Character sprite concepts

[Memento]

Personally don't like the gold for the same reasons as Apoc.

change its color so it fits the brownish-clothes better.

For this I see two good options:
Either make the armor bronze (keep brightness contrast - lower colour contrast),
or make it a dark low saturated green (lower brightness contrast - increased colour contrast).

I like the green one

1st sprite is also fine. I don't like the color of the armor in the 2nd sprite though

Edit: it looked quite diffirent on my phone.. it is good, but I liked some of the other versions better still.

Another edit:

Before we hyped over the golden versions, we were discussing this:


It was acceptable, yet needed some finetuning, that was all. I think we should continue with these concepts and rework them.

We could keep the hair red, or make it dark



We can use the first sprite YinYin mentioned to make the armor look good on the first form, and add just some color to the other 2 as well.

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.

I think the clothes in the 2nd and 3th version shouldn't be too diffirent, because in our story he steals the masks in stage 5-8 in his 2nd form, then you fight him in stage 5-9 in his 3th form. There is like 1 minute in between those events. Therefor, I think he should have the same armor and cape in both forms, except maybe a minor color twist and a destroyed cape in 3th form like Ariel suggested. I do agree that in his first form, without armor and without cape would probably be best.

About the hair changing with form: I think you are right about the size of the hair, I too think it shouldn't change too much. Having the hair become spikier would be cool

All in all, I'd say:
1st form: no armor, no cape, hair not very spikey (hair like in 2nd sprite, but a little less spikey)
2nd form: armor, cape, simple mask, hair like in 2nd sprite
3th form: armor, destroyed cape, ultimate mask (or whatever the name), spikey hair