General Pixel Art Discussion Thread

countryemo said:

At school when I mostly scratch I use the XP Paint (Since thats all it has)

At home, when I fuse, I mostly use win 7 paint, I gotten used to it. Its not too bad, I just dont use all that fancy stuff as the drawing stuff?
When I inset tiles I used both.

The only thing win 7 can change is the index thing xp had? and right click the other set color.

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Whoa, you sprite at school? If I even open up paint at school, my teachers will give me a detention.

Friends had experience.

I'm mostly using Paint, it's great program for spriting. Sometimes I use Paint.Net, mostly to add transparency.

I have question - what's difference between Splice and Fusion?

Fusing, splicing and "Frankensteining" are all umbrella terms for making sprites out of parts from existing sprites, but they also carry different connotations. While any of them can be used to refer to any combination of sprite parts, each technically has its own meaning. Don't worry, most people use the terms interchangeably enough that only a handful use them "correctly" these days. As they were originally used, the terms are as follows:

Fusion: A roughly equal mix of two (largely unedited) sprites, such as a Gardevoir with a Koffing in place of its head. Also known as a Hybrid. In the last two years or so, Fusion has come to mean two Pokemon combined into one, like Skitty given Turtwig's palette and shell. Apparently Dragon Ball Z is involved somehow.

Splice: Two or more sprites nicely integrated, such as a Lucario with Mewtwo's belly and tail, Dialga's chest jewel thing, and Palkia's wings. May be recolored.

Frankenstein: Multiple parts combined to create an original creature, usually with edited and recolored parts to hide their origin. Also known as an Amalgamon.

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Why would you need to use the default colours if the step right after that is to recolour all of them to black? :c

Question: How long do you take to do a recolor?

I have started spriting for leisure some time ago and it took me a while to get to the hang of spriting. So I want to ask you guys: how long do you ususally take to do a recolor and what do you do to do a recolor quickly?

It depends on the program really, it takes quite a small amount of time once you figure out your palette and colours.

Logiedan said:

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Why would you need to use the default colours if the step right after that is to recolour all of them to black? :c

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Idk, it just seems to make it seem a lot easier to sprite each limb in a different colour, before putting them all together.

but shouldn't you fill them in and colour it before you make the whole outline black?

oh my god is she still doing this doesn't she realize advertising is against the rules and that nobody cares about her silly spriting livestream

...Yeah, well, anyway! Offtopic posts abound because there is another pocket spriter coming up, and I haven't been told off for posting here before so I see no reason to stop. And I know that at least one of you is going to notice and maybe show up, and in that case, mission accomplished.

Anyway.

Pocket Spriter #8: Pokemon Black and Sprite! Now with worse puns!

We return to the scene of the crime with intrepid reporterspriters Zephyr+/Involuntary Twitch and Seika! It's a grisly scene: Pokemon fans and wanna be spriters alike, sprawled in uncomfortable positions, their fingers still clenched around their Nintendo DSes where, only an hour or so ago, the sheer elation of finally being able to play Pokemon Black and White caused massive cranial hemorrhaging. It's quite a shame, really, but who cares it's time for Pocket Spriter!!!

Coinciding with the North American release date of Pokemon B/W, we bring you the latest installment of the Pocket Spriter livestream! As usual, we will be talking at great length about the do's and dont's of fakemon spriting, while entertaining viewer suggestions, answering questions, and inviting anyone who has Skype to join in! It's going to be at 5:00PM EST on Sunday, March 6th, so grab your DS and let's gooooooo!

Panels are as follows (EDIT: due to unforeseen circumstances, we will be switching the times of the panels, so Seika will be going from 5-7:30 and Twitch will be going from 7:30-happy hour.) :

Hosted by Seika: 5:00-7:30
Make it move!: We take a look at how to animate fakemon like in B/W!
Fakedex Primer: What goes into a fakedex? How do you ensure balance and diversity? We'll make several linearts and flat-colored sprites in this block!

Hosted by Twitch: 7:30-10:00 & Happy Hour
15 years of style: We look back on how Pokemon sprite style has changed over the years, and sprite something in B/W style!
Beekeeping tips: Another one of our _____ tips panels; this time, we'll bee looking at the diverse and very awesome bug type!
Sprite critique: A recurring favorite; we'll take a look at viewer submitted sprites and suggest improvements.
Happy Hour: par-tayyyyy (or go to bed early because tomorrow's Monday, after all)

As always, the link to the stream is here: http://www.livestream.com/pocketspriter! Make sure to drop by (you don't need to register for anything), and tell your friends!

Is it okay to get a pokemon sprite and then edit off it or should make it from scratch?
Are you supposed to only showcase scratch sprites?

TheMysteryEgg said:

Is it okay to get a pokemon sprite and then edit off it or should make it from scratch?
Are you supposed to only showcase scratch sprites?

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You can edit the official sprites, just don't make a new thread. Instead, post in this thread.

You don't ONLY have to showcase scratch sprites, you can post a couple of them in your thread including your fusions, devamps, etc.

Any good Spriting programs? XD

Hi everyone, I wanted to make a start on making Pokemon emoticons (sprites) but don't know where to start. ^^'

Any suggestions on what program/tool I sould use?

Thanks! X3

MS Paint, Paint.NET, Photoshop and GraphicsGale are some, though most use Paint.

Right... Thanks! =D

Any more suggestions? Which one is the best for editing Sprites?

Thank you~ XD

But sin't Paint hard to edit Pixels? ^^'

^^ Thanks!
Can I blow up the sprite in paint?

Sorry I'm a Noob in paint