Sprite editting. O_o

[Misty]

I've recently gotten into sprite editting as a way of wasting my everpresent free time. It's surprisingly fun and addictive - and the best part is that the simplicity of it means I don't need a ton of artistic talent(which is good because I have just about none).

I currently do all my sprite editting in Paint - which sounds awful, until you realize that Paint has every tool you really need, if you improvise a little. Between the fill tool, the paintbrush(which is just about the right size for a pixel-by-pixel edit if you stretch the image correctly), and the color picking tool, I can edit just about anything into anything else.

Anyway, my latest work is my avatar, which is basically RS Articuno wings on a recolored GSC Misty(recolored using the colors from Arti). Simple overlay, then fill-ins. It's not exactly impressive compared to some stuff you've probably seen, but I think it's neat.

Advance sprites are kind of difficult to edit naturally because of their fair amount of detail, so usually I stick to RBYGSC sprites - like Misty, naturally. But I also did a fair edit of FRLG Misty with her new Hoenn outfit(from the Togepi eps).

Anyone else have stories of sprite editting, and possibly some tips?(besides getting Photoshop or whatever, because I'm not paying and my computer hates torrents for some reason totally unknown to me. I think it's taken on some kind of anti-piracy trait.)

 

[Pie]

Your sprite is very nice. In fact, the wings fit surprisingly well; I always thought something seemed odd about Misty's pose in that sprite, but the wings seem to explain why she's leaning back like that.

I used to do a lot of editing, and in Paint as well. I once did an entire set of sprites of myself in FFVI style in all the possible poses (Celes as base, but I deviated considerably). And then, because I wasn't content with just that, I made alternate sprites of that for every FFV class. All possible poses, again. I also made a Yoshi sprite based off the Chocobo sprite. Unfortunately, they were all on one sprite sheet, and those were on my mom's computer, which lost everything on it. *sob*

I don't do much editing at all anymore. Once in a while I will, such as when I recently made a Domino sprite based off the FR/LG female rocket, but it's generally not my style. I started doing customs as soon as I could, and now I find that, while they can require a bit more work, there's much more you can do without the restrictions of needing an existing sprite to base it off of.

 

[MondoTR]

Your avatar is nice but you should get rid of the background.

 

[Misty]

Sadly that's the one thing I don't know how to do in Paint.

 

[MondoTR]

I don't think you can in Paint. You have to get someone to do it for you with something else.

 

[Pie]

Nope, you can't do it in Paint.

Misty, would you like me to make you a transparent version?

 

[Misty]

Go for it.

 

[MondoTR]

I wish things could be transparented in Paint.

 

[Misty]

Me too. I'm not spending money or warezing a program to do it.

 

[MondoTR]

Yeah, cause Paint's good enough for other things and getting something for one use it kinda pointless.

 

[Misty]

Indeed.

Also, I re-did it, mostly since the other one looked like the right wing was going into the back of her head That just irked me.

 

[Pie]

Sorry, forgot to check this topic again. *cough*

Does that suit your purposes? If so, save that image to your own files; I'll probably take it off my photobucket account in a few days.

And as much as I've fallen in love with Gimp, Paint is still such a great program. XD

 

[MondoTR]

Looks much better without the background.

 

[Misty]

Yay, thanks. *uploads now*

 

[Pie]

Looks much better without the background.

Sprites generally do, just as a rule. Unless you place them somewhere where they belong, like in a scene from the game the base was from.

 

[Misty]

Yee, I downloaded The Gimp and figured out how to make stuff transparent on my own.

 

[Zeta]

I tried to do sprite refubishing, the project Meowth canceled - bringing up the first couple of generation's Pokemon up to the level of Generation III. It worked out really well. You'd be suprised how much a layer of advanced generation shading can make some of the Japanese Pokemon Red and Green monsters look decent - even with their primitive designs.

I ended up stopping at Blatoise because paint was having trouble managing that many subtle colors at once, and becaise it was so durn time consuming.

 

[Pie]

Yee, I downloaded The Gimp and figured out how to make stuff transparent on my own.

Woo! I've finally converted someone to Gimp! XD

I tried to do sprite refubishing, the project Meowth canceled - bringing up the first couple of generation's Pokemon up to the level of Generation III.

That's actually rather interesting. Most sprite refurbishers you see nowadays will refurbish the G/S sprites. Though that's probably because of the cleaner designs, right?

 

[Misty]

Woo! I've finally converted someone to Gimp! XD

Well currently I'm only using it for transparencies - everything else is done in good old Paint.

 

[Pie]

Gimp's got other fun features, though. For instance, there was never a way to make animated .gifs in Paint, I believe...