Searching for sprite making resources I stumbled upon an invaluable site that’s been updating a free sprite generator for over a year now since the launch of RPG Maker VX. If you would like to browse around the blog I recommend you use Google translator on the links. Here is the Japanese to English translated link to the blog.
Raw links are below.
Custom Male sprite generator
http://www.famitsu.com/freegame/tool/chibi/index1.html
Custom Female sprite generator
http://www.famitsu.com/freegame/tool/chibi/index2.html
The blog main page
Hey, firstly I want to tell you that I try to follow your blog. Great post, I fully agree with you. Have a good day matey.
Is there any way to change the skin color?
What I recommend to do is use the “naked” sprites from the Genorator and recolor them, then use that to edit your final charater with photoshop/gimp and recolor them to your liking to change the skin color. You may have to be a more skilled spriter to do it. I use photoshop, however if you don’t have it Gimp is a viable alternative.
http://www.gimp.org/
I really appreciate this generator. I’m using XNA for college work and this helped me tons. Thanks very much.