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Explain when and why you first started spriting. This way everyone else can reflect on your skills by how long you've been doing it. XP
Me? I started spriting when I was about 10. I think the first comic I saw used MM7-style sprites (of course), I think it was BnG? Why did I start spriting? I thought it was awesome (because it was). My skills improved greatly. I started using MM7 style, and then went to MM1-6 style. Then MMZ. And now, MMZX. I've never mad a comic, though, because I'm a perfectionist, and hate making a mediocre comic in which anyone can have a biometal and where the story seems like it's made up on the way. (No offense ment toward anyone).
I first started spriting when I was 10 aswell, or 12...I forget sometimes.
Anyway, I started off doing very simple, minor edits, or recolors of sheets already made by other people. After a short while I began modifying those sheets beyond changing their color, including giving them different armors.
I sprited mostly MmX sprites (MmZ wasn't around back then), and I used to make animated comics for fun out of them.
I remember the last one I'd ever made back then was over 600 frames.
I did all my sprite work on a Win98. Yeah, that's old.
(EDIT)-Starting date was either sometime during 2000, or 2002...
Proto Rock
09-07-07, 16:17
I started around May 2006... I was viewing sprites and read the guide from BnG and Mechanical Maniacs. I started with MM7, they look okay... I tried BN, the sprites were created by recoloing and copy and pasting, I deleted most of them. Then I tried with ZX which I really I'm comfortable with.
I'm probably will not make a comic because I'm not a great story teller.
I started spriting a little more than a year ago. I started in MMX style and slowly worked my way into other styles.
@Xterra: Yeah I started w/ Windows 98, too.
@Proto Rock: I suck at storytelling too. XP
I started spriting when I was eight... My first sprites were very, very, shitty. I didn't have the inter net so I would go to the local library and print off sprites I saw on the web. then I would scan them into my computer to edit them...
Then I started looking at sprites and tried to rebuild them in paint. *at this time I still did not have internet.*
When I did get the internet I joined Sprites inc. Almost immediately. I stayed in the back ground for along time studying other peoples sprites, and learning from noobs what not to do.
About 5 years latter I finally felt that my skills were up to par so I started to post in the critique thread. The first sheet I posted was the MMZ style colonel you can find in my PD thread. And as of late I've been working on a lot of ZX style "props".
@DZ: Yeah, I spent about two years on SpritesInc. as a non official member of the site watching other people mess up, just so I wouldn't.
That's why it took about a year before I was ever warned for anything. And the warning I recieved was actually an accident that I can't remove now.
I think I was late 12 early 13...I started off with a C+P recolor..nothing special..
I've gotten a bit better since I've been here, learned how to shade someone reasonabley..I'm still nothing all that special though..It's fun to do when I'm bored though.
Terry von Feledae
09-07-07, 17:50
I started with spriting... Must have been about five years ago. Anyway, the style I started with was *gasp* Pokemon. I didn't know that it was pokemon, because the only games I have ever played at the time were Pokemon Blue, Dragon Warrior Monsters and Rayman 1. Anyway, by editing GBA-Pokemon sprites, I made portraits of me and my friends, I think I still have myself somewhere on my PC, I'll search for it. Those were surprisingly good edits, even if they were kinda basic. I think I didn't get much better since then.
I didn't do much in terms of spriting until I finally got my hands on MMZ4, when it really started. I searched sprites all over the web now, finding SI, of course. I had great fun glueing together random enemies and then editing something out of that. Again, I have some sprites left from back then.
I noticed that there was lots of stuff missing on the site, and I desperately wanted to add some myself too. That was about the time when I (accidently) discovered the Next frame- and Layer-disabling-features. So I searched for a tutorial for ripping sprites for the GBA, and first visiting the forum to submit Weil's second form. (Which I prolly have to re-rip again...)
Since I started ripping, I really don't sprite as much, only from time to time.
When I was 8 or something. Started out as recolor, and worked my way up to scratches. BOOYAKASHA BABY!
