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Ami/Mercury Final Design, Sailor Soldier Edits
Topic Started: Jan 31 2010, 03:43 PM (1,290 Views)
Chains Of Fate
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So I've never been happy with Ami/Mercury's hair but I finally edited it to a format I am very happy with. I think she looks a lot prettier and her hair is less boxy now. Hopefully you guys will feel the same.

Here she is, before and after:

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And a few tiny edits were made to the Sailor Soldier's uniform designs (Not their individual outfits, the outfits that come later, the ones we know)

As you can see, I put Sailor Moon's original for comparison. I basically lowered the bottom of the armor and skirts so that they actually look like they have a full chest. XD I remember someone (Eleo I think) requested that their torsos be lowered to make them look more proportionate and I took the advice and I think they look great now. I also changed the top of their armor a tiny bit.

Here they are:

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Thoughts?
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GJl1z
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well, they look good but there are some things im concerned about. First, why does Ami have that blue dot on her forehead in her school uniform? Second, The extended whatever thing you did looks great, especially on venus, but I think it looks weird to have the collar flap things pointing out like they are solid armor. Third, why are mercury's arms blue? Fourth, its hard to tell what is the bow and what are the elbow things on sailor moon. Like, the bow blends in too much with the elbow things and just kinda makes it look like one big thing.
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flamesoul32
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First I want to say that Ami's hair and the edits to the senshi look great. The hair looks prettier now and more like real hair. The senshi having an upgrade to their proportions make them look even more amazing.

I do have to agree with GJl1z's comment on the random blue dot on Ami's forehead. It is very random. I'm also wondering why Ami's original senshi outfit doesn't have her with her visor. I think you did hat to show off the hair but doesn't that outfit always have the visor?

Another question I had was why is the before of Ami in a dress have a different hair color then all the other sprites?

It's kind of funny how the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the new senshi sprites was; "They actually have stomachs!" . Oddly, Ami is short and I think that made it harder to note a difference with her.

Edit: I realize the blue dot is a bang of hair. It just doesn't really look like one.
Edited by flamesoul32, Jan 31 2010, 10:43 PM.
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Chains Of Fate
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The blue dot is her hair swirling to the right. Just like the top of her hair has that point, the front of her hair is curved. It's one of her bangs, in other words. The concept version of her is accidentally missing it, but it's also there on her other versions. I can emphasize it more if needed, I didn't realize it looked so random.

Yes, Ami's concept version will always have her visor, I just did this to emphasize the hair as you said. The other Soldiers will also have their masks in their concept versions.

The original Princess Ami's hair is different because it's older and the princess versions haven't been touched since the decision for their hair color to change. Originally that hair color was her hair color in every form. I didn't see the point in taking the time to edit it since it's an older sprite. As it stands, the girls have their normal hair colors as their civilian selves, and different hair colors for their Soldier and past life forms.

Mercury has blue arms because she's wearing transparent blue sleeves. Her sleeves and gold ornament thing on her bow were taken from her Material Collection design to make her unique, she has always been shown with sleeves here on the forum on her sprites.

I think the collar thing looks fine on the other Soldiers because their hair blends in, but it does look odd on Sailor Moon. I will definitely edit that on her if not all of them.

There's not really anything I can do about the top of Sailor Moon's gloves; her bow is the same color. I could possibly make them a little darker I guess.
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mikaylaaria
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The new style of the hair looks pretty good (especially the longer back! <3), but the front makes it looks like she has a really big forehead....
Maybe if the left was brought down a little, or the part it the middle was softened....
Those are just my thoughts, so feel free to take them with a grain or two of salt~
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Chains Of Fate
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Constructive criticism is what this thread is for. ^^

I do see what you mean about the forehead. I will work on it!
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MichiruKaiou
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UsagiLaugh I didn't know they could get anymore detailed :) Love Mercury's new hair, looks less anime-ish like now
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I Agree with MichiruKaiou, they really look less anime-ish and more personal.

Oh, and I'm glad you remembered me and my torso comment from, what, two years ago? Haha, oh well, I love the new sprites, they look colorful, personal and alive.
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sicknpsyko
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The hair definitely does look more life-like and less boxy.
The only thing that I can think of that no one has mentioned is the color. I think that the new hair is a little too light. Not like it's completely off or anything, and I know that the senshi are slightly different from the civilian forms. Just when comparing the Before and After of each individual sprite (Except for the princess because the Before is so old and so much darker) I think that the before pictures have a more detailed sense of darks and lights, and the highlights. Specifically in her part at the back it gets really dark and the new sprites seem to be lacking that level of darkness. I realize that this is really nit-picky but I thought I'd mention it. For all I know it was your intention to make the hair lighter. In my opinion though, the darker hair on the Before sprites looks better.
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Rumn-Snuffles
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Decided to show not tell VenusPose

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So pretty much the bottom row is my edit of the 'after' hair... I tried to make it look more hair-like and balanced, as well as making the shading more like what sicknpsyko was saying.... You can see the hair by itself in the bottom right, in both colours, and note that I also took out one of the shades as it was really close to another one there...

But yeah, just a suggestion UsagiLaugh

EDIT: Oh yeah, also I noticed while doing this that Chains had the hair slightly different depending on the outfit sometimes (princess hair has more flyaway bits) in his after hairs. I like this idea and only didn't do it out of laziness UsagiLaugh
Edited by Rumn-Snuffles, Feb 13 2010, 11:45 PM.
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Wow I really like the edits you made Rumn-Snuffles !!!!
AmiPose 's hair looks really good !!
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mikaylaaria
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Thumbs up!
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Chains Of Fate
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I like how you edited the bangs on the front to get rid of the "blue dot" problem. ^^ I will definitely make that change. I actually recently reshaded the hair to look more natural, the shading was bad on the previous versions I did. XD So she should look much better now. I'll post the update soon!
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Cloud
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Love Mercury's new hair style! Very nice! :)
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ArtemisX
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I haven't commented on this yet.-smacks.-bad me, but I do love the new design! Hope that we're close to seeing Mercury's final design!
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