Spriters Society

[Jappio]

This is one of those weird splices where as you stare at it, your liking of it goes back and forth. First glance and I think "Woah, it's head looks big." then a little more staring and I'm like "Oh wait, it flows very well." then a few moments later "Ugg, it's head is pretty big." I can't seem to figure out if it's proportioned right or not. I want to say that either the head could stand to be smaller, or more easily find a bigger body. Another issue is the colors. Due to Staraptors odd palette, the body, tail feathers, and head all look to have slightly different colors and textures.

 

Prometheus covered a lot of the big things, like I can't stand unrecolored borders. There also is the issue of textures. The arms due to their shape and style appear to be scaley or at least solid, yet the body still appears to be covered in fur, which doesn't look right. Also the mix itself isn't the most even, too much Ursaring and not enough other stuff. The ping color of the ring doesn't show up the best and you have it in a few other random areas on the arms tat doesn't look right.

 

Part of the problem with this is the removal of the fur. Now you're left with a lot of baren space, which shading wise looks bad. I understand if shading is tough to do, but something should be done so it doesn't look so flat and plain. One ting that might have worked is adding Raichu's underbelly, back stripes, or his colored feet and hands.

 

Well hard to comment on the shading too much since I"m personally not a big fan of the high amounts of dither you use. Perhpas try not using as much. However what I can say about it is that the fins are a bit too basic in shading, not enough curve on them, it's all too straight. The dark area near the beak are a bit too much also, there should be more ligher areas there since it's close to the light source. You have the light source there pointing to the top right also. I know the beak would cvause some shadowing, but not that much. Also the borders could use more black in some areas. You should have more than just a couple of black dots all over, more solid in the dark areas The beak also have none is odd too. Oh and the form is mostly good but I think the fins at again to straight shape, could also use more curve. Their more like airplane wings rather than seal/fish fins =P

 

I believe I've told you before, but I like the third one, the white just looks best in my opinion.

 

Well the leg was mentioned and I liked Tortoise Kyle's suggestion to keep something liket he stripes to make it less plain. I also think the ead and should look weird, one of the two could be positioned better. Horn could be better placed also.

 

A quick warming. You're suppose to give some form of critique or comment on someone else's sprite before posting your own.

 

Just to mention on it, the head really stick outs, and not properly attached to the neck. The spike on the chest isn't exactly centered. It's body is also pretty plain.

 

Well the legs look very weird compared to the body. The attachement parts don't look like the belonged and are poorly atttached. The textures are messed up. Green is a weird color to mix with gray also I think. Oh the color of the underbelly looks extra brighth compared to the horns, even though the underbelly shouldn't be recieving too much light.

[Tortoise Kyle]

Thank you for your Critique. I was just putting the second one out there to see what peoples opinion would be of it. And I will try to find a better body for the first one.

[PrometheusMFD]

I'm bored, someone name two pokemon (Note: they may not actually get used)

[Jappio]

Farfetch'd and Shiftree.

[Tortoise Kyle]

Mantyke and Combusken

[Tortoise Kyle]

I hope I'm allowed to bump this...

[Jappio]

I don't mind.

 

Actually I have a video for Prometheus:

 

Not easy to do, and very little is actually like done. So it isn't very entertaining and not too much to learn from it, so I apologize.

[PrometheusMFD]

Meh, it gets small stuff that is just as vital in the spotlight. And it's good for viewers to see competent stuff every once in a while. But WOO! I'm on a video!

[Tomiix]

Well all new Super Poke World stuff. Should I get into the habit of also creating a small image for stilled images of the sprites worked on? I figured video would be the best way to show the sprites, as it shows their animation and stuff. However I'd still like to hear what you all think.

 

can i have a copy of that i have a gba rom player. also i have a idea for the flowers that hop out of the pipes.. yeah make them bulbasaurs XD cause of the flower on there back. thats be a funny idea. also football plays can be marowacks. that flying guy on the cloud blocks can be that cloud dragon pokemon (forgot that name)

[Tortoise Kyle]

Hey Jappio, since my knowledge of how to make those splicing videos is non-existant, could you please tell me? Yeah...

[Jappio]

Sorry I'm not distributing the rom. Beyond the questionable leaglety of that, it's not really something that I'm going to release. Beside the sprite swaps it's just the normal Mario World game. I also don't think a gba rom player will work, unless it also plays SNES.

 

Bulbasaur wouldn't fit the best, I think Weepinbells would be much more appropriate. Besides I'm trying to get Buzzy Beetles to be Bulbasaurs. Charging Chuck and his many forms I'm actually thinking of making him Golem. They have a similar shape, and I could make a lot of the different Charging Chuck attacks match Golem attacks. Hammer throwing guy wouldn't be the best for an Altaria. I wouldn't have a clue what Altaria would be chucking after all. There is also the issue that the platform it rides uses other sprites in the game, so if I changed those to look like Altaria clouds, things would get messy and confusing in other areas.

 

If you mean making a video of yourself making a sprite Tortoise Kyle, I use Hypercam.

[Tortoise Kyle]

Cool beans. Thanks. I'll probably have a video up eventually.

 

EDIT: Make that eventually + 2. It's not the easiest thing to use on my laptop.