I started with spriting... Must have been about five years ago. Anyway, the style I started with was *gasp* Pokemon. I didn't know that it was pokemon, because the only games I have ever played at the time were Pokemon Blue, Dragon Warrior Monsters and Rayman 1. Anyway, by editing GBA-Pokemon sprites, I made portraits of me and my friends, I think I still have myself somewhere on my PC, I'll search for it. Those were surprisingly good edits, even if they were kinda basic. I think I didn't get much better since then.
I didn't do much in terms of spriting until I finally got my hands on MMZ4, when it really started. I searched sprites all over the web now, finding SI, of course. I had great fun glueing together random enemies and then editing something out of that. Again, I have some sprites left from back then.
I noticed that there was lots of stuff missing on the site, and I desperately wanted to add some myself too. That was about the time when I (accidently) discovered the Next frame- and Layer-disabling-features. So I searched for a tutorial for ripping sprites for the GBA, and first visiting the forum to submit Weil's second form. (Which I prolly have to re-rip again...)
Since I started ripping, I really don't sprite as much, only from time to time.
Really? Pokemon? Awesome!
Terry von Feledae
09-07-07, 18:00
Yeah. Back when pokemon WAS still awesome.
Found 'em! Left is my first edit, right is my first C+P.
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You should really finish that sprite on the right... Just refine some of the details and make a better sword...
The sword looks fine to me, especially since it's Weil's sword.
ForteBX.EXE
09-07-07, 18:11
Hoo boy... now my first spriting was when I got hooked up with Super Mario World hacking; That was two years ago.
Even before I became a spriter (and I still do, but only when working on "Super Mario Universe III - The West Key Islands", and soon "Super Mario Universe IV - The World of Darkness") been doing normal crappy sprites, and isnc ehave gotten better (game wise or graphical).
@Xterra:Yes it dose look fine. But it would be better if he did one from scratch instead of just using weil's
Wow, this thread got a lot more attention than I thought. O_O
I can't really remember when I started. Somewhere in 2004/2005, when I was 12 or 13.
I started real simple, and from the first time I started, I was intending to do a comic with my sprites. With simple, I mean C+P the hell out of practically everything, sometimes actually making something partially decent. Altough it was pure crap most of the time. Then, I started to know what i was doing while spriting, and decided to go for something that looks like it belongs together. It worked, partially. The colors were good. The bad part is that it was Megaman with Protoman's head, in all different colors. My first edit came when I gave one of them some armor. I realized that it sucked just in time, tough, and completely scrapped this.
It was around this time that I started to learn that alot of people have one character that is actually just that, being a bit more then the mass-produced characters they made. I made my own too, but just called him Nameless Demon, because, he was a demon (going into politics) and he didn't have a name. Perfect, right? No, don't think so anymore. Besides, he was a red Bass with a head edit, given beam claws and spikes on his armor. Was pretty decent actually, but nowhere near actually being good.
I thought him to be good enough tough, even if most people all had scratches or heavy edits as characters. When he was bluntly refused for a cameo, because of the reasons explained above, I started my plans to remake, and rename him (or giving him a name. Whatever works).
This evolved into my MM7 character, Megohm. It still is my best MM7 sprite until date, mostly probably because I never worked in that style after that sprite. Complete scratch tough. The old designs for Megohm later found their use as my navi, Megohm.EXE.
Currently, I am on a hiatus from all graphical things, because my mouse is being a bitch. I can still sprite, but it is just too plain annoying for me to bother right now. In 4 to 8 weeks, then I'll ultimately return. I am currently focused on the 4-6 BN style, mainly in-battle.
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Long post, yeah, I know. You should read some of the posts I used to leave in the Sprite Section. Now those were long posts. Anyway, my spriting history is told now. do with the information as you wish, but don't betray me and send it to the [insert some sort of cult here]-members.
We should make some sort of book about the history of inc and spiriting in general... or something like that... With the information were getting...
I started to sprite after I saw BnG and This site.... I liked the MM series so I wanted to make my own characters.......
turpinator
09-07-07, 20:18
Wel I can safely say I haven't been spriting for more than a year, maybe not even half of one. O_o But I have had years of experience with art and sprites themselves (I run a Mario Kart DS Emblem shop on GF and it's been like 2 years now). That's why my account is older than my activity here.
