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Okay, so here's the deal.
I'm working on a program that shows fortresses in glorious 3D, with creatures all shown as sprites, colored and scaled appropriately, as shown in exhibit A:


Problem is, I have artwork for the civilized races, a couple animals and scary beasts, and that's about it.

That's why I'm asking for help.

I'm not much of an artist (much more of a programmer) but we have plenty of great artists here that would definitely be up to the task, if willing.

How it works:

All sprites in Armok Vision are made up of one or more layers that can optionally be colored and turned on/off depending on what the creature is wearing, or hairstyle, etc.

The whole collection is then scaled according to the size of the creature, according to whatever base size is written down as being the base size of the creature. For example: I re-use much of the same sprites for humans, elfs, goblins, and elephant-men, with the base size of the sprite being the same for all of them (Slightly smaller than a dwarf, because they're drawn slightly smaller than how the dwarf is drawn) but then the sprite is scaled up a little for humans, a little less for goblins and elves, and a lot for elephant men.

Not all sprites need layers, though, but for creatures that can have different variations in skin or hair color, it gives some nice variation.

For coordination, I've made a sheet with all the creatures in DF, found here:

Sheet

If you want to try some artwork, just PM me your email, and I can give you write access, and you can claim whichever sprite you want to do.