Title explains it pretty well. In this thread I'll be showcasing my progress for attempting to sprite some sort of reptilian race, as well as some of my other sprites and stuff. So far, I've got about 23 different head-types. They vary in style somewhat, but there are tons of different kinds of reptiles and I wanna kinda play around with what a reptilian race could be. The other body parts aren't very interesting unless someone plans on turning it into a mod, so I haven't bothered enlarging them. I'll be sticking other random misc sprites that I work on here as well. Anyway, lemme know what you guys think.
slippy toad>>>>>>>>> It would be awesome if you made a race based of the Mortal Kombat Ninjas (the old palette versions). Reptile, Scorpion, Rain, Ermac, sub zero etc.
Made some minor tweaks to some shading, added 2 variants of the Chameleon headstyle, a frog head, and 2 more reptilian humanoid headstyles. If you guys have any suggestions or ideas for reptilian heads that I could do, let me know and I'll give it a shot.
I'd love to see a raptor-styled head, myself. I like the series of dino heads in the upper right, though.
Updated to include my best attempts at a Raptor-, Snake-, and Alligator-styled head. I feel like I'm close to maxing out what I can do to get a raptor head in the space and pixel constraints, but I'm not sure if I'm entirely happy with it, yet. Might see some revisions in the future.
These are fantastic! I hope you create a mod out of this - I would love to play as one of your Reptilian characters!
I see what you mean, and totally understandable. I could see myself using it, nonetheless. Thanks. =) The alligator, too. I like some of the various heads in this, really. Good stuff. I'm just a raptor fanatic, I guess.
Wow. That is some beautiful work! I am in love with the "Triceratops type" heads. Stunning. You definitely need to make a post in Suggestions.
This looks really good. I'm happy you've incorporated so many different reptiles, since animal races don't usually use all the wonderful opportunities in their chosen animal grouping. (apex, avians, looking at you.)
Added a Horned Chameleon variant, Dragon-esque variant of the Raptor head, tweaked Snake slightly, added a sort of inverted Cobra, and added Ankylosaurus. (Slippy and Reptile are also now clothed ) Really appreciate the support. I'm only 22 Heads in so far (I'm aiming for 40, which is the number of Hairstyles the Glitch, Floran, and Hylotl have, so I figure it's a good goal), and even then I've really got like 2 sets of 11, or you could even break it up into a set of 4, 2 sets of 5, a set of 6, and a couple misc styles, so I'm not sure how it would fit in as a race outside of a fun mod or something. On the other hand, I could probably incorporate that into the lore with warring factions of the race or something. I definitely need to think about it. I have been thinking, though, of a name. Can't keep calling it Reptilian Race forever. What do you guys think of Lasarox? (Kind of a skew of a combination of the Latin words Lacerta and Atrox, meaning Lizard and Cruel, Fierce, or Savage, respectively.) I'm also absolutely starting to run out of steam for Head ideas, so if you guys have any let me know!
What I like to do when naming things, is that I take a phrase or word relevant to it and translate it into Latin. I then take the result and base it off that. For example, I made a race of kangaroos called the Desulti, which is based on "desultor" (Latin for "jumper"). I imagine you could find something based on the word for "lizard" or "reptile".
Added an eared variant of the Raptor head that kinda reminds me of How to Train Your Dragon. Added backs of all of the heads because I'm seriously out of ideas for different head type ideas. Threw in a base head and base back of head. Base head is so dark with yellow eyes because as I understand it, all of these different head-types would be technically hairstyles, meaning helmets would remove them, so at least if I make the area around the eyes dark and make the eyes a stark yellow they retain a sense of their reptilian nature. The Chameleon, Predator-Eyed, and Dinosaur heads will look strange when they disappear because of a helmet, but meh.
Added all the other body template stuff, so if someone wanted to make a full mod of it, even though there's only 23 head/hairstyles, they should have everything they need sprite-wise to get a basic thing completed. Also going to be adding my other Starbound spritework into this thread, starting with the Floran animation I did based somewhat on the style of my friend, who you may have already seen on this thread.