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Ankaraven β spriting tutorial
Published: 2009-12-17 22:40:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 18038; Favourites: 315; Downloads: 240
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I tried my hand at creating a tutorial on spriting...I hope some people will find it helpful.Related content
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I believe you have made a beautiful image of a steampunk griffin. I would like to know more about that.
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Maybe these are not professional words for comment,but...OMG I cannot believe this owl and fur is a sprite 
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Thank you, that'll be really helpful.. Say, would Paint.NET work for this?
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I am not sure, IΒ΄ve never used Paint.NET myself.As it seems to be mainly a photo editing software from what I have seen IΒ΄d say it should be possible but is not ideal for spriting. Personally I prefer the free edition of Graphics Gale for spriting.
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Alrighty! Paint.NET is actually really decent, but I've heard Gimpshop's a lot better... I'll check it out, but the free version won't let you save GIFs... ;(
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I know, to circumvent that I just take a screenshot of my sprite when I am done and paste it to a programm that allows me to remove the background and save it as a gif
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Haha, sounds good! I'll give it a try, thank you!
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Thank you for this. I will use it as much as I can. >.<
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This is awesome! 
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When I first started spriting, everything I knew was from this tutorial ^^ you actually were the reason I started spriting... I saw your awesome sprites and I was like "I wanna be able to make those!" so I started practicing and I'm slowly getting there
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Thank you! It makes me happy to hear that my tutorial actually helped someone
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definitely not as easy as it looks. I wish I still had paint so I could actually do this.
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Graphics Gale is in fact a lot more comfortable to use than Paint and it is free to download so you could still try (if you can download and install things on the computer you use of course)
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I can, just that most things aren't comparable with a Mac....Β
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Nice! I look forward to trying some sprites in GraphicsGale and using your steps!
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I tried basic spriting with your tutorial! It's so awesome!!! My sprite doesn't actually look horrible like I thought it would. Thanks!
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Glad to hear it helped you
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Glad to hear you think itΒ΄s helpful
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Wowza, you are an epic spriter! Amazing! <3
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er.....even if I followed this tutorial word-by-word, I'd fail miserably.....O_o....I suck at spriting....but, I think you're an amazing spriter on Magistream!!! I love your art!
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How long did it take for you to make this tutorial, pixel reference and the text? It's super impressive.
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Thank you
The step-by-step example took about three hours...the different textures one or two hours (all together) and the text another hour...so about 6 or 7 hours all in all I think...
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Yay! I've been waiting for something like this! Thanks!
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This really helped me out. Thank you for posting it!
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I am glad to hear you find it to be helpful
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Thanks for the tutorial! It really helped out a bunch C: I might try pixel art now, but the textures look like they'd take a lot of time.. x:
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Glad to hear that!
Yes, the textures do indeed take some time, a full sprite takes me about 3 hours to finish.
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Woah o_o;... Do you ever make colors you use in shading/textures "from scratch" (as in, just picking a color that seems to fit from the color pool), or do you always use a color from the collection of shades you create beforehand?
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I donΒ΄t use colours "from scratch" usually...I sometimes add a shade to my "colour pool" afterwards if I feel I am missing a tone but generally I like to keep the number of colours used as small as possible ...randomly picking colours makes it difficult to check if I am using colours that are so close to each other they wonΒ΄t be discernible anyway and thus needlessly adding to the number of colours.
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Fantastic! Thanks for putting this up! This is an awesome tutorial
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you've totally made me want to procrastinate my work and start trying to make sprites all day >.>
great tutorial
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I like graphics gale 
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and are the programs you use free? and do you have to download them?
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MS Paint is a standard programm pre-installed on every computer using Windows as its operating system. Graphics Gale is a free program one can download from various sources. Those are the two programs I mainly use for spriting. I also use Photoshop for the basic sketches and for resizing...it has to be bought and is rather expensive but Gimp is a good alternative and can be downloaded for free.
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oh ok, thank you, i will ATTEMPT at this
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