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[seakingtheonixpected]

So I'm trying to work on some 2D gaming projects but the problem is that I don't know people start making sprites.

 

I tried looking a tutorial up online and came up with nothing good. Does anyone have any experience with it? How did you learn?

[RespawningEnemy]

The closest I've ever come to making pixel art was making my profile image, and all that was just me photoshopping a Kirby picture.

[Bowsette]

To be honest, spriting is relatively easy once you get the hang of it. When I was making sprites (I was part of a Fire Emblem/Kingdom Hearts mashup RP site where we all had sprites for our characters) I started out by taking official sprites and doing colour changes, then I moved onto modifying them a bit, and after that I was making them from scratch. It's the sort of thing where to do well you need to see them up close.

[SushiKitten]

That sounds like an interesting site.

I used to be site famous on a Pokemon fan site when I was younger for spriting. I'd revamp and recolour sprites, animate them, and mash together different sprites to make references for characters in roleplays.

I'd start with official game sprites and play with them, see how they work everything in there. It can be hard to start from scratch to try to figure out how to draw a leg and such when you're using pixels, but a whole lot easier if you see how professionals did it.

[seakingtheonixpected]

To be honest, spriting is relatively easy once you get the hang of it. When I was making sprites (I was part of a Fire Emblem/Kingdom Hearts mashup RP site where we all had sprites for our characters) I started out by taking official sprites and doing colour changes, then I moved onto modifying them a bit, and after that I was making them from scratch. It's the sort of thing where to do well you need to see them up close.

Actually modding existing sprites sounds like a good idea. I've been uses them to get an idea of proportion, but it might help to see what I can do with adding stuff to them.

[gigatime]

If you need a program. Well it isn't a program it is a website that has a drawing like thing on it and it helps out a lot. The website is piq.codeus.net or something and it is actually quite handy.

[seakingtheonixpected]

If you need a program. Well it isn't a program it is a website that has a drawing like thing on it and it helps out a lot. The website is piq.codeus.net or something and it is actually quite handy.

I've been using MS Paint and Photoshop and put together they have pretty much covered all of my tool needs, but I'll definitely give the program a try and see what it can offer.

 

Mostly what I'm having trouble with is figuring out how to make my creations look more like they belong in a Super Nintendo game and less likely they belong on the fridge with a smile face sticker.

[gigatime]

Idk. I'm sure you already have this: Get inspired. Look at some peoples creations. I personally like Junkboys work outside of minecraft. I know minecraft paintings arent that great but Junkboy sure knows what is up in the pixelated world.

[seakingtheonixpected]

Okay I'm running into a very serious issue where when I save the file the colors will be slightly altered when I come back. How do I stop the program from editing the colors, I'm so sick of the white space suddenly having a variety of whites that are subtly different, or little dots of color showing up.

 

So is there any way to keep the image pure, exactly how you made it?

[Bowsette]

What format are you saving it in? 

[seakingtheonixpected]

What format are you saving it in? 

gif

 

what format should I save it in?

[Bowsette]

Unless you're making them animated I'd recommend .png. Larger file size, but I find they're the best quality and least amount of colour drop.

[seakingtheonixpected]

Unless you're making them animated I'd recommend .png. Larger file size, but I find they're the best quality and least amount of colour drop.

Okay I'll try that, thanks!