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a question for spriter, how long do you guys need to make one sprite
#1  March 21, 2010, 09:55:19 am
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the title says it all, how long you take to draw a fully scratch built sprite (the sprite only, not the sketching, or getting the idea), and for what size of sprite is that?

for example, I really need 1 hour just to make 1 sprite in low res KoF size, and I wonder if anybody else need that much time as me, and I mean it is not the first time I make it, but everytime again I need 40mns up to 1 hr just to tweak around a single sprite. but again I'm slow in drawing compared to my friends when in hi-school days.

I found out that actually making hires sprite is a bit faster, since individual pixel placement is not as crucial as low res, and it starts to feel like normal drawing.

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#2  March 21, 2010, 08:15:05 pm
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Less than a minute. Knowing what i want to draw and how i am gonna draw it takes longer.

( then again you do know what style I use so... )

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#3  March 21, 2010, 08:41:56 pm
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Wow... You guys are actually fast to make one...

As for me... It takes 5/6 hours for me to make a sprite...

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#4  March 21, 2010, 08:44:43 pm
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is there a tutorial for spriting...

get super into fighting games... for glorious fun...

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#5  March 21, 2010, 08:54:38 pm
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Half an hour usually. Thats including shading and final touch ups.
Luis Alejandro said, July 27, 2010, 07:46:45 pm
RaiN said, July 27, 2010, 07:44:57 pm
Kinda strange but I woke up today and her hand was on my ass cheek
I won't suspect anything though I'll take it she was sleeping and didn't notice
you should have flipped over slowly

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#6  March 21, 2010, 09:22:54 pm
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Nnaajj said, March 21, 2010, 08:54:38 pm
Half an hour usually. Thats including shading and final touch ups.

or 10 mins if there are recycled parts :sugoi:
but it depends on the type of sprite.
it also depends if the technique is already "well implemented" so you get faster once you spent a bit of time trying to understand the style that has to be used.

Nnaajj

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#7  March 21, 2010, 09:25:39 pm
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Luis Alejandro said, July 27, 2010, 07:46:45 pm
RaiN said, July 27, 2010, 07:44:57 pm
Kinda strange but I woke up today and her hand was on my ass cheek
I won't suspect anything though I'll take it she was sleeping and didn't notice
you should have flipped over slowly
Last Edit: March 21, 2010, 09:29:32 pm by Nnaajj

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#8  March 21, 2010, 09:51:55 pm
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I would have to time myself, but if its a simple animations (fully sprited) it would take me an hour or two. Again, if its simple.

If I would had done it in one shoot, the twist animation I did would had took me maybe eight hours or more from the ground up.

The charging animation took me a few hours. Oh yeah and I am talking about High res sprites. Low res takes me longer for some reason.

ALTCHARACTER said, March 21, 2010, 08:44:43 pm
is there a tutorial for spriting...

This is a bit off topic but if the guild needs one just let me know and ill try to make some time to make one.

moolambo

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#9  March 21, 2010, 10:20:30 pm
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Nnaajj said, March 21, 2010, 09:25:39 pm
sto[k]azzo @[O..O]@ said, March 21, 2010, 09:22:54 pm
Nnaajj said, March 21, 2010, 08:54:38 pm
Half an hour usually. Thats including shading and final touch ups.

or 10 mins if there are recycled parts :sugoi:
Just because I was making one franken sprited project dosen't meen I don't make sprites  --;

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I wasn't talking about you (I don't even know you). I was talking about some works of mine which ....
uhm ...
... required the recycling of parts belonging to other sprites.

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#10  March 21, 2010, 10:22:08 pm
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I FAIL TOO MUCH!
Luis Alejandro said, July 27, 2010, 07:46:45 pm
RaiN said, July 27, 2010, 07:44:57 pm
Kinda strange but I woke up today and her hand was on my ass cheek
I won't suspect anything though I'll take it she was sleeping and didn't notice
you should have flipped over slowly

kakkoii superhero

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#11  March 22, 2010, 12:55:08 am
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but still that is fast

@madlax
hmm if I want to make a special sprite just for fun, with secondary lighting and such, it will spend 5-6 hours as well, but I won't do that style for a game, since it will take me a lifetime to finish a complete spritesheet.

@niall & mulambo
that is fast! even in swapping parts, I still need at least 30 mins to smoothen the joined parts.

@Darkdez
1 hour for the whole animation, wow, I would have spent 4 hours for a 5 frames animation.

and usually the part absorbing the bigger portion of that time is face... to convey facial features in such size is very abstract, and thus a little misplaced or wrong tone choice can have so much difference in the result, especially in low res sprite.

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#12  March 22, 2010, 07:43:14 am
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from scratch - 45 mins to 1 hour.
fixing or editing - 1 to 2 hours

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#13  March 22, 2010, 10:38:48 am
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#14  March 22, 2010, 10:45:17 am
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Depends on the size of the sprite. And my motivation to keep going with it.

32 pixels and less take about 5 minutes. Any more and it can take hours.

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#15  March 22, 2010, 12:48:09 pm
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It depends on the sprite. If it's a single sprite (or the first in a series of sprites), it can take me anywhere from an hour and a half to as much as five hours. However, once the first sprite is done, then the next ones take considerably less time (30-45 minutes) because I get a feel for what I'm spriting, and have a good idea of what I'm aiming at based off of the first sprite.

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#16  March 22, 2010, 06:43:54 pm
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from 5 minutes to one hour in regular res, hi res takes me much longer becauseI wanted to properly place everysprite, though if I made a new hd sprite I would stop caring that much about the individual pixels, this after cehcking out some real hires sprites.

kakkoii superhero

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#17  March 23, 2010, 03:11:05 am
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Konata Bernkastel~ said, March 22, 2010, 06:43:54 pm
from 5 minutes to one hour in regular res, hi res takes me much longer becauseI wanted to properly place everysprite, though if I made a new hd sprite I would stop caring that much about the individual pixels, this after cehcking out some real hires sprites.

in HD sprite I just use 2pixel or even 3 pixel brush to render the clothing instead of 1 pixel, and only use 1 pixel brush to touch up the creases and details.
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