Pixel art sprites?

[Jordanowen42]

Hello all-

You guys have been great answering my questions on my current game but I also have another idea that's in the planning stages. Where my current game is a first-person Myst style project, this one would be a classic Sierra style point and click with graphics from its early 90's era (think SQ4/LSL5 or 6/KQ5.)

Visual assets for my first game were done with AI (a controversial choice, I know, but it is mainly a learning project) and for the few motion characters I'm creating them with FMV actors on a greenscreen. For the next one I need someone or something to do actual pixel art designs for the characters. I do a little digital airbrushing myself and I've considered trying to hire actual models to act out the character movements for me to then animate over rotoscope style a'la OG Mortal Kombat but that seems like an insane amount of extra work and probably wouldn't have the authentic vintage Sierra VGA look I'm going for.

AI pixel art generators that I've found are limited- they can do great still frame pixel designs but that's about it. I could do backgrounds with MidJourney but I need animation for characters. Is there anyone on these forums that does that? This project would be a year or two away at the earliest.

Also, the idea I have is an adult comedy game in the vein of Leisure Suit Larry so someone willing to animate nudity/adult situations and innuendo would be a must.

[Khris]

You can use the Recruitment board to find somebody.

[VampireWombat]

An in between suggestion is that you could use Mixamo characters and animations and use Blender to export frames. Then there's several options for how to modify those for your finished characters. You go the rotoscoping option like you mentioned or you could reduce and modify the colors, etc.
Youtube and/or other searches should find you the information needed to do any of this.