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FrozenFeather — spriting tutorial

Published: 2012-07-26 02:50:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 1514; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 16
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Description ok so i decided to try out making a spriting tutorial.

so first thing's first i am so not a teacher so this might be complete crap XD

i wrote the basics on the actual image above but if you have any questions feel free to ask me anything and i will try to answer them as best as i can

also if you don't speak english and need this translated or you can't read the image it says:

-ok so first i draw a rough sketch of the fakemon. my "canvas" is 96X96 (mine are a bit large for sprite though)

-next i clean up the sprite a bit. here is an example. also kind off fix it up as well. i changed the pose a bit too but you can see i fixed things

-next add flat colors. i make my colors a bit more muted/grey then my drawings.

-shading is my worst quality so i might not be the best for this, but i look where the sun is and shade it. make it a lot of shading too, like more then you would think is normal, a bit on the extreme side.

-the next step is highlights. i actually don't like highlighting so i don't usually unless it looks really shiny like this one or a quagsire, something like that.

-the final step is to color the lines on the lighter colored parts lighter then black.

the fix up anything that you notice is messed up. and there you go!!!
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Comments: 26

MegaFireTrainer2003 [2015-07-22 09:41:53 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the ideas                                                         

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FrozenFeather In reply to MegaFireTrainer2003 [2015-07-22 18:10:14 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome!

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TheSpriterMaster [2013-04-11 23:12:27 +0000 UTC]

Q: did you make traditional art first or you sprited.

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FrozenFeather In reply to TheSpriterMaster [2013-04-11 23:14:14 +0000 UTC]

just sprited no artwork.

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TheSpriterMaster In reply to FrozenFeather [2013-04-11 23:24:54 +0000 UTC]

Lol what came to my mind is
FF the spriter is evolving into into a....designer XD

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FrozenFeather In reply to TheSpriterMaster [2013-04-11 23:34:53 +0000 UTC]

lol

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StormTheRaichu [2012-11-01 14:31:24 +0000 UTC]

Very nice, I will be using this. Thank you very much for a detailed example.

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FrozenFeather In reply to StormTheRaichu [2012-11-01 16:25:11 +0000 UTC]

yay glad to help ^^

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pokemonSEGA [2012-08-24 01:33:05 +0000 UTC]

[link]
used and will be using a lot more^^

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FrozenFeather In reply to pokemonSEGA [2012-08-24 01:43:44 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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pokemonSEGA In reply to FrozenFeather [2012-08-24 01:49:22 +0000 UTC]

^^

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Brawl483 [2012-07-26 16:54:01 +0000 UTC]

What program do you use? I've made sprites on Windows Paint but they look like complete crap

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FrozenFeather In reply to Brawl483 [2012-07-26 18:45:47 +0000 UTC]

paint

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Zermonious [2012-07-26 12:51:15 +0000 UTC]

Good tutorial, that's pretty much what I do, except for highlights because whenever I do them on mine, it looks like they ruined the sprite. xP

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FrozenFeather In reply to Zermonious [2012-07-26 18:46:11 +0000 UTC]

lol that's why i normally don't do highlights

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Zermonious In reply to FrozenFeather [2012-07-26 19:33:01 +0000 UTC]

Yeah xD

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Mismagius1997 [2012-07-26 12:41:48 +0000 UTC]

Awesome I like it

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FrozenFeather In reply to Mismagius1997 [2012-07-26 18:45:53 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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RedPanda7 [2012-07-26 08:27:59 +0000 UTC]

Makes it sound simple

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FrozenFeather In reply to RedPanda7 [2012-07-26 08:38:51 +0000 UTC]

lol it is after you've done it a bunch

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RedPanda7 In reply to FrozenFeather [2012-07-26 08:40:54 +0000 UTC]

XD

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Bajilla [2012-07-26 02:53:33 +0000 UTC]

thats very simple and straight to the point! good tutorial!

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FrozenFeather In reply to Bajilla [2012-07-26 02:54:51 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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CupOJo [2012-07-26 02:52:13 +0000 UTC]

very good line shading explanation! helps alot!

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FrozenFeather In reply to CupOJo [2012-07-26 02:54:22 +0000 UTC]

good at least i helped one person

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CupOJo In reply to FrozenFeather [2012-07-26 02:54:49 +0000 UTC]

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