Smash's Skins and Misc. (Probably the Final Lemmings Update)

[SmashTheEchidna]

After another short hiatus, I came back and did this.



I'm not 100% confident I pulled off the disheveled hair as well as I could have, but this is what I've got so far.

[Kapus]

The hair looks perfectly fine. I'm more iffled by the excess colors here and there, mostly on the skin and gun (I'm super duper nitpicky).

[SmashTheEchidna]

Like I said, without that extra color on the skin it would look extremely wrong. Besides, it's 8 colors total; I don't really see the problem.

Still, what do you think about this?

[Kapus]

..8 colors seems like a lot, simply put! It comes up to 9 anyway, counting transparency.



Either of these two seem fine to me.

[SmashTheEchidna]

Don't count the transparency! That's cheating! D:<

Anyway, this is what I've got so far. I didn't go with the two-pixel tall eyes due to it looking weird in the other rotations.

[Hallan Parva]

the two-pixel tall eyes

DOT EYES!? DOT EYES

nobody except SmashBro believes in 2-pixel-tall Mario eyes

[Ceridran]

Little guy's looking good so far!

nobody except SmashBro believes in 2-pixel-tall Mario eyes

4 pixel tall eyes

[SmashTheEchidna]

nobody except SmashBro believes in 2-pixel-tall Mario eyes

Well, Kapus did...kinda.

I dunno man. I tried.

[Kapus]

Don't count the transparency! That's cheating! D:<

If you're bringing up colors in a matter of NES limitations, then no, transparency is not cheating and has to be kept in mind.

It looks good, though.

[Hallan Parva]

@"I tried":
fourth one honestly doesn't look too bad
second one if you hate DOT EYES!? DOT EYES

[Geno]

If you're bringing up colors in a matter of NES limitations, then no, transparency is not cheating and has to be kept in mind.

It looks good, though.

I'd hate to randomly show up for almost no reason, but

..8 colors seems like a lot, simply put! It comes up to 9 anyway, counting transparency.

Technically, each 3 colour thing on the NES has 4 colours, including transparency.

Counting each layer's transparency, a 3 layer sprite has the potential for 12 different colours.

Of course, counting transparency for each layer is silly, so without transparency, a 3 layer sprite has the potential for 9 different colours.

So, for 3 layers, 9 is the maximum, NOT including transparency.

[Kapus]

Yeah, I'm aware that you can go that far with different layers, and that can be used as an excuse somewhere, but I still don't think it looks that great in this case. Generally those layers would be used to add more useful colors to the sprite, but here it'd be hypothetically used for little, unnecessary bits of color shades, which looks a bit odd. It's always best to be as neat and resourceful with your color limitations as possible.

Also, wouldn't a 3 layer sprite flicker like heck when there's a lot going on? I don't think a sprite as tiny as that lemming would really warrant 3 different layers.

[Korby]

is now a good time to point out that your front/r is in a different perspective than the rest of the sprites and that one of its feet will never touch the ground

[SmashTheEchidna]

is now a good time to point out that your front/r is in a different perspective than the rest of the sprites and that one of its feet will never touch the ground

Really? Because I don't see it. :? Unless you mean the last two sprites, which are deliberate.

I mean I see what you mean about the different perspective, but the feet are always touching the ground as far as I can tell.

EDIT: Anyway, here's how both the sheets are looking so far.

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The hair on that front pain sprite of the afro lemming really reminds me of Lucas...

[SmashTheEchidna]

Lemming has been re-released. Download's been updated.
To choose the alternate hairstyle lemming, the skin's name is "Lemming2".
Added loads of new taunts, thanks to VGS2. (Kudos, man. Your hard work is appreciated.)
Will update first post with screenshots later.