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My second year doing Art Fight!

YingLuoFu [-Ender Sacred Relics 2.0 Version-] Military Lolita Dress Set

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If Gawain wasn't awake before, he is now!

Very early on during the development of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the intention was to keep the original eye colors of Mario, Luigi and Peach as blue, while the finished game gives all characters flat-color dark eyes. This idea was seemingly abandoned so early that even in the game's prototype version only few sprites still have those eye colors.

Source: tcrf

"readability on a GBA screen"

the GameBoy Advance screen is very small. Probably the size of your palm. The image above is about 10x larger than the characters would be on the screen. Even IN the amove image, the separation between iris and pupil makes the pupils look really really small, which gives them all a kind of, dead-eyed look.

If you want readability in your expressions, in a sprite, you want the eyes to be as simple as possible, to convey as much emotion as possible, in as little detail as possible. You do not have ~5 pixels to waste on eye color. No. you need all ~6 of those pixels for the pupil itself.

Let's size this image down to the correct size - so that Mario and co are their native ~30 pixels tall.

That's really small!!!

Hopefully not so small that you can't tell... but I think that starts making it obvious why the changes were made. The top sprites are muddier, with too much detail. The bottom sprites are much easier to read; not just the eyes, but also Mario and Luigi's hands, which have lost their shadows and definition in favor of clearer and more-readable shapes.

Luigi's top sprite has an expression that reads more like worry, or fear, in a way that is almost too extreme for what I know is his "jumping up in the air in surprise" sprite. And are those his hands? what is he doing with them? ARE those his hands? but on the bottom, it's clear that he's clutching at his face, and the exaggerated shape of his legs makes the body language as a whole clear!

realism is not the most important, especially in a video game with sprites this small, and especially in a videogame in the Mario & Luigi RPG series, a series with combat famously focused on quick reaction times during special BROS attacks in battle. You need the motion of Mario's jump and Mario's fists and Mario's hammer to be as obvious as possible, or else... you have made a game with mechanics that players can't read.

Ok I put this on FB but it can't hurt to put here too. We need help with Fantine!

Dog location: Northeast Georgia, just outside metro Atlanta and near the NC/TN/SC borders. TL;DR: Really sweet stray dog has ringworm; current foster is immune compromised; need someone to help by housing her for the duration of her treatment. Only need a short-term foster (approximately a month is the estimate for ringworm treatment? up to six weeks, I guess) and we can help find a permanent placement for her when her treatment is complete.

Details: Fantine is a stray dog we have been fostering for about the last month, she has a wonderful temperament (very sweet and trusting with people, quite resilient, friendly to all the dogs she has met) and is about a year and a half old. She has had all her vaccines and flea/tick/heartworm treatment and was spayed almost three weeks ago. and is healing up from it really well.

She's also ringworm positive, and I have some serious immune-related health conditions. The vet who diagnosed her was worried about her staying in the house with me even though she has been in quarantined in the laundry room and we are being very cautious about biosecurity.

Pip unfortunately does not have a working immune system, and as someone who dealt with a dog with ringworm and an immunodeficiency myself, I know what a nightmare that can be. Pip has always gone above and beyond for its dogs, but it cannot be expected to sacrifice its health in this case, although it already has done so much!

If any of my followers are able to foster Fantine, please reach out to Pip!

it’s okay that i don’t have a sewing machine

i love backstitching by hand for hours

this has got to be great for my back

millions of my ancestors did this and they lived almost as long as i want to

Of course they have their Pokémon companions!

Residents:

Dawn and Piplup (Repeat Ball, which she is shown with in the Platinum art)

Barry and Chimchar (Quick Ball for the hasty lad)

Serena and Fennekin (Undecided)

Gold and Cyndaquil (Fast Ball, which he is shown with in the Crystal art)

Youngster Joey and the one and only Rattata (A regular Poké Ball, because a top percentage Rattata doesn't need a fancy ball to be special.)

To come:

Kris and Chikorita (Will have a Love Ball house)

Lyra and Marill (Undecided.)

Silver and Totodile (Will have a Great Ball house)