[Re-Usable] - SSNSonicHD - Expanded & Enhanced (2024)

(Top - OLD; Bottom - NEW)

Sonic now actually has his tail here and the shoes are drawn with more detail in the last angle to show that they aren't exactly that narrow-facing. The eyes were completely redrawn with white pupils being placed in the center, the nose received a very similar upgrade. Second to last angle now has the eye visible on it and symmetry was applied to both the front and the back angles to give as much consistency as possible. Additionally, Sonic's back quills are now visible from the front and they have been made consistent in the fourth angle with other sprites such as walking and running.

If you pay extra attention, fourth angle is now better aligned with others as the quills on Sonic's head were moved slightly to the top.

​

(Top - OLD, Bottom - NEW)

The front facing sprites now have all eight frames instead of four to account for Sonic's mouth on the left side of his face (it's something that's in the top sprites as well, but that's more of an example since they technically cut off at the fifth angle).

The eyes have been edited for sideways facing walking sprites to not touch the nose on the bottom since it looked quite awkward. The redrawn eyes were applied to every frame and every sprite in the set and the back quills move slightly with each frame.

All sprites that have the shoe bottoms exposed have them colored grey/light-grey (original has most of them colored red while sometimes using grey for certain frames for whatever reason). This is also true for every sprite other than the ones for walking.

​

(I couldn't showcase these here because there's something really weird going on with the transparency on those frames that makes it really, really hard to put them side by side.)

Running sprites partially utilize the grey colored shoe bottoms on certain frames and angles since changing the color on all of them would likely require redrawing them from scratch. Like the front-facing walking sprites, the front-facing running sprites now match four frames instead of two to keep Sonic's mouth consistently on the left side of his face. The eyes are updated here as well.

​

(Top Left - OLD; Bottom - OLD; Top Right - NEW)

One of the biggest problems with these waiting frames was the fact that the original front-facing sprites did not match up with the backward-facing ones due to the shoe lifting on completely wrong sides. Some of the other frames didn't match up, but they were far easier to deal with.
In the top-right corner is the fixed variant that matches up the other four sprites in the five-sprites-total the original waiting frames had.

Luckily, it meant that making the other four sprites to fill out the rest of the angles wasn't much of a problem.

​

(Left - OLD; Right - NEW)

The grey color was applied to the shoe bottoms in all the sprites, but besides that, I also made sure the face in these particular sprites looked less strange to look at by using Sonic's face from his riding sprites. The rest of the rolling sprites looked decent enough overall that I decided to not go any deeper into them.

​

The shoe bottoms use more consistent greys and the is color being applied in all the sprites that it could be, so this isn't surprising. But you'll notice that the pain sprites were actually upgraded quite a bit as Sonic's arm, head and torso no longer look detached from each other and he now uses the mouth from SSNTailsHD instead of the one he used to have before.

There's also now a tail on all of them except the spring sprites, since they obscure Sonic's back enough that I don't think there's any point in adding one there.

​

Remember the falling sprites? The last one now has a tail.

As for the teetering sprites (standing on the edge of a cliff), these two frames were the only ones found in the original mod. It turns out that they were finished some time later and they were simply not saved alongside the other ones in the HD format. That was rather upsetting...

(Top - Teetering; Bottom - Gasping)

...Until I created some new ones using a combination of falling and gasping sprites. I had to first finish the gasping set with every angle because it originally only had five angles made for it instead of the whole eight, but once that was done with, they were a lot easier to envision.

Unfortunately, they don't have the waving hands and they use the same animation of Sonic's spines moving in the wind. I'm simply not capable of drawing good looking hands, especially when trying to put them into motion... Even though the animation is literally only two frames long.

​

Did you know SRB2 v2.2.14's overhaul of the character sprites gives each character their own dedicated skidding sprites? No? Well, now you know. You can consider this as an early Christmas gift. I cobbled these together using the falling and riding sprites.

​

The first continue sprite is pulled from one of the scenes in the older SRB2 intro prior to v2.2 where Sonic falls onto his knees in defeat after seeing Greenflower City's destruction at the hands of Eggman... Too bad it was all retconned into being a defacement of some mountain. Lame!

The second continue sprite is one of the drawings available on SSNTails' remnant website, Spaddlewit. I put that one in just as an extra.

But the most fun ones are the dying and drowning sprites. The dying sprite was edited to have different positioning for the shoes, specifically so that they looked less awkward. Sonic's mouth was also placed in the middle instead of to the side.

The drowning sprite was directly based on the combination of the dying sprite and the front-facing gasping sprite. I made sure the head shape fit well and the facial expression was more exaggerated (shrinking the eyes helped with that a lot).

The signpost sprite is also one of SSNTails' drawings and it has been in this mod before. The only thing I did with it was change the position of one of the eyes to make it look more like Sonic is looking at the camera.

The continue stock sprite was made by heavily downscaling one of the waiting sprites and then spending quite a bit of time on making it look presentable by fixing up all the pixels.

​

The sprites had been rearranged and two new frames were added to make the super transformation look more smooth and less jarring. It looks almost exactly like how the vanilla 2.2 characters go super.

...And yes, the first two frames are literally the exact same. Your eyes are not deceiving you. I just felt a bit lazy and thought reusing it wasn't going to be anything bad.

​

Yes, Super Sonic is now actually standing when he is still. The fact that he just floated in place always irritated me. Either way, Sonic's normal standing sprites and his super standing/walking/floating sprites proved fairly simple to combine. I doubt I could ever do the same with the walking sprites, though.

I also made sure to duplicate one of his arms in certain sprites as he only had one visible arm in some of them, making his rotation look extra strange.

These were the most painful ones to make. It took me well over a day to get them finished, and even then, they ended up looking very inconsistent. The only reason they don't completely bad was because a fellow by the name of Wumbo (he also worked on the SSNSonicHD mod in the past) helped me out by redrawing one of the frames I was attempting to make (SPNGA2A8, specifically the second sprite from the left) and it turned out so much better than I could ever hope to make myself. Big thanks to him for that sprite in particular.

Unfortunately, making them proved to be so difficult that I decided to give up on making the super hurt and riding sprites. Those will be the only ones not covered for Super Sonic, I'm afraid. Maybe I'll come back to try making them again at some point.

Falling, now in Super Sonic style. It's obvious that I used normal Sonic's falling sprites as a base, but it might take a while to guess that I used Sonic's super teetering sprites to get the head right. It took some time to tinker with the layers properly, but I think it was ultimately worth it.

And the last ones are essentially the previous super falling sprites, but now with the adapted legs and shoes from normal Sonic's riding sprites to get some skidding going around here.

​