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Published: 2012-09-08 21:29:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 57256; Favourites: 1083; Downloads: 956
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Here it is, forThis took hours... hours and hours, 2 shimeji pictures, and a crapload of screenshots. Close to 50 I think, including what didn't make it in.
This is freaking long, isn't it?
Edit: I added a base to draw a shimeji off of as the download button. Feel free to play around with it, it's a .psd file.
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Hey I have a question. Does the pixel size HAVE to be 128x128? My character is too big to fit into that tiny pixel resolution.
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Yeah, when I tried getting it in higher resolution it half fell off of the ground
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.0. amazing! Once I get a drawing tablet, I'm going 2 try!!!!
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Do you happen to know anything about the programming shimejis? or who I could ask a programming question?
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What do you need help with specifically?
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I made my own shimeji, but the character I used has two different eye colours. I've been trying to figure out a way to program different left and right facing animations so the eyes stay consistent
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Hmm. Well, you could try paying attention to the way the shimeji's standing, and if it's facing left, use one color, and if it's facing right, use the other.
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I need to find a way to deactivate the lookright function in the code. I even tried removing code from the image pairing that dictates that the right image is a flipped version of the left
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I've created all the different left and right images I need but it's about a 50/50 chance the shimeji uses the correct image set
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Do you know file, containing a Shimeji-ee.exe file? The .jar file doesn't work for me. Sorry for asking this stupid question! Β Β
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have u tryed geting a .rar folder? If u download 7-Zip, u can open the .rar files 4 shimejis.
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Im sad, I cant download it because my computer can only open PNG :c
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I use paint tool sai, and when I reduce the image to 128x128 the image gets cut of... what do I do?Β Β
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you have to make sure youre knocking down resolution, not canvas size
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Oooh! ok thank you!
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I downloaded a shimeji couple, but they don't work! What can I do? Β ; - ;Β
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make sure youre trying to use them right. most shimejis have tutorials on how to make them work in the artist notes, so check for instructions there
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Thanks for the tutorial, it's great! Just one question for when you are drawing the characters, would it still work if I drew them on a different art thing that still has layers and all that, and basically works the same, but on my iPad? What I'm saying is when you save them to your iPad, you can't name the file or anything, so if I made the pictures on my iPad which are transparent and all, then uploaded them to my computer and renamed them then, would it still work?
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Thanks very much, this is a really good shimeji tutorial and a good drawing chibis tutorial too! Thanks a lot!
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Thanks a lot for this tutorial! I just found out about shimejis today and immediately thought of making my own, haha 
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yeah uhm sorry to say but your base SUCKS. it doesn't include feet, it's to short and stubby, and I actually have to shade and color the skin shit. so yeah, don't download the base to all you hopefuls.
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oh no i actually have to do work and can;t be a lazy ass! waaahh! get out, please
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you know you can make your own base that looks like ass. :>
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that's literally the point of the whole thing. it's a basic sketch outline that you work on top of, it's not meant to be colored in like some shitty anime base on MS paint
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well, I expected something a little clearer. this was quite a while ago, and I have found something that works a little better. Sorry for the trouble .u.
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That's good to hear! But on that note, I really have to recommend you don't draw over bases in the future 
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I just want to say thank you so very much for this tutorial <3 I was able to make a super cute shimeji of my own, as well as some for a friend thanks to it
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When i resize mine the quality drops and all of the smooth linesΒ look tooΒ pixelated.
I work i Sai.. so do you have a tip to what to do? i give up..Β
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That's basically how raster images work (as opposed to vector), sorry... there'a actually no way to do anything about this.
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I got it working
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oh really? that's awesome!
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now i can make my shimeji stop glitching in the cornerΒ Β
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJJYP9β¦
I'm thinking its maybe a bit too big or maybe i just can find the right vector and all that jazz
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holy cow that's an awesome shimeji!! I can't vouch for the too big thing since I've only ever made small ones, I don't have experience with it
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Thanks Β
I'm using a Shimeji base that i found somewhere, can't remember where now.
I could try and find another one to use, haven't done that yet.
Gonna try it out
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but how do you make it move and put everything together and it's AI. that is the main thing I'm wondering about. I am not good at this file stuff so...
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I didn't make it do that, someone else made the program. I only drew the pictures
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Okay, thank you anyway!
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Question,how do you save it?(like save it as a .png,.jpeg,ect. please ignore my lack of file knowledge XD) Also where can you download it to the internet other than mediafire cause my computer can't pull up anything mediafire related without LOTS of trouble
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pictures are always saved as .png and everything goes into the folders, which can be put as a whole into either a .zip or a .rar file when you want to put it online. There's a lot of different sites like I think you can use megaupload or dropbox... I dont think google drive lets you put them on there though because they have .exe files in them
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okay,thank you.
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Can you make a couple Shimeji? So it would have 2 characters instead of just one?
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you can make whatever you're willing to try. it's just harder to make it work visually. you can't make 2 separate shimejis interact if that's what you mean, unless you learn to program it. but plenty of people have drawn 2 together in one.
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I'm on my iPad, so I can't download the base from the download button.
I have to get it from a screenshot.
This scares me.
Anyway, this is the most thorough tutorial I've seen. Thanks.
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This tutorial is amazing! Β However I have one question... what happens when your shimeji drawing is super small when put into 128x128 pixels? Β Mine is definitely not the size of your Romano.Β
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well, if it's small the only thing that's going to happen is it's going to be smaller. Honestly, it doesn't matter how big or small you make it, it's just standard for them to be 128x128.
however you might want to go back in and check to be certain you are changing it to pixels and perhaps not something else?
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