! I'm going to make good use of that. Very cool! I feel like I'm in a hardware store and looking at colors for a wall I want to paint. It certainly will help with me the shading. Keeping me in check in using the same Fe-skin and outlines for starters, yeah! I'll take note on Fe6 being messy also and stear away from it. I don't think I was using much of it to begin with..but memory is all it is. Thanks man!

This is great, Yeah, I see the color and outline mistakes I do now . After being told..3 times?... I need to organize myself better, that would be a huge help. Well, thanks for taking time on your schedule to help a stranger out! I don't know if answering people's feedback like this is accepted or seen as pushing it, but it at least serves me as a sort of ''memo'', and I like to comment with as much effort you guys put into yours. That being said! I'll get into it! 1- Shouldn't be too hard to fix. Did the ribbons look a bit exagerated? I used Lalum's(?) ribbon for that. 2/3 - Yeah, I noticed it when you mentioned it too. Fixed it, also noticed the eyes were placed differently. Thanks! 4/5 - I'll get rid of #5, he's just a lazy fix. It's crazy how a body can change the whole face though. Can I assume I did "okai" on the shading of his armor? I know I didn't change much, darkened his right shoulder and..that was it. I'll change the skin color too. Cool, I think I can leave him alone after these changes. 6 - Yup, this is one those mistakes you guys kept mentioning that didn't sink in. This shouldn't be a problem anymore in the future. I'd be very disappointed in myself, I'll frown a little bit too. 7/8 - Glad you liked it! I've used more splices for that one, but you can tell already. Do you mean changing the WHOLE face? Eyes, mouth , etc?. Or just a different shape of face? ( Boils down almost to the same thing..... ). Changing the angle of the face would fix the neck issue, fixing the neck to fit with the head would probably be easier or not..I could be making it more complicated then it is for myself too. 9/10 - Yup, another recurring mistake I do/did. There were custom colors too, I'll use legit FE's color. I hadn't even notice the ponytail shading needs. Thanks for pointing it out. 11 - Cool! I thought the piece of hair gave it motion like you said for #4. I can remove that no problemo. 12 - I feel the same way. I'll try darker tones to see if it gets better. 13 - Great, Thanks! He gave me trouble before. Yeah, they are supposed to be wrinkles. I'll go do my homework again. 14 - I should've seen that weird angle...mixed Lyn's half bottom face with Eirika's top half. This should be an easy fix! 15 - I can't even remember who's eyes I used. I think that was the last portrait I customized eyes and stuff. Did you mean that piece of hair on the bottom right (our right) of her head in the picture? I thought she turned out good in the beginning, now she looks weird to me too. 16 - Are you getting the vibe because the eyes are weird? Dunno if shading or different eyes, or even hair out of the head band would help with that. I'll have some fun with this one later. 17/19 - Yup, those recurring little mishap, super easy to fix too. #19 still oddly looking, eventually I'll get a good angle on him. 18 - I didn't expect that for this one. Great then!! If shading is his only problem, I'm satisfied how he turned out for a first time. 20 - Yeah, I like this one aswell, one of my favorites. Maybe I can try to push that Shoulder Armor further in on the belt? That sounded lazy.. We'll see! Cloud had a different take, more spikey, less roundey but scraped it due to the tint changing on pictures. He's fun to play with, so I don't mind going back to him all the time, I'll get a good version eventually!! Squall well...like you said : he needs more work ( in short :P). There's really not much else to say on his matter, he looks rushed. Thanks Zelkami, that was a good read! It's always fun, informative and appreciated to get people's perspective! Have a g'day!

I was using mspaint and usenti. I just now, got GIMP, tried what you suggested, but it didn't work. I'm thinking the culprit is MsPaint. I must've done something wrong. It's fine though, I'll just do them again some other time. Thanks !

