Favorite Sprites

Most indie games have shitty sprite work. What are your favorite sprites in games where the art is actually good?

Honestly, Minish Cap is probably the best sprite work I've ever seen in my damn life.. They do so much with so little.

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More Minish Cap.

I can't find a rip of it but the walk cycle in Frankenstein for Sega CD is gold. Skip to about 10 minutes in to see what I mean.

Mother 3 is great when it comes to pixel art as well.

Metal Slug

It's average as fuck.

Honestly, indie devs should look at it for how to do lazy spriting. Not to say Mother 3 is lazy, but it's not particularly detailed. But it looks so great because of the bright colors and overall stylistic choice.

You can't post Metal Slug in one of these threads and post a still image.

Telling an indie developer to use bright colors is like telling a retarded child to try using more than one crayon. You'll just end up with an even uglier mess than you already had.

What good times.

Indie devs just throw bloom on everything. Hell, even the battles as simple as they look do a good job of showing what the fuck is going on.

Anyone got more Litchi sprites? These are all i have.

Dead Cells has some pretty good spritework with good animations, to boot.

Momodora Reverie Under the Moonlight probably has my favorite sprite work out of any recent indie game
No rotated pixels, no inconsistent pixel sizes, no smooth gradients, and big titty, what more could I ask for

That doesn't say much.

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I really liked them as they've improved over the years. A lot of weight behind their hits.

No Valkyrie Profile?

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thank you for reminding me there is a proper English release of this game finally

It's pretty remarkable for a GBA game, honestly

Find me an RPG, not a side-scroller, with better sprite work than Minish Cap, then, fag. Earthworm Jim is a side-scroller, of course the pixel art is going to be more detailed.

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Nigger, I'll show you remarkable for a GBA game

lel. Just admit you have shit taste in sprites, Hitler.

How about just go back to 4ch?

OP, don't be a fag.

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You realize we're discussing pixel art, right?

3D games just have like, a bunch of pixels, right?

implies that it's pushing technical limits.

I was talking to a62310 about GBA games in general, you assblasted fag

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True, but this thread is about sprite work, not modeling.

Whew.

you both realize that the character graphics in the GBA Asterix & Obelix game were sprites, right?

You can't separate the two.

lel

This is my challenge to Minish Cap's average sprites.

Holy FUCK
That IS remarkable! It never ceases to amaze me.

That's gotta be Odin's Sphere Leifthrasir.

Every pose, every frame, may have a 3D pre-rendering, especially on the more detailed spites like a lot of the boss enemies. But the level of detail put into each one of the poses, even in the way that each individual chink in the armor moves is absolutely stunning.

Fuck me for not thinking of them.

While certainly gorgeous, don't they tend to get around the spriting process by way of hand drawing the frames, scanning them in, and then animating them (instead of creating part by part, pixel by pixel)? Not that I blame them, as the results still look fucking great, and at current TV resolutions, going pixel by pixel would take forever and/or be very expensive.


I really liked how the backgrounds for normal objects when minish sized looked well detailed, but still didn't clash with Link and other characters/enemies/objects that might be present which used the same sprites as they do at "human" size.

It's more than that.

Basic in-game models are 3D rendered. Then each individual part that was 3D rendered, is repainted over as a 2D image, then layered and layered to give that ultra-super polished look.

It's especially apparent with Odin's sprite, the Warrior's sprite from Dragon's Crown, where when you watch them idle, the individual plates of armor shift around as he's breathing in and out.

Meanwhile parts for cutscenes like what shows, IE the fairy, the princess and the hermit - those were done the old fashioned way of just having an image and going through a traditional animation cycle.

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Similar to Donkey Kong Country?

Similar, but practically an inversion of the techniques used by Rare. The difference is that the basic 3D models are positioned properly, but they're essentially manikins. Vanillaware works their magic by stylizing every part giving it that organic look.

The artfag in me was stunned, and had me collect every single fucking title that they've ever released in the USA.

That reminds me I need to check out on that chink vanillaware game ripoff I spotted on greenlight some months ago.

I need to know about this rip-off.

Well turns out it's in early access now, have a thing.
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Thanks a ton dudebro. Looking at the Steam, and the movements of the sprites are are absolutely inorganic.

You can clearly tell where it got its inspiration from. If the gameplay isn't shit, I'd probably end up buying it because I'm a sucker for this sort of thing.

Dragons crown art was too ridiculous for me personally, though I do like that mermaid design, Keeping the goods.

Golden Sun

Really nigga?

Elena apparently took forever to make, her idle stance looks 3d.

I don't have any of the gifs, but I really like the pixelart from Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission (and AM2R too)

Breath of Fire 4

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does chun-li identify as an attack helicopter?

What about porn sprites?

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Hot damn

user you cant simply post something like that without any means of getting the source.

Wrong. What Mother 3's sprites lack in detail, they make up for with animation quality. There's 9 to 11 sprites for Kumatora to poke at the Hummingbird's egg, a set of sprites not used anywhere else in the rest of the game.

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naisu naisu

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I've seen better sprites on Terry's TempleOS games

Forest of blue skin. Pretty sure you could have found it with some reverse searching.

They're fucking images, reverse search them.

I—Is this a JoJo reference?

I already did faggot.

