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Hello everyone. In order to display all of my sprites at the beginning, I'm editing this post. I apologize if I accidently remove context for future posts. As a relative spriting beginner, especially Fire Emblem sprites, feedback is very gretaly appreciated. Male Blade Lord Legionnaire Centurion Centurion alternative: Gladiator To give some context, I'm making some custom sprites for this monstrosity, with the goal of them being more unique and hopefully iconic.

Edited this one a bit. Hope she looks better. Two New Sprites of mine. (Personal on the left, gift for my brother on the right.) one of my first animations ever. I'm pretty proud of it. (Will soon be spoiler tagged, just gotta figure out how to do it)

I'm looking to hire a battle sprite artist to create the final boss animation for my mod, The Road to Ruin. I don't update often because I prefer to be low key. However, with development wrapping up, I've hit the point where I need an animation done (I'm no good at battle sprites, otherwise I'd do it myself). To keep spoilers to a minimum, I'll describe what I need through PMs with whoever I decide to hire. Don't worry, it's not some giant dragon or monster that's a massive undertaking to create. You also don't need to worry about scripting the animation either. I can handle that part. As far as compensation, there's 2 options: 1) Cold, hard cash delivered through PayPal (we'll discuss rates in private). 2) The barter system. I consider myself one of the more knowledgeable members of the GBAFE modding community. I also do maps. If you have a project that needs help in development (or want a tutor so you can learn for yourself), I'll put in whatever time is comparable to the time put into the animation. Since I'm offering money/my skills as compensation, you'll need to have some solid spriting chops. If you're interested in this project, send me some samples of past work and we'll talk.

So someone challenged me to make a roman soldier in FE style and now that i'm working on it i think it would be cool to create a smallish hack, maybe 10 chapters. with Roman and Greek styled unit. Any Ideas? Here is my current wip if the soldier (I still need to work on shading and colors): Edit - Here is a sheet and animation for the Legionary: And here are some possible kingdom names for the hack:

I've started making simple edits to battle sprites, and I've started with a simple edit of the Necromancer spell cast animation. This is what I have so far. I'm not much of an animator, so I'd like to test out what I have so see if I've made an error somewhere. Does anyone know of a program that can let me preview the animation? I tried using Piskel, but I'm working off a sheet I downloaded from FEplanet, and the frames are not parallel to each other. I'd rather not move the frames around individually and risk mucking up the sheet somehow.

(Hopefully this works right) THEME/TOPIC: Pokemon: -Sprite a pokemon something Rules Voting and Winners --- VOTING TILL: Tuesday, January 24th at 11:59pm PST. Hope you all enjoy the awesome entries! Good luck to all! :D

Once again its time for... the BIWEEKLY BATTLE SPRITE SHOWDOWN! [spoiler=Last round:] Our winner was Toa! ---- THEME/TOPIC: Pokemon: -Sprite a pokemon something. [spoiler=Rules]RULES: 1) Only 1 entry per contestant. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners]VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories. -Best in Theme -Best Overall Battle Sprite >Voting will run for 3 days If there are a large amount of entries, Best in Theme will be divided into smaller categories based on whether an entry is custom, splice, or animation. WINNERS: (Open to new ideas for this) Winning placement will be decided by total number of votes across categories. >The winner gets to choose two potential themes either from a list or of their own imagination. >The winner and runner ups will vote upon the themes to select one. >The winner gets two votes in addition to theme selection. >Second place gets two votes. >Third place gets one vote. >Whatever theme wins the winner's votes will be used for the next competition. Note, votes can be split, if you have two votes they do NOT need to go to the same theme. --- Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host! (Errant) or posted either in the feedback thread or within this thread itself. DEADLINE: Friday, January 13th at 11:59pm PST. Hope you all enjoy and have some fun! Lets get spriting! :D --- PS: new to these? Check out the BBSS tag to see some cool sprites. :D PPS: ...wanting to sprite but don't know where to start, or just want some advice on how to improve? Check out the Spriters Resource thread and/or check some of these out. [spoiler=Helpful Tutorials]Here's a good tutorial on use of colors in pixel art and spriting... and some others that may be a bit more advanced... but good reads anyways... Thinking in Color -Excellent easy to understand tutorial on how colors effect your pixel art/sprite. Definitely worth the read! Derek-Make Games: 10 step custom sprite tutorial -great quick, easy tutorial on custom pixel art/sprites. So you Wanna be a Pixel Artist? 11 part series. -A bit wordy, but very well done in-depth look at the world of pixel art in general, from map tiles to sprites to animations. BwdYeti's tutorials are very recommended reads as well. Please share if you know of any other excellent tutorials! :D ...so here are the links to BwdYeti's custom battle sprite tutorials... Shared with his permission. I found his second tutorial, along with the Thinking in Color very fascinating on palletes... Hoping to apply those to my next couple sprites now that I understand it a bit better. BwdYeti's Custom Battle Sprite Tutorial #1 -kinda old, from before 2009... But a great look at the process of creating custom battle sprites from the Best Battle Spriter around... Then and now. Yeti's custom tutorial #2 -his second tutorial, even better than the first! Great tips on creating a custom pallete that fits with GBA battle sprite colors. A must read for anyone doing battle sprites! --- Anyways, hope these help! Good luck, and good spriting! ;)

