The only thing that bugs me about your palette is his eyes should be yellow. I get the idea of diversifying your palette, but maybe make it a bit more orangish to make it appeal more to the eye.

Ok, I'll change it. His eyes are a bright yellow now.



Anything else I should change?

After looking at it for a while, it looks true to the ssf2 artsytle. The coloring is a mix of smash 4 with some darker cors to resemble brawl, I has some nice movement, and his proportions are pretty good. I think your finally ready to make some more animations. I can't wait till then!

You should be a SSF2 Dev and resprite BM.

Your animations are looking great! One of the things I think could benefit from it though, is one of the original gripes that I had with the original Black Mage sprites since their inception. I believe finger definition on the sprites would benefit it greatly. Since he doesn't have a lot of way to express himself through expression, adding fingers would be a good way to emote with him. Also, I think the eyes should be a more striking yellow, less orange. That's me personally, though. The animations and palette are super pretty. You're talented!

What do you mean by giving the fingers definition? Do you mean by showing how they move and etc. During animations or by it just standing out. I also agree with the eye thing but I understand he didn't change it because of using so many colors on a small sprite thing he referenced not that long ago. The eye should be a exception though (I hope you consider these sprites for ssf2)

(Not trying to sound like I created the sprites, just for reference)

Thanks guys.

As for the eye color, how's this?



It's a pale yellow (looks kind of greenish, but not quite), I think this fits more.

I also used colored outlines for the clothes and hat, and the shoes, hands, and face have a different colored outline to them. Makes them more SSF2-esque.

And you're right on the hands, Geno. Since I made them big enough, I think I'll better be able to give Black Mage more lively hand gestures and expressions using the fingers.

I'll make him look more expressive as I resprite more of him.

Up next: Up Smash.

EDIT: Imgflip keeps screwing up the eye colors, but the eye colors are something like this:

The eyes need to stand out. In the game, there pretty bright since we'll, black mage is a blob of blackness. Also, do you and Geno mean where to move the fingers during the animations (for example, the index finger is farther than the other fingers)? Man spriting remind me a ton about 3d modeling, texturing, and animations.

I think it looks good so far. I can't comment on the eyes, since I think the colors look nicce overall

I think a less pale yellow would be cool (personally, I prefer the ai--. Oh, wait...)... Personally, I prefer the orange.

Just gonna post something quick here. Here's Pit:

Looks great! However, I think that Pit would benefit from having less shadows on the wings and the swords should have a much brighter/lighter color tone.

Pit has never looked so metal

As dopeness has stated, I think the shading on the wings and dullness of the sword could be adjusted. Besides that, it looks wonderful. I really love the hair.

Me fixing again, hope that helps: