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Kirby approves of camping our match.

Sorry, can't

Hi? Why so many dots?

Good job my student, except you have to make it even MORE smaller. It has to be the size of a sprite, as demonstrated in my scyther pixel-over

Yup. Think of it as a revamp except you don't have to add any shading AT ALL!

You just recolor the colors to match the shades on a normal Voltorb

Yeh, thats good enough. I myself would have trouble on the wings and I think you know the concept of erasing/coloring over death pixels right?

Anyways the shading was pretty accurate and makes it look A LOT more like 4th gen.

Now for your next lesson, I have decided to delay your learning of splicing considering you have A BIT of trouble (and I mean just a little), so to prepare you, you will now learn the art of Pixel-Overs.

Pixel-Overs are just getting a Sugomori artwork and: recoloring it, resizing it, and fixing the outlines to fit the shading.

I will now show you an example of one of my pixel overs.



(btw pardon for the darkened colors, but this was my first pixel-over which took me all day to make. Back then I didn't know how to make stuff transparent so look at this

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/yy141/roacherman/Pixel-Overs/th_scyther2.png)

As you can see, this scyther has been copied from this:

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/yy141/roacherman/Pixel-Overs/th_scyther2.png

(Sorry but I'm too lazy to put image tags)

See, its getting an image and making it fit into the size of a normal sprite.

Here is also a simple one:

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A ditto Pixel-Over. As you can tell it is almost exactly the sugomori artwork, except I recolored it using Ditto's colors and I resized it (which should be 80x80 btw) to make it fit the size of a sprite

Do you understand what I'm talking about?

For your first assignment, I want you to... hmmm hold on a minute I'll come up with a pokemon



*starts thinking for several minutes*

Give me a Pixel-Over of Voltorb por favor

Yeah you're right. I'm sorry but I'm blind like a bat without my glasses so I need them to see better.

Now, for your final course in revamping I want you to make a complicated revamp with complete overhaul in shading.

I want you to do a Pokemon Green Charizard revamp.

Remember: Major shading overhaul

Looks great, you did match the shading to the light source though right?

Alright get to it champ!

Make roach proud of you!

Look. There are two different kinds of revamps. The one with the major overhaul in shading is to change ALL the shading to make it look like the light source is actually hitting on the top right side. The other one is just simply going over the already existing shades with colors that match the sprite.

If you don't know which colors to shade magnemite with, use the newer gen's as a reference. Copy the colors from that to color your art with.

Got it?

Sorry about not being on, I'll try again.

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sorry man i just have internet on friday and saturday due to my strict parents..<.<
was sup dude ? how is it goin'? ^^
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*reviews it*

Pretty good my student. Pretty good for the first one you've done.

Now I want you to make me another simple one (I'm requiring 3 sprites for you)

Just make me a revamp of pokemon crystal Magnemite, but this time make the shading overhauled

Just go to bulbapedia and type in magikarp.

It'll show all the sprites from all the gens.

You could also go here:

http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/sprites.html

It's a sprite resource. I don't use it much, but its pretty handy to have around

btw forgot to mention, don't use the major overhaul type, use the normal type

Alright then I want you to make a revamp of Magikarp from Pokemon Green (yes pokemon green). I want you to use the newer magikarp as a referance for the colors alright?


Also another tip, Look at the Pokemon Yellow Raichu.

Do you see the outline full of little dots? Yeah, they are what I like to call outline dots.

Outline dots = Death.

The original games made these dots to run smoother on the GBC. When you do the revamp, I want you to get rid of these. Usually, I just recolor them with colors that blend in more towards the outline. I think you should do that too.

Revamping is getting a sprite, usually from gen 1 or 2 and bringing them up to the 3rd or 4th gen standards.

I'll show you what I mean by demonstrating with my own revamps. For this I made a Dunsparce:



This is the original sprite. Now notice the similarity between this one and this:

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Notice how similar the shading is. This is what I believe to be a great example of a good revamp.

Now there are two revamps. The first one is doing a major overhaul in the shading and adding shading where the light source is supposed to hit, such as what I did to my dunsparce revamp. The second type is nearly the same thing, except you don't do the major overhaul in shading. If you have a light color, you just look at the newer sprite and get the color from there, to the light color on your art.

