Ah, that definitely does look quite better! Although, upon comparison, I noticed you tweaked the border juuust slightly to help turn the head...Several people mentioned that the left head on my front sprite needed to look at the opponent, not straight ahead "into the camera". Once people mentioned it, I agree that it looked a little weird. I tweaked that head to make the pokemon look over at the opponent.
I think it looks better like that. It's amazing what a difference a few pixels can make!
Here's my first draft of CAP 8:
I think the reason that can't be done is because each artist stylizes their submissions in different ways so that when you put a front and back sprite from two different artists next to each other, they will hardly look like the same Pokemon. Not to mention the palettes being different.
Your palettes are fine and I applaud your choice of layout for the back sprite, showcasing the lightning bolt eyebrows.DougJustDoug said:
That shiny looks great, I think you should make the eyebrows a different color though, it's too hard to see them.
Male Normal------------Female Normal
Male Shiny-------------Female Shiny
This is my final submission unless anyone strongly objects to the shiny.
From someone who loved your art submission, these aren't on the same level. The legs and neck look reaaaaallly short. The faces look a bit flat . The clouds and the tail look good, but you have to fix those other things to have a good submission.
Just a bunch of shinies
Dunno if anybody noticed, but I have male/female differences. Female's tail is longer.
My favorite shiny is the cotton candy pink+ Pink eyebrows
I reckon you should either raise the height of the cloud to cover the necks a bit more or lower the heads a bit so they dont look like they are sprouting from the top of the cloud (see Darthvader's one)Alright, I've made yet another edit to my back sprite, and I'm liking it right now:
I made the heads even bigger compared to the body, and the necks as thick as I could without compromising the fact that they are supposed to be lightning bolts. (I'm still considering zooming in on the heads more, though) I lightened the yellow a tad and lowered the body slightly to make less of it show. Unless anyone has any more advice, I think I'll be making a final submission soon.
There isn't always a gender difference for every Pokemon, as far as I can remember that is.
I can't really say that I'm thrilled with the front sprite, but the back sprites are the best ones I have seen yet.
Based on feedback from various people, I made several small tweaks to these sprites, but nothing major. I sharpened the left face on the front sprite, and I made the backsprite faces and horns slightly more "pointy". I also darkened the back leg on the frontsprite, just a little bit.
This will be my final submission post. If I make any more changes, I will just edit the images here. Thanks to everyone that has given me advice and suggestions in this thread. With your help, I think my sprite is a million times better than my original draft. Regardless of the outcome of the polls, I've got myself a few snazzy-looking avatars to use in the future. I'm already a winner! ;-)
this is indeed the case. I personally can't say I thought of this as a pokemon that would have gender at all though.
On most pokemon, the gender differences are very small, almost unnoticeable. There are some examples of significant gender differences, so I have no problem with CAP spriters making easily-noticed differences. But, I usually make the changes very small. On my sprites, the females have slightly larger eyes, and a slightly longer tail.
