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Off-Topic => Archive => Resources => Topic started by: VahnGrave on January 27, 2007, 02:34:50 AM

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Post by: VahnGrave on January 27, 2007, 02:34:50 AM: Back to the olden days!! Ye olde Vahn is making sprites again..

Well, I'm making this as a sprite of myself for Dominicy's game.

I made this from scratch, and I was wondering what you guys though before I continued.

Edit: Yeah, it's a horribly saved file. Hahaha..
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Post by: drenrin2120 on January 27, 2007, 02:45:46 AM: It's really not bad, but JPEG fuckered it oop.
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Post by: VahnGrave on January 27, 2007, 02:48:13 AM: Yeah, I can post the small version of it, and it won't be fucked up!

I'm pretty proud of it, because it's 100% custom.

I just realized I didn't shade the shoes.. Hahaha

Here's the small version.
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Post by: Daetyrnis on January 27, 2007, 03:16:43 AM: There's not really any outline, and those practically always make a sprite look better. Whether it's plain black or coloured is up to you.

There's no effective shading. For example, I think you put some shading on the skin, but the colours are way too close to appear as different. And on the pants and shirt, the apparent shading contrasts too much and looks more like different parts or splotches than actual shadow.

In RPGMaker, the facing down sprites is supposed to face down. Not forward, but down. There's no illusion of depth presented, so the sprite appears to be looking at us.
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Post by: VahnGrave on January 27, 2007, 03:27:50 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Daetyrnis
There's not really any outline, and those practically always make a sprite look better. Whether it's plain black or coloured is up to you.

There's no effective shading. For example, I think you put some shading on the skin, but the colours are way too close to appear as different. And on the pants and shirt, the apparent shading contrasts too much and looks more like different parts or splotches than actual shadow.

In RPGMaker, the facing down sprites is supposed to face down. Not forward, but down. There's no illusion of depth presented, so the sprite appears to be looking at us.

Well, there's a difference between shadow and light, so I guess the shirt doesn't matter. The colors that aren't black on the shirt are where it folds and the light hits the fold.. I don't know, it's hard to explain. And the pants aren't shaded, they are meant to look like they've been worn in a lot. Have you ever seen a pair of pants that is all basically one color?

For the whole dimension thing, I agree.. But then again, the whole thing is COMPLETELY custom, no template or anything.. I have yet to see a 100% custom set that isn't professionally done look like it's got good dimensions and all that jazz.

Anywho, thanks for the input, man.
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Post by: Daetyrnis on January 27, 2007, 03:38:20 AM: I was bored enough to show you what I meant.

From scratch.
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Post by: drenrin2120 on January 27, 2007, 05:23:10 AM: ouch, you're pretty blunt Daetyrnis.
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Post by: VahnGrave on January 27, 2007, 05:33:32 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Daetyrnis
I was bored enough to show you what I meant.

From scratch.

That's cool, but I'm not chara sprite expert, haha. And with the whole outline deal(I forgot to say something about it before), I was going for a whole new thing.. I'm kinda experimenting, you know?

Edit: I just looked at that up close.. And the body looks like a standard RPG Maker sprite template.. I don't know if it's just me or what..
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Post by: Daetyrnis on January 27, 2007, 06:52:03 PM: Quote
Originally posted by VahnGrave
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Originally posted by Daetyrnis
I was bored enough to show you what I meant.

From scratch.

That's cool, but I'm not chara sprite expert, haha. And with the whole outline deal(I forgot to say something about it before), I was going for a whole new thing.. I'm kinda experimenting, you know?

Edit: I just looked at that up close.. And the body looks like a standard RPG Maker sprite template.. I don't know if it's just me or what..[/B]

Yeah, I can understand the whole experimenting, I just didn't think it was that successful. >_>
And yeah, it may look similar to the RTP sprites because that's the style that I used.

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ouch, you're pretty blunt Daetyrnis.

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and I was wondering what you guys though before I continued.

I was just trying to help, after all, he's in the middle of working on it so critique helps the most at this stage.

EDIT: Gah, stupid tags, needing to be capital...
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Post by: VahnGrave on January 28, 2007, 02:24:42 AM: Oh dude, what program were you using to make that, I forgot to ask.. I liked the palette.

And Drenrin, bluntness is kinda what I wanted, haha.

Yeah, it looks almost exactly like RTP, man. That's fuckin' rad.

Thanks for the tips.. I wasn't even thinking about the whole facing down thing. It's been so long since I used RM2k(3) that I totally forgot about that.
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Post by: Daetyrnis on January 28, 2007, 04:31:30 AM: Microsoft Paint.
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Post by: MrMister on January 28, 2007, 05:32:04 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Daetyrnis
Microsoft Paint.

Well done.
I make all my sprites in MSPaint and all my webpages in Notepad. Because we're MEN, and men use mspaint
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Post by: VahnGrave on January 28, 2007, 06:03:42 AM: Well ****! That's a nice palette for MSpaint!
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Post by: InsaneJP on January 28, 2007, 09:02:16 PM: hey man not bad that chara kinda reminds me of andrew w.k lol
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Post by: VahnGrave on January 28, 2007, 09:21:50 PM: I wonder how many people think I look like A.W.K., now that you brought that up. Haha

But on a side note, I'll probably work on the whole sprite deal a little bit during the week.
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Post by: MrMister on January 28, 2007, 09:50:06 PM: Party party party let's get this party starty
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Post by: Daetyrnis on January 28, 2007, 09:57:29 PM: Since you seem to like the palette, here's how I got it.

1.Double-click a colour
2.Pick a new one.

Also, the shades of black are taken from your sprite.
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Post by: VahnGrave on January 28, 2007, 10:39:03 PM: Well, I know how to make a palette in MSPaint, haha. I'm not THAT stupid. I've just never made a good one in that program. Hell, I've never made too good of a palette anywhere, but the worst were in MS Paint.