pimp your overworld sprite: probably-not-that-extreme makeover edition (Patreon)

it's been a few days, and while i'd like to say that we've been hard at work during that time here at gamefreak, the fact is that three houses came out last week and there's absolutely no possible way that that would be an accurate statement

*actually it sort of is, cass finished the entire battle tower sets, clocking in at around 1600 pokemon! that's safely double what essentials comes with in the first place and it may only be a first pass... never the less, rest assured that there won't be a shortage of things for you to punch. huge shout out to her (deafening, ideally) for working on that all so much, and double thanks to everyone who helped contribute sets!

anyway.
she has since moved on to organizing overworld sprites for all of our various laundry listings of legendary events. the OW sprites existed for most of them between the 4th gen follower movement and fanmade ones, and for most of those sprites, they're pretty good.
but most is not all. 

so aside from arranging the sprites, i spent a bit of time today trying to fill in the holes on our 7th gen sprite sheet. being the newest gen, a lot of the legends have not actually received a fanmade overworld sprite, or at least hadn't when the sprite sheet was compiled. so i went hunting a bit, and found some... but they weren't exactly up to code.
so my contribution instead became fixing those sprites up-- here specifically, the tapus and solgaleo.
yeah, we were missing solagaleo. a box legend. how did no one make a solgaleo before????????

anyway, i'll post the originals as well as my edits. the originals come from SageDeoxys on deviant art, and are offered for free use. to be clear, even though i've changed, it's still been really helpful to have these bases to work on and it made this practical to do all of these in one sessions, so their work is definitely appreciated.i```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
[user walked away from desk and set headphones down on ` key. excessive `'s have been removed for your viewing convenience, but not all of them, because none are permitted to forget the tragedy that has occurred here today.]
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Tapu Koko

original-

edit- 

the warm up. not too much of a difference here, the sprite was reasonably okay to begin with, just some more consistent shading and recoloring

Tapu Bulu

original-

edit- 

what i learned in boating school is that it's impossible to make tapu bulu look good. this is because it is an ugly hunk of musk and the most it can ever expect is to look at least somewhat barely passable to someone with questionable taste, but really it should just get out of my type already--
ahem.
right, the sprite.
yeah so i remember when i was streaming doing this same kind of thing with the tapu's battle sprites that bulu and its fucking hat were just the ultimate suffering and i definitely felt that again here. frankly big props to SageDeoxys for making it ever even remotely work, though it is a bit easier at this resolution. the left-right on the hat is still a mess even on mine, but the face is much improved, among other things.

Tapu Fini

original-

edit-

this one was definitely more of a difference. the face is a hotspot again, and then we have sharper shape, used an extra shade for shading, and focused on making the hair much smoother in particular.,, given that fini is like 50% hair.
but deep down, aren't we all?

Tapu Lele

this is where it starts getting pretty rough... as you can see
original-

the girl is
a little oversaturated
among other things.
i'm just saying, the pokemon company might get sued again if they try to include a face that dark.

edit-

the face is still black so that joke doesn't work as well, but at least it's not like, solid black.
does tapu lele remind anyone else of molly and the big comfy couch?
did they even have that outside of america?
#onlytrue90'skids remember

Solgaleo

and now for the final. this one was uhhhhhh, definitely the hardest to work on but solgaleo is a pretty complicated design so that's kinda to be expected.
paulie, bring out the original.

it doesn't actually look that bad here against a white background but i promise you, put this sprite against anything other than a pure white background, and you are in for a bad time.
but let's give the stupid kitty a little over-blended love.

the front actually held up very well from the original, colors and shading aside... which might sound like most of it, and technically it is, but the rest is the hard part. the paws of the back were on backwards though and i put a bit more focus into making the side facings have a slightly better posture and thiccness to them, among everything else. our boy must be ready to Pounce.

so that's about it. most of the legendary sprites are arranged sans some loose stragglers, and some of the other gen 7 kids that haven't gotten great quality OW sprites yet either, but cass or i will get to them soon enough.
for today, there is only fire emblem.
and there will only be fire emblem.
forever.