Kaiseto

Woohoo. I was worried nobody was going to enter, but the few entries that have come out so far have all been pretty good. This is probably one of my favorites.

Worth showing? I'd say so. Totally awesome.

Well, your edit definitely looks better. I'm surprised you picked up on it at all though.

His left, or our left?

In any case, it's not supposed to sit flat on the ground like a platformer sprite. More like the kind of sprite you'd have on a big, wide-open background. As for the hips being messed up, you might be right. I can't see anything glaringly wrong there, but I can't say it looks great either.

I think my biggest personal issue is with the face and head. The proportions just seem weird, even for something that is inherently unrealistic.

Well. No contest here :p

I'm actually amazed how with the application of your signature coloring style it actually looks exactly like something you would do on your own, lineart and everything. Awesome work, as usual.

I'd like to throw in another vote for Jasc Animation Shop. I've been using that ever since I was introduced to Paintshop Pro, and it's always served me very well.

It was for an old RPG Maker project. I limited myself to 5 or 6 frames per attack animation, max.

Your Jalonso is evolving into Squirrelsquid! Press B to cancel.

All joking aside, kickass sprite work. The palette stands out to me in particular. There's just a really great spectrum from purples to greens to yellows.

Also, loving the destruction(?) animation.

Well... this is a rather early contestant for winner :p

The only original Phantasy Star game I played at all was a bit of IV for the Genesis(Mega Drive). So it's not an intentional homage or anything.

I should really go back and try that game again. It was very ... unique. To say the least.

You're in luck? Because it doesn't. I don't quite remember what I picked. But it isn't tahoma. Mostly I just wanted something that was pretty plain and readable. And easy to antialias by hand.

One of the best submissions, I'd say. Only thing I would've suggested would be obliquely projected the ground platforms as well (so you can see a little bit of the top) in order to fit in better with the challenge. Kind of like what iLKke did.

Otherwise, very nice. The color scheme works very well and I like your hero sprite. Also, the snake on the tree is particularly charming, for some reason.

Jalonso, your avatar reminds me that it would be appropriate for me to do a halloween themed pixel sometime soon.

I make stuff like this in between classes, yeah. Nothing big though. Nothing that would take more than a couple hours.

This is really, really, really awesome. You have my vote, most definitely. And 7/7 points.

She looks like she could kick ass six ways to sunday.

Alright, how about everyone STOP being a jerk to Shrub, and end the conversation. It ceased to be about the actual piece awhile ago. He wasn't a fan, he's made his point. Quite honestly, I did put less effort into this piece than usual, because it was the culmination of  6 bored hours of downtime before and after classes last tuesday.

The piece is in the weekly showcase. I have no control over that. Apparently some people liked it a lot, and rated it highly enough to get into the showcase. I'm sorry if that offends some people, I'm sorry if the offended people are offending some other people. I'm just sorry about the whole damned thing.

Eew. I'm going to spare you all the horror and just not do this one :p I would probably make a very, very ugly girl.

Fool is like... quite possibly the best pixel artist in the world. There aren't too many other pixel artists that even approach his quality.

Just like to point out again that whether or not this is in the weekly showcase has absolutely NOTHING to do with me :p I'm not the one who put it there.

Hey, I don't control the weekly showcase. :p I'm sure it'll be pushed off by better stuff later on.

That aside, I never touch the spraypaint tool. Everything on here is done 100x by hand with a 1-pixel brush, excepting the few large areas that were originallly filled with the paintbucket tool.

Well, I spent more time on the background, so that probably means a little more to me :D

When are you going to make something bad? You're long overdue. I don't think there's a single bad thing in your gallery.

For shame.

Also, 7/7

Neat. Ya learn something every day.

His name is Yitán in the Spanish version? Interesting. Wonder why they changed it.