Character Spriting Request

[Mr. Potatobadger]

Hello! In my fangame, we have come up with an original character. No, this is NOT original the recolor. He was created following the "forumla" that each of the trilogy games has:

 

The next character's color is on the opposite end of the color wheel (he would be either purple or green, we chose PURPLE)

Land animal that people don't immediately think of when someone says "animal" (animals that break this rules are things like dogs and cows)

The characters name directly pertains to its ability

 

 

This is him. That is a concept sketch by zigzax, but AS YOU CAN SEE it is NOT original the recolor. There's a lot of things that differentiate him from sonic tails and knuckles.

 

Anyways

 

I suck at sprites, and Zigzax (my tile guy) is too busy to worry about an entire new set of character sprites, so we need YOU!

 

Preferences:
In the Sonic 1/CD style but colored like sonic 2

Animations are based off tail's animations (ie, walking and jumping)

Make the shoes something other than the original trio's shoes. So no white stripe, bichromatic colored shoes, or lego bricks

In the sketch, Pin has about 10 spikes circling his head. Shorten it to about 6 to make it look better, 10 is like impossible. Here is what i can do to give you an example... I know, its bad :I

 

 

That is all.

 

Can you do it? Help would be really appreciated! (if you can't do an entire sheet, make JUST a base sprite. I can probably make-do off of that.)

[nedow40]

Hello Potato.

I got a sample for you! Forget about the shoes, it was a experiment... I don't know what he really is (like, a hedgehog or a fox) so I gave him "normal" ears.

I hope this will help!

[Pulse0]

How tall is he?

is the game based around his sprite or is the a character meant to fit into sonic1/CD
is that a scarf he has on?

[ZigZaX]

1-He would be around the same size as sonic/maybe shorter.
2-Its meant to fit in with sonic 2/cd or i think so.
3-Yes that is a scarf.

[Pulse0]

can you provide a sketch as to how he stands? (his idle pose)

b/c sonic stands differently than knuckles & tails so maybe he has his own stance too

Edited April 20, 2014 by Pulse0

[ZigZaX]

Choose your favourite of the two, please excuse the shitty res as i didnt have my tablet pen.

[Pulse0]

Here is a base to edit from.

Personally I feel you aught to go back the the concept phase and try out more designs for a character. 
At current his design isn't that distinguishable from sonic as yet imo.  Spiriting all those quills were pain since you are going to translate to pixel sprites; You need clear form in your character design so you'll have an easier time with spriting, especially if your new at sprites

Edited April 21, 2014 by Pulse0

[ZigZaX]

We still kinda are, but poe here went "lets plop that shit there" and here he is. We weren't even certain what animal he was gonna be, whether a sea urchin, a mole, a porcupine, etc. Thanks for the help anyways.