My early sprite work (RO custom items)

[Anna Comnena]

For something to do I'll share some of my first stuff in pixel art; custom items for Ragnarok Online (I used to play on some private servers).

Catgirl Ears, since the ones in-game were sort of lame. My first experience in making pixel art, and during this time I had to learn the hard way the problems of using a fancy program like photoshop. Also RO graphics are heavy with the use of palettes so that was a trip as well.

More finalized version of the Cat Ears, these ended up being the "female" variant - since in RO item sprites had masculine and feminine counterparts; which was odd because all the default items in RO were just copies anyway.

Another version, this one was made for guys.

People seemed to like these and they looked good with the RO sprites, so it was a success! ^_^

After that I decided to take up something much more difficult, a cat tail to match the ears. Anyone familiar with RO private servers or RO in general will probably realize there wasn't any tail type worn items, and in private servers the closest thing were the static overused custom wings on many p-servers. So this was something very unique, and not something the RO "hats" were designed to do. So I had to really fiddle with things to get an animated tail to work, and fit on most sprites.

Here is my first test release:

This was on FinalRO, I wasn't a GM so I had normal characters and had help from the GM (the blonde character, who was switching classes so I could see how it looked on other job sprites). Client side I modified the Dust Mask to be my tail, so it wasn't in-game yet as it's own item and could only be seen from my client.

I changed where it meets the body and added a ribbon bow, then added more animation for walking, and tested it out again (this time I was on my thief character on that server):

Basically by this time the tail was pretty much done, and I just messed with alignment for certain sprites. Unfortunately it never lined up perfectly with every job sprite, but it was functional enough in-game.

To end, a picture of my Acolyte character, with ears and tail. So adorable. ^_^