queenie's poké-hex quest (2nd batch)
Mar 22, 2024 3:55:08 GMT -5
Rebecca ♠️, ℓacey ☀️, and 5 more like this
Post by queenie on Mar 22, 2024 3:55:08 GMT -5
hello milky friends! i'm starting a silly little project.
i (rather shamelessly) stole this idea from my friend mortis who has done similar pokémon hex quests with petz, but mine is with babyz! so it's like, totally different. the basic introduction to this is that i am playing through a pokémon platinum save with simple nuzlocke rules.
in the case you are unfamiliar, a nuzlocke run in a pokémon game in the very simplest way means you catch only one pokémon per route, and if your pokémon faint theydie forever go on vacation!!! there is some things more to it but i'm really just here to torment this forum by posting a lot of hexies.
ontop of this, i am playing a modded version of the game that changes all of the pokémon's game sprites to be fan made gijinkas/humanized variants, i thought that made using them as babyz hexie inspiration more straightforward for me! so, the hairstyles i'm doing for these babyz are loosely based on this set of sprites. essentially: for every pokémon i catch or evolve, i make a hexie for this thread! the fate of what will happen to these babyz is a secret for now, until i complete the run (or fail it, lol) but they aren't all for me to keep, i'll tell you that already.
now, the sensible thing would have been to decide on this idea first, and then start the game. i did not do this! i played a little over the first gym already, until last morning i had the sudden genius decision that i could use this as hexing inspiration. so, this first post will have a whole bunch of pokémon i have already caught!
oh yes, i should mention all of the hexies in this thread are hexed off of my cherub base which you can find on leveret. it's a slightly edited version, with a smaller nose and a cat mouth... because it's fun! and all of the hair colour textures are sourced from lacey's website. they may look slightly different as i index my graphics -- but still, thank you for those!
first is my starter, i picked chimchar because i always picked it as a child -- all of the sinnoh starters are very dear to me, though :]
chimchar here is my first proper attempt at a fusion between bmp hairstyle and ball and line! the front of the hair is bmps, but the tuft in the back is a 3d structure.
second, my route 201 encounter: starly!
i'm not really happy with how this one looks sadly, but it's fine. this one has the most freckles, including starly footstep birthmarks.
third, my lake verity encounter, bidoof! bidoof is one of my favourite pokémon, so i wanted to get one even if i don't end up using it much. she's got wonky buck teeth! they clip a lot, but when you get lucky and capture them at the right angle, they are cute. i love the way this hair looks and moves, it's deceptively simple! it's a combination of addballz and bmps again. as are most of these styles, honestly.
#4 is SHINX!!! my route 202 encounter. i refuse to play this game without catching a shinx... its colours fit really well into the babyz palette, i think. shinx is a main stay on my team already! i hope they will survive.
on route 203 i caught an abra! which surprised me, really, cuz i thought it would teleport away like always. but she stuck with me! so she's also a main team member, for now. it's hard to truly capture abra vibes in babyz as i didn't wanna remove the eyes, so instead of the permanently closed eyes i went with very light 'blind' looking eyes, instead.
next is budew! who was encountered on route 204. currently, the star of my team, in no small part due to my grass type bias. i am really hoping to evolve her soon! her hairstyle looks simpler than it is -- it has addballz over the head to not have the pulled back hair on the head appear as smooth. i dunno if i'm fully sold on the execution, but i reused this same effect on several other hexies in this thread already.
at the orebough gate my encounter was a psyduck, who honestly i didn't even know was encounterable there. i forget about psyduck...
anyway, i like this hair, it's silly and asymmetrical.
in the orebough mine, where i did a lot of grinding to get budew strong enough for the first gym, my first encounter was a geodude. obviously.
i'm obsessed with the hair she has in the sprite, and recreating it in babyz was fun! she is quite dull coloured with little contrast between her hair and skin colour but i felt that made her look more like she was made of stone. i dunno...
on route 207 i got lucky and found a ponyta! this is another staple for me of every pokémon platinum playthrough, because there's so little fire guys you can get. but ponyta's a good one! to me, whose opinion is based entirely on if i think a mon is cute or not.
ponyta has, fittingly, a big ponytail. and let me tell you i am quite happy with how it ended up! it's made of 5 seperate bitmap pieces (one is repeated once), so it's somewhere between looking flat and looking 3d. i think it is a good effect though! these freckles though i am not as sure about.
and lastly, for today, is buizel who i caught infront of valley windworks. i dunno what's up with this hairstyle, let it serve as proof that hexing this many children in a day is probably not ideal. buizel is my newest team member, though!
