[SPRITES] Spriting Carnival!!

[FireSeraphim]

The Very Sprites for my Bard for my Heretic Mod. There only so much that Layering and recolouring can do in Paint.Net. Making the gloves less fugly is currently beyond my spriting skills. Also this is all in the Heretic Pallete

[UnTrustable]

Zippy: Out of curiosity, how did you make that .gif anyway? I don't even know how to do that.

Well thats easy. With the right tool you can make gif's whatever you like.
I use an old program called: paint Shop pro, version 6.00 to be precise, and along with that paint program comes Animation Shop version 2.00
Im sure there will be more programs that can make animated GIF's, i can't tell. Maybe others can answer that for you.

[Paul]

Hmm.. that walking animation seems quite jumpy doesn't it? Aside from that, is the shading consistent enough?

[UnTrustable]

I'm not as strict, but if you feel it that way, you might indeed work on him/it abit.
Anyways, it would not harm to fix him alittle there.

EDIT: Shading is not my speciality. I can't give any advice about that specific area.
I can only make rotations sofar... Not like the best like some of you are here, but in time i might learn alot about spritings.

[Blox]

The shading is quite consistent, that I can say. Though a nitpick-y detail would be having his belly darken as in goes to the right (left on the screen) at the frame where his left leg (right on the screen) is at the back.
Yeah, the only part that seems to jiggle around is the belly. Though I guess making that one change would make it less so.

Edit: Might also want to see if you can shorten those legs by a pixel or two in frames 2/4. My best guess is that it'd make the animation much more stable.

Oh, and trust me TrustWorthable, making rotations is a very good thing to be able to do. (ishudlrndis)

[Gez]

Zippy: Out of curiosity, how did you make that .gif anyway? I don't even know how to do that.

There are plenty of ways to create gifs.

You can search for Microsoft Gif Animator; it's a free download.

If you use the Gimp, you just need to have each frame as its own layer and export the image as a Gif. Then check the checkbox to save as animation.

[XutaWoo]

Bard

Santa Claus?

On a more serious note, that hair is awful. It's got absolutely no contrast and, especially on the death frames with him face-down, just looks waaay out of place with the rest of the sprite. Everything else looks good for a recolor, the hair just doesn't look right at all.

[Ghastly]

On a more serious note, that hair is awful. It's got absolutely no contrast and, especially on the death frames with him face-down, just looks waaay out of place with the rest of the sprite. Everything else looks good for a recolor, the hair just doesn't look right at all.

Agreed. He looks like Sugar, from Burn Notice.

[Minigunner]

If you use the Gimp, you just need to have each frame as its own layer and export the image as a Gif. Then check the checkbox to save as animation.

Don't forget that you can specify the per-frame duration (default 100ms, or 10FPS).

[Paul]

Though a nitpick-y detail would be having his belly darken as in goes to the right (left on the screen) at the frame where his left leg (right on the screen) is at the back.

So should I make his whole belly darker, or should I make it all lighter to match the light part? Considering it is the "hunched over" position, maybe darker?

[Blox]

Yeah, darker.

[gerolf]

@Paul, did you by any chance use the Gill Beast from Blood as a base, or as inspiration?


Just sort of reminds me of it.

[amv2k9]

So, Strifeguy in cutscenes looks like this:


But his player sprite looks like this:


When you were probably expecting something like this:

[Jinal]

So, Strifeguy in cutscenes looks like this:


But his player sprite looks like this:


When you were probably expecting something like this:

Well one other request could you also do a Blackbird sprite as well?

[XutaWoo]

It looks nice but why Corvus for a base? He doesn't really look like any of the other peeps from Strife.