THEME/TOPIC: Floral Frenzy: -Sprite a plant, real or fictional [spoiler=Rules]RULES: 1) Only 1 entry per contestant. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners]VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories. -Best in Theme -Best Overall Battle Sprite >Voting will run for 3 days If there are a large amount of entries, Best in Theme will be divided into smaller categories based on whether an entry is custom, splice, or animation. WINNERS: (Open to new ideas for this) Winning placement will be decided by total number of votes across categories. >The winner gets to choose two potential themes either from a list or of their own imagination. >The winner and runner ups will vote upon the themes to select one. >The winner gets two votes in addition to theme selection. >Second place gets two votes. >Third place gets one vote. >Whatever theme wins the winner's votes will be used for the next competition. Note, votes can be split, if you have two votes they do NOT need to go to the same theme. --- VOTING TILL: Tuesday, December 20th at 11:59pm PST. Hope you all enjoy the awesome entries! Good luck to all! :D

Once again its time for... the BIWEEKLY BATTLE SPRITE SHOWDOWN! [spoiler=Last round:] Our winner was Lenh! ---- THEME/TOPIC: Floral Frenzy: -Sprite a plant, real or fictional [spoiler=Rules]RULES: 1) Only 1 entry per contestant. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners]VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories. -Best in Theme -Best Overall Battle Sprite >Voting will run for 3 days If there are a large amount of entries, Best in Theme will be divided into smaller categories based on whether an entry is custom, splice, or animation. WINNERS: (Open to new ideas for this) Winning placement will be decided by total number of votes across categories. >The winner gets to choose two potential themes either from a list or of their own imagination. >The winner and runner ups will vote upon the themes to select one. >The winner gets two votes in addition to theme selection. >Second place gets two votes. >Third place gets one vote. >Whatever theme wins the winner's votes will be used for the next competition. Note, votes can be split, if you have two votes they do NOT need to go to the same theme. --- Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host! (Errant) or posted either in the feedback thread or within this thread itself. DEADLINE: Friday, December 9th at 11:59pm PST. Hope you all enjoy and have some fun! Lets get spriting! :D --- PS: new to these? Check out the BBSS tag to see some cool sprites. :D PPS: ...wanting to sprite but don't know where to start, or just want some advice on how to improve? Check out the Spriters Resource thread and/or check some of these out. [spoiler=Helpful Tutorials]Here's a good tutorial on use of colors in pixel art and spriting... and some others that may be a bit more advanced... but good reads anyways... Thinking in Color -Excellent easy to understand tutorial on how colors effect your pixel art/sprite. Definitely worth the read! Derek-Make Games: 10 step custom sprite tutorial -great quick, easy tutorial on custom pixel art/sprites. So you Wanna be a Pixel Artist? 11 part series. -A bit wordy, but very well done in-depth look at the world of pixel art in general, from map tiles to sprites to animations. BwdYeti's tutorials are very recommended reads as well. Please share if you know of any other excellent tutorials! :D ...so here are the links to BwdYeti's custom battle sprite tutorials... Shared with his permission. I found his second tutorial, along with the Thinking in Color very fascinating on palletes... Hoping to apply those to my next couple sprites now that I understand it a bit better. BwdYeti's Custom Battle Sprite Tutorial #1 -kinda old, from before 2009... But a great look at the process of creating custom battle sprites from the Best Battle Spriter around... Then and now. Yeti's custom tutorial #2 -his second tutorial, even better than the first! Great tips on creating a custom pallete that fits with GBA battle sprite colors. A must read for anyone doing battle sprites! --- Anyways, hope these help! Good luck, and good spriting! ;)

Once again its time for... the BIWEEKLY BATTLE SPRITE SHOWDOWN! [spoiler=Last round:] Our winner was Hoshi! ---- THEME/TOPIC: Barnyard Beasts: -Sprite a farm animal [spoiler=Rules]RULES: 1) Only 1 entry per contestant. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners]VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories. -Best in Theme -Best Overall Battle Sprite >Voting will run for 3 days If there are a large amount of entries, Best in Theme will be divided into smaller categories based on whether an entry is custom, splice, or animation. WINNERS: (Open to new ideas for this) Winning placement will be decided by total number of votes across categories. >The winner gets to choose two potential themes either from a list or of their own imagination. >The winner and runner ups will vote upon the themes to select one. >The winner gets two votes in addition to theme selection. >Second place gets two votes. >Third place gets one vote. >Whatever theme wins the winner's votes will be used for the next competition. Note, votes can be split, if you have two votes they do NOT need to go to the same theme. --- Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host! (Errant) or posted either in the feedback thread or within this thread itself. DEADLINE: Tuesday, November 8th at 11:59pm PST. Hope you all enjoy and have some fun! Lets get spriting! :D --- PS: new to these? Check out the BBSS tag to see some cool sprites. :D PPS: ...wanting to sprite but don't know where to start, or just want some advice on how to improve? Check out the Spriters Resource thread and/or check some of these out. [spoiler=Helpful Tutorials]Here's a good tutorial on use of colors in pixel art and spriting... and some others that may be a bit more advanced... but good reads anyways... Thinking in Color -Excellent easy to understand tutorial on how colors effect your pixel art/sprite. Definitely worth the read! Derek-Make Games: 10 step custom sprite tutorial -great quick, easy tutorial on custom pixel art/sprites. So you Wanna be a Pixel Artist? 11 part series. -A bit wordy, but very well done in-depth look at the world of pixel art in general, from map tiles to sprites to animations. BwdYeti's tutorials are very recommended reads as well. Please share if you know of any other excellent tutorials! :D ...so here are the links to BwdYeti's custom battle sprite tutorials... Shared with his permission. I found his second tutorial, along with the Thinking in Color very fascinating on palletes... Hoping to apply those to my next couple sprites now that I understand it a bit better. BwdYeti's Custom Battle Sprite Tutorial #1 -kinda old, from before 2009... But a great look at the process of creating custom battle sprites from the Best Battle Spriter around... Then and now. Yeti's custom tutorial #2 -his second tutorial, even better than the first! Great tips on creating a custom pallete that fits with GBA battle sprite colors. A must read for anyone doing battle sprites! --- Anyways, hope these help! Good luck, and good spriting! ;)

