If you’re trying to make Final Fight Cody, then you might want to focus on shortening his clothes first as his Alpha prison outfit is baggy as hell. Once you get that taken care of, he should come together pretty quickly. I took a shot at it and here’s what I came up with.

Alright, here’s brown haired Cody for the classic look but either way looks alright to me. His prison getup from Alpha was pretty bad, if they had just gone with a standard D.O.C. orange jumpsuit then he wouldn’t have looked so messed up.

Don’t sweat it about the experience thing, you’ll get better as you go. I started out messing around with NES sprites for fun and just went from there. The best way I found is to make a few copies of your base image, dissect it then work on each individual part. As for shading, just keep messing with the colors until you get it the way you want.

Not all that sure what kind of moves you could give him, all I can think of that wasn’t used in Alpha was his spinning kick. For his knife, he could pull one out of no where or reach behind his back to get it.

Yeah but once you get your base model finished, creating the animation frames isn’t that hard. Sometimes companies will reuse an arm or leg frame in a different move so, while it still takes some time, these shortcuts can help speed things up.

A took a swing at Leon, couldn’t find a good sheet to go on and had trouble getting a site with some to load so I used what you posted, Jew.

His jacket was a pain which is odd considering the amount of SNK characters that wear one. It’s not the greatest thing, but I like it.

Syd: That sprite is, indeed, from Mighty Final Fight. It was a great port on Capcom’s part too bad it came out at the very end of the NES’s life and so most people never got a chance to play it unless they’re into emulation.