E-Man's Sprite R & D

[E-Man]

Well, here comes a huge topic bump because I decided idea to work on my sprites again.

Over the period of time I was away from my sprites, I was thinking about a lot of things. To avoid cluttering this post with too much information, I'll only reveal it in spurts as I go along. For starters, anti-aliasing will not be used because not only do they make smaller sprites with mutilple levels of shading and highlights look too blurry, but also that they would increase my palette count. I might consider using AA in large scale pixel art pictures and backgrounds, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

For now, though, I think I'll focus on getting my Super Mario items submit before I do anything else besides my Goomba.



I didn't do much to this sheet, but I did alter the colors to have less saturation in some areas and make them look more noticeable as a result. Also, I changed up the flag's shading to reduce the palette on that, but did I pull it off correctly? Considering all the previous critique I got on it, I had to go through a lot to make sure it doesn't look like it's made of metal and/or a Kit-Kat Bar.

By the way, you know my submission thread over in the submission board? Well, I picked up on what Dazz said to others and he mentioned that it's obsolete at this point due to the sprite submission system in place now. I bet you could guess what will become of that thread now.

My only major question at this point is how would I make the big icons everyone is talking about these days. Any templates I could use, or are the smaller ones I've been dealing with thus far get the job done?