THEME/TOPIC: The Unconventionals: -Sprite a character that uses a weapon other than the standard FE weapons (Lance, axe, sword, bow, tomes) [spoiler=Rules]RULES: 1) Only 1 entry per contestant. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners]VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories. -Best in Theme -Best Overall Battle Sprite >Voting will run for 3 days If there are a large amount of entries, Best in Theme will be divided into smaller categories based on whether an entry is custom, splice, or animation. WINNERS: (Open to new ideas for this) Winning placement will be decided by total number of votes across categories. >The winner gets to choose two potential themes either from a list or of their own imagination. >The winner and runner ups will vote upon the themes to select one. >The winner gets two votes in addition to theme selection. >Second place gets two votes. >Third place gets one vote. >Whatever theme wins the winner's votes will be used for the next competition. Note, votes can be split, if you have two votes they do NOT need to go to the same theme. --- VOTING TILL: Thursday, October 13th at 11:59pm PST. Hope you all enjoy the awesome entries! Good luck to all! :D

Once again its time for... the BIWEEKLY BATTLE SPRITE SHOWDOWN! [spoiler=Last round:] Our winner was Toa! With Durban and Armads. ---- THEME/TOPIC: The Unconventionals: -Sprite a character that uses a weapon other than the standard FE weapons (Lance, axe, sword, bow, tomes) [spoiler=Rules]RULES: 1) Only 1 entry per contestant. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners]VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories. -Best in Theme -Best Overall Battle Sprite >Voting will run for 3 days If there are a large amount of entries, Best in Theme will be divided into smaller categories based on whether an entry is custom, splice, or animation. WINNERS: (Open to new ideas for this) Winning placement will be decided by total number of votes across categories. >The winner gets to choose two potential themes either from a list or of their own imagination. >The winner and runner ups will vote upon the themes to select one. >The winner gets two votes in addition to theme selection. >Second place gets two votes. >Third place gets one vote. >Whatever theme wins the winner's votes will be used for the next competition. Note, votes can be split, if you have two votes they do NOT need to go to the same theme. --- Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host! (Errant) or posted either in the feedback thread or within this thread itself. DEADLINE: Monday, October 10th at 11:59pm PST. Hope you all enjoy and have some fun! Lets get spriting! :D --- PS: new to these? Check out the BBSS tag to see some cool sprites. :D PPS: ...wanting to sprite but don't know where to start, or just want some advice on how to improve? Check out the Spriters Resource thread and/or check some of these out. [spoiler=Helpful Tutorials]Here's a good tutorial on use of colors in pixel art and spriting... and some others that may be a bit more advanced... but good reads anyways... Thinking in Color -Excellent easy to understand tutorial on how colors effect your pixel art/sprite. Definitely worth the read! Derek-Make Games: 10 step custom sprite tutorial -great quick, easy tutorial on custom pixel art/sprites. So you Wanna be a Pixel Artist? 11 part series. -A bit wordy, but very well done in-depth look at the world of pixel art in general, from map tiles to sprites to animations. BwdYeti's tutorials are very recommended reads as well. Please share if you know of any other excellent tutorials! :D ...so here are the links to BwdYeti's custom battle sprite tutorials... Shared with his permission. I found his second tutorial, along with the Thinking in Color very fascinating on palletes... Hoping to apply those to my next couple sprites now that I understand it a bit better. BwdYeti's Custom Battle Sprite Tutorial #1 -kinda old, from before 2009... But a great look at the process of creating custom battle sprites from the Best Battle Spriter around... Then and now. Yeti's custom tutorial #2 -his second tutorial, even better than the first! Great tips on creating a custom pallete that fits with GBA battle sprite colors. A must read for anyone doing battle sprites! --- Anyways, hope these help! Good luck, and good spriting! ;)