This would be an example of the second type:

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This would be Pokemon Yellow Raichu revamp and this would be the old version:

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Notice how similar it is to the newer gen, but how it doesnt include the major shading overhaul. Hell, this wouldn't even qualify for a new game BECAUSE I didn't overhaul the shading.

Do I still have you up to this point? That way I'm sure I can give you your assignment

Alright congrats. You've graduated the recoloring of your spriting course

Time for the next, harder, part. Before that, do you know what revamping is?

You should've used a better color palette on it. The red and the sudden change to orange is not very.... welcoming. When its shaded, unless its extremely bright, doesn't cause that much of a color change.

I'll give you another chance make me a Dunsparce colored to fit grass type

Much better.


For your next assignment I want you to make something a bit more complicated. If you make this, I'll be convinced you can go on to the next step. Make me a recolor of Misdreavus to make it look like a fire type.

If you do this right, we'll go on to revamping, to which we will go on to splicing.

After all that I'll see if you're ready to Scratch sprite

Hmmm you got the basics right, but you need to learn transparency. I don't know if Photoshop has this, but to make it transparent, on GIMP you click on the fuzzy select tool (or just press U) and you click around the black (or white) that appears all around the sprite. Go to layers, transparency and enable alpha layer. Then you just press delete.

To skip that whole alpha layer step, you could just set it to transparent from the beginning to save yourself the trouble

Alright. Once you do it, I'll review your sprite and see where it needs work.

**** I should start teaching a lot of people about these XD It seems like I'm pretty good at this XD

Just come to me, you just need a helping hand is all.

I don't know which ones are good. It depends on what you're doing. Remember, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't like those brushes much, but they could look good for you.


Also, you are actually serious about learning? If so I want you to do a simple task. Make a charmander recolor. That is just making the colors on the pokemon different to lets say, fit another type. Since charmander is fire type, maybe make a recolor of him to make it look like a water type.

Remember, magnify the sprite fully and make the brush the smallest it can be, spriters work with sizes as small as pixels

Just make one and set it to the default one in Preferances.

Also, I have no idea what the difference between Photoshop and GIMP is so sorry.

If you want to sprite the only brush you need is teh little circle one because spriters don't work with any other brush other than that

You are probably viewing the newest ones. Look and click on the option Way Back.

If that doesn't work, just look for brushes like:

Glitter
Grunt
Floral
etc.

Also if you want to do banners, I wouldn't be the best person to consult... seriously. I'm more into spriting if you've seen my avi or my posts in the PC.

If you want to have a start in that, I'd be more than happy to help you though. That's what I've been doing to TAL if you've seen my VMs

Alright seen them and know what to tell ya know.

First, download brushes here:

http://www.deviantart.com/

Go to Resources & Stock Images
Go to Application Resources
Go to GIMP Brushes

Look for whatever brushes you like and use 'em like you've never used them before.

If they don't pop up in your brushes go to GIMP and open up Edit -> Preferances -> Folders -> Brushes and then just make a new folder and put it in there. That will make all the brushes you download appear in the brushes square

Sorry bro, but I just got back from a funeral and right now I really need some sleep so my questions might be a little... awkward XD

I know you might facepalm (or maybe even headdesk) at this, but whats teh C&G room?

Sure I'll take a look at it just hold on

I would hope so.

yea, owell i've played in much worse lag lol

GG's , that game with my lucario was terrible.. lol owell good luck later on in the tourney

Quit copying M2K...

DX i wish.

well theres 2 really huge tourneys coming up withing the next 3 months..

one on aprils 10th in orlando FL..

and another on june 4th.. ^_^

trust me im not even close to as gewd as my brothers and their not even close to the best in our state..

sure, ill host

Can't right now, hopefully tomorrow betweem 6 and 7 pm (GMT-5)

Man, all 4 or you (one was a PM) contact me at once. Creepy...

GL with yer matchez! ^_^

may the best man win.

lol lmao!!!

i hate fighting marths to be honest. they do to well on me up close, thats why i just spam them.. its the only way i can win. i hate that F***ING FAIR of marths.. i can't read it quick enough to dodge it. >.<

JIMMY DONT WORRY YOU GUYS HAVE A WHILE TO DO IT!!! BUT IDC IF YOU DO IT NOW.

of course what neutral do u want to start at? it doesnt matter to me, and my CP will be delfino plaza btw