original hi-rez pdf reference sheet
It's true that the first image suffered from low resolution. But the main problem is that
it wasn't presented in an anime art style.
Take a look at your fifth image. Notice the fishnet pattern on the legs?
We can't recreate that in Flash. We can do "
fishnet" as a standalone thing, but when you
combine it with a highly-detailed costume (lots of small creases, overlapping details in the gloves, highlight layers for metallic sheen, maybe even an animated overlay for the oscillating glowy teleporter
thingies) you get
an unacceptable impact on framerate.
So we prefer to start with an image whose artist has already
"smoothed over" the design and simplified it into a limited palette with a few splotches of highlight or shading. In brief:
anime style. If someone could find a side-view version of
this then it would be a great starting point for a Tracer costume.