THEME/TOPIC: Weapons Redrawn: Legendary weapons -Sprite a character with a legendary weapon, of your own creation or a preexisting one from any universe.(Not restricted to Fire Emblem) [spoiler=Rules]RULES: 1) Only 1 entry per contestant. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners]VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories. -Best in Theme -Best Overall Battle Sprite >Voting will run for 3 days If there are a large amount of entries, Best in Theme will be divided into smaller categories based on whether an entry is custom, splice, or animation. WINNERS: (Open to new ideas for this) Winning placement will be decided by total number of votes across categories. >The winner gets to choose two potential themes either from a list or of their own imagination. >The winner and runner ups will vote upon the themes to select one. >The winner gets two votes in addition to theme selection. >Second place gets two votes. >Third place gets one vote. >Whatever theme wins the winner's votes will be used for the next competition. Note, votes can be split, if you have two votes they do NOT need to go to the same theme. --- VOTING TILL: Thursday, September 22nd at 11:59pm PST. Hope you all enjoy the awesome entries! Good luck to all! :D

Does FE8 still have framework in place for certain characters to use alternate/personal sprites in battle? In FE7, characters like Lucius, Guy, Legault, and Lloyd all got different, personalized sprites in battle, but FE7 is the only GBAFE game that does this. I was wondering if the framework for this still exists in FE8's ROM, or if it would require ASM hacking to get it working.

After "popular" demand... the BIWEEKLY BATTLE SPRITE SHOWDOWN is back! Hopefully with a bit more fun, and a bit more entries! [spoiler=Last round:] Our winner was Alpha! Winning the Legends of Literature vote handily with an awesome Korra rendition. -Alpha took 30 total votes for this creation here. ---- THEME/TOPIC: Weapons Redrawn: Legendary weapons -Sprite a character with a legendary weapon, of your own creation or a preexisting one from any universe.(Not restricted to Fire Emblem) [spoiler=Rules]RULES: 1) Only 1 entry per contestant. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners]VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories. -Best in Theme -Best Overall Battle Sprite >Voting will run for 3 days If there are a large amount of entries, Best in Theme will be divided into smaller categories based on whether an entry is custom, splice, or animation. WINNERS: (Open to new ideas for this) Winning placement will be decided by total number of votes across categories. >The winner gets to choose two potential themes either from a list or of their own imagination. >The winner and runner ups will vote upon the themes to select one. >The winner gets two votes in addition to theme selection. >Second place gets two votes. >Third place gets one vote. >Whatever theme wins the winner's votes will be used for the next competition. Note, votes can be split, if you have two votes they do NOT need to go to the same theme. --- Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host! (Errant) or posted either in the feedback thread or within this thread itself. DEADLINE: Monday, September 19th at 11:59pm PST. Hope you all enjoy and have some fun! Lets get spriting! :D --- PS: new to these? Check out the BBSS tag to see some cool sprites. :D PPS: ...wanting to sprite but don't know where to start, or just want some advice on how to improve? Check out the Spriters Resource thread and/or check some of these out. [spoiler=Helpful Tutorials]Here's a good tutorial on use of colors in pixel art and spriting... and some others that may be a bit more advanced... but good reads anyways... Thinking in Color -Excellent easy to understand tutorial on how colors effect your pixel art/sprite. Definitely worth the read! Derek-Make Games: 10 step custom sprite tutorial -great quick, easy tutorial on custom pixel art/sprites. So you Wanna be a Pixel Artist? 11 part series. -A bit wordy, but very well done in-depth look at the world of pixel art in general, from map tiles to sprites to animations. BwdYeti's tutorials are very recommended reads as well. Please share if you know of any other excellent tutorials! :D ...so here are the links to BwdYeti's custom battle sprite tutorials... Shared with his permission. I found his second tutorial, along with the Thinking in Color very fascinating on palletes... Hoping to apply those to my next couple sprites now that I understand it a bit better. BwdYeti's Custom Battle Sprite Tutorial #1 -kinda old, from before 2009... But a great look at the process of creating custom battle sprites from the Best Battle Spriter around... Then and now. Yeti's custom tutorial #2 -his second tutorial, even better than the first! Great tips on creating a custom pallete that fits with GBA battle sprite colors. A must read for anyone doing battle sprites! --- Anyways, hope these help! Good luck, and good spriting! ;)

Hi everyone! I just very recently (about a month ago) got into sprite making and animation, and I'd love some feedback on my latest work. Introducing the Fencer class-a trainee version of the myrmidon class! As such, things like the characters sword length (don't take this the wrong way) and height is meant to be smaller than his promoted class. And now introducing another class named the Trueblade class. Fans of Radiant Dawn might recognise this as the promoted version of the sword master class! [spoiler=The Fencer class] Normal attack Critical Attack Magic sword attack Dodge no weapon-1 Dodge weapon-1 Dodge no weapon-2 Dodge weapon-2 This is the latest animation I've made [spoiler=Trueblade class] Normal attack Critical attack Skill:Nova-strick 10 times at normal damage! Magic sword Weapon dodge No weapon dodge Yeeeaaaaahhhh this one isn't all that great (though believe it or not it took well over a week to fully complete). And I (currently) don't feel like going back to fix it. [spoiler=White Druid class] Normal Attack Critical attack Skill Dodge Staff Staff dodge Despite the shading (which I really struggle with), this is only the first animation I made. [spoiler=Murderer class] Normal attack Critical attack Magic attack Dodge weapon Dodge no weapon Whilst this one isn't exactly perfect (especially the shading) I still like it :P [spoiler=Hitman battle sprites] Normal attack Critical Magic sword Dodge weapon Dodge no weapon [spoiler=trueblade map sprites] passive active walking down walking up walking left [spoiler=Map Sprites-White Druid] Passive Cursor placed over Walking down Walking up Walking left/right [spoiler=Murderer map spites] Passive Active Walking down Walking left Walking up While this one isn't too horrible I HAAAATTTTEEEE the 'Walking left' on...the only reason I haven't changed it is because I literally can't think of a better animation to use for it. [spoiler=Robber map sprites] Passive Active Walking down Walking left Walking up [spoiler=Other] I hope you guys like these! These took a pretty long time to make so I hope they turned out well!

