I\'ve noticed that there are many art topics but not a single sprite only one.
Sure there are contests but only those who are very good will enter those.

This topic will allow everybody to post their custom sprites even if they aren\'t very good. You may even pick up tips on how to improve.





[Edited on 2/4/2005 by BassGospel]

I\'ve got a tip for fledgling spriters: Don\'t start making sprites from scratch! It\'s best to start with a few simple recolors. My trademark character, BladeMan.EXE, was made in such a way. His original sheet was merely a recolored ProtoMan sheet.

Also, if you\'re working on a new part for a sprite, don\'t get discouraged if you can\'t get it just right. Sometimes you just have to accept a little imperfection in your work. Besides, as long as you keep the sheet you can always go back and fix it after you\'ve improved your skills.

Though, I REALY like cutting swords...

Unfortunately, I need a way to save files as a gif type, but since I don\'t have it, I must resort to the horrible jpeg type so it will be blurry sorry! But I\'ll find a gif downloader later I guess....
Heres mine...
<img src=\"http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-8/805712/tiwnblade.jpg\" width=51 height=81>
In case if it didn\'t show....
Click here to see it
I\'ll make the sheet later, I guess, I kinda deleted all my work cause I neede space for somethin so I remade it, so, is it good?

[Edited on 14-8-2004 by metool]

Hmm, the sprites in my sig were saved as PNG and they turned ot OK. Try that.

And yeah your sprite is good, but I\'m only good at doing bulky sprites like the MegaMan ones.

[Edited on 14/8/2004 by BassGospel]

Get Polyview, copy your image and paste it in there. Then save as PNG. Try a seach engine and get the free try out Polyview.

[Edited on 14-8-2004 by Jigoku_Neko]

Yay here it is my very first sprite comic.

I know it look\'s like it was done by a three-year-old with computer skills but
I didn\'t spend too much time on it and it is my first comic. Laugh, I don\'t care because there WILL be more.

Hmm...I have a BN/NT Warrior comic myself, I just didn\'t know one could post them up here.
Frankly, You need backgrounds, go here. there should be some stuff you need.

EDIT: Ah, I\'ll post my first one up too.
Comic 1
Damn, I need to fix up my first few.

[Edited on 14-8-2004 by Jigoku_Neko]

Oooh thank\'s. Now I\'ll do some better comics. Maybe I\'ll do one swith Zero, he\'s cool.

I did say that there would be more





[Edited on 17/8/2004 by BassGospel]

Nice first comics, BassGospel and Jigoku_Neko. They could use some work, of course. My first ones were the same way. Almost everyone\'s are. Keep working and you\'ll get better! The second is always better than the first! Practice makes perfect! Perfection is only an illusion! Wait a minute, just ignore that last one.

I made several Samus Aran. EXE sprites, but I\'m too lazy to post them now. Tiredness awaits me. However, I did make a few animations of Megaman using Metroid-style upgrades. I\'ll post them today, or tommorrow if I\'m not uber-lucky to stay up. I also made a few Fred poses that weren\'t in the original Met sheet.
By the way, I prefer 8-bit sprites, so don\'t complain about the color limitations.
I also made a Megaman style Samus sheet. I\'ll post it later.
SUCCESS! ImageShack rocks.

*Doo-doo-doo-doooo-doo-doo-doo-do-do do do do dooo!*

[Edited on 18-8-2004 by Fred the met]

Good sprites Fred. i can\'t wait to see your Fred the Met ones!

Oh yeah, can somebody please tell me what a good animation program to use is.
I currentlyuse Windows Movie Maker but it is crap.

[Edited on 18/8/2004 by BassGospel]

Thanks!
Easy GIF animator is great, but there\'s a few problems:
1: It\'s shareware,
2: If you accidentially click it\'s icon when it starts up, you\'ll waste one of your trials,
3: Trasparency is confusing.

Fred The Met sheet complete!

Oh, and I added an animation to my signature. It has special sprites that aren\'t in the standard Samus Aran MMStyle sheet. Know what they are yet?

[Edited on 18-8-2004 by Fred the met]

Nice Mets Fred but, I didn\'t know that Mets could use chains and fish hooks

My modified Samus sheet. I did intensive modification on the 8-bit sprites.

Nice sprites and Fred, I\'ve been playing with that animator you suggested.


I\'ll do some better ones today.

Heh.
Here\'s a VITAL tip: Keep the sprite size the same. Don\'t have one frame be 48*48 and the other 64*64. It helps to keep it the same.

Wow... those are cool!

Well... I have animations I made but they aren\'t re-colored or edited like you guys did.

Here are some just in case anyone wants to see...









I have more but I must avoid bandwidth problems and slowing down this page... And don\'t anyone dare right click, go to properties and copy the url. If I find out, well... uh... I can\'t really do anything except delete the link and hate the person.

[Edited on 24-8-2004 by Hao]

Err Hao, those animations are great!
It doesn\'t matter if you haven\'t recoloured them! Later on just recolour some MegaMan ones or something.

