Philipp Lenssen created around 700 fantasy-themed avatar images a couple of years ago which he is releasing under the Creative Commons Licence. There is a large variety of sprites facing every direction, I have put a random sampling above, and I have LINKED it here for archival purposes (so many times I have found great sprites only to go back a couple of months later to find they are gone, since these are releases under Creative Commons Licence they are free to share and distribute).
Trying to find none ripped sprites which are free is kind of hard, after a bit more searching I came arcross a contact sheet full of Worms sprites. Click here to view the whole thing, above is a small above is a small sampling. Full credit to Egnio and more is on the spite contact sheet.
While searching for more sprites, I found a great website that is had a couple of Charset Generators (above is one I created) the one I tried is cool, you get to choose the Body, Hairstyle, Items, Face, etc. Quit cool, check it out. Also found a Faceset Generator and Battleset Generator at the same site.
Lastly I found a bunch of great sprites at The_Protagonist’s Domain I have pasted a couple of them above, as you can see they are very good quality, you can find a contact sheet on the site.