that's all for now -- stay tuned for more of these quick pokémon hexes at a later date! now that i am caught up i can finally continue playing my game.
comments are very welcome! hehe
i (rather shamelessly) stole this idea from my friend mortis who has done similar pokémon hex quests with petz, but mine is with babyz! so it's like, totally different. the basic introduction to this is that i am playing through a pokémon platinum save with simple nuzlocke rules.
in the case you are unfamiliar, a nuzlocke run in a pokémon game in the very simplest way means you catch only one pokémon per route, and if your pokémon faint they
ontop of this, i am playing a modded version of the game that changes all of the pokémon's game sprites to be fan made gijinkas/humanized variants, i thought that made using them as babyz hexie inspiration more straightforward for me! so, the hairstyles i'm doing for these babyz are loosely based on this set of sprites. essentially: for every pokémon i catch or evolve, i make a hexie for this thread! the fate of what will happen to these babyz is a secret for now, until i complete the run (or fail it, lol) but they aren't all for me to keep, i'll tell you that already.
now, the sensible thing would have been to decide on this idea first, and then start the game. i did not do this! i played a little over the first gym already, until last morning i had the sudden genius decision that i could use this as hexing inspiration. so, this first post will have a whole bunch of pokémon i have already caught!
oh yes, i should mention all of the hexies in this thread are hexed off of my cherub base which you can find on leveret. it's a slightly edited version, with a smaller nose and a cat mouth... because it's fun! and all of the hair colour textures are sourced from lacey's website. they may look slightly different as i index my graphics -- but still, thank you for those!
first is my starter, i picked chimchar because i always picked it as a child -- all of the sinnoh starters are very dear to me, though :]
chimchar here is my first proper attempt at a fusion between bmp hairstyle and ball and line! the front of the hair is bmps, but the tuft in the back is a 3d structure.
second, my route 201 encounter: starly!
i'm not really happy with how this one looks sadly, but it's fine. this one has the most freckles, including starly footstep birthmarks.
third, my lake verity encounter, bidoof! bidoof is one of my favourite pokémon, so i wanted to get one even if i don't end up using it much. she's got wonky buck teeth! they clip a lot, but when you get lucky and capture them at the right angle, they are cute. i love the way this hair looks and moves, it's deceptively simple! it's a combination of addballz and bmps again. as are most of these styles, honestly.
#4 is SHINX!!! my route 202 encounter. i refuse to play this game without catching a shinx... its colours fit really well into the babyz palette, i think. shinx is a main stay on my team already! i hope they will survive.
on route 203 i caught an abra! which surprised me, really, cuz i thought it would teleport away like always. but she stuck with me! so she's also a main team member, for now. it's hard to truly capture abra vibes in babyz as i didn't wanna remove the eyes, so instead of the permanently closed eyes i went with very light 'blind' looking eyes, instead.
next is budew! who was encountered on route 204. currently, the star of my team, in no small part due to my grass type bias. i am really hoping to evolve her soon! her hairstyle looks simpler than it is -- it has addballz over the head to not have the pulled back hair on the head appear as smooth. i dunno if i'm fully sold on the execution, but i reused this same effect on several other hexies in this thread already.
at the orebough gate my encounter was a psyduck, who honestly i didn't even know was encounterable there. i forget about psyduck...
anyway, i like this hair, it's silly and asymmetrical.
in the orebough mine, where i did a lot of grinding to get budew strong enough for the first gym, my first encounter was a geodude. obviously.
i'm obsessed with the hair she has in the sprite, and recreating it in babyz was fun! she is quite dull coloured with little contrast between her hair and skin colour but i felt that made her look more like she was made of stone. i dunno...
on route 207 i got lucky and found a ponyta! this is another staple for me of every pokémon platinum playthrough, because there's so little fire guys you can get. but ponyta's a good one! to me, whose opinion is based entirely on if i think a mon is cute or not.
ponyta has, fittingly, a big ponytail. and let me tell you i am quite happy with how it ended up! it's made of 5 seperate bitmap pieces (one is repeated once), so it's somewhere between looking flat and looking 3d. i think it is a good effect though! these freckles though i am not as sure about.
and lastly, for today, is buizel who i caught infront of valley windworks. i dunno what's up with this hairstyle, let it serve as proof that hexing this many children in a day is probably not ideal. buizel is my newest team member, though!
that's all for now -- stay tuned for more of these quick pokémon hexes at a later date! now that i am caught up i can finally continue playing my game.
comments are very welcome! hehe
