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Leviathan Mist

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I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« on: February 11, 2011, 02:51:42 AM »
I started working on this a couple days ago. It was initially just messing around with a sprite editor to see what I could do, I didn't actually think I'd come up with something presentable. However, they came out a lot better than I had expected and now I figure I might as well finish the rest of the portraits. I'll be posting progress updates here, and feedback/constructive criticism would be appreciated.

It should be noted that I'm not drawing these from scratch - I'm using actual existing drawings as a base, saving them as 40x40 and 16-color bitmaps, and then I basically just get an outline that I have to recolor. For some characters, there won't be drawings of the character that look good enough, so I take a drawing of some other character who I think can be made to look like that character, and make the necessary modifications myself.

The first four portraits as of 02/11/11
The next four portraits as of 02/14/11
The next four portraits as of 02/25/11

Completed:
Terra
Locke
Edgar
Sabin
Shadow
Celes
Cyan
Gau
Setzer
Mog
Strago
Relm

To do:
Gogo
Umaro
Banon
Leo
Vicks/Wedge
Ghost
Imp

For FF6A:
Esper Terra
Kefka
Gestahl
Cid
« Last Edit: February 25, 2011, 02:42:18 PM by Leviathan Mist »
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2011, 06:14:25 AM »
Terra needs a nose!
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2011, 01:50:37 PM »
Quote from: assassin on February 11, 2011, 06:14:25 AM
Terra needs a nose!

I noticed that too. The template image I used had a nose, but it was so small that when I shrunk it down to 40x40, it disappeared completely. I tried drawing one on but it looked like crap. I'll see what I can do though :P

EDIT: Terra now has a nose, though you have to look closely to see it - it was created solely through shadowing effects.
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2011, 04:18:45 PM »
Love the idea, but I've seen similar work and they never seem enough for my tastes (although I will admit, the original artwork is already weird, but I've grown accustomed to it and now like it).  I think some great accomplishments would be achieved from using parts of images already created by other people; I'm sure there's plenty of ff6 pictures out there to choose from.  Your pics aren't horrible or anything, and are actually good considering they're self-drawn, but how can any of us compare with the super-professional artwork that has already been created?  If you need some free image-capture software, I know some pretty good free ones.  Best of luck with the project!
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2011, 05:32:41 PM »
Quote from: gogo13 on February 12, 2011, 04:18:45 PM
Love the idea, but I've seen similar work and they never seem enough for my tastes (although I will admit, the original artwork is already weird, but I've grown accustomed to it and now like it).  I think some great accomplishments would be achieved from using parts of images already created by other people; I'm sure there's plenty of ff6 pictures out there to choose from.  Your pics aren't horrible or anything, and are actually good considering they're self-drawn, but how can any of us compare with the super-professional artwork that has already been created?  If you need some free image-capture software, I know some pretty good free ones.  Best of luck with the project!

Actually, that's exactly what I've been doing. I thought I outlined that in my first post. Ah well, I guess I worded it poorly.

Anyway, I'm no graphics major, and I know that someone who was one could make them look a lot better, but as for now, I am liking these enough to use them in my game. Some of them could use some more work, but I'll get to polishing them up once I've finished all of them.
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2011, 10:25:22 AM »
Your Shadow portrait looks particularly good.
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2011, 04:07:46 PM »
Yeah that Shadow one is awesome
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2011, 08:16:05 AM »
Shadow looks really good.

As for Celes...I liked the pose Amano put her in, where she's kinda dignified and mysterious. The artwork itself is good, don't get me wrong.
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2011, 10:11:03 PM »
Quote from: darkmage on February 16, 2011, 08:16:05 AM
Shadow looks really good.

As for Celes...I liked the pose Amano put her in, where she's kinda dignified and mysterious. The artwork itself is good, don't get me wrong.

I'm not too satisfied with the Celes one, I'll probably make an alternate portrait for her later. Some of the other portraits need touch-ups as well, but I'll get to that after I've completed all the portraits.
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2011, 05:48:46 PM »
Cyan looks older and younger at the same time. Wiser?? I like it.

Mog looks a lot better than the original.
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2011, 09:32:53 PM »
Mog and Gau both look good. Setzer's portrait looks like it belongs more in Cecil's place in FF2us, though.
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2011, 02:26:04 AM »
So I finally got around to completing this project. I haven't released a patch for it yet, but I will probably submit it here if enough people want it, Otherwise, I'll just toss it up on my website. I'm not all that satisfied with all of them, but I like them better than the original game's portraits, personally. The portraits:


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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2011, 04:02:27 PM »
Just curious, did you have any issues implementing the portraits? I'm currently working on the FFVA portraits and they're pretty difficult, the way they were programmed makes it use previous parts of the portrait further down the line so I can't simply replace all the values. I'm guessing this was to save space. Did you encounter anything like that?
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2011, 04:21:45 PM »
I used Terii Senshi's sprite editor, which was very easy to use. You can even import images, as long as they're 40x40 and 16-colors. I haven't tried editing FF6 Advance yet, but it would definitely be harder since there's no editor for it.
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Re: I am redrawing the portraits in FF6.
« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2011, 04:27:29 PM »
Hmm... I'd wager the SNES roms are coded in a simpler manner and the GBA ones are more complex in an effort to save space.
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