I\'m designing as many as possible befor I animate them. I only have 27 more tries!

man, i should start up making some comics..... my bro makes them, but they arent from games or anything, just stuff to fascinate his gf......im not a wiz w/the comp, so ill have him teach me

Planetdriver, making comics is hard at first but it only gets easier. To do good comics you need backgrounds. Go here for some good MegaMan backgrounds.
Just choose the game and when it comes up click maps. If you don\'t want to do MegaMan ones then sorry but I don\'t know another site.

I tkink it\'s about time I stopped all this sweet talking to you,BassGospel.(note:I am not flaming you,just pointing out the glaring errors you\'ve been making)

1:Your animation...well.....to put it nicely need alot of work before the can be posted.
A:They move around so much i\'m getting dizzy.
B:As pointed out before,make the white boxes the smae size,or make it transparent.
C:Try to make sure none of the last sprites is left behind in the next frame.

2:Your sprites aren\'t much better
A:Ever heard of shading a sprite.Shade them.Now.
B:Most of them are rips put into places that are *supposed* to be funny.
C:Don\'t move the other part of a sliced navi that high up,cyber swords are pretty thin.
D:Don\'t mix overworld and battle sprites,they\'re seperated into two cattagories for a reason.
E:Don\'t mix it so that it can be so easily told as a Forte/Megaman mix,and not even that well put together.

See the bottom Forte.That is a good Megaman/Forte Mix.It\'s pretty hard to tell who it really is,correct.

3:Your comic really isn\'t that bad,but there are a few mistakes
A:PLEASE,try to use proper text boxes and grammar.Care for a few examples?
b:Iceman wasn\'t quite resized right(bet you used your mouse)Use the stretch and skew option,and dial the the strech to 50% both directions.Or just use a small lens flare(may be a little to advances for you at this point)

(note: I made a sprite topic,but it got burried.Care for me to post the sprites I posted there,here?Also,I can post my line of sprite comics as well.I\'ve got twenty 6 total,and i\'m making an animated one right this minute.)

[Edited on 25-8-2004 by DavidBurgess]

I personally call those \"GIFs made in an earthquake\". They make me laugh.

Ah it\'s pleasing that I could bring laughter to your otherwise dull lives.

I know the animations aren\'t good but my latest ones are much better. None of the previous pic is left behind now. Those were just practice.

Also all my sprites are done in paint. And I did use proper text boxes.

I will take your advice and do better sprites! (Just to annoy you)

And here are two I did earlier

1:True,it does bring me a little chuckle when newbs don\'t graps basic spriting rules.
2:Yeah,you actualy didn\'t leave behind parts of the other sprites you used.But everything thing else wasn\'t much improved.The only thing much good with these is the frame rate.
3:Paint is a good place to start,but after a while,you will want to use Phototshop for some more adanced effects,like lightning,lensflares(great for explosions)or maybe just some rain.It also converts better than paint does,so your comic will look better.
4:A few randomly placed black lines and pixels in the white don\'t make it a text box.See this.This is the first comic I made with good text boxes.See how proper they look.
5:You\'re mixing your meanings.How would it annoy us if your sprites suddenly look good.

Huh? I use the text tool in paint for the writing/text boxes.
Anyway here is a recoloured and slightly altered Protoman.

Okay now you can dish out the abuse.

[Edited on 26/8/2004 by BassGospel]

[quote]Originally posted by BassGospel
1:Huh? I use the text tool in paint for the writing/text boxes.
2:Anyway here is a recoloured and slightly altered Protoman.

Okay now you can dish out the abuse.

[Edited on 26/8/2004 by BassGospel] [/quote]1:So do I.I use the rounded rectangle tool in white,then border it in black.I then write up the text.
2:Let\'s see,you gave it improper shading,no shading on the hair,and didn\'t bother to finish it up.There\'s more but I can tell quite right becuae I can\'t open it up in a good program becuase you did something to make it unstable.

Err that was my fisrt recolour.

Anyway i saved it on paint in PNG format.

I posted this before but

Now tell me what is crap about this one so i can change it.
Also post some of your sprites. That\'s what this topic was created for.

[Edited on 27/8/2004 by BassGospel]

[quote]Originally posted by BassGospel
Err that was my fisrt recolour.

Anyway i saved it on paint in PNG format.

I posted this before but

Now tell me what is crap about this one so i can change it.
Also post some of your sprites. That\'s what this topic was created for.

[Edited on 27/8/2004 by BassGospel] [/quote]
It, actually looks good but the legs have not that much shading
okey here are some of my sprites

Rane-Main charicter in my comic


more to come later...and if this is a topic for every one to post there sprites shoud\'ent it be pinned?

Nice work Axl. I saw that sheet on your website.
Oh, I don\'t mean to nag but next time if the pic is as big as that then put a link.

Yeah if the Doc notices this topic and reads my first post about it being for all members then it might get pinned.

Anywho, good work.

[Edited on 27/8/2004 by BassGospel]