So, I’ve been working on these for a while and it has been a long journey for me to get here, so here we go. I managed to recreate and upscale the (almost) all original Paper Mario Item and badge Icons using a vector graphics software (namely Corel Draw). I tried to keep the items as close to the original sprites as possible, but you can only do so much looking at the shapes they were trying to convey using pixel art. It took a lot fidgeting around to get them to work the way I wanted and I allowed myself to have some artistic freedom to reinterpret some icons (like changing the shape, color and shading in some cases) and I also looked at references from other Paper Mario games to get a better view for certain recurring items in the franchise. It’s been a long time since I played the original Paper Mario game and it’s my absolute favorite Super Mario RPG out there (just don’t tell that to the Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga fan inside me). It’s widely known that the community loves creating new characters and stories in the style of this game and I always wanted to make something to help out all fan made stories. As you should know by now these are recreations of the original art so I’d suggest only using this on fan recreations or something like that. There’s no need to give me any credit for these at all, but I’d great appreciate the good folks who wanted to help me out to get to know and share some of my other projects on my itch.io page [ladyluck.itch.io].
Thanks guys for your time and let’s get making more awesome stuff :)
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