I have always been fascinated with the hacking community, and right now I am thinking of trying my hand at a Megaman X sprite hack. I remember trying out a Megaman 3 hack called Megalion, and I was personally fascinated by the sprites. I was thinking "If he can do it with Megaman 3, how hard would it be to do with Megaman X, as I care to re-sprite Megaman X more than Megaman." The reason for this is, well... I'm kind of embarrassed to say this.
I have been a HUGE fan of the Megaman series. But I personally don't mind the idea of a robotic human with an animal buddy who fights other human robots, but there's always been something about the idea of a human robot with NO animal buddy who fights animal robots that is a MAJOR turn-off. I might be picky, but the whole idea has kept me from enjoying the game. I kind of wanted to re-sprite Megaman X into an animal so the game is more appealing to me.
But for some reason, I want it to be more than just a main character sprite hack. I also want to edit the levels a bit to make it more fun for those who have already played the game a million times. Plus, I'm making the game about Benny, so instead of fighting robot animals, you're fighting robot mythical monsters, AS a robot mythical monster. Launch Octopus is going to be something like Dive Forneus, and Boomer Kwaranger might be Swing Oni, as well as other things. ...But I haven't gotten that far yet. All I have is a lone sprite of "MegaBenny."
They say the first sprite is the hardest, but I can't make the rest of the sprites until I'm confident about the first sprite. Right away, my problem is the shading. I have a hard time grasping what the shading should look like. The only thing I actually WANT to edit are the feet and the head, but I also want to create a NEW head instead of editing the existing head. I'm also having trouble with the ears. They don't seem right to me. Some help and criticism would GREATLY be appreciated.
I'd ask elsewhere, but I'm not sure of anyone else who would take me seriously.
Spriters Resorce: Not even worth a mention.
Sprite Database: A dying site, might not get my help there.
Anywhere else: Never heard of them, but they're probably not Furry Friendly.