Hoi. It's okay, I don't feel the need to be polite either.
Holy shit, that was so many words to say absolutely nothing substantial. Bear with me as I try to decipher what you're actually saying here.
1. "If move a pixel change a lot in that resolution. Why you don't cared about fix it?"
I apologize because I truly don't know what you're even saying here, so I'm going to take my closest guess. What it appears like you're asking is "why is the art not perfect?" shit man, I dunno. I do my best to try and bat a thousand, but I'm unfortunately still just a dude.
2. "Is there an actual reason to hidde the portrait and scenes art?"
If you've read just about anything I've said, or seen the measures I took to prevent cheating in this game, it might not surprise you to learn that I care about people experiencing the game as I created it. Especially for the 0.2 update - it is intended to be a huge surprise when Deoxys appears. Hiding the images that 100% spoil that appearance is in line with my whole design philosophy. I want folks to play the game.
3. "If it's made from 2024 (By the metadata). Why it's so green and don't fixes the arts problems?"
This seems like another "why is art not perfect" question, to which I again respond: shit man, I'm trying. Still actively learning & getting better at this.
4. "Why are cutted outlines? If in context of like the next "They are on knees". Why looks she stand up and you cock in like 5 ft from the floor"
"Cutted Outlines" I'm assuming refers to why I draw scenes with a cutoff at the bottom. The answer, shockingly, is that I want to be efficient with my time and effort. If I make a scene where the player is not going to see below the knees, why the hell would I draw below the knees? Your own example (the XY Ranger Abra handjob) is flawed. I'm already cropping off the top of the sprite to show the scene with the text box, so tell me how it would be at all beneficial to waste time and effort on anything below the knees? It isn't at all the focus of the scene.
You are right to call this scene out as having an error, though, but since it is related to eye color I'm going to leave that for when I get to that whole "argument".
4a. "Why looks she stand up and you cock in like 5 ft from the floor"
Because the focus of the scene isn't on the dick, nor the guy. If it was, he'd probably be in the scene, yeah? I apply the rule of cool liberally. If I want a handjob scene that displays most of the woman's body, I'm going to elevate the player to however high he needs to be standing in order to make it happen. Because the player is invisible in scenes (minus the dick), perhaps he is sitting on a nearby piece of elevated ground, or the bridge, or levitating five feet in the air for all I care. That's not the point of the scene, and I'm not ever going to let that get in the way of showing off the parts of the body I want to show off. If that breaks your immersion, I'm sorry, but it's a choice I make very consistently.
5. "Is normal not have the same mount of details on every single image. But the mount in there are the same AI like gemini uses. AND THERE SO MUCH FOR PIXEL ART."
...the pixel art is detailed?
Thanks???
5a. Hands:
Hands are tough. Believe it or not, AI is not the only thing that struggles to draw hands in a roughly 9x9 pixel area. For the scene in particular you brought up, I remember trying half a dozen different things before I said fuck it, I'm going to leave her hand completely in shadows as if she's resting it pointing backwards above her hip. If you really are an artist as you claim to be, you may recognize the feeling of trying something so many times and not getting it quite right, so you say "fuck it, good enough" and move on. Also, along with 4a, the off hand isn't the point of the scene. I can, in my opinion, afford to say "fuck it, good enough" because it isn't the focal point. I'm not anticipating people viewing the scene to want to focus on that, so I'm okay with skimping a little bit there.
1/2
Well, I'll go through them one by one:
Resolution: When I started making this game, I was coming from exclusively making battle sprites. These, in Essentials, are 96x96 px - so that was the canvas that I was just the most familiar working with. The earliest portraits in this game all use that model (as do the unused Leaf portraits from ~2023 in the files). As I continued to step away from battle sprites & into my current style, I settled into my current default size of 108x108 px. But that canvas size isn't hard set. There are characters with large hair, or weird posing, or any number of reasons that I extend the canvas out by a few extra pixels. This is probably the difference that is the easiest to see: in my old work, 96x96 was IT. If something hit the border, that was that - no cropping, because I didn't have that luxury for battle sprites. It was, again, what I was used to.
...I've also just gotten better at fitting things into my default canvas, anyway.
I'm assuming you're not accusing the portraits that are very obviously intentionally taller than the rest? The ones that stretch from the thighs up are 108x~160px... but these ones I am very liberal with extending/shortening if I feel like it will better serve the piece. I've got space to spare in-game, so if the piece becomes better by giving myself those extra pixels, it makes total sense to me to do it.
Details: I think this is the change that is most prevalent in my progression. If you look at battle sprites, the color palette is very limited, and shading is blocky with the occasional checkerboard shading. It very quickly became apparent that this didn't look great for the portrait sprites, but I didn't yet know what I needed to change or even how to change it. My solution was to use photoshop as a crutch & overrely on the pencil tool's ability to hue jitter, scatter, etc., and then come back with some blur and layer styles. I'll keep it a buck, looking back at some of the early stuff in this game is hard for me now. There's a lot that I would do differently if I revisited those sprites today. I think if you look at the sprites chronologically, you'd be able to pick apart a pretty clear sequence. The tough part of viewing this game as a whole package is that you may not necessarily have the context that the first demo for this game was in "development" (and I do use that term loosely, because it mostly refers to the art & possession battle mechanic) since the end of 2023. I've had a lot longer than I think a lot of people realize. Here's a good example I can give you. The XY Ranger's Gastly portrait is one of the earliest surviving pieces in the game. It was done, at the earliest, in spring of 2024. The second portrait is an upcoming portrait of the same character that I did two weeks ago. I think it explains a lot:
Consistency: This is a fair thing to point out. Details, especially small ones, are tricky to place when you are working with canvases this small. My job - in my opinion - with pixel art of this scale is to get things close enough that your imagination does a lot of the heavy lifting for me. Moving details by even one pixel completely changes how a piece looks at this size. Some of that, though, is definitely a skill issue on my end. But, like all skill issues, it is one that I would argue I'm demonstrably getting better at as time passes.
As far as the "and similar" goes, I'm really not sure where to go with that. I think the biggest takeaway is that you are seeing a huge chunk of my timeline in this game. I've redone some of the most egregiously mid sprites already, but a large portion of that early work will likely be memorialized in the game forever, for better or for worse.
