Renlie_Cocoa's Art and Animation (Remake Sprite, Idea Advancement, and more other)

[laerne]

Hello.

I concur with doofus, your shading tend to be simplistic and uniform. First, you should not give equal thickness to your shading on the left/right and top/bottom, this correspond to a sun coming directly behind the viewer/camera, as if lit by a flashlight. Most south-west wesnoth sprites have are lit with a sum on the top right.

Second, you should take advantage of the many pixels you have to give a feeling of texture, many of your sprites feel too smooth for what they try to represent. Even the mushrooms have texture, if you look a some references of even basic cultivated mushroom.

Here is a quick attempt to lit that mushroom cap from an angle, and give it a bit of texture. I may have slightly overdid the texture, but regardless, it gives you feeling on how to play with the pixels to give that feeling. On top I've attempted only to give the feel of the 3D shape with a light at an angle. Below it, I've used a smaller brush to give the feel for the texture.

[RenlieCocoa]

Hello.

I concur with doofus, your shading tend to be simplistic and uniform. First, you should not give equal thickness to your shading on the left/right and top/bottom, this correspond to a sun coming directly behind the viewer/camera, as if lit by a flashlight. Most south-west wesnoth sprites have are lit with a sum on the top right.

Second, you should take advantage of the many pixels you have to give a feeling of texture, many of your sprites feel too smooth for what they try to represent. Even the mushrooms have texture, if you look a some references of even basic cultivated mushroom.

Here is a quick attempt to lit that mushroom cap from an angle, and give it a bit of texture. I may have slightly overdid the texture, but regardless, it gives you feeling on how to play with the pixels to give that feeling. On top I've attempted only to give the feel of the 3D shape with a light at an angle. Below it, I've used a smaller brush to give the feel for the texture.

Screenshot from 2025-08-21 23-40-06.png

Well thanks for that idea for my Muse. Also I was try to plan idea for try to remake again for Muse to color and shape but later. I have still a lot of things to do like plan for creating a idea advancement sprite for Giant Scorpion - mainline, Flesh Golem - Under the Burning Suns, and Crawling Horror - Under the Burning Suns and more animation for Vampire Fledgeling - Era of Myth/War of Legend/Era of Chaos. It will be more idea and sprite that take a long time to make.

[RenlieCocoa]

Grüü: Yeah, I am really hungry.
Vraurk: That is not what I mea-. Oh my goodness!!! That Scorpion is so large!

Giant Scorpion:
Lvl 0: Giant Scorpling
Lvl 1: Giant Scorpion
Lvl 2: Grand Scorpion
Lvl 3: Scorpion King

Sand Scuttler:
Lvl 0: Sand Scamperer
Lvl 1: Sand Scuttler
Lvl 2: Desert Scuttler
Lvl 3: Scuttler King

[RenlieCocoa]

Fledgeling Vampire Animation Part 1 (Base sprite from Era of Myth, Era of Chaos,War of Legend):

Sword Animation

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Die Animation

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Defend Animation

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Bobbing/Standing Animation

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[Lord-Knightmare]

Fledgeling Vampire Animation Part 1 (Base sprite from Era of Myth, Era of Chaos,War of Legend):

Sword Animation
fledgeling-attack.gif

Die Animation
fledgeling-die.gif

Defend Animation
fledgeling-defend.gif

Bobbing/Standing Animation
fledgeling-bob.gif

Files in a ZIP please please..

[RenlieCocoa]

Fledgeling Vampire Animation Part 1 (Base sprite from Era of Myth, Era of Chaos,War of Legend):

Sword Animation
fledgeling-attack.gif

Die Animation
fledgeling-die.gif

Defend Animation
fledgeling-defend.gif

Bobbing/Standing Animation
fledgeling-bob.gif

Files in a ZIP please please..

It's still unfinish for fang animation and female animation but here.

Fledgeling-1.zip

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[RenlieCocoa]

Doing discord to post art and chatting both Battle For Wesnoth and Wesnoth Modders' Guild server. Some rare happen that some random people post art like this design and I like something to remake someone design to look more wesnoth style.

Screenshot doing Discord

Roman Warrior (Base Sprite from Zee)

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Junior Alchemist (Base Sprite from Zergursh)

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[RenlieCocoa]

This sprite should be for Battle Thrall remake sprite and change concept for this sprite but later change as new units. The Battle Thrall still here for the plan soon but this plan was only exist for Xenoi Scholar and new lvl-1 units called Xenoi Librarian that only level-up to Xenoi Scholar but it still not yet to exist for the sprite to show how it looks. This new unit who holding a spear is Xenoi Skirmisher and this unit should be change concept of Black Blade but still change as new unit also. I gonna try to make my own mp era add-ons call Era of Sanguine that I want to use one of the units from A Sanguine Tale campaign with some of the original sprite and my remake sprite and the release will be still alpha because I don't have much new or remake sprite to have more units for faction.