Other than that I started with average spriting skills, but mostly edits instead of C+P and recolours (I had and have my own personal work ethic to not copy or use an original MM sprite unless I heavily edited them and made them my own).
I started my tenure by immediately entering a ZX style contest and winning the first time with my Model Fireman and getting second the other time with Model Coldman.
Then I tried my hand at MMBN style, but quickly realized I wasn't very good at it, so I went back to ZX where I have been most comfortable for the duration of the rest of my time here up to today.
☆Chrystal Chronicler☆
09-07-07, 20:28
I actually found out accidently about it a year ago to this friday!
I was on newgrounds looking at the Final Fantasy when I came up on 8-bitTheatre. I watched it and thought it was pretty hilariius, and I saw the link to the comic. I read the whole comic and it was really good. I then saw the link to bob and george and read it to and started Spriting. My first one was a minor frankenstine with bass's body and a modified pd megaman head. I then started working on a spartan which had a similar base as the previous sprite. Then I found this site and it showed me how much I sucked! So I started doing scratch work and my best one i say was Chord, a heavy edit of 8-bit zero. I'm now into making scratch RPG sprites for my game I'm making. That's my history
NetSaver.exe
09-07-07, 21:15
I started when my obsession of Megaman first appeared. I started to look at this site and the amazing rips they had. I put them to use and made some comics. After I looked at them, I realized they were crappy. I came to this site to learn how to make my own sprites and even make better comics than my old crappy ones.
I have learned more about spriting while I have been here. Just to think I haven't even been here for a year and so many cool things have happened, and I have met some great friends, too.
☆Chrystal Chronicler☆
10-07-07, 15:31
Hey guys, I found my first sprite, and I thought you would all like to see it.
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n242/ElementDueler/firstsprite.png
Blues Light
10-07-07, 15:41
I first started spriting about 2 and a half years ago. I was actually trying to make a hand-drawn Megaman comic, but it wasn't coming out so good (I draw like crap), so I decided that if I could make it look like a game, it might be better. I studied some MM7 sprites, and then proceeded to draw them. I eventually decided that it would be easier to edit the sprites and make the comics on the computer, and that's how it all started. I was a terrible spriter (not that I'm much better now), but I knew that it was something I loved to do.
Peytral Dragonblade
11-07-07, 01:46
I started spriting like a few weeks ago and haven't improved since. Seeing as how I've only made one sprite and it's STILL incomplete.:D I wanted to start spriting because I saw alot of awesome sprites and was like "Hey, I wanna do that too." Soo yeaaaaaah....
Umm... I started maybe in July of 2006, but I stopped and only went back to it in January, I think I've come a long way. So yeah... That's it really.
I started making sprite comic around a year ago. Back then, I don't even bother edit/recoloring the sprites and I don't get a thing about transparence and why the lightest part of the sprite always disappears. Then until around 7 months ago, I joined SI. At first I was just here to see it any custom sprites would help me, but then I was like Woah, these are fan-made? So I took on spriting. I started with recoloring. Yea, I didn't know the mass-recolor trick, so back then I used paint bucket. Ouch. Well now I got off of recoloring and little edits and started making characters with scratch parts, eventually I made one full scratched.
My first style was MMZ, then moved on to ZX.
Can't really remember when I started. Was definitely after 2004, when I was... 12.
I started really simple, and broke a few rules in the way.
My first sprite was simply a C+P recolor. It amazes me to no end that I learnt how to C+P and recolor by just looking at Robert Oakes deviant art(Not very sure) gallery.
In simple terms, I took Oakes's Non-Pd sprite, cut it in half, recolored it, pasted it on zero and called it something. Cant remember. I was VERY ignorant then. I did not even know what meant PD at that time.
Then I got warned in the MMC forums.
Then I recovered and got better.
Then , after that fiasco, I stopped spriting, till I saw this OMGWTFBBQ amazing pic of Ninja X.(That some guy in B&G tried to steal) IT was a basic edit of X, with a few scratch stuff. Looking back, it looked like shit.
Then (It still shocks me), I moved on to scratching. My first Gaia was born out of a scratch body and X head. It looked worst than most frankenstines on the web now.
