Half Kaizer - Cloud Strife

[Noobitron]

I'm planning on spriting all the Final Fantasy VII characters using the Half Kaizer template. I decided to start with Cloud and I was wondering how it is coming so far.

Old:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f358/ ... ud-WIP.png[/img]

New:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f358/ ... ud-WIP.png[/img]

 

[busbuzz]

Keep the good work :D

 

[rikuken]

Wow looks cool, Keep on going!

 

[Noobitron]

Thank you for the comments, but I would like some detailed c&c on what I can do to improve the sprite.

 

[rikuken]

Why don't you add C&C to the title then?

 

[mawk]

The border to the hair is a shade too dark, and in places the outline looks more bedhead-y then spiky. The shoes lack detail, and appear sort of cartoonish. I'm not a master at spotting pillow shading, but I suspect your sprite has that in some measure, too.

Good for a first draft, though. Keep it up!

 

[Grathea]

Well, there are a few things you could fix. I hope you don't mind, but I've made a few small touches to the sprite. I've taken the liberty of boxing in several sections - blue indicates a change I made, and red indicates a problem you should look at.
-THINGS I EDITED FOR YOU-
First, you should shade under the clothes and hair. I did a quick shading job to show you what I mean.
Secondly, the shine on the pauldron could be reduced just a touch. See what I mean?
The boots should get darker as they recede from the viewer. I used a nice dithering pattern to achieve this.
The metal things on the gloves should be given an extra darker pixel below them, to give the illusion of depth. Alternatively, have the darker pixel to the right.
-THINGS I DIDN'T CHANGE-
The belt could do with some shading. It's boxed in red.
There's an odd section of the pants that is shaded way darker than it should be. It's also boxed in red.
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3200/cloudzg2.png[/img]

 

[rikuken]

Wow Gratheo that was just wow...wow... they should put you in the support team.

 

[Grathea]

Well, Chocolate Cow, I decided to mess around with the hair a little, try to make it look more spiky.
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/9821/cloudwz1.png[/img]
Here's what I came up with, using just your lines.
See how I used dithering to add depth to the hair, and how darker colors can give more depth?

Hope this helps you with the crazy hair.

 

[Noobitron]

Wow, that looks great. I'll be sure to use your way of shading, or even borrow yours :P. Thanks for helping me spot the defects.

Edit: I see you used the dithering method on the hair too, it looks much better.
Edit #2: Haha, sorry but how could i resize that to my template :P

 

[Toshi]

Pls... People... The Sprite looks good so far...
But let ff7 out of your spriting minds...
Nobody cant see any more FF7-Fangames or charanames like cloud or such a stuff... ><

 

[Shinigami]

looks good but you might want to make the hair more blonde.

 

[iceplosion]

Yeah the hair is kind of brown, Cloud is very blonde.

 

[Noobitron]

Re-shaded the belt, hair, shoulder guard, and gloves.

 

[Russty]

Yeah... Cloud is very Blonde lol... well now that u got the model.. u can change it easy..