---- THEME/TOPIC: "History's Greatest" -Sprite one or more human units from history. One or all of them may be in a vehicle but the human unit inside must be visible. Example: ------ Deadline: May 14th, 12:00 PM (US Central Time) Thanks to all the entrants! I know with finals and all it was hard to find time this round. Good Luck! [spoiler=Voting and Winners]Depending on Entry types and total number we will either go with split divisions for typically Full Custom and Splice/Edit entries, or single division. (Over 20 entries, or sizable enough division for both entry types will result in Split Division voting) ---- [spoiler=Single Division]VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories, -Best Overall Sprite (Single Vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite will come from combination of single vote and popular choice votes. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winner. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. [spoiler=Split Divisions]VOTING: Voting will be split into three categories, -Best Full Custom (single vote) -Best Edit/Splice (single vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Sprites will be categorized following the voting >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite >Highest vote Full custom=Best Custom Sprite >Highest vote Splice/Edit=Best Edited Sprite WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite may also be the winner of Best Full Custom, or Best Splice/Edit category. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winners. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days.

THEME/TOPIC: "Sky High Soaring" make an original/non-derivative FLYING character, that must be airborne or in flight. (Non-Derivative means... No published characters or fan characters, like Laguz, Pokemon, or Power Rangers, etc... however tropes like Mechs, Griffons, Pegasi, Dragons are all fair game as long as the character is original to you) Examples... Prehistoric, Mythological, Steampunk, Mechanical, Biological, Alien, Mounted, etc is up to the artist's discretion Our example Entry: (does not have to match format) -Dragon and Rider for example... Reminder: Do not make a Fire Emblem Wyvern. REMINDER: entry must be an original character in flight, NOT be a character from Fire Emblem, or any other series, or published work. ------ Rules of the competition for your reference. [spoiler=Rules]RULES: 1) only 1 entry per contestant, either in the Full Custom division or in the Splice/Edit division.(Animated may be a division if enough entries are in to justify it) -Please declare which division you fall under to avoid potential confusion. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners] Depending on Entry types and total number we will either go with split divisions for typically Full Custom and Splice/Edit entries, or single division. (Over 20 entries, or sizable enough division for both entry types will result in Split Division voting) ---- [spoiler=(IF SINGLE DIVISION)] VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories, -Best Overall Sprite (Single Vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite will come from combination of single vote and popular choice votes. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winner. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. [spoiler=(IF SPLIT DIVISIONS)] VOTING: Voting will be split into three categories, -Best Full Custom (single vote) -Best Edit/Splice (single vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Sprites will be categorized following the voting >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite >Highest vote Full custom=Best Custom Sprite >Highest vote Splice/Edit=Best Edited Sprite WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite may also be the winner of Best Full Custom, or Best Splice/Edit category. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winners. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. ---- Voting Period: 3 1\2 days to vote. Voting will go until 11:59pm PST on Friday April 17th. Smaller turnout this time but great entries! PS: On general commentary, complaints and conduct within the thread... From the pinned Spriting and Competition thread. Quote Quote Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host!(That's now me, Smirks) ...or posted in the feedback and discussion thread here to avoid thread derailment.

