Looking for an indie friendly pixel artist
Hi Everyone, I'm working on a platformer game and I need some characters (for now) which would be in the style of the indie game "Thy Sword" (around 12px height). I need a bunch of fantasy characters and the tiny rez could be a little tricky to differentiate them enough. I would prefer a "per frame" rate agreement and, ideally, a sprite sheet will count 20/25 frames (Idle/Run/Jump/Fall/Attack/Air attack/Death). I haven't a specific budget in mind but I choose this kind of art style to keep the prices as low as possible. Of course if anybody is willing to help for free, he's welcome;)
A word about the game:
The Fellowship is a love letter to the Lord Of The Rings, obviously, the others Tolkien's work and the Fantasy genre in general. The player will not have a single hero but a party of brave champions to get throught the dungeons filled with dangerous traps and feroucious ennemies. Each hero will have a single HP and, if (or when) the player's character die, he return to the previous checkpoint activated in the dungeon. No potion to heal a character, no phoenix tail to revive a lost member of the Fellowhip, just the bitter feel of failure and despair. The player will be able to recruit a bunch characters along the way, some of them will join the Fellowship willingly, some will have to be convinced and some other will be hidden.
That's pretty all, thanks for reading and see you.
Oh! Wish you the best luck with that project!
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Silent clouds gather around the fake sound in the wooden frog's eye -
staring at the never growing flower made the steamwork heart shatter.
I'm not much of an artist myself, but I wish you luck in finding one to help you. I found some stuff you might be interested in if you haven't already seen it:
GrafxKid's Classic Hero stuff is about the right size and stylistically similar, but a bit more chibi-ish. Disthron, DezrasDragons, and Umz made some nice derivatives to his set as well.
Calciumtrice did some characters that are bigger than 12x12 pixels, but are stylistically similar to Thy Sword. Several people produced derivatives as well. Basically everything in this collection is worth taking a look at for inspiration. Might work well with LUNARSIGNALS' hsv hero generator: https://mechaelephant.com/hsvhero
Master484's Mini Knight stuff seems to be about the right size and style.
Some other honorable mentions worth looking at
I'm sure you're looking for that very specific style and dimensions that only a pixel artist can customize, but I'm hoping these may help out or give you inspiration. :)
--Medicine Storm
@SCay Thanks mate for the cheer up.
@MedicineStorm Wow, that's an amazing amount of stuff to look at, thank you very much. I will check this carefully, thanks again.
@Chidra if you want, and haven't found what you're looking for already, I could try this! ^^
If they were gonna be my own personal style though, I would've probably made them a bit bigger, but it's mainly about what you need of course.
Though, if you were going to use me , the price wouldn't really be too dependent on resolution necessarily, unless it's like fighting game sprites of course. (which you're obviously not going for XD)
@Spring Thanks for your reply. Pmed you.