The Concept

I took a look at the old sprites I made.
Nothing special. Each lifestage had different colors, with the body and tailbase being colored different.
They are inverted - the eyes look horrible. There is a star 'printed' on each bodypart in the same place.

The female youth sprite has a ugly hole in her chest.. I wonder why I never fixed that.

I decided to start with the adult stage. Most 'space' for trying things out.

I opened Photoshop and adjusted colors.. put in some extra effects.. put in the stars..

and got this:  

Nothing spectacular.. but they weren't from the start, right? After all, they're meant to be Bengals. Shiny Bengals with stars and fancy colors! Nothing new with stars. We have the Astro Norns for that ;)

For a raw concept I found them alright, closed the document and saved.. and forgot to save the layers I used for the stars. Until now I still don't now what star image I used (from google picture search) and simply used other random ones :(

I collected the Bengal sprites from the game folder, extracted them and started working...

A long long time ago..

In a time, long forgotten.. well, not THAT long ago.
But let's get back to 2002.
I was a girl of 12 years and had just discovered some awesome games at our local game store - the Creatures Series!
I had much fun playing it - even though my friends couldn't understand what I liked about those games and eventually I found the big community that evolved around these games.
It seemed that it was possible to change almost everything about and inside of the games - it was quite fascinating.

So there was this thing they called 'Breeds' - a collection of images that could give the actual creatures in the game a whole new look.
As I started playing there already were a few made for the 3rd part of the series - so I decided to make my own!

But naturally as a 12 - year old my talents were.. minimal. So many things to do, to edit!
So I found a program that did most of the work for me. I took some colors, took a star, had no concept and created a not-so good looking breed: 

The Shiny Bengals 

- hosted today by Alien's Creatures World (Thanks for that!) -

Returning to the 'scene' after 12 years much had changed. There now were new, beautiful breeds. Norns with flowers, mermaid tails and wings and much more.

So I decided to finally do something about this lack-of-talent breed occupyng the Ettin Slot Z:

A recreation! I will reacreate shininess.