Street Characters Portrait Pack 1

Retro Cybercity Portrait Pack 1

This is a series of portraits for character sprites in the Street Characters Pack, focused on the "Hero" character designs from that pack. These faces include several "emoting" variants each as well as "talk" and "blink" variants for simple animations.

This asset pack is for creators who are looking to try a cyberpunk or futuristic scifi aesthetic that takes cues from the analog era of the 1980s and 90s. Think Blade Runner or Ready Player One with an SNES/SEGA Genesis style color palette. 

I wanted to get away from the tendency to do cheap "same face, diff features/hair" genre of character portraits and really pay attention to things like bone structure, overall face shape, and of course the arrangement of features and the much larger scale of details and hair from the base 16x16 sprites.

The pack uses the palette BLKNX64 by @blkirl.

SPECIAL NOTE:

The RPG Maker folder in the pack includes a version of these portraits formatted and scaled to work with RPG Maker MZ which uses a portrait cell size of 144x144. The native size is 48x48 and these can be resized at 2x to be used with RPG Makers that IIRC used 96x96.

For those wondering about the "talk" animations for the 16x16 sprites, I'll eventually be including those and a few other goodies in the original Street Characters pack.

What Does It Include?

The first two images in the sidebar give a solid idea of the talk animations, base portraits, and some of the variants included. If you're looking for something specific that you don't see here, feel free to ask about it in the comments.

This pack includes:

• 10 Characters represented from the Street Characters Sprite pack. The sidebar includes images of all 10 across different variants to give you an idea.
• 2 Size Options by default: Native 48x48 cells and RPG Maker MZ compatible 144x144 cells arranged in 2x8 sheets.
• Each character has 1 full sheet of 8 variant portraits and a second half sheet of 3-4 additional variants. Android characters are missing the "VR goggles" variant because they have theirs built in!
• A handy guide for what I tried to pull off with each variant in terms of what emotion is being conveyed.
• Ability to take the blinking and talking and create simple animations if your game or project has a need for that.

IT DOES NOT INCLUDE:

• 16x16 full body character sprites -- different pack for those!
• Portraits from the other portrait packs, they are only shown on the sidebar as examples.

Why Not Include ALL the "Street Characters"?

In case you're wondering why this is only 10 out of the nearly 30, it's because pricing such a huge portrait pack would make it too expensive for many users to grab in one shot. Those portraits are a step or two behind these ones in terms of polish and need more work. They'll be coming out soon.

With numbered packs, I'm hoping users will be able to mix and match the portraits they need to some extent.

I will also be offering bundle discounts for purchasing multiple portrait packs at once, for those who wish to get it all. 

Will There be Updates?

I'll probably be including additional portrait variants in the empty cells included here. I'm sure I'll eventually think of more variants that make sense to add but I tried my best to cover my bases here.

I am also looking forward to requests from users who may need more options than are represented here. Please sound off in the comments if you've got suggestions!

Licensing

Please note, by purchasing and downloading this product, you are agreeing to the following licensing terms:

What You Can Do:

• Use in commercial and non-commercial games, personal projects, or public domain projects.
• Sell works created using this asset, eg: a video game.
• Modify assets for your own use in personal or commercial projects. For example, reorganizing tile sheets, adjusting size, or mixing and matching assets, recolors.
• Publish work using this asset on websites relating to art, games, and similar.

What You Cannot Do:

• Resell the original or any modified version.
• Use the assets or derivatives in logo, trademark, or service mark.
• Use these assets for AI anything, generators, code-based art tools, or NFTs.

Contact & Support

I am open to suggestions and feedback and am quick to respond to comments here. I am always looking forward to seeing what YOU make with my assets. 

I am best reached through email: hedgewizardgame@gmail.com or by commenting right here on itch. Especially if I don't check my email enough!  You can find me on tumblr where I post art almost daily. I make other art as side projects or for fun. Any time I really get a bug to make game assets outside of my own projects and commissions, I'll probably put them on it

ch! If you'd like to commission my work or are simply curious to see more of it, please check out my tumblr or my Artstation page. I usually appreciate feedback, so please feel free to comment.