I've redrawn the image you posted, resized it to MUGEN size, retraced it and colour it. All I have to say is: SPRITING THIS GUY IS A BITCH!I suggest you sprite in hi-res.I drew a portrait too, just for fun. I can post it if you want.
Go ahead.I decided to make a new sprite without using a base character, with just the image I posted earlier as a reference.
The Great and Powerful Oz said, March 21, 2008, 01:13:07 amGo ahead.I decided to make a new sprite without using a base character, with just the image I posted earlier as a reference.I suggest you make drawings of him in motion (for the animation you want to) on paper - and scan them on the computer. From there you will be able to resize the images and colorize the sprite. Ofcourse - this requires you to have a scanner. Also, if you wish to draw the character on paper, use the "B" pencil. 3B or 4B should do the trick. They are much softer and give a lot more "shade" than the "H" pencils. "H" pencils are mainly used to make architechtural drawings and details, and won't be seen good at all when you scan them (believe me, I tried).Otherwise - looks good. Keep up the good work there Oz.
I do have a scanner.If I can find some of my old art pencils, I suppose I could work on some action shots.Eventually.Thank you for the suggestions.
The Great and Powerful Oz said, March 21, 2008, 01:53:22 amI do have a scanner.If I can find some of my old art pencils, I suppose I could work on some action shots.Eventually.Thank you for the suggestions. No problem friend. Hope you make more of this stuff. I really look forward to see more. It looks real cool.
To hand-draw sprites is way easier than frankenspriting, if you can draw, obviously. The problem is that it's hard to keep the proportions in a chain of drawings:Doing the above is fucking hard. You can use an animation sketch-book to make the work easier (this is what I do). Once I'm done drawing my sprite/set of sprites, I scan it and retrace it with one of the Retas Pro! tools: Traceman (this is one of the "very helpful tools" I mentioned before, Oz). Traceman isn't 100% accurate when retracing so I have to retouch the image a bit. Once the outlines are perfect I colour it then shade it and finnally remove the outlines by sel-out.Sprite:Details and shading were left out this time 'cause I'm lazy. Little details like the rod and the symbols in his clothes, can be added later, drawing them would just saturate the image with useless black outlines. They look good in a big resolution, but they'll be annoying when the image is resized.-Guado portraitIf you want the Retas Pro! package, just post.
It sounds like a very useful tool for traditional/digital drawing conversion...I want the Retas Pro! package, pretty please with sugar on top!
http://www.mediafire.com/?gzs09mj24gtThis is Retas Pro! Infinity 5.1 Demo for Mac OS and Windows (buggy in XP) from 2001. Never expires, but leaves a "created with CELCYS software" label in every file (this is easily avoidable) and lacks multiple levels of undo. It contains three essential tools: Traceman (scans and retraces images) Paintman (for painting the retraced images) and CORERetas (for creating animations, YES, VIDEOS! ANIME VIDEOS!). It has a very concrete PDF manual for each program.There are two other tools that are missing: Pencilman (for direct drawing using a tablet) and Renderdog (special effects). Don't know where I have them.CELCYS has release a HD version of this software, I haven't tried it yet because I don't need it, but in case any of you wants a demo, check out their site. The freaking package is over 3000 bucks. Doesn't surprise me, all the 90's anime series were created with this software.@Shunz: You have some cool stuff in your deviantART site, do you draw your own characters?
Lalo said, March 21, 2008, 10:28:21 pm@Shunz: You have some cool stuff in your deviantART site, do you draw your own characters?Glad you like it! And yeah, in fact I do draw my own characters, I´m (very) "slowly" coming out of my practising and learning phase into actually creating my own world.The most of what I did recently, is all done traditional and in my sketchbook, so that´s why I didn´t upload as frequently as other people did the past year, if you look at my gallery, you see I improve on something in each drawing! I´ve been through a long phase of learning the anatomy, first the skeleton, then the muscles, then studying poses, 30 secs is very helpful ( http://www.posemaniacs.com/blog/ ), I´ve memorized the most now, of course not everything (for example on the skeleton, I can draw everything exactly, apart from the Pelvis, I know the basic shape, but for the exact look I need reference, but the exact look isn´t necessary unless you actually draw a skeleton there). Muscles I know completely now, and currently I´m still getting more and more into the feel of poses.Thank you very much for the upload! And i think we should stop talking about this now, as this thread belongs to another topic! (sorry about this long post!)
Our sprites look very similar (nearly identical one might say.) Which leads me to believe that your method may very well work for me.Retas Pro sounds like a worthwile program. I'll look into trying your demo version.It is free, isn't it?
