Stardew Valley sprites are cuter when they match character portraits

If you happen to’ve performed Stardew Valley with a watch for love, then right here’s a topic you might need thought of: Among the townspeople are cuter of their dialog portraits than of their precise sprites. Fortunately, a fan has stepped in to rectify this grave injustice by redesigning character sprites to look extra like these up-close portraits.

On Wednesday, aliyach printed a sequence of character sprites she had redesigned to appear to be in-game icons, posting them to Twitter and Reddit. The Reddit submit climbed as much as the highest of r/StardewValley, the place followers fawned over the designs.

The challenge took aliyach two days to finish utilizing PaintTool SAI. Determining how one can make the character portraits look good on the sprites’ smaller scale proved a problem. “[It’s] at all times laborious to seize some essential particulars in such small measurement,” she advised Polygon through Reddit chat. “Some characters hair and faces are extra advanced to attract in that scale.”

In my humble opinion, there are a couple of standouts — Marnie, for instance, seems to be a lot cuter together with her low bun off to the facet, somewhat than straight on. Alex, Elliot, and Robin all additionally profit from a cuter hairdo. Aliyach cited this “distinction” between the unique and her design as a supply of pleasure, noting that Marnie, the Wizard, Emily, and Mister Qi have been amongst her favorites. She advised Polygon, “i prefer to separate these by designs and their character however the ones i point out undoubtedly [are] in my fav group.” Aliyach additionally stated she’d be concerned with revisiting a few of her character sprite designs — notably Gus — to make them look “much less creepy.”

One Reddit commenter stated that that they had been “ready for somebody to make a mod based mostly on these,” which is, frankly, the place my thoughts additionally went. One other commenter responded declaring how difficult it’s to make such mods, as a result of it requires designing quite a lot of expressions and poses, together with a stroll cycle. However fortunately, aliyach stated that she can also be concerned with turning her designs right into a mod “sooner or later” — hopefully that dream will in the future change into a actuality.