Characters and Sprites (Part 2)

I've made a list of work that I need to do to prepare my character sprites for use. My character artist, John Fell, can focus on the new character art I need him to do, since I plan to use several of the sprites from last year's Solar Echoes video comic on YouTube. In the meantime, I've been prepping this existing art for use in the game, because these characters are not part of the elite special agents of the Union Guard. In fact, the story of the visual novel takes place before the Union Guard even existed. As a result, I'm using Photoshop to remove the weapons and grenade belts from the sprites, because the characters in the visual novel are a crew of alien diplomats.