[Tomiix]

man most of my sprites are on my dads site im gonna post some old ones i made... there kind of the same type of skill i currently have... also when i get the time to get my dads laptop i wanna show you guys this really cool mix of a riolu and elekid I made.

[PrometheusMFD]

I'm trying to make a Quetzalcoatl fakemon. Anyone know how I should do the feathers? It seems like I can't go into too much detail, but I don't know whether or not the feathers should be sticking out or smooth

[Jappio]

Quetzalcoatl is cool. Now that I think about it though, Rayquaza is sort of like a Quetzquatle, a flying serpent who controls weather. Obviously though by the sounds of it you're doing something more traditional.

 

I think you should have feathers sticking out. Quetzalcoatl sounds like more of a fierce god, especially if it deals with the chaotic nature of storms. I mean with its crazy winds and lightning I'd imagine it's feathers would be sticking up all over the place.

[PrometheusMFD]

Quetzalcoatl is cool. Now that I think about it though, Rayquaza is sort of like a Quetzquatle, a flying serpent who controls weather. Obviously though by the sounds of it you're doing something more traditional.

 

I think you should have feathers sticking out. Quetzalcoatl sounds like more of a fierce god, especially if it deals with the chaotic nature of storms. I mean with its crazy winds and lightning I'd imagine it's feathers would be sticking up all over the place.

 

It's going to be more of an Evo of Dunsparce (since it kinda is a combination of Quetzalcoatl and a Japanese monster)

[Rampage567]

Also, still wondering which of these three pallettes is best

 

I like the first 1. its more like a dog than a ice beast.

 

o by the way herez ma newest

 

 

 

tell me what you think!

 

what just happened?

[PrometheusMFD]

Not my best work. In fact its really quite terrible as far as I'm concerned. Liked my elemental doggy things from a few weeks ago much better ^.^

 

Also, still wondering which of these three pallettes is best

 

1 like the first 1. It looks more like an acutally dog than an ice creatuyre.

 

o and by the way, this is my newest splice:

 

 

 

 

I like the first 1. its more like a dog than a ice beast.

 

o by the way herez ma newest

 

 

 

tell me what you think!

 

what just happened?

It's not exactly a splice. It's more of a sprite page or something...

[Rampage567]

Yaaa... I see what cha mean. but i didin't know waht to call it.

[Jappio]

Sorry for being so inactive club. I haven't gotten any sprites done myself. I know it doesn't excuse my actions, but I would like to apologies. I could have at least brought up some conversations.

 

I'm not sure what to call your creation either Rampage. The only issue I can say I see with it is that both Bowser and Peach seem to be standing on the windows, which is of course a weird place to stand.

 

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More work on the Link sprite. I got two more frames, and now I was able to make a sort of beta animation. Now I do plan on making more frames. I'm thinking either a frame ever 60 or 45 degrees of the spin. I might get lazy and do some more blurring and less detail work, because having to always reshade and redo every little detail in each of these frames is a pain.

 

 

Here are the stilled frames for those who want to look at them more closely.

 

 

As always, I would love any comments or criticism you can give. I'm giving these sprites my all, but I know that probably won't be enough.

 

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Oh and also if anyone here plans on posting Pokemon White/Black content here, I will be unable to look at it. I will do everything in my power to shield my eyes from it. So if any of you are posting splices with any of the new Pokemon being used, I won't be able to comment or critique them. I know it's weird, but I just want to avoid being spoiled on any of the new Pokemon so I can enjoy play White when it comes out as blind as I can.

 

I know I can't ask you to not post it though, so I'm not going to prohibit it. However if any of you want to show off some 5th gen stuff, I'd appreciate it if you could put it into a spoiler. Now I'm not making it a rule that you have to, I understand I run a risk of finding out new stuff just by being on the internet. I'm just asking as a favor from me and anyone else who wants to stay in the dark on that stuff.

[PrometheusMFD]

Well I've been looking through the new sprites. Is it cool if we just discuss the general feeling/style that the sprites bring?

Whereas Gen 4 was focused on improving on a lot of older mons, Gen 5 just focuses on Gen 5.

[Jappio]

Well arguably knowing that not many of the older guys got attention is somewhat spoiling, but not to some devastating amount. I will abstain from anything that involves 5th gen for the most part. However, I remember seeing the style earlier before I started not paying attention. They didn't really change the style from what I recall, as Entei seems to still use the same sprite. However the fact that everything got a bunch of new frames scares me. It's nice to have more options, but too many options is sort of scary. We already had at least 2 or 4 sprites for every Pokemon, but now we're going to have a ton more! Will be hard to manage a sheet to hold them all. Adding HG/SS to my sprite sheet was enough of a pain =P

[PrometheusMFD]

Back sprites have changed significantly (now it shows the full back)

So yeah, they added 181 new pokemon. We're in the six hundreds now. Ugh!

[PrometheusMFD]

So it's been a week. IF anyone other than me or Jappio is still in the club (although Jappio can participate as well) Can someone give me pre Gen V pokemon to actually splice?

[Jappio]

Raichu, Grumpig, Quagsire, and Magmar.

Whoops, I might have just ruined the point of you asking for splices and trying to get others to speak up =P