The Paint Every Last One of Them Intiative (calling all Jugdral, Tellius and Fodlan fans, and all artists in general)

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I have a dream. And that dream is to see every Fire Emblem character with a portrait compatible with GBA hacking. And for many games in the series, this has already been accomplished. Thanks to @Thorn’s Shadow Dragon project

We have almost every Archanea character. He’s worked on the missing New Mystery ones it just hasn’t been made public yet.

Sacred Echoes exists, which means all the Shadows of Valentian characters have portraits, I believe @HyperGammaSpaces gets most of the credit for that.

@Garytop Has also diligently given us every Awakening and Fates character.

https://feuniverse.us/t/garytops-display-cabinet/

And, of course, Binding Blade, Blazing Blade and Sacred Stones are already GBA games, so getting a portrait from any character in those games is easy.

This means most of the series has already been GBAified. However, there are three large holes from what I can see. They are Jugdral, Tellius and Fodlan (well I hear there’s a Chinese remake of Radiant Dawn but I know very little about it and whether its portraits are free to use, or if it even has a complete portrait library). And some of the gaps are really surprising. I checked the repo and there are no portraits there for prominent characters like Izuka and Rhea. While there are portraits for absolute randos like Weismann (in fact two people took it upon themselves to draw him). Now, my talents in drawing are lacking to say the least. At best I can do some splicing and recolouring (and even that took quite some time to get semi decent). But I can manage a spread sheet and so using these skills I’ve decided to start the Paint Every Last One of Them Initiative.

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It will work like this, every week three new characters will be featured. One from Jugdral, Tellius and Fodlan. The goal is simple, just draw any of the three candidates (or all three if you have the time) as best you can. Any skill level is welcome, if your an experienced sprite artists who wants to show off your talents, or if you’re a beginner honing your craft and need an excuse to draw, then go for it. I’ve identified the following 184 characters that lack art, so if three of them are drawn each week then it should take us about a year to complete these three games. Anywhere, here is the list of characters

If there’s anyone on that list who does have free to use GBA art on the repo or somewhere else easily accessible, then tell me and I’ll consider it an early win.

Anyway, for now, this is just an interest check to see if there are any artists who are interested in partaking in this contest (well, I tagged it that but I have no prizes and don’t even have any intention to declare any of the entries winners). Maybe this post will get no responses and it’ll crash and burn, but if I can encourage even one person to draw one portrait of a character currently absent then I’ll consider it worth the time it took to throw all this together.

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For the Tellius section, I’d like to add that Quotedotlass (someone not on FEU) has done portraits for the entire playable Tellius cast (with some NPCs too I guess), and are all available on the graphics repo

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By my understanding not every portrait here was made completely f2u but it seems like the same kind of thing you’re trying to accomplish?

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I’m intrigued, but I do see the post above me mentions a topic of a similar theme. Admittedly though, I’m a little unfamiliar with how the above topic works, so…

I can probably contribute sometimes, depending on physical health and general motivation. I have a FEFW Sothis sprite who I haven’t given a minimug or talking and blinking frames.

I guess my main reservation would have to be that I’ve seen that there was a game on here that used AI-generated writing as a main draw, and that it would pull random sprites from the repository for portraits. I don’t know if that game is still on here, considering the new ban. However, accounting for the fact the repository isn’t under this forum’s control, and I would not know how to flag my sprites as being disallowed for such inclusion, would I have to accept that my sprites would be placed into the public repo?

One more thing: I’ve seen that a user named Melia has created sprites for all the playable Gen 2 characters, including the substitutes, as well as some bosses. Moreover, there are some FE5 units, namely Safy, also created. These are listed as F2U!

I apologize for the wordiness of this post; I haven’t actually engaged with any forums like this for the past couple years or so. Still, I thank you for reading if you managed to get here.

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That’s my cue to make some three houses portraits I guess. I’m gonna work on Rhea first

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As far as Tellius goes the repo actually has almost every playable character already. Only three are missing, Skrimr, Kyza and Danved (though we do have Devdan).

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I was unaware of that Thread. I’m also not sure how it’s actually working as I only see a list of missing portraits at the OP. Oh well, I’ll fish to see who’s interested. If Vesly has it handled then that’s great. But two people working on it is probably better than one. On Sunday I’ll announce who the first three focus characters are and see if I get any takers.

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The idea is to have all the portraits freely accessible. So my hope is to put them on the repo. If people don’t want their portraits on the repo then I’d still hope they’d make portraits anyway, I’ll be showing off all the portraits created in the doc listed in the OP as the success stories of the project.

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That sounds cool! I’m willing to help in that case. :]