Levels & Items Art

Drex the masher is coming along nicely! I agree that the tail design is something that needs working on and that the official artwork deviates from the original sprite too much but I don't see any compromise between the two.

There are a few things I would change, I think there needs to be another shade in between the red and the orange on the upper body, I would align the bottom of the eye with the red shade, I think the bottom fin might look better rounded and I think the two black dots on the upper fin look strange.

Just my thought anyway, these changes might not follow the original closely but I think they might be an improvement

 

I agree with Exodus about adding another shade in between the red and the orange on the masher.

Master Emerald, thank you for improving your flower

Please upload it to the database along with any source files that you used to produce it.

 

Yes, please. I'd like to try something with the tail's shape.

 

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm back from work and I'm adjusting it now.

 

I uploaded the flower....

Here

 

Great work! It still need something.

 

Where should I put more shades? If I put more it will be different from the original...
Here, the 4x Image:

 

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Inbetween the exisiting shades, like this redone Starpost.

 

Ah, you were talking about a smoother gradient...

 

- And the springs:



If we kept the same number of shades as the original sprites in all of our assets, S2HD would be rather bland

If by gradient you mean manual, hand-edited in-between shades, then yes. But we are avoiding automatic gradient filters.

 

I've enhanced the flower:

Full resolution:

4x:


A hoax:

 

I don't like the stalk. I think it should have a straight shadow down, not at an angle.

 

If anything, the shadow should be reversed, taking into account the head of the flower blocking light from above.

 

I've manually edited it:

 

I think your flower is looking good Master Emerald! Could you post a bigger version of your most recent edit though please?

 

Good job on the extra shades.

Yes, there's no need to scale it down to the genesis resolution because that is not the resolution that we are working at.

 

His last post was at 4x scale... Unless I've somehow managed to set my screen resolution to that of a Genesis.

 

Oops, yea you're right. I've been looking at the HD resolution so long I forgot how small the genesis resolution really was.

 

So following Tweaker's suggestion, I've spent the past few days putting together this mockup of Metropolis Zone:

I might add a few more touch ups later, but I think it's okay for now...