Speed's Pixel Cluster v2.0

[SassySnivy]

@Trainer17: ahahah, I have multiple online families ;3 PXR is my primary.

Thanks! I personally enjoy the Pokemon black and white sprites, to be honest. Sure they did have to take shortcuts with animating, but that's 600+ individual sprites to animate; animating by hand would be a nightmare! Plus the sprites were meant to have a much more simplified shading style so that they could be easier to animate and recolor. Efficiency is key! :3 But hahah, I understand. Thank you a bunch though!

@Xanthe: I got a handful of people during the weekend I started, but that's because I advertised on DeviantART! I made sure to look for journals of people looking for certain commission types, mainly icons since those are in super high demand. Then I just kinda abandoned it. D: But I'm definitely more serious about it, now...we're getting a little low on money.

[SassySnivy]

Oh look, it's been a while! xD Obligatory semi-monthly post to show you guys that I still make pixel art. xD



Used the shiny Snivy to make my icon on DeviantART. I think I ought to make more, because the sparkling effect is simple, effective, and kinda fun. :D



Bayleef's GS sprites are so, so weird. They're so disproportionate; did you know that Bayleef has the same exact sprite between both Gold and Silver? Crystal made a completely new sprite that's more true to Bayleef's design.

Another interesting thing to note that I just found out--kinda related but kinda not--is that apparently when Sugimori was first asked to create the official artwork for Pokemon in Red and Green, the only references he had were the sprites. That's the only thing he worked off of, and obviously changed things up where he saw fit. This is probably one big reason why Green sprites are infamous for being inaccurate...still, though, it makes you wonder what they were thinking with Red. Were red's sprites created after Sugimori drew up the official art? :o I mean Red and Green's sprites are so strikingly different in design.

He then says that when he was first assigned to do the artwork for the pokemon back in the Red & Green days it was for the official guide books that going to go on sale soon. The only artwork that existed at the time were the sprites that had been ripped from the games and so Mr. Sugimori had to go through all that pixel art, one by one, and draw the pokemon based on these sprites. During this time he would change parts of the pokemon he didn't like for whatever reason. The book doesn't expand on this at all, but I imagine he's talking about things like the position of the skull and crossbones on Dogas' body or how Fushigisou stands on four legs instead of two.

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But yeah, I'm getting a little off-subject.

On Relic Castle I've been trying to catch back up with the High Resolution Sprite Project, and I'm starting by quality-controlling all of the sprites that I critiqued months ago but were never fixed by the creators. I've only got Bulbasaur and Ivysaur done, but so far they're such big edits that I may as well consider them as originals.

Original Bulbasaur
New:


Original Ivysaur
New:


Original Espeon
New:


The Espeon was actually made quite some time ago.

[Chibi Altaria]

Ohmigosh, Speed, these are amazing! :D I really love your icons, too. <3

I haven't made any sprites in a while, but I'd totally be up to helping you out with that HD sprite project if you want. (If I don't suck xD;;)

[SassySnivy]

Hahah, go for it! Never be afraid to try something new. :P

Have a few more!






Again, these are such large edits that they may as well be considered original. xD I don't think a single part of any of these sprites (the original ones) were left untouched.

[Suicune's Fire]

Beautiful, as always, Speed. I NEVER noticed how disproportionate the Gold/Silver bayleef sprite was! I also never realised it was the same one. Also is it the ONLY pokemon whose sprites are the same between Gold and Silver? (Also the Crystal quilava is messed... O_o) But seriously, beautiful work, as always. <3 I LOVE the ivysaur, and the rest, of course. All so brilliant. :D I REALLY like the little icons you posted that look detailed, BEAUTIFULLY coloured and shaded, and so effective! (The snivy and nidoran a few posts up.) Just stunning! :D

[SassySnivy]

Oh my god.



I just realized that I haven't posted all of my other icons here! Expect those in a few hours. :o like, in 2 hours xD

Anyway thanks Xanthe! <3 The icons are some of the hardest ones to do. The smaller the dimensions, the more difficult.

[SassySnivy]

Oh look, another quality control edit! This was another fix where I don't think a single pixel was left untouched. XD

The original is here:
http://i.imgur.com/9cq40V4.png

And some hi res HGSS overworlds:

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Ahhh walking Bulbasaur! That's so cute <3

Haha seems like you might as well make all those high res sprites yourself. XD

Also I love that high res Bulbasaur!

[Chakramaster]

At least I got to see some of the work you did on the Butterfree! It turned out really well at that! Those Bulbasaur look really fancy as well. It's interesting getting to watch the process at least.

[SassySnivy]

At least I got to see some of the work you did on the Butterfree! It turned out really well at that! Those Bulbasaur look really fancy as well. It's interesting getting to watch the process at least.

Thank you! I love watching art streams, too; I just wish there were more pixel art streams out there!

Ahhh walking Bulbasaur! That's so cute <3

Haha seems like you might as well make all those high res sprites yourself. XD

Also I love that high res Bulbasaur!

Hahah, thanks! Nah, its really a big help having all these people in the project. The reason I'm QC ing a specific handful of them is because either my critique wasn't responded to in over a month or I forgot that I didn't give crits to one but figure it'll be more efficient just to fix them xD