Character sprite concepts

[Apocalipsis]

Apocalipsis, any chance you could try to do an edit to make this character perfect?^_^ I know you're not in here to actually sprite, but it would be great if you could help with the concept as this is the most important character in the story

I really like to revamp/edit other people sprites, but in this case I'm not really sure I can come up with an improvement, mostly because nothing is definite about him except his role on the history.

When you have to design a sprite, sometimes you picture the 'perfect' character immediatly, and sometimes you are never satisfied with what you're doing (and that's usually when you start recoloring things).

My opinion on current designs (Click to View)

This simpler design (with the brownish clothes, without any armor) looked like a desert soldier to me... something like this:

Yu-Gi-Oh's Scorpion Burglars (Click to View)

That is not bad for a first version: it will only make him look cooler in next encounters.



The design with only chest armor is not bad... but you either add more pieces of armor like Sänger suggested, or change its color so it fits the brownish-clothes better.


I honestly don't like this gold armor (or color palette) for this character. When I think about a character who wears gold, I usually expect that char to be calm and classy... but this char looks more cruel, ruthless and savage to me, from his expression and the scar.

If you ask me, I would go with this:
*First encounter: Something like the first design I just commented. Simple yet solid. Slow but strong character.
*Second encounter: Light armor or equipments, but no cape. He's considerably faster and more evasive than last version, but less powerful (because of the 'speed' mask).
*Third encounter: Badass heavy armor and cape. Quite more powerful and faster than first version (because of the 'ultimate' mask).

This will be a lot harder to sprite, but since he's the most important character and you'll have to fight him 3 times in one playthrough, I think you should give it a try.