So... Our third Biweekly Battle Sprite Showdown winner... was Lt.Smirks, with Best Overall Sprite and Best Animated Sprite! Together with Best Larger Sprite and Best Regular Sprite winners Etain and Kitsu, and runners up Merc and vilkalizer(as Sea Lion opted out)... we bring you... Round 4! ---- THEME/TOPIC: "Sky High Soaring" make an original/non-derivative FLYING character, that must be airborne or in flight. (Non-Derivative means... No published characters or fan characters, like Laguz, Pokemon, or Power Rangers, etc... however tropes like Mechs, Griffons, Pegasi, Dragons are all fair game as long as the character is original to you) Examples... Prehistoric, Mythological, Steampunk, Mechanical, Biological, Alien, Mounted, etc is up to the artist's discretion Our example Entry: (does not have to match format) -Dragon and Rider for example... Reminder: Do not make a Fire Emblem Wyvern. REMINDER: entry must be an original character in flight, NOT be a character from Fire Emblem, or any other series, or published work. ------ Rules of the competition for your reference. [spoiler=Rules] RULES: 1) only 1 entry per contestant, either in the Full Custom division or in the Splice/Edit division.(Animated may be a division if enough entries are in to justify it) -Please declare which division you fall under to avoid potential confusion. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners] Depending on Entry types and total number we will either go with split divisions for typically Full Custom and Splice/Edit entries, or single division. (Over 20 entries, or sizable enough division for both entry types will result in Split Division voting) ---- [spoiler=IF SINGLE DIVISION] VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories, -Best Overall Sprite (Single Vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite will come from combination of single vote and popular choice votes. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winner. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. [spoiler=IF SPLIT DIVISIONS] VOTING: Voting will be split into three categories, -Best Full Custom (single vote) -Best Edit/Splice (single vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Sprites will be categorized following the voting >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite >Highest vote Full custom=Best Custom Sprite >Highest vote Splice/Edit=Best Edited Sprite WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite may also be the winner of Best Full Custom, or Best Splice/Edit category. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winners. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. ---- DEADLINE: 11:59pm PST Sunday April 12th. Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host!(That's me Errant, currently) ...or posted in the feedback and discussion thread here to avoid thread derailment. Hope you all enjoy and have some fun! Lets get spriting! :D ---- PS: On in thread disputes, from the pinned Spriting and Competition thread. ---- PPS: ...wanting to sprite but don't know where to start, or just want some advice on how to improve? Check out the Spriters Resource thread and/or check some of these out. [spoiler=Helpful Tutorials] Here's a good tutorial on use of colors in pixel art and spriting... and some others that may be a bit more advanced... but good reads anyways... Thinking in Color -Excellent easy to understand tutorial on how colors effect your pixel art/sprite. Definitely worth the read! Derek-Make Games: 10 step custom sprite tutorial -great quick, easy tutorial on custom pixel art/sprites. So you Wanna be a Pixel Artist? 11 part series. -A bit wordy, but very well done in-depth look at the world of pixel art in general, from map tiles to sprites to animations. BwdYeti's tutorials are very recommended reads as well. Please share if you know of any other excellent tutorials! :D ...so here are the links to BwdYeti's custom battle sprite tutorials... Shared with his permission. I found his second tutorial, along with the Thinking in Color very fascinating on palletes... Hoping to apply those to my next couple sprites now that I understand it a bit better. BwdYeti's Custom Battle Sprite Tutorial #1 -kinda old, from before 2009... But a great look at the process of creating custom battle sprites from the Best Battle Spriter around... Then and now. Yeti's custom tutorial #2 -his second tutorial, even better than the first! Great tips on creating a custom pallete that fits with GBA battle sprite colors. A must read for anyone doing battle sprites! --- Anyways, hope these help! Good luck, and good spriting! ;)

THEME/TOPIC: "Crossover Chaos" sprite a pre-existing non-Fire Emblem published video-game character in Fire Emblem style. -either translated into the style itself, or reimagined/redesigned into a Fire Emblem class type. (Examples: Link in FE style, Sonic the Mercenary Hedgehog... etc... Have fun with it! :D ) ---- Our example Entry: (does not have to match format) [Name of character] Link [Entry Division] Splice/Edit -Credit: Fire Emblem Link sprite by DJ Patrino on The Spriters Resource [spoiler=Original Art/Reference] REMINDER: entry must NOT be a character from Fire Emblem ------ Rules of the competition for your reference. [spoiler=Rules] RULES: 1) only 1 entry per contestant, typically either in the Full Custom division or in the Splice/Edit division. (Unless those are not in effect) -Please declare which division you fall under to avoid potential confusion. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners] Depending on Entry types and total number we will typically either go with split divisions, or single division. (Over 20 entries, or sizable enough division for both entry types will result in Split Division voting) ---- THIS ROUND will be Split Divisions: as we have 25 entries and multiple entry types VOTING: Voting will be split into three categories with an additional multi-choice vote, -Best Regular Sprite ~less than 60x60~ (single vote) -Best Larger Sprite ~over 60x60~ (single vote) -Best Animated Sprite (single vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Sprites will be categorized following the voting >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite >Highest votes for Regular/Larger/Animated=Winner of category WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite may also be the winner of Best Regular/Large/Animated categories. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winners. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. ---- Voting Period: 3 days to vote. Voting will go until 11:59pm PST on Friday March 27th. Hope you all enjoy the awesome entries! Great job every one! :D PS: On general commentary, complaints and conduct within the thread... From the pinned Spriting and Competition thread. Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host!(That's me Errant, currently) ...or posted in the feedback and discussion thread here to avoid thread derailment.

