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Sprites that look like things they're not supposed to
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60EffPeeEss
Member
Don't have any on hand, but Guild Wars 1 skill icons...a whole bunch used to confuse me.
BjornTheBear
Banned
Destiny cover art..
That is NOT a master chief helmet, it is the back of his head..
this fucks with my eyes, i see chief in poncho not the back of a titan, i only noticed other day when i got the theme and saw the position of his gun.. cant unsee, had to delete theme.
God damn, I liked that cover! Now I cannot unsee it.
Spieler Eins
Member
From Lone Survivor. It's a surgeon's mask, not a smile.
You got an illustration of the character closeup wearing the mask at the very beginning, so I'm not sure where people get that idea from.
thelastcrusader
Banned
Omg! This blows me away along with the emperor from FF.From a similar thread on this that we had before http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=854929
KojiKnight
Member
This thread makes a great case of people not trusting everything they see... especially when so many people are told how other people view it and it suddenly 'makes sense' and you really see it. It's a really weird phenomenon for sure.
Schweinehund
Member
That looks a lot like sven.
I'm pretty sure that's Jesus riding a horse.
lmao, my perception is now a footbal player with a number 7 jersey carrying a horse in his left arm.
It has been awhile but I think it is one of the dispels in the game. The hyper link is off Lina's skill set in WC3 Dota.
UncleSporky
Member
could never comprehend how the big white thing was a helmet on a groundhog.
his profile view always looks like a rhino with a big collar or something.
YES. I had this problem.
Grahf's profile from Xenogears:
so i wasn't the only one.
and the DOOM TPS comment is absolutely amazing.
Black Omen from Chrono Trigger:
What it looks like:
What it really is:
Because the top of the structure is really this part:
The Black Omen is a Star Destroyer and not some sort of weird-ass flying tower.
Agahnim is a pretty awfully-made sprite, but I think this is the worst. I refuse to believe ANYONE thought that thing was a Star Destroyer when they were playing the game back in the mid-90's.
NintendoGal
Member
The peon portrait in Warcraft 2 threw me off for years. Probably due to his right eye just barely being visible so I hardly even noticed it.
His left ear looked like his left eye and that he was winking or something. The left cheek was some kind of beak and the tusk his smiling mouth.
THANK YOU!
I'm glad someone else saw this because for the longest time while playing it drove me nuts! For those who can't see it, I made a quick GIF to highlight both ways this is seen.
I thought it was the other way around - the large, diagonal part of the sprite are his arms hanging down and the single pixels on the bottom are his feet / shoes.
ratcliffja
Member
Well that changes things. Forced sprite perspectives can do weird things.Black Omen from Chrono Trigger:
What it looks like:
What it really is:
Because the top of the structure is really this part:
The Black Omen is a Star Destroyer and not some sort of weird-ass flying tower.
Fallout-NL
Member
The Agahnim one pisses me off more than it should. I want to grab everyone who saw him wrong and just shake them by the shoulders. It doesn't make any sense to me at all that someone could see him wrong, especially considering his hands which are right next to his real face are the same color.
YES. I had this problem.
Haha Christ. I don't get how some of you misinterpret these things so badly.
Maintenance
Member
For a while I thought the eyes were the red part, not the white on the side. The OG sprite didn't help, IMO.
UncleSporky
Member
I saw him wrong. The top of his hands are the same color as the wrong "face," the bottom of them could easily be in shadow.
Every other character in the game has a very obvious face by comparison. Agahnim's has too few pixels, and they're in close proximity to each other. Diagonal pixels like that at low resolution are notoriously bad for representing things clearly. I mean, this is literally his face:
It's just confusing.
If I was going to redesign him, I might do something like this, to make the eyes more obvious:
Deified Data
Banned
This meme's always been a bit of a stretch to me.Someone on /v/ looked at Robotnik and got this of all things:
Angelcurio
Member
Emperor Gestahl always looked like a dog to me.
the mobile remake makes it much clearer
My eyes have been opened, up to this day, i have always thought that Gestahl was a dog.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Sorry, you pyramid folks are all crazy to me.
The shadow and perspective are good indicators enough.UncleSporky
Member
Sorry, you pyramid folks are all crazy to me.
They really should've flown it around a bit and had different angles for it.
I'll never understand the reasoning for Aghanim's huge divergence from his concept art to his in-game sprite.I saw him wrong. The top of his hands are the same color as the wrong "face," the bottom of them could easily be in shadow.
Every other character in the game has a very obvious face by comparison. Agahnim's has too few pixels, and they're in close proximity to each other. Diagonal pixels like that at low resolution are notoriously bad for representing things clearly. I mean, this is literally his face:
It's just confusing.
If I was going to redesign him, I might do something like this, to make the eyes more obvious:
He would have been perfectly readable with the latter:
KojiKnight
Member
Not going to lie... Looking at this did not fix it, now he just looks like he has a fatter face and his bangs still need clipped.
He would have been perfectly readable with the latter:
This is much harder to misread. Quick someone go back 25 years! it's not too late to fix this!
Finale Fireworker
Member
The peon portrait in Warcraft 2 threw me off for years. Probably due to his right eye just barely being visible so I hardly even noticed it.
His left ear looked like his left eye and that he was winking or something. The left cheek was some kind of beak and the tusk his smiling mouth.
This one is messing with me. I CAN cover the right side of the sprite and see the face you and others have seen. But as soon as you uncover the rest of the sprite the illusion is lost. What did you interpret the rest of the sprite as?