Then the more I saw and the more criticizm I accepted, I grew better. Then I stopped, and the %&^#(&#^% (INSERT NAME) block is still on me. (It means that I can't scratch Gaia for now, as I have no idea on how to sprite a character that is one head taller than Zero in MMX4 form standing up straight. And I am extremely sick of him.)
In the middle of scratching Gaia, I joined the MMC Sprite Inc contest. (My entry is the Trailman, except the sprite was in MM7 format when I submitted it. MM7 style irritates me to no end. I ended up using MMX4~6 X dashing and hurt sprites. (Bad. Don't learn from me. Don't style mix. EVER.)
It still bothered me that I only knew how to sprite in X style, so I'm learning ZX now. (And of course, being the usual me, I decided to scratch. Sometimes I am that THICK.)
And then, the great hiatus from any spriting from (Feb?) this year.
And that concludes my ridiculously long biography of spriting. (And if you find this long, you should have seen my post on the possibility of a Metool in real life back at MMC, or one of my post of critizms to SpeedReemix.)
Pinkie Pie
20-07-07, 13:49
I started spriting when I started making games. That was when I was about ten.
Funnily enough, I started scratch, moved onto edits, went back to stratch.
I don't have many of my old stuff surviving anymore, but I do have...
Scratch - Edit - Pixel Art
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Anyone who reconises him wins at life in its entirity.
Looks like that guy in Cosmic Hero. Arthur Xavier? And is that a Vava sprite in the middle? ( I cant really post my first edit. It breaks rules) Hopefully I still have my first non rule breaking custom in imageshack. ( Made in 2005 ) (Nice one Imageshack. (90% of my pics are unviewable.))http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3536/customv66jt.gif
[fish in space]
20-07-07, 14:16
I joined SI a little less than a year ago. I started spriting about a month after I joined. I made a crappy model x edit for model magnetman. I've mostly stayed in ZX style and I'm starting to be able to make decent looking scratches, customized attacks, and more intricate edits.
I start spriting...about 2 weeks ago. xD SO far I have a comic kinda going, ubt I've been really lazy and haven't updated it in a while...It's weird, I have all these ideas, but I started my comic out seriously so I feel like I can't do some of the funny stuff I came up with.
I stated spriting in 2003 because of my love for Fire Emblem, I have only been spriting Megaman since Jan2007 and it is the second kind of sprites I have worked on.
Fluttershy
07-08-07, 21:59
I can't really remember when I started spriting. I think it was when I was in the sixth grade. And if it was then that was, about 7 or 8 years ago. But I gave up on it for awhile and started back up again when I was in my freshman year in High School.
Hidden Fun Stuff
07-08-07, 22:31
I started quite some time ago, but stopped not long after that start. And those were just pathetic recolors for fun (Like turning Megaman pink.). Once I joined another site, I just started spriting for no reason whatsoever, and now I'm working on making a SI quality Model PM.
Rave T-blade
07-08-07, 22:45
I started at the age of 9 (Recolours only, actually), because I saw some comics about them.
After that I googled some images from megaman, and saw the word "sprite(sheet)". I downloaded it and putted it on Ms Paint (When I was 7, I knew about this program, drawed alot of pokemon's on it :D).
Anyways, when I founded sprites-inc, when Gauntlet was the head of sprites-inc, I guess(because he updated some sprites when I found this site), I downloaded all images from it.
After that, I recoloured it, tried to make my own comic for myself only (deleted them all already, sucked). That was when I began recolouring... When I began customing sprites, you all should know... It's before I joined this forum.
You may get confused if you read this, I think.
MechaEmperor7000
23-08-07, 05:22
I started roughly 4 years ago(about 4 years and a month). But I only worked on sprites occasionally(this is mostly due to schoolwork and games), so I only have about 4-5 months worth of experience.
I started because of something I saw on Iragination, a sprite of Delia. I first thought it was an image shrunken down. I then realised it was the actual image. Because it looked simple at the time, I took up spriting as I had a whole summer without anything to do. But Spriting is easier said than done.
I also saw some sprite comics on Zero Virus, which further prompted me to sprite so that I can make a comic.
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