THEME/TOPIC: "Crossover Chaos" sprite a pre-existing non-Fire Emblem published video-game character in Fire Emblem style. -either translated into the style itself, or reimagined/redesigned into a Fire Emblem class type. (Examples: Link in FE style, Sonic the Mercenary Hedgehog... etc... Have fun with it! :D ) ---- Our example Entry: (does not have to match format) [Name of character] Link [Entry Division] Splice/Edit -Credit: Fire Emblem Link sprite by DJ Patrino on The Spriters Resource [spoiler=Original Art/Reference] REMINDER: entry must NOT be a character from Fire Emblem ------ Rules of the competition for your reference. [spoiler=Rules] RULES: 1) only 1 entry per contestant, either in the Full Custom division or in the Splice/Edit division. -Please declare which division you fall under to avoid potential confusion. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners] Depending on Entry types and total number we will either go with split divisions for Full Custom and Splice/Edit entries, or single division. (Over 20 entries, or sizable enough division for both entry types will result in Split Division voting) ---- [spoiler=IF SINGLE DIVISION] VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories, -Best Overall Sprite (Single Vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite will come from combination of single vote and popular choice votes. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winner. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. [spoiler=IF SPLIT DIVISIONS] VOTING: Voting will be split into three categories, -Best Full Custom (single vote) -Best Edit/Splice (single vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Sprites will be categorized following the voting >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite >Highest vote Full custom=Best Custom Sprite >Highest vote Splice/Edit=Best Edited Sprite WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite may also be the winner of Best Full Custom, or Best Splice/Edit category. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winners. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. ---- DEADLINE: 11:59pm PST Tuesday, March 24. (Extended from Sunday.) From the pinned Spriting and Competition thread. Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host!(That's me Errant, currently) ...or posted in the feedback and discussion thread here to avoid thread derailment. Hope you all enjoy and have some fun! Lets get spriting! :D PS: ...wanting to sprite but don't know where to start, or just want some advice on how to improve? Check out the Spriters Resource thread and/or check some of these out. [spoiler=Helpful Tutorials] Here's a good tutorial on use of colors in pixel art and spriting... and some others that may be a bit more advanced... but good reads anyways... Thinking in Color -Excellent easy to understand tutorial on how colors effect your pixel art/sprite. Definitely worth the read! Derek-Make Games: 10 step custom sprite tutorial -great quick, easy tutorial on custom pixel art/sprites. So you Wanna be a Pixel Artist? 11 part series. -A bit wordy, but very well done in-depth look at the world of pixel art in general, from map tiles to sprites to animations. BwdYeti's tutorials are very recommended reads as well. Please share if you know of any other excellent tutorials! :D ...so here are the links to BwdYeti's custom battle sprite tutorials... Shared with his permission. I found his second tutorial, along with the Thinking in Color very fascinating on palletes... Hoping to apply those to my next couple sprites now that I understand it a bit better. BwdYeti's Custom Battle Sprite Tutorial #1 -kinda old, from before 2009... But a great look at the process of creating custom battle sprites from the Best Battle Spriter around... Then and now. Yeti's custom tutorial #2 -his second tutorial, even better than the first! Great tips on creating a custom pallete that fits with GBA battle sprite colors. A must read for anyone doing battle sprites! --- Anyways, hope these help! Good luck, and good spriting! ;)

THEME/TOPIC: "Creature Features" make an original character, either a non-human individual, or human with pet animal/monster. (Up to you how non-human/monstrous their appearance is.) Examples... A boy and his dog, half-manakete original character like Sophia, Werewolf, Laguz, etc... Our example Entry: (does not have to match format) -A man with his... pet bird? REMINDER: must be original character. ------ Rules of the competition for your reference. [spoiler=Rules] RULES: 1) only 1 entry per contestant, either in the Full Custom division or in the Splice/Edit division. -Please declare which division you fall under to avoid potential confusion. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works! This means no edits/recolors of something previously made as well. -allowing previous/old works would give an unfair advantage to certain entries, two weeks is a good amount of time to work on an entry... how fair would it be to have to go up against something someone spent months or even a year on? -creating brand new works, encourages creativity and artistic growth and development, kinda what the whole art forums are about... isn't it? [spoiler=Voting and Winners] Depending on Entry types and total number we will either go with split divisions for Full Custom and Splice/Edit entries, or single division. (Over 20 entries, or sizable enough division for both entry types will result in Split Division voting) ---- This round will be SINGLE DIVISION [spoiler=IF SINGLE DIVISION] VOTING: Voting will be split into two categories, -Best Overall Sprite (Single Vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite will come from combination of single vote and popular choice votes. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winner. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. [spoiler=IF SPLIT DIVISIONS] VOTING: Voting will be split into three categories, -Best Full Custom (single vote) -Best Edit/Splice (single vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Sprites will be categorized following the voting >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite >Highest vote Full custom=Best Custom Sprite >Highest vote Splice/Edit=Best Edited Sprite WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite may also be the winner of Best Full Custom, or Best Splice/Edit category. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winners. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. ---- Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host!(That's me Errant, currently) ...or posted either in the feedback thread or within this thread itself. Voting Period: Voting will go until 11:59pm PST on Friday March 6th. VOTING CLOSED! Being tallied up, results tomorrow. Hope you all enjoy the awesome entries! Great job every one! :D

Hi. I did some sprites. A character from a completely different game, because why not? Wish I could say it's completely custom made, but the head and left boot are stolen. (Not exactly standard FE colours; I did a quick emblem-ized version but yeech. I'd have to fiddle with it more, but that will have to wait until I'm happy with the... everything else.) Old dude with a stick. It's actually pretty old, so I don't remember if it's entirely custom or if the boots are stolen again. Boots are hard. I'd like to try animating them at some point... but first I want to make sure there aren't any glaring issues with the design. But, I've been staring at them for far too long and need some fresh eyes... So yeah, any criticism would be welcome! (Or you can just enjoy this concept image of an alternate reality where Ephraim gained axes instead of a horse when he promoted.)

