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@Takeo212 It's hard to use hands when you don't have any! I ended up keeping the changes to Grace's hair, but making her eyes lower again. I didn't mind either look, but I think it matches her portrait better this way. I also added a couple of new characters:

@PhoenixSoul Thanks! This month I'm planning to get some base sprites done to match all of my portraits so far. To start off, I went ahead and made my first sprites less angry, lol.

I'm loving this concept so far! I'm really happy to see more people going with modern settings.

@Shaddow Thank you so much!! <3 I'd love to check out your work sometime! @Jonath4nC Thank you!! I'll have to see about making some more videos like that. Good luck on your game! Here's a bunch of recent stuff, because I'm bad at updating (I updated the main post as well ^^). As far as the portraits go, the images on the left side were made by Nirwanda as a starting point for me. The only exception to that is the cat girl - that's my own sketch haha.

I've been busy with other things, but here's a sprite of Ylva:

Yeah, it's kinda nice, especially since I have Tuesdays off, and only one class on Thursdays. I've been watching a bit of the Olympics, but I probably won't be able to once I get back to my dorm tonight (no TV). Feels bad

@PhoenixSoul Thank you! Classes are.... meh, not bad. I like 'em so far. I'm taking: • Microcomputer Applications: Funny story - I thought I'd signed up for a programming course, but it turned out to be a course over how to use Microsoft Office. All of the work is online, so you don't have to go to class if you're a week ahead and have a 70% or higher. My professor told me to not come back to class for the rest of the semester, because I got bored and ended up being 7 weeks ahead of the course schedule. • Interactive Design 2: Pretty fun course - it goes over writing/interpreting JavaScript, and front-end design for apps and whatnot. Right now we're doing the front-end development/designing for food delivery applications that the computer science students are coding. • Advanced Study: These classes are always fun - you basically sign up for a class you've already completed, then spend the semester on a project you decide on. Last semester I made an opening sequence, save menu, title screen, and ending credits sequence for my game, and this semester I'm working on backgrounds, sprites, and weather effects. • Senior Seminar: Kinda lame, but it's a graduation requirement and a lot of my friends are in here. Basically we go over how to transition from college to professional careers, and work on resumés, cover letters, etc. on top of putting on senior art exhibit. There are a lot of guest speakers, but they haven't been very good so far. • Principles of Economics: (....I needed one more class to live on campus.) This class is kinda meh, but it's better than I was expecting. The only assignments per se are online tests every other week, and then one presentation I give using my webcam. I pretty much just forget the class exists until the Thursday of a test week, read the whole chapter, then take the test.

I'm a big meanie, so for practice (for both of us!) I've been having Nirwanda help me out by drawing character portraits for me to work from.

Overview: Engine: RPG Maker MV Genre: Mystery, side-scroller Recruitment: Pixel artists, menu designers Synopsis: Chance knew from the day he was born that he was bound for greatness. Unfortunately, Chance was horribly misguided in this assumption. In the far-away city of Los Cactus, there have been murders most foul. Monster-kind is being shunned from the streets, the blame for these murders falling on their shoulders. An election on the horizon threatens to jeopardize their position in the world even further! Just who will step up to save them? Unfortunately for the monsters, that person is Chance Thomson, a hopelessly errant detective who struggles to tie his own shoelaces! Monster-kind's only hope lies in he and his new partner, a mysterious lady named Grace. With her help, can Chance shape up and solve the mysteries surrounding Los Cactus? Play as Chance in a collection of mysteries against tricky foes and cunning set-ups! Piece together clues to discover the villain's narrative, and do your best not to nab the wrong guy! Meet a wide cast of colorful characters, from zombie waitresses to your very own Slime Friend™, and try to break a very inconvenient sleep cycle! Characters: Gameplay Features: Screenshots: Credits: Of course, this project wouldn’t be possible without the help from my wonderful team, and many of the generous contributors in this community: Want to show your support? Here's a banner!:

I'd just like to take a moment to remind all of you that every cactus is beautiful. . . . ....And, more importantly, that we're back into the swing of things! Our goal is to get a demo of our first case out by March-April, so we can show off what we've been up to. Here's a bit of what I've been working on recently:

@PhoenixSoul Ah, nope! I use Clip Studio Paint for both drawing and pixel art, and it works on Mac and Windows. It's by far my favorite software for digital art, though I'd recommend waiting for a sale if you want to pick it up. Spending $50 on software is gross. No promises on the sleep thing (insomnia is fun!), but I try, haha! @Takeo212 No problem! At the risk of sounding like an actual dinosaur, I've been spriting for just over 10 years now, lmao. There's a point where the shading and all of that becomes almost second nature - you start to notice how outlines are shaded or how highlights are placed, etc. I don't mind doing the side-view sprites much - for me it's the back views (hair, specifically) that usually mess me up.

@PhoenixSoul I generally use Quicktime for screen recording. ^^ And yeah, I figured it'd make the most sense to make one from scratch if I'm going to do a video, haha. I'm a firm believer in not reinventing the wheel, so most of my sprites have bits and pieces from other sprites of mine or generator parts that I put together and edit. Like, I'm not going to make 15 capes/shoulder pads when I can take one set and change it as needed, lol.

@Takeo212 I went ahead and made a video last night because.... why not? (Note: I zoom out a lot so I can see how the sprite would look in-game) Here's the finished sprite, for comparison:

I've thought about it before - I may see about putting one together when I have a free day. I have to take a lot of breaks for classes and whatnot, so a weekend might be a good time for it. Here's the finished Actor 1 sheet:

@Takeo212 It's all good ^^ I just didn't want to veer into the point of no return, lmao. And sure, I could make some rolled up versions sometime. @PhoenixSoul Thanks, but umm.. no, I didn't have plans to make those originally lol. Not sure where you got that idea. Been kinda busy getting started with this semester, but here's 1-7:

The resources from VX and Ace are more or less the same - the Actor 4 and 5 character sets are the most notable additions. VX only had 1-3. Anyway, I don’t wanna get off topic ^^

Yeah, I like her sprite a lot too. The Ace characters in general tend to work better as MV sprites, since their designs have a bit more going on. The original VX ones lean a bit too heavily on "hair 1 color, clothing 1-2 colors", so visually they're not all that interesting. The funny thing is that I thought I really liked most of VX/Ace's characters, and actually going through now is making me realize I only liked about 6 of 'em, haha!

Thanks! (Also ugh, you don't have to keep bringing up her sprite. It's on my to-do list, and I'll get to it after I finish the requests I had beforehand :|)

Here's my Actor 1 set so far ^^:

Here's Actor 1-2 from VX ^^

Here's a sprite of Alice from VX Ace

I'm not sure if I'll get through all of it, but I plan on getting through the ones I've had requested so far. My list right now is: Actor 2-2 (No name) Actor 2-6 (Ylva) Actor 5-2 (Brenda) Actor 5-3 (Rick) Actor 5-6 (Alice)