Zelkami, thanks for the reply. You = awesome. Let's do this! I thought I had fixed the eyes...man. I guess I made more changes then I remembered. I've also been extra careful, on the newest ones, not to customize anything else. I've labeled them and edited the above picture. Now it should be easier to tell me what's wrong on each of em. ( if you ever feel like it ). Would it be easier if I put them all separately? no-19 is terrible compared to the others,he really sticks out. I decided to keep him still, I don't know if I want to change him completely, or just the things that annoy me. Outlines/shading/eyes/hair, all bad. He needs a plastic surgeon. Yes, that is a Squall, cheaply made though, took me 10 min to make him. I make small changes here and there whenever I don't feel like working on the ''main'' cast. I can't even say I'm happy with him. Trying to keep the colors together, F6-7 and 8 separately, I thought I was doing a good job :,( . No 9-10 are the only ones with custom colors ( hair )...I think.. might be wrong. Cloud and Squall aren't really all that important, they are there if you really wanna comment on them, but other than that, you can skip them. ( still trying to fix Cloud's shoulder/hair ( had another Cloud but the ''tint'' changed ) and Squall...well he's just a model right now.) Also, I've lost alot of sprites and portraits due to them changing colors whenever I save them...it's really maddening. No matter how I fix them, they revert back to a different ''tint'' or they get full of differently colored dots. Why is that happening? Here's an example of what I mean. I don't care for that portrait, but my whole sheet of sprite turned like that. They are not the only ones. I don't know if this is the cause, but most the portraits changed when I copied them ( maybe it's a symptom of the cause? ), so I stopped doing that. Thanks again, appreciate all your help!

It's late, I'm saturated like a sweet pickle. Here's an update. Changed eyes on the green yellow swordsman. ( removed all the "customness" ) Blueish Marissa clone had a car accident, had to replace her. The Archer got a recolor. Peg Knight still dosen't know what he's doing. The green knight got some spikes on his shoulders..oooh. White Seth went back to old armor till I get a level up and put some skill points in "shouldering". ( When is the double exp week-end?? ) Oh yeah, and the blue bandana guy had a small change on his shadow and a different "pose". Still don't like the colors. Also the Pent clone got changed, not finished with him though. ( there you go Macko! ). 2 New faces, changes to old. Cloud and a cheap Squall. Yay, gnight...

Kratos Aurion, hey man! I totally agree with you on the color choice and I think the tones on his head are also a bit..out of place. Thanks to feedback, I can make changes and you guys see where I make mistakes alot more than I do. Shadows are still pretty darn hard for me, you're right though, they just don't work. I'll fix it as best I can this week-end! Or maybe I could just flip the body horizontally? I'll see. Does his chin look too big too? I tried making it a bit wider. Yeah, I kinda wanted to go for a none symmetrical look, I over did it. One of the shoulders needs to change! I wanted to add that golden outline, I did it on one of his portraits, which I didn't keep, looked more like random dots of color dancing to Satan's anthem. I'll give it another go. I usually use the skin color for the golden outline too, but he seemed like he'd be a bit..dull without that golden yellow, especially since he's basically grey and white. Maybe I should add different colors to him and change his outline to skin color. Thanks! Cloud was mostly for fun though, I've already made some changes to him, post it when I get more portraits updated. Though that tip on his hair is greatly appreciated! Even if he's for fun, It's still practice. I did Squall too, but it's mostly Raven's head with a scar, having a hard type doing that split in the middle of his hair. I used Ross's body with the details removed on his armor and added the feathers on the collar. anyways, not important. Those shoulders are really getting me nervous though, I thought eyes we're hard ( that was because I tried to ''customize'' a bit of it, I quit, no more!...for now ) and then the shading on hair, which I think is REALLY obvious on the Selena's ponytails. But as it's been mentioned above, I should stick with the same portrait style for now, and mix them when I get a bit more at ease with this. Thanks Kratos! You're swell too! You guys are great. I'm starting to feel a bit overwhelmed with all the mistakes I seem to make, but that's the fun part.

