Making sprites out of portraits

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But what is the point of having a process in the first place if it don't give good results?

I'm not going to believe this works until i see a decent sprite thats been made using it.

Well that is a good question. This whole technique is really more for artistic unpros. But I got a nice attack animation, working well for 4 directions (not n,s). The artist is called Jonkin from deviantart and he gave permission to use his character and portrait here. The only change I did to the baseframe was to reduce the headsize by 10%. (Yes, I made the head smaller.)
Here you go: