Retro64's Customs

[Retro64]

I cant really comment on Hogwash, but i think generally speaking you're on the right track to improve and definitely should challenge yourself on more complex pieces. I think the main thing you should work on a little is your line work, you seem to be a bit stiff, i think it might be due to a fear of making things unreadable? I think working on more complex, maybe larger pieces, will help you learn what you can leave out and tricks on what can and can't be covered in certain ways.

Your colour choices and technical skills seem pretty solid for now, i think by improving your line work your pieces can really begin to pop!

Also, animation wise: The animation for Hogwash looks a bit jaggy, this will be tough in DKC style as the sprites were pre-rendered, making them vastly harder(not impossible, but harder) to imitate. The lighting seems to flip so im pretty sure you flipped frames halfway? I'm unsure, but making each frame separate will help the animation flow and seem less rigid

Thanks, outlining is a problem I have, I used to make a ton of NES styled sprites which need outlines because of the limited color palette. Which got me into a habbit of giving thick outlines on my sprites. I think you're right working on larger pieces would help that.

Hogwash has been an odd project by making it as accurate a possible I have only been downgrading official renders (like Rare did) to create sprites, then editing them to create movement. The problem is since Hogwash only appeared in one game he was very few renders to work with. I've only found 3, and one of them is a standing render which never happens in the game so it only leaves me with two.
Any shading on the sprites have been directly carried over from the render so it is quite odd that the shading flips, thanks for pointing that out.

Really appreciate your critique.