ALMOST LIKE CHARACTER GENERATOR

[Gad]

That's what Marti does with HF now and I really don't like it. All the same hands, legs, shoes, torsos. Just transformed and recoloured.
Of course it gets a little better if you just replace them with all new body parts, but in that case you still got the exact same character skeleton. That makes the whole game very stiff as all characters with the same base act the same. (kinda like ssbm copy characters c. falcon/ganondorf fox/falco marth/roy etc)

The way I create the template for ppl right now is not based on colors, but graphics.
If somebody is ambitious enough to create something more than c+p + recolour character, he can use the template as a base.
You replace the parts, adjust them as you want - change animations and character's style.
It still takes a looot less, than if you'd make it from scratch.
And you don't just change the parts. You draw completly new.
Then you export the sheet from flash and finish it in your favourite program.

I swear, that the template that I make will safe a looot of time spent for drawing sprites.
It will include basic frames except punches and other attacks.
You're also suggested to change arm position in stance, running, jumping... etc... to make you character different, ofcourse it's noticable, that you used the template, when you don't change it.

And now the final part.
This will change spriting as 'art' into sprite creating.
More sprites, maybe more cool characters?
Some guys want to create characters, but they stop because they can't sprite.
What if I give them a template, that they can configure for their needs.
I know it's a template, but still it will be better looking than recoloured template, davis, or C+p from lf2.

Think in that way .