Sometimes I made the sprites low res or bigger res and then i try to resize them with photoshop. thats why they are blurry. the KofXIII resolution are too low for modern 4k resolution. I am trying to make them hires by adding some glossian blur style. in this case it's more like drawings instead of spriting.

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methiou said, May 26, 2025, 06:39:34 pm

Well, I got caught. I trained an AI to do KofXII style. Not perfect yet, Chamat, can you teach me those methods? I really want to make very very big sprites, that's why I use this method. My resizing skills with photoshop are really bad and they end up blurry and messy. Well, I will remove them and go back to all ways.

Man its been a while since I saw the mugen police go after someone. Meh, nothing wrong with using AI.

I saw this exact same discussion way back in the day when photoshop showed up and all the old school graphic designers felt insulted at how people were doing the same work they did but way faster and many times better. Nowadays not using photoshop (or its competitors) is seen as dumb and inefficient. Photoshop was pretty clunky back then too.

Ye olde ways will eventually die off, always. Good for you for trying to develop new ways to make sprites using modern tools.

Do whatever you want man. Enjoy your hobby and thanks for sharing its results with us.

Chun-li AI Image courtesy of Methiou:

Tips for the grayscale, it would be best if the image was like a 3D render without textures, all gray like the second one here because everything you need to do next is limit the palette, add details and color separate.

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For method 2, just color separation, you cut the sections with Magic Wand and increase the Tolerance, change the color of that layer, set the palette then scale and and clean.

Method 1, Grayscale should be good for images with few details, you clean it from the get go, but is an extra step and you still have to Color Separate.

Method 2, only doing the Color Separation could be faster, but you may lose details and some random dots could pop up.

Is up to you if you want to prompt the AI image to be in Grayscale or with Color Separation.

AI would be as an alternative of tracing over the image, stylizing it, saving you time, this is a hobby after all. But you must be aware of animations, so their frames don't look jumpy and different from each other, you could focus only on keyframes and create the inbetweens or you simply fix the jumpiness.