Hi Zelkami, About every faces has something custom in them. I think I'll just stop doing that from now on. Sometimes I just use bigger eyes and try to make them smaller, hair and noses are also a victim of that. May god have mercy on them. YES! The eyes on those are really annoying me aswell. I just don't know how to fix em right now, either when I put a set of new eyes the whole face gets weird, or they just don't fit at all. But is it with just those 2 that you get a weird vibe? Or are there more? No2 and 3, they are the same face with a small difference (custom again...) On no3, I tried to straighten the face a bit ( One pixel to the left, from about half of his face downward, I did that for a few faces .) I can barely see it, but it's there, maybe that's why the eyes gets weird? I also use half a face, then put another half, and work with it. Like bottom and top. The eyes are haunting me... Thanks for the feedback Zelkami! Okai, here goes I'll try to use the way you structured you're reply, so clean and easy to read! 1) I saw what you meant by the pupil, I went back to check on Gilliam's eyes and immediately fixed it, it looks much better now. I removed the collar, just to see what it would look like. Here's the updated version. ( you guys can slap me on the wrist for doing just a little customization with the shoulder, I promise I'll stop after this one! ) Yeah, the shoulders really don't go that well with each other. Portraits are harder than I anticipated, I love it. Fixed the ponytail too! 2) I understand now! ( I think..future will tell ) I'll just stick to either using fe6-7 and 8 separately. I mean 6-7 together or 8 on it's own, I'll get a better idea the more I do it, I figured. 3) Yeah, those guys are just going to go on hiatus for now. I liked the starting designs too, but the shading was always annoying me. I'll wait till I do some more homework. 4) Well, cool then! I appreciate all the replies and the help you guys can shove at me! Kinda wish I could be inputting my thoughts, but I'm just starting to go deeper. -- So, no more custom, watch out for the eyes, the shadings and being careful on mixing hair from Fe6-7 and 8. This will be my homework for the week-end if I get the time. I saw both of your threads ( before making my own ) and I loved the portraits you guys did. I read it all, the feedback you receive can also be useful for me. Okai, well that's enough for now. Thank you very much guys! I'll try to hold on updates until I get more concrete stuff, instead of just clogging this up with one picture a post.

Just a small update. Retouched a little bit some of the old ones and I got some new faces too. Added a collar and a bandana to the one on the left. And retouched a little bit of the hair on the right side. Also changed the outline thanks to Capibarainspace. New faces. I'm going to change the garments soon, but for now I just wanted their faces done. Also : update on Cloud...cus I get bored sometimes. Don't be shy to tell me what I do wrong either, can't improve what you don't know. Thanks!

I've only had 2 console break on me, and it was the PS1 and a PS2. For the ps1, the lens didn't move on the disc anymore no idea how it happened. I've dropped a Snes down a set of stairs, not a scratch, still worked like nothing happened. Those machines we're extremely tough. And for the ps2, no idea what happened to it, I was living with 2 other brothers, maybe they know. Came back and it was completely open. I was told the fan got jammed or something. Oh, and gameboys...at least 2. The screen was so easy to break with an accident, I was a clumsy little devil. But I'd be less scared to drop a SNES than any other consoles, they seemed to be made with the same materials as a military tank. I've got a good idea of what would happen if I dropped a PS4 on the ground...Everything seems so frail. Ps3 looks even more fragile. Other than that, the ones I owned to myself, didn't have one break.

It is a Pent's recolor, with just a minor difference, his eyes are of Saleh? Salem?w/e.. That's a no go? I'll fix it then. Thanks Macko. In the meantime, while I was fixing portraits and making new ones, I made this one. While I was listening to music on youtube, FF7's one winged angel started playing. This one's mostly for fun though. Probably been done a thousand times already.

Capibarainspace, you are swell man. Really appreciate taking the time to answer, you even edited a picture just to show me what you meant, damn. I'm glad someone liked at least one of them . The 9th one was the last one I did before posting this, I thought it turned out great too. 2nd-3rd are the eyes, I can't seem to give him some eyes that fit, they look somewhat creepy. I changed a few of them last night, try to keep the custom editing to a minimum. I think I did a better job on 12's face now, changed his scar, looks less like a smudge, and changed his eyes. His shoulder too, just to see something different. Does it look like he's stuck in his new shoulder? I use usenti and usually reduce the colors to 16 or less, I might've done some edits before posting them on the ''compilation''. I'll go check those again so I don't bust it. I'm not sure what you mean by contrast and saturation on the fe8 portraits. Darker outlines and more shading with the different tones of the same color? What did you think of the helmet designs though? Did you think I was heading in a good direction or did they look like goats regurgitating whales carcasses? Too many questions? ( this one included, haha ) Either way, thank you for the pointers!