[Sik]

Sik the hedgehog, on Mar 13 2008, 07:57 PM, said:

Er, I don't think it'll be needed to redraw stuff from scratch completely ignoring the old graphics... I would scale them up, and then take them as a base for the new graphics. And the problem here is that you're doing quick works. Unless somebody really puts effort in it, we won't see any good graphics.

And that Sonic proves what I was talking about.

[Tadashi]

ICEknight, this is beatiful and suits the game style perfectly. I agree with you that the most important thing about HD versions would be to retain the original art style. Also, we need to keep the original palettes as well. For example, how are you gonna make Super Sonic with 32bit graphics? He flashes *randomly*, it's impossible to premade his every color change.

Vangar, no offense, but you don't really know what are you doing, it seems. Looks terrible, the 2xSAI filter does a better job.

[djdocsonic]

Good work IceKnight, This will be excellent if you can pull it off.... will take some doing though id imagine.

[Dark Sonic]

[ICEknight]

Guys... I was just trying to prove that it's possible to do this HD stuff while retaining the style and even the original palette, with a bit of dedication... But I didn't mean I was gonna do a whole Sonic spritesheet, sorry if that's what it seemed. =|

[Yarharhar]

A couple notes on the emu-mod:
The sprites are sized up 4x - this means you need a good video card because I had to move the vdp to pixel-shaders (Trying to do 16x the amount of rasterization work on cpu is an insane idea).

Second - Yuski has the right idea here. Look at what capcom is doing for SSFT2HD, and use the sonic 2 concept art as a source. It is far more detailed than what pixel-art would allow for. This is the entire reason for going to these high-res sprites. You can add detail and colors and such that just weren't possible on the old hardware.

Another example is actually the large-scale logo for sonic-retro.

If you want it to look the same scaled down, just play the original game. If you want a smoothed out look, just use one of the 2xsai type filters because it's going to be far easier and run better that way.

People's jaws aren't going to drop if you just make the graphics look a little less pixely or whatever. Overhaul the hell out of them or it's not worth it.
I have a sketch at home of the sonic standing sprite HD-ified. I'll post it here when I get a chance - it's faithful to the old art style, to the concept art, and takes advantage of HD graphics.

This post has been edited by Yarharhar: 13 March 2008 - 08:27 PM

[Vangar]

Tadashi, on Mar 14 2008, 10:57 AM, said:

ICEknight, this is beatiful and suits the game style perfectly. I agree with you that the most important thing about HD versions would be to retain the original art style. Also, we need to keep the original palettes as well. For example, how are you gonna make Super Sonic with 32bit graphics? He flashes *randomly*, it's impossible to premade his every color change.

Vangar, no offense, but you don't really know what are you doing, it seems. Looks terrible, the 2xSAI filter does a better job.

Im going to retry with cleaner tools to draw the graphics. I'd prefer you'd give me advice on how to make it better, then how terrible it is, thanks.

[JoseTB]

To tell the truth,

[Tweaker]

Eh... It seems very shoddily done to me, like you just overblurred the original images. It shows a severe lack of effort, and to a degree, skill. Redrawing the whole thing pixel-by-pixel isn't quite necessary, but you SHOULD trace and recolor each and every sprite, in a similar fashion to SFII HD Remix's sprites—the difference will really show.

[Jeztac]

The palmtree looks pretty good, but the badnik's shading looks somewhat messy, and the grass just looks like you used the smudge tool in photoshop.
Nonetheless this is a very interesting idea and I hope it succeeds.

This post has been edited by jeztac: 13 March 2008 - 10:26 PM

[Dark Sonic]

ICEknight, on Mar 13 2008, 04:34 PM, said:

Guys... I was just trying to prove that it's possible to do this HD stuff while retaining the style and even the original palette, with a bit of dedication... But I didn't mean I was gonna do a whole Sonic spritesheet, sorry if that's what it seemed. =|

Ah, you see I thought that was the start of some kinda hack you were working on (Or emulator, I don't know). My mistake.

[Bit-Blade]

Erm, sorry ICEKnight, but seeing the smudge-monkey made me want to do a quick edit of the Coconuts in your example.

I'm not too happy with the result but you get where that's going. You have a large amount of work in-store for you if this is what you want to do, Vangar.

[Yarharhar]

Summary of art in this thread:


Sonic Standing by Vincent


Sonic Running by Vincent


Super Sonic by Vincent


First Possible Tails Style by Vincent


Second Possible Tails Style by Vincent


Knuckles by SillyJonna


Robotnik by Vincent

Edited by Blue Streak

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First, to whoever edits graphics for these things: Do whatever style tickles your fancy. If you want a more painter like effect, go for it, I'm sure it will look cool. Just keep in mind that if you are going to do HD graphics, don't give yourself the limitation that it has to look right scaled down. If people want to play the game with scaled down graphics, they'll play the original. If they're playing in HD, they want an HD experience.


Anyways, here is my method for HDifying an image. This wasn't put into the emu engine, although I'd do something similar for that (on that note, I've changed my mind and am going to have people use the image editor of their choice to modify graphics, I have a good idea of how to implement that functionality now. I should be doing a source drop sometime on Sunday).

This post has been edited by Blue Streak: 28 April 2008 - 11:13 AM

[Vincent]

I couldn't resist.



Great example Yarharhar.

[PsychoSk8r]

Hahaha, oh wow. Vincent would be fucking awesome as a HD Sprite Artist
Seriously, I love that image, it's fucking perfect =P

EDIT: Whoops, the big-ass image by yarharhar didnt show when I posted this. Sorry =3

This post has been edited by PsychoSk8r: 14 March 2008 - 01:20 PM