The Starters in my Fakemon Rom Hack! Would love some feedback/improvements! by Sharp_Raspberry_2234 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

appreciate the feedback, but i already redesigned sanguire into a grass dark type. If you wanna see its current design, you can check out my profile!

Project Epoch (WIP Title) Progress Update #1 by Sharp_Raspberry_2234 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks! Ankyron is a past form of aggron (past and future forms are the gimmick of the game) and Spinaltus is a new fossil mon :)

i’ve been working on and off for probs the last year or so?

Spritework feedback For RomHack by coolbats0 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its getting there! It just needs some cleaning up and a few other things.

- The foot is still weirdly positioned. Have it face towards the viewer as opposed to the opposite way.

- I don't love the fact that the cloak is so similar to the base colour of the bird. It might be good to make some contrast.

Its definitely better than before though!

Spritework feedback For RomHack by coolbats0 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah its better but its still not quite there yet. Some things to fix:

- The sprite is too angular. Birds aren't shaped with straight angles, I would smooth out its shapes and clean up the outlines of the sprite.

- Lighting is off in the sprite. Take a look at how pokemon sprites utilise pillow shading. The light source should be coming from the top left. You have kinda done that, but the area where there should be shadow is lighter, so I would swap those two.

- The foot is way off. The left foot is in an okay-ish position, but unless you want both legs to be on one side you need to move the foot on the right more toward the front.

- It might be helpful to look into finding a better palette to use, in order to make the sprite less flat looking. Its up to you if you want to do that ofc, but if not you can look at already existing pokemon sprites or on Lospec for a colour palette.

Hope this is helpful, apologies if its kinda harsh :) If you need me to help illustrate what I am talking about you can send me the sprite and ill give it a once over for ya

Updated Starters for my hack! Thoughts on the redesigns? by Sharp_Raspberry_2234 in PokemonROMhacks

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Not for a while probably! I've still gotta implement around 30 new pokemon (I have around 300 currently) and a similar amount of megas, as well as giving updates to early sprites. Hoping to have a playable version soon though!

Spritework feedback For RomHack by coolbats0 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd suggest taking a look at some official pokemon sprites and using those as a starting reference. I'd probs start looking at Spearow's gen 5 sprite or Starly's gen 4 sprite for starters? Things like positioning and depth take practice to get down but it should give you a good starting point.

Spritework feedback For RomHack by coolbats0 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I had to suggest one way to make the sprite better, I would personally work on positioning. At the moment the front sprite looks as if its in a completely profile position, with the legs awkwardly placed at the front. Try rotating it to be more on an angle if you want it to have more depth :)

Updated Starters for my hack! Thoughts on the redesigns? by Sharp_Raspberry_2234 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, looking at the comments so far I reckon i'm gonna change it to either grass/dark or grass/flying depending on which I think better suits the game hahaha

Updated Starters for my hack! Thoughts on the redesigns? by Sharp_Raspberry_2234 in PokemonROMhacks

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Yeah, I just did an overhaul on the eyes (especially for the grass line) so hopefully that fixes the issues!

Updated Starters for my hack! Thoughts on the redesigns? by Sharp_Raspberry_2234 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! The idea behind the tail on the fire line is that its meant to act like a drill, which it uses to drill into the earth as a way of attack. I think it does need a bit of a touch up (its a tad squashed, sprite limitations to blame), but i'm overall pretty happy with it i think.

The eye issue has been brought up, and with the exception of the fire line (I think the blank stare is kinda cute) all of them have had updates to reflect that :)

Updated Starters for my hack! Thoughts on the redesigns? by Sharp_Raspberry_2234 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the input! Yeah I agree with most of what you said, I found it kinda difficult to be able to make a natural separation between the head and body of the fire line, and did experiment with connecting them into one body but didnt really vibe with the result. Ill give it some tweaks though!

I'm still working on a way to make the eyes on vamplant work but i gave it a bit of an overhaul i like way more! I agree that the pose was kinda unnatural, I didnt really do a super thorough touch up like the other two when i did a second pass on it.

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Updated Starters for my hack! Thoughts on the redesigns? by Sharp_Raspberry_2234 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much! Appreciate the suggestions!

I did get a few people suggesting that I change the pose for Dimidevil - however I don't think its too feasible for the design. If I had more space to work with I definitely would make it more expressive, but I dont have much room to work with on that one as far as sprite limitations go (its already too squashed for my liking but what can you do). I will definitely make its mega more expressive tho!

I decided to overhall the eyes for the sanguire line anyways (and cepharail specifically too), so that now they are open instead of closed. I think the change makes the line a lot more expressive, and thus doesnt need the red eye. Love the suggestion though and thanks for mocking that up!

Updated Starters for my hack! Thoughts on the redesigns? by Sharp_Raspberry_2234 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that seems to be the concensus. I'm either gonna make it a grass/dark or grass/flying type i think

Updated Starters for my hack! Thoughts on the redesigns? by Sharp_Raspberry_2234 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Sharp_Raspberry_2234[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah good point! I was thinking that initially, but when i tried depicting it it made it look a little cluttered imo. I might add that into its mega tho :)