While crawling across the great Interwho, I started watching a few gameplay videos for Super Paper Mario on YouTube. While I haven't played the game itself, the three-dimensional gameplay looks like something that would be interesting to play around with from a design and development perspective.
What I'm looking for is a 2D artist capable of knocking out a small sprite sheet for Link in a Super Paper Mario graphics style for use in an experimental gameplay project. If it turns out to be entertaining enough to begin development beyond a simple gameplay experiment, I'd love to play with the idea as a full-fledged fan game - but at the very least, it would make for an interesting addition to a development portfolio for anybody involved in the experiment.
If there's anybody interested, I'm mostly looking for the following:
Link movement animations (back/front view). I'll leave it to any interested artists to decide whether or not they want to include a sword/shield.
Link attack animations to match with movement animations.
One minor enemy sheet, I'm not too concerned about the complexity of its animations.
Until I can find an artist, I'm going to push forward with the experiment using graphic rips from ALttP or MC, but I think having appropriate graphics would do much more justice to determining the feel of the gameplay.