Most things I get. Even the ones that make no logical sense like crouching Mario turning into a bird. But this one seems impossible to view incorrectly unless you are ignoring 60% of the visual information on screen.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
I'll never understand the reasoning for Aghanim's huge divergence from his concept art to his in-game sprite.
He would have been perfectly readable with the latter:
That's a surprisingly good redesign but it seems to be using more colors than the sprite could afford on a real SNES.
aspiegamer
Member
WHAT?!? I've gone my entire adult like assuming he was a dog. Which was fine! I mean it's a FF game and your playable characters in VI include a Moogle, a Yeti, a child that mimics beasts and a nomad who lives inside a gigantic worm. I never once thought that him being a dog was strange in any way so there was no reason to be at all confused.
Can anyone explain what this is supposed to actually be? I mean, at best it looks like a trainer is down on his knees and yanking the guy's shorts down if not in the middle of already... servicing him.
The left announcer looks like he's giving us the finger and the one on the right looks like he's holding both his hands under his chin, pouting.
What the actual f***...!For a while I thought the eyes were the red part, not the white on the side. The OG sprite didn't help, IMO.
I thought the eyes were the red things exactly until reading your post.
BossLackey
Gold Member
When I first saw this game I had no concept of what an FPS was. I saw the pistol as a helmet and the hand as a brown cape or leather jacket. Thought it was a TPS, without knowing the term. When I picked up the shotgun I was suprised that the character changed so much. Must be a backpack for ammo or something, I thought. Then I fired it, and there was the pump action motion. I was shocked and really had no idea of what was going on..
Wow
Black Omen from Chrono Trigger:
What it looks like:
What it really is:
Because the top of the structure is really this part:
The Black Omen is a Star Destroyer and not some sort of weird-ass flying tower.
You've got to be kidding me. I've been seeing it wrong for decades.
I'm legitimately shocked because the pixel art in that game is otherwise some of the best of the 16 bit era.
SystemUser
Member
His face is black and he is wearing gloves. His face isn't the same color as his hands. The black zorro mask interpretation is incorrect. Look at the sideview sprite you will see that Agahnim has a black face with brown lips. His face looks similar to skullkid and Jynx.
This sprite helped sell it the wrong way for me. It looks like the red mouth (red gem in headdress) opens wider. This is the diagonal sprite so you see all of the red gem. You can see both eyes on the blackface.
The face part:
Why didn't they just make him look more like the concept/promotional art? Someone redid the sprites to look like the drawing. I think it is mostly better. I am not sure how well the red eyes read though. Also I sort of see a red beard instead of the face scarf. Maybe I just suck at seeing pixel art.
Why is Agahnim's head so long anyways? The perspective is messed up. The top of his headress shouldn't be tall unless he is a conehead. That sprite was just goofy.
as an addendum to the op
this happened to me quite a bit with amano monster art
I am not sure how people are seeing the hands and face as the same color.
I know it isn't from a game, but Zartan hair or hood?
Shuggananas
Banned
For a while I thought the eyes were the red part, not the white on the side. The OG sprite didn't help, IMO.
no fucking way
I refuse to believe you
This looks so much worse when the red parts aren't the eyes
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
Black Omen from Chrono Trigger:
What it looks like:
What it really is:
Because the top of the structure is really this part:
The Black Omen is a Star Destroyer and not some sort of weird-ass flying tower.
Fuck
Emperor Gestahl always looked like a dog to me.
the mobile remake makes it much clearer
i cant unsee mr. herriman honestly
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
For a while I thought the eyes were the red part, not the white on the side. The OG sprite didn't help, IMO.
Nope I don't believe you.
Earthpainting
Member
A clear light-source also helps his hood look less like hair as well. I suspect the original sprite was actually only half a sprite and then mirrored it, explaining the bad shading. Then again aLttP is rife with bad shading, so it's hard to say if this was just poor craftsmanship or questionable optimisation. The altered palette makes a big difference too. It becomes clear what the skintone is, so the only other problematic element that people seemed to mis-read were the trim of the robe that some thought to be "legs". That can still stand to be altered a bit to ensure they don't connect with the feet.I'll never understand the reasoning for Aghanim's huge divergence from his concept art to his in-game sprite.
He would have been perfectly readable with the latter:
Ah crud, you're right. The red aren't the eyes.For a while I thought the eyes were the red part, not the white on the side. The OG sprite didn't help, IMO.
I'm actually a little annoyed this NEVER gets referenced ever.
Super Smash could have TOTALLY made a colour palette of this (especially since other characters got such respectful treatment). Or a new game + for A Link Between Worlds.
You should play Wind Waker.
Maintenance
Member
Shuggananas
Banned
The peon portrait in Warcraft 2 threw me off for years. Probably due to his right eye just barely being visible so I hardly even noticed it.
His left ear looked like his left eye and that he was winking or something. The left cheek was some kind of beak and the tusk his smiling mouth.
I'm not seeing this one. I even covered the other side of his face with my thumb and I still can't see how you thought that...
It's not? Fuck.
Black Omen from Chrono Trigger:
What it looks like:
What it really is:
Because the top of the structure is really this part:
The Black Omen is a Star Destroyer and not some sort of weird-ass flying tower.
Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck
NintendoGal
Member
starchild excalibur
Member
I beat Xenogears a few times as a kid and I was always confused by Grahf's profile pic. I'm pretty sure I always saw the other ear as a nose, or at least I remember seeing it that way for a long period of my experience with it. I think I would have benefitted from a 3/4th's angle where I saw more of his other eye instead of a straight on profile.