Animal Playable characters

[gvduck10]

One staple of the of the Suikoden series is animal-like PCs with matching names (only different by the vowels)

Since I am designing a suikoden-inspired game, I would like to include the following 5 animal PCs:

1. Nava, the fox - sprite & portrait are DONE -- thanks to Paneda!

2. Neva, the wolf - RTP sprite is great, but need a face portrait

3. Niva - suggestions?

4. Nova - suggestions?

5. Nuva - suggestions?

Yes, I understand that traditionally in the Suikoden mold, all five of these would be the same animal with just slight variations, but I thought it would be rather boring to ask someone to simply tweak one animal sprite five different ways.

Possible ideas for Niva/Nova/Nuva:

Ferret/Otter

Bear

Pig/Boar

Badger

Hawk/Falcon/Eagle (I have a great sprite for this, but no face)

*Giant Turtle/Tortoise

Horse/*Unicorn

Dog/Coyote/Dingo

Cow/Bull

Monkey/Ape/Gorilla

Tiger/Lion/Panther

Lynx/Bobcat

Goat/Ram/Sheep

*mythical creatures are usually in a separate class, but I will still appreciate the resources

 

[Avery]

Vitamindog has an awesome wolf bust:

http://vitamindog.blog68.fc2.com/blog-entry-133.html

 

[gvduck10]

Vitamindog has an awesome wolf bust:

http://vitamindog.blog68.fc2.com/blog-entry-133.html

I don't speak Japanese - can anyone confirm that these are free to use with credit given to "Vitamindog"??

Also, I like this bear by Mack (recolor by Grandma Deb)



Maybe for Nuva, the magic casting Bear

 

[slimmmeiske2]

Vitamindog says credit is even optional.

 

[gvduck10]

Thanks slimmmeiske2!

Grandma Deb has some great animal portraits, but I need matching sprites - and they must be animals that would make sense to take into battle/trainable to attack/useful in war somehow.

There was a Bull sprite I found somewhere...

 

[GrandmaDeb]

You did check the animal sprites list, yes?


http://www.rpgmakervx.net/index.php?showtopic=15704


Atsa lotsa animals there....

 

[gvduck10]

Final decision-ish:

Nava - the fox, item-find ability and earth magic; sprite and face by Pineda

Neva - the eagle, item-find ability and wind magic; sprite by Mack, face by Fayforest 

Niva - the white wolf, item-find ability and water magic; recolor by birdzilla, face by vitamindog

Nova - the bull, fire and earth magic; sprite by Pineda, face by Fayforest

Nuva - the grey wolf, item-find ability and fire magic; recolor by birdzilla, face by vitamindog

Note the two "face by ?" which refers to this comment on http://www.rpgmakervx.net/index.php?showtopic=15704

"ABOVE: Fayforest/Ruruga/Gozaru's facesets resized for VX by Granny"

Should I just credit all three or can you tell me who is responsible for the eagle face and (brown) bull face

 

[GrandmaDeb]

Those are three names for the same artists, depending on who was crediting at the time =]


I'd go with Fayforest.