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Made it for a Metroid-esque series of shooty guns. Also, if anyone could direct me to a better program to use than MS Paint for spriting, it would be much appreciated.
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| Author: | Shyguy1994 [ Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
". Made it for a Metroid-esque series of shooty guns. Also, if anyone could direct me to a better program to use than MS Paint for spriting, it would be much appreciated.
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| Author: | Paradox [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:02 am ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? | ||
What are you trying to make there? Sketch a design out first on paper so you have a more solid idea of what you want to do. I usually start like that, then I move onto the outline, then I color it in, then I do the shading / detail / etc. Here's something of mine you can look at for a reference, it's kinda futuristic.
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| Author: | Shyguy1994 [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
Damn, that be a mighty purty sprite thar. I know what I WANT to make, but I've no clue how I'd go about doing it. I merged a shotgun stock and rifle barrel with some SMG bits and creative editing to come up with the monstrosity above. Fill it in black to see what I had for an outline... What I have in mind is - Grayscale body with blue/orange vents, shade from dark to light, left to right. Add metal prong thingies and a makeshift scope/sight. Done. |
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| Author: | Paradox [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:05 am ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? | ||
Shyguy1994 wrote: Damn, that be a mighty purty sprite thar. I know what I WANT to make, but I've no clue how I'd go about doing it. I merged a shotgun stock and rifle barrel with some SMG bits and creative editing to come up with the monstrosity above. Fill it in black to see what I had for an outline... What I have in mind is - Grayscale body with blue/orange vents, shade from dark to light, left to right. Add metal prong thingies and a makeshift scope/sight. Done. Take some time looking at CC sprites, they are made differently than most 2D sprites style wise. Another thing to do would be to work with a few resprites, as in, taking some of the default sprites and practicing shading / details / and such on an already existing sprite. If I make a new sprite weapon soon I'll post how I start then move up through the processes that go into finishing it. --- The sprite I'm posting with this is one of my new sprites, took me all day to make because its 10 frames long.
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| Author: | Shyguy1994 [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
I'm lovin' the big lazor. Thanks though, I'll see what I can do with the AK or maybe the shotgun. |
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| Author: | joost1120 [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
The sprite is too bright. It's almost white. That's what sucks on the sprite. |
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| Author: | war_man333 [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
Paradox wrote: Shyguy1994 wrote: The sprite I'm posting with this is one of my new sprites, took me all day to make because its 10 frames long. It looks like a prettier, less über version of my shitty 'MegaBlaster', the dead mod. 
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| Author: | Shyguy1994 [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
Here we go. This be better, methinks.  NEW:  I think this is the best I'm going to get with MS Paint's Alternatively I could just spend my whole damn life looking for the right shade, but I got other stuff to do. Might end up buying Photoshop after all. |
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| Author: | Paradox [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
Don't make the outline so thick, and work on the detail and design of the gun. Also, I made a new gun sprite but I forgot to record the beginning process, so I'll start something new to show you.  Take a look at the outline of this gun. |
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| Author: | NaXx [ Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
Wanna fight?  Revolver sprited by me, bring to life thanks to areku, still want to make the biggest revolver on cc?  (I've designed it to mechs and very armored troops, but areku has nuts and sacrifice the arms of this poor astronaut to finish a crobotech guy) Anyway, yours its very nice! |
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| Author: | wiffles [ Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
Try Gimp, its free |
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| Author: | CrazyMLC [ Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
Keep using MSPaint. Make sure to Zoom in. Use the pencil tool. Make the outline lighter than black. (still dark though) On the color swatch, double click a color to open up an editing screen. You use this to shade and use unique colors. |
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| Author: | Paradox [ Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
NaXx wrote: Wanna fight? Revolver sprited by me, bring to life thanks to areku, still want to make the biggest revolver on cc? (I've designed it to mechs and very armored troops, but areku has nuts and sacrifice the arms of this poor astronaut to finish a crobotech guy) Anyway, yours its very nice! haha, thats very epic. I'm not so great at coding / lua yet but I'm confident in my spriting abilities ;P |
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| Author: | NaXx [ Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
Hey, don't bother, you can allways think even being a novice, you're better that naXx at coding  and I recomend Photoshop for reliability, almost infinite options and easy 8-bit translate. |
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| Author: | Paradox [ Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could someone help me make this sprite not suck? |
I use the gimp, but I also have photoshop and flash. For sprite work, I'd recommend the gimp because of its simplified form and for its 'free'-ness. again, the current version has no outline, you need to figure out a design and draw that up, the outline is important in CC sprites. edit: I take that back, it does have an outline, its just very very subtle. I suggest darkening that up in spots underneath the gun and lightening or keeping the same shade on top |
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