Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Sprites and Stuff

	Celes is so cute dressed up as Maria. I found this sprite in my collection today and it brought back memories of the whole opera part in Final Fantasy VI. ^_^ Speaking of sprites, though, I did some more work on my Cecil sprite. If anyone remembers, I've been working on this thing off and on ever since the start of Sage's Final Fantastic Survivor RPG (aka FFS), which I was in. And notice I say the start of FFS; that needs to be specified, because it lasted for about five months, heh. So far it's been the only RPG that I've participated in that actually concluded and didn't just die, and I got a lot of great memories out of it. (I'm forever going to associate Braidless Baka with Zell now, and Ginny with . . . well, okay, I already associated Ginny with Auron, but still). But anyway, check out the new sprite: Most of the sprite's details I got from this CG picture of Cecil that's from the FF Chronicles version of FFIV, though I got the coloring and whatnot for the sword from the sword in the title screen of the US SNES FFII. I'm assuming that's supposed to be the Crystal Sword on the title screen, since it sure looks like it. Also, for his green eyes, I got that from the battle sprites of Paladin Cecil. (Anyone else ever notice that, besides Rydia when she's a kid -- hers change to blue in the adult sprite for some reason -- Cecil and Golbez are the only ones with green eyes? Despite there not being any other green in either sprites, and the same shade being used for both, no less). I stayed up literally all night working on this thing. What started off as me thinking, "Hey, I remember this," as I found it in one of my directories, ended up turning into about seven hours of editting. For some reason, that sprite has the ability to suck down my time like nothing else. Once I start changing things, I just can't stop the editting until I'm satisfied with how it looks. For the time being, anyway. This is the third time I've done this, and each time it does get better, but I'm beginning to question whether it's worth the trouble. . . . And the time. . . . And the deprevation of sleep. . . . Mainly that last one. I am so wishing I had just gone to bed at 2:00 AM without ever looking at the stupid thing right about now. Switching subjects onto that "and Stuff," I've discovered my favorite song in the Chrono Cross OST. Track 7 on disc 3, Time of the Dreamwatch, is an awesome combination of what seems to be Chrono Cross's main theme (Dream of the Shore Near Another World) with Chrono Trigger's main theme (Chrono Trigger - Crono's Theme). The two songs meld perfectly together with an original tune intertwining through them. It's wonderful for bringing back all the memories of Chrono Trigger while at the same time bringing back memories of Chrono Cross. On their own the games are outstanding RPGs, but together as a single, coherent storyline, they're absolutely amazing. Another point of (possible) interest: I got my algebra exam back yesterday. I scored 103 points out of 100, meaning I now have an average of over 100% for the exams. So far I have an average of 100.8% in the class overall, so even if I only got 50% on the final I'd still get an A in the class. (The final is worth 20% of the total grade).

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