Guardman Xenoi and Skirsmisher Xenoi (New Unit Idea A Sanguine Tale campaign)
Lvl 0: Xenoi Worker
Lvl A1: Xenoi Skirmisher
Lvl A2: Xenoi Ambusher
Lvl A3: Xenoi Flanker
Lvl B1: Xenoi Guardman/Guardwoman
Lvl B2: Xenoi Gatekeeper
Lvl B3: Xenoi Oathkeeper

[RenlieCocoa]

Xenoi Faerie Remake Sprite & Change Concept (Base sprite from A Sanguine Tale campaign):
(Warning: This xenoi elves's lore in original A Sanguine Tale is not canon)

Lvl 1: Xenoi Faerie (Former name: Xenoi Messenger)
Lvl A2: Rain Faerie (New Unit)
Lvl A3: Storm Faerie (New Unit)
Lvl B2: Druid Faerie (Former name: Xenoi Apostle)
Lvl B3: Dryad Faerie (Former name: Xenoi Angel)
Lvl C2: Bladedancer Faerie (Former name: Xenoi Missionary)
Lvl C3: Bladestorm Faerie (Former name: Xenoi Crusader)

Remake:

Advancement:

[RenlieCocoa]

I kinda felt a bit stress and lazy problem that I working for my sprite and I got too much plan to do. Also btw, one of my friends Holy Paladin and lhybrideur just ping me in discord to ask for the sprites because they want to plan for new flying healer to Warg faction in Era of Myth and I try to make this idea design sprite call Moon Acolyte. The Water Dryad unit will remove by Holy Paladin and wanted to replace with new units one. I just need to wait for my friends to know about this idea.

Moon Acolyte:
Lvl 1: Moon Acolyte
Lvl 2: Moonshining Mystic
Lvl 3: Moonlight Avatar

[RenlieCocoa]

Race/unit groups Icons Idea:
1. Windsong (Era of Myth, War of Legend)
2. Vampire (Era of Myth, War of Legend, Era of Chaos)
3. Minotaur (War of Legend)
4. Gnoll (War of Legend)
5. Centaur (War of Legend)
6. Xenoi Elves (A Sanguine Tale)
7. Desert/Quenoth Elves (Under The Burning Suns)
8. Half-Dryad Elves (A Sanguine Tale)
9. Nightmare (War of Legend)
10. Steelhive (War of Legend)
11. Carapace (Across the Ocean)
12. Aberration (War of Legend)
13. Elemental (Era of Myth, Era of Chaos)
14. Chaos Human (Invasion from the Unknown/After the Storm, Era of Chaos)
15. Demon (Invasion from the Unknown/After the Storm, Genesis, Era of Chaos)
16. Rat (A Sanguine Tale)
17. Gargoyle (Era of Myth, War of Legend, Era of Chaos)
18. Devling (Era of Myth)
19. Therian (Era of Myth)
20. Warg (Era of Myth)
21. Shaxthal (Invasion from the Unknown/After the Storm, Era of Chaos)
22. Imp (Invasion from the Unknown/After the Storm, Genesis, Era of Chaos)
23. Cactose (A Sanguine Tale)
24. Mushwose/Muse (A Sanguine Tale)
25. Mann Orc (Wild Era)

[RenlieCocoa]

It's should be plan for new lvl-4 vampire but I ran of idea to know what design sprite and it will be coming soon to release if I find the idea. I still have a lot of plan for advancement sprite and animation but the lazy still curse me that making me hard to do for my plan.

Vampire Remake sprite (Base sprite from A Sanguine Tale campaign):
Lvl 0: Weaker Vampire
Lvl 1: Vampire
Lvl 2: Great Vampire
Lvl 3: Vampire Master
Lvl 4: King/Queen Master (Soon if I able to find idea for design sprite)

Remake:

Advancement:

[IPS]

Muse Remake Sprite (Base sprite on Mushwose from A Sanguine Tale campaign):
Lvl 0: Sapling Muse (New Units)
Lvl 1: Muse (Former name: Mushwose)
Lvl A2: Elder Muse (Former name: Elder Mushwose)
Lvl A3: Ancient Muse (Former name: Ancient Mushwose)
Lvl B2: Muse Shaman (Former name: Glowose)

Remake:
muse-remake.png


Advancement:
muse-review.png

Just a random tip, while by its own doesn't matter but it would help at them looking cooler, particularly if you got an army of many of them.

Make higher level ones be darker or at least a different color than low level ones, because only differ is size. Their textures is also very similar so changing the color of adding an higher contrast or differ in textures in higher levels would help them to send a signal of danger that a same mount of lv1's wouldn't, particularly in groups of decens of em, being more notable to spot how many are lv2 and lv3.

[RenlieCocoa]

Concept OC Art:
I try to draw my OC sprite that idea design comes from my concept art sketchbook and imagination that I use for future plan to make my own story by writing in books. I need try to fight back from my laziness because I need to done from my project new sprite and animation that haven't finish it like months and I try to solve my mental problem to know what wrong to me.
But anyway, here one of my concept OC Art that I make.

Watcher:

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Main Protagonist and deuteragonist - Twin Siblings Soldier:

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Secondary Protagonist - Frostwater Sorcerer/Deep Dark Shark Merman:

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Shadow Samurai:

Sea Monster Trident Fighter:

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[Amorphous]

Great stuff Renlie, keep it up!