Exvious Sprite Masterpieces

# I fell down a delightful rabbit-hole recently!

# Octopath Traveller is a beautiful game. Now imagine if every character and monster in every SquareEnix game was redrawn like that.

# That… happened!!

# I recently tried searching for Octopath Traveller sprite-sheets. But something peculiar caught my eye.

# discovery_higher_resolution_octopathIs that... Primrose??primrose_octopathHow she normally looks.

# Is that… a high-resolution version of Octopath Traveller!? What am I looking at?? Fan-art?

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# No, it was official art! I had just discovered Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. A discontinued mobile game that was stuffed full of sprite art masterpieces!!

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# In this screenshot alone, each of those folders contains one hundred different boss enemies!

# Apparently that game had high-resolution sprites of characters and monsters from almost every SquareEnix game ever made. Even the 3D games! Nearly all drawn with just as much skill and care as the original games, but at double the size. That is four times as much detail!

# mind_blownI know how much effort that takes. A large sprite usually takes me at least 5 hours to create. Usually longer. And they made… thousands…. of these! All for one game. 

# The artists who worked on this are in a league of their own!

# Spriter’s Resource

# barbariccia_ff4Barbariccia from FF4barbariccia_exvius_animatedRedrawn sprite

# … and also animated them!

# wererat_ff6WereRat from FF6wererat_exvius_animatedRedrawn sprite

# siren_ff8Siren from FF8siren_exvius_animatedRedrawn in classic style!

# atmaweapon_ff6AtmaWeapon from FF6atmaweapon_exvius_animatedFucking insanity!

# On principle, I stay far far away from mobile games casinos. But as a sprite-artist, I will be studying this body of artwork for years!