Mod: Stygian Desert

[HoneyBadger]

Amos is an artist with a real gift, there's no denying it, as there's a quality to his sprites that goes beyond technical expertise.

What makes it even more amazing is that creating sprites isn't oil painting, or sculpting travertine marble, where you've got a lot of freedom and options. We're talking about an extremely rigid, extremely limiting medium here, that at best can only be clumsily manipulated. I've got years and years of experience drawing with a mouse, and sprites are miserable, awful things to try to draw realistically (and I'm bad at it, always have been, even if I'm slowly getting better), but somehow he goes beyond even realism, into conveying powerful ideas and emotions and character to the units he creates. It's just stupifying.