THEME/TOPIC: Match Game, Make a battle sprite that matches the artwork or mug of an existing Fire Emblem character. can be any of entries from the series(ex. FE13, FE BS satellite, etc.) Our example Entry: (does not have to match format) Lyn FE7 ------ These were the rules of the Biweekly Battle Sprite Showdown competition for your reference. [spoiler=Rules] RULES: 1) only 1 entry per contestant, either in the Full Custom division or in the Splice/Heavy Edit division. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works. [spoiler=Voting and Winners] NOTE: ...as we had over 20 entries total, we have gone with the split into full custom and edit/splice divisions to avoid confusion/multiple votes in the single vote section. If we get equal to or less than 20 entries in a following competition we will simply go with Best in Theme to make voting easier. VOTING: Voting will be split into three categories, -Best Full Custom (single vote) -Best Edit/Splice (single vote) -Pick the ones you like (Multiple votes) >Voting will run for 3 days >Sprites will be categorized following the voting >Highest combined Votes=Best Overall Sprite >Highest vote Full custom=Best Custom Sprite >Highest vote Splice/Edit=Best Edited Sprite WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite may also be the winner of Best Full Custom, or Best Splice/Edit category. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. > Winner of the Full Custom Division gets to provide a skeleton pose. > Winner of the Splice Division gets to provide a base sprite to splice for the next contest. > Winner with the highest votes total gets to provide a reference/original art. Runners-up will be the two contestants with the next highest votes following the winners. > The Runners-up of the two categories will get to provide their choice of either one base sprite each for splicing, a reference, or a skeleton pose. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. ---- Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host!(That's me Errant, currently) ...or posted either in the feedback thread or within this thread itself. Voting Period: Voting is now finished. Hope you all enjoy the awesome entries! Edit: Dozla entry relocated to splice/edit division.

Hey all, Welcome to the first ever,(that I am aware of) Serenes Forest Biweekly Battle Sprite Showdown! ---- Many thanks to all who offered ideas, and suggestions! So much great feedback, and much thanks goes to Lenh, Ghast, and Levy for suggestions on format for rules and competition, and to all who offered advice or ideas... Special kudos to Lenh for going over each part of the original post! With that out of the way, lets get down to it! ----- THEME/TOPIC: Match Game, Make a battle sprite that matches the artwork or mug of an existing Fire Emblem character. can be any of entries from the series(ex. FE13, FE BS satellite, etc.) ENTRIES: An example of what to post. [Name of character] Lyn [Entry Division] Splice/Edit -Base used for Splicers/Editors(non-Optional), Pose/Skeleton or early form for Custom Sprite(Optional) -Your Entry -Reference/mug to illustrate or be used for the concept or theme. -Post reference/art used in spoilers below [spoiler=Original Art/Reference] Lyn is one of the few Fire Emblem GBA sprites to have a mug and sprite, and even character art that actually match pretty well... so, lets make some more, shall we? ------ As this is our first Biweekly Battle Sprite Showdown competition, let me lay out some ground rules. [spoiler=Rules] RULES: 1) only 1 entry per contestant, either in the Full Custom division or in the Splice/Heavy Edit division. 2) No voting for your own entry! 3) Entries should be limited to 16 colors.(15 colors+ 1 background color) This is more of a guideline, but good to follow for style and challenge reasons. Colors may be custom or using GBA sprite palletes. 4) No posting previous/old works. SPLICE/HEAVY EDIT DIVISION NOTES > Contestants must be able to show work if splice/edited nature of the sprite is under question. FULL CUSTOM DIVISION NOTES > Again, Skeleton/early version is not required to be posted, but recommended. (This is more for newer battle spriters to learn from/reference) [spoiler=Voting and Winners] VOTING: Voting will be split into three categories, -Best Full Custom -Best Splice/Edit. -Best Overall Battle Sprite >Voting will run for 3 days WINNERS: Winner of Best Overall Sprite may also be the winner of Best Full Custom, or Best Splice/Edit category. > Winner of the Best Overall Sprite gets to choose the next theme/topic of the following contest. > Winner of the Full Custom Division gets to provide a skeleton pose. > Winner of the Splice Division gets to provide a base sprite to splice for the next contest. > Winner with the highest votes total gets to provide a reference/original art. Runners-up will be the three contestants with the next highest votes following the winners. > The Runners-up of the three categories will get to provide their choice of either one base sprite each for splicing, a reference, or a skeleton pose. > Winners and Runners-up must provide their choices within 3 days of the host's private messaging. Host will provide the next theme/topic if no reply in 3 days. The Winners of each category of the contest will also receive a custom banner and trophy sprite which they can display in their signatures for bragging rights. A thread will be kept updated chronicling past events and winners for the community. ---- Any further questions or concerns can be PMed to the current host!(That's me Errant, currently) ...or posted either in the feedback thread or within this thread itself. Deadline: Monday, February 9th, 2015... 11:59pm PST (ie... about 2 weeks) ...1 day extension. Hope you all enjoy and have some fun! Lets get spriting! :D PS: I have currently left out animations as a category. We may do another of the Competition weeks focused on animations but as for now they are just bonus. Might garner you some extra votes if people think it looks cool. If we have enough interest for animations, we may include that as a division/category of future showdowns, or have showdowns focused on animations. ...any other suggestions or ideas on the format/rules/deadline will be taken into account. My apologies if this is still too wordy... we'll work on that. ;) EDIT: voting thread is up! Go vote!