QUOTE (Vincent @ Apr 20 2010, 07:25 PM)
As Gambit anticipated, Tails and Knuckles remasterings hasn't started yet.
If any community artist wants to provide mockups of him, they are much welcome!
I actually started doing these sprites before I realized I didn't have a vector program or a way to draw in vector at the time, so I abandoned it, but I did this based on an older submission that used to be up on the site if you wouldn't mind considering it a 'mockup', if it helps...
It's shaded with Paint Shop's basic pallet. All the others I have are sketches not shaded or in pieces. (His limbs are literally everywhere.) I didn't realize his tails weren't supposed to be ground-level with his feet until I looked at Sonic 2 again. Before, I was going off the sprites which have his body and tails as separate sprites, just to say that I know it's wrong on this one.
But about the one posted, I actually wanted to give some feedback on what I thought of it... But when I looked at the larger image closer I realized "Hey, this isn't even cleaned up!" but I did want to bring up something about the representation of the character himself, if that's alright...
He's smiling. This bothers me because in the old games, I never imagined Tails would be smiling. What gave me this impression, especially when he's at top speed, flying back to Sonic or swimming on Sonic 3, was that he either looked tired, nervous or like he's trying to be brave. This was re-enforced by some Sonic 2 concept art (Sketched) that showed him running (the wobbly little canter he does before he spins his tails for speed) and his face had an '=o' expression, like he was either exerting energy running after Sonic or like he was saying in his mind "I gotta be brave" and then to the right of that it showed him at full speed, tails spinning and all, and he has the '>=(' face, the serious one, and the games did reflect that in his top speed sprite. So I feel like him smiling takes away from his character at that point in his life.
I did read a topic posted about how some thought Sonic shouldn't smile in his sprites, and how, in his official art, he would always be smiling like a cocky little bastard, and how it fit his character more and I agree: I think all the Sonic sprites are fantastic in representing Sonic, so this isn't a 'The characters never smiled in the games" statement, since it's a little hard to tell on pixels what they were doing (Even though I think Sonic 3's Sonic sprite looked like he was having a ball throughout the entire game, until he died, because I suck.) but I'm just basing this off what expressions I could read (open mouth while Tails flies in Sonic 2's sprites) and the concept art. I need to find it again, it used to be up on Sonic Stadium but all the images from that site are gone.
Edit: And they never put them back up. Maybe SEGA made a property claim?
Anyway, I know what the boxart of him looks like, but after digging through Sonic Retro's archive, I found some artwork that has him looking nervous or uncertain while Sonic maintains his smile.
This is only one.It's just one of my concerns though, and I hope it will be considered when someone starts work on his final sprites.
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