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Published: 2007-08-23 18:48:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 13152; Favourites: 338; Downloads: 339
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Yesterday by accident, I happened to stumble upon a couple of sprites of "newer-generation" Pokemon, pixeled in the style of the old Red/Blue games, which were AWESOME. (And also a couple of sprite recolors that claimed to do the same thing but were just flat-colored...sprite recolors. LAME.) So I thought, "why not," and tried a couple of my own. xD I started with Empoleon, and then decided, "Heck, I'll just do all the starters."So here they are! I kind of cheated in regards to the colors, which aren't actual 8-bit colors, although I of course stayed true to the style of using a limited color palette. And then I realized Torterra's tree was on the wrong side, because I was using a flipped image as a reference. D'oh! But I didn't feel like flipping him. Other than that, I'm really pleased with how these came out.
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I hate the people who recolor sprites and call them Devamps. Stuff like these are what I really want to see.
What do you think about Re-Vamps, though. As far as I know, there is no way to truly revamp a sprite, since all the characters form the 1st gen up are all in later gens, too.
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wow they look awesum ! i made some too but your sprites rock so much morexD!!
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Thank you! My process is pretty basic; I just grab the colors from the official sprites and dive right into drawing them, looking at the official ones closely to match the shading/anti-aliasing styles (I don't sketch these out first when I do R/B style sprites, I find it helps to get that distorted look the early Pokemon had, haha)
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"anti-aliasing styles"
what do you mean by that?
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Basically adding pixels of lighter color around the outlines to "soften" them, so to speak.
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Holy crap, SO cool! 8D
They look seriously authentic, I'm impressed, dude c:
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*chooses Infernape and owns the other 2*
wat?
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Wow. This is pretty much what I'm doing now.
Only, it was done a while ago.
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Ooh, yours are great, though! I love Shinx's wide head, hahaha
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Thanks. It reflects upon the fact that the Green sprites were complete shit.
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That flip on Torterra's tree seems like something they would accidentally do in the old games XD
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amazing you did a great job on these they look like they fit in one of the old games
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amazing you did a great job on these they look like they fit in one of the old games
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Torterra is runnin .LOL
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Imagine if they actually appeared in Red/Blue o.O just like that...
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Good work! Are u planning on doing Dialga/Palkia?
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you. yes you. please do a devamp of palkia or/and garchomp *w*
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Oooh Palkia could be fun :>
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maaaan, if Torterra actually looked more like that, i totally would have picked him.
hmmm, i feel like looking for sprites now...
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Dayum. These are so awesome. I want to try something like this somtime, but I need to find me some info about the older sprites. D: I know their colors were limited and stuff but not how much and things like that. XD
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Haha, whenever I want to use the "official" colors I just google "Red/Blue Pokemon sprites" and borrow the colors from there XD
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if pokemon dp takes a turn back this is wht its coming to..its really good love it
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terrific job!
you have my support
which means..
make more make more make more!
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My god, these bring nack so many memories of when I used to play Blue!
I would've picked Empoleon, even back then! <3
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That is so cool. D: The first two look so freakish, they should be used in the original Green version!
I like Torterra's sprite, though. If it weren't for the retro colors, I'd say it'd be suitable for Gold/Silver version.
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Hee, thanks! Gotta love those green sprites, huh?
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that's so hot!
it's like.....super duper awesome smeared on paper.
delicious.
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