Another day, another period of sprite work.

Today, I tackled another early game monster to create a sprite for. Swamp Crawler is the first boss of the game, who will eventually become a regular enemy encounter as the game goes on.

As I’ve mentioned an earlier posts, he’s basically a big frog.

At the same time, he’s a bit frog who does appear on the map and not just in enemy encounters, so he needs a character sprite.

Once again, I started by looking at some of the sprite work that already exists out there, finding my way to whtdragon’s work on the RPG Maker web forum. He has seriously done a lot of great work.

Specifically, I looked at his smaller animal sprites, finding my way to frogs. The Swamp Crawler is very similar to a frog, so I felt it looked the closest to what I wanted to do here.

From there, I opened whtdragon’s large frog image and a blank canvas side-by-side and tried to re-draw my Swamp Crawler as a sprite. The frog he has is very good, but my monster has seven eyes, and is a different color, so it would look weird not to reflect that in the sprite.

This was the end result.

Again, big credit to whtdragon, who has done a ton of work with sprites. This was another difficult project to do and I’m happy the design turned out pretty well.