Wish I had more sprites from Galaxy Fighters.
Also waku/waku 7

I always liked Secret Of Mana's art style

I fapped to Arina way too many times. What a great fucking sexy character.

chunners

What game it is from?

Where can you get doujin games like these? I need it for reference material.

Not trying hard enough faggot.

3rd Strike, but the sprite's been traced.

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I don't see how any could find that artstyle fappable. It looks like a parody sort of thing instead of an actual serious porn game.

Bane?

I meant I already found them faggot. I asked because I assumed the catgirl would be too furry for iqdb.

It's similar to fapping to hentai back in the 16bit days. Using the power of imagination.

Pixellated gets me rock hard every single time
Ironically it looks more natural than otherwise

Rotoscoping

That's because it's not in the surreal zone yet. It's like those cell shaded porn or just plain 3D anime porn. It just never works.

I love good 3D porn. Most of it is shit, but some animators make good stuff.

Miku lewd.


Examples? Serious question, because I find most 3D to look "off", and it doesn't help that they deal largely in terrible fetishes.

I never understood the Jap thing where you apparently have to become someone's sex slave if they take pictures of you doing lewd things.

Shorthand for blackmail. They just rush the whole thing because otherwise it's several minutes of talking and scared faces.

It's an idol thing. Since she's labeled as pure and everyone's waifu she can't be caught with her pants down. One scandal can ruin her career forever or at least a transition to AV.

Wouldn't it be worse for her if people found out she was sucking dick behind the scenes?
Japs are weird.

I think the logic here is that he'll keep quiet and not leak the pictures if she blows him.

Until he starts cumming inside her and she walks on stage with a big baby belly. I know how these things go, y'know.

Do you not know what blackmail means?


This is why WebM was made, so we don't have to deal with fuckhuge GIFs anymore.

Well, if someone took pictures of me dropping acid, I'm not going to start doing meth with them so they don't tell people I did acid.

Man, Yassy is god tier.

You underestimate waifufags. There was an incident where one idol was almost murdered after she came out and said she was impure.

Should waifufags get the bullet, too?

No, they are precious consumer of all main japanese monopolies on entertainment goods.

So, yes.

Yes they should since they're basically stealing one's future till she becomes completely useless in society and as a woman.

Impregnations happen but so do abortion. It's not surprising that some idols went through it multiple times.

Feminists and whores are two sides of the same shekel.

They look like pixel art, but enemies obviously have 3D effects if they aren't outright 3D models made of voxels. I like the game but the art direction is a mess.

Holy fuck. Makes me wanna make a game like this.

This is still one of the best baits I have ever seen.

Explain? Or did the rape 101 trigger you?

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Hugo from SF3 has my favorite animations of any 2D character

Don't get me wrong, I like sprite threads. But they are like clockwork. Its almost as if someone could write a bot to create these template threads once a week. What else can one say about the state of indiepixelshitz that hasn't already been stated one hundred times before?

You absolutely cannot

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I fucking hate it when decent art like this is ruined because they had to make the dude with the dick be a nigga-lipped ogre.

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What is simpler to do: a pixel sprite based off a 3D model, or a 3D model made out of non-rotating voxels? What is more realistically used in that game?

Given that they're the reason that anime can't be about anything but cute girls no matter the fucking setting or subject matter that creators WANT to try to convey, yes, they should all be slaughtered. The Western equivalent (not quite, but an example nonetheless) would be to put superheroes in every single film no matter their reason for being there.

Your reaction pic applies as well.

Honestly I'm not well versed in graphics enough to tell. And whatever method they use, it's not too demanding resource wise since it runs on notebooks. But I do know it's not real sprite work.

Sounds like the MCU to me.

Run him over again.

Absolutely disgusting.

You must be 18 or older to post here.

The pendulum has swung so much to the left, that I believe this image is not only genuine but also factual.

Superstar Saga has some really damn good character sprite work.

did you get lost on your way to 4chan or something?

ebin

that game has no good animations

oh, i'm sorry didn't realise you're retarded to boot

Not language, nigger, behavior, but I see you belong to the group of people that insist on being as rude and shitty as possible

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Uraraka's boobs should not be moving

got ourselves a live one here

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Reminds me of how I lost a bunch of my PS1 saves.

Better than expected.

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Had another

Looks fucking great, user. Thanks for sharing it.


I really like the backgrounds on Minish Cap. Ths color pallete on this and other GBA titles are quite nice and different from the SNES era. Was it because of hardware limitations or just style changes?

I hear ya.

The GBA had no backlight originally so everything had to be bright and colorful.

I just love the way everything in Ninja Gaiden looks. Adventure Island too.

I love how stylish Tessa is in Red Earth

Illusion of Gaia has some beautiful sprites.

classic sprites are meant to be viewed on a CRT.

who's the slut in the 2nd pic?

they are exactly as the developers intended. also that's satan.

Wait a sec, there were that many playable characters in a Cotton game?

3xCotton, 3xAppli, Needle & Silk in cotton boomerang. the chara select is from twinkle star sprites

Gettin' real tired of Nintendo cocksuckers acting like their generic trash is the most amazing shit.

nintendo sprite work is garbage

Fuck off with your Undertale meme garbage

>reddit the post :^)

why is she poop banans

Too bad the game is short and mediocre.

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I don't even know what could have possibly gone wrong for this to happen, eurofags just have the worst luck when it comes to videogames.