SIMPLE Scratch Spriting Guide

[Plaz]

Name says it all. This is to help very, very, very bare beginners.
http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/8485/scratchxu6.png
And no, I won't be doing more on that example navi. No, he dosen't even get a shadow.

[Doogles]

Nice job! Very useful! That's exactly how I do it! (When I occasionally do scratch sprites)

[Grid Man]

Seems pretty handy. Now we can redirect noobs right to here when they ask for help. But, you might want a Step 4. :P

[Plaz]

Seems pretty handy. Now we can redirect noobs right to here when they ask for help. But, you might want a Step 4. :P
:g-O_o: Um... Step 4 is admire your creation. Yeah. That's it...

[kingofanime]

This is an excellent tutorial for begginers in scratch spriting. Hopefully, the new scratch customs won't look like a vomit of colors on my screen! And Ryu, this IS Plasma's topic, nt yours. If you wanna share youur spriting technique, by all means make a topic and share it. Although It isn't "more complex and irritating" for me. And no one asked you to explain yet you did, telling me you wanted to share your technique. If that's the case, follow my above suggestion.

Again, Plasma, very good tut and I hope others follow this.

[Don Kalypso]

Dragon: Back on topic, NOW!

Plasma: Nice tutorial, I will probably never use it, seeing as how I have never scratched a sprite, unless you count using references, and drawing the wanted parts from the reference as scratching, in which case I have been scratching since I came to Cosmic Gaga.

[Plaz]

Thanks for all the compliments. Mabye I should make a banner leading here?

[HZ]

is the guy you made pd?

[goshuntoku]

Ive always wanted to custom sprite but ive never known how. Thank you soooo much!

Unfortunately, I am so artistically (well to be specific, visual/spacially) challenged though that I fear I will have trouble with being able to put together the frames and sketchs and such to do that. I still have trouble with frankensteining.

[Plaz]

is the guy you made pd?
Um, no.

[RyuReiatsu]

I better use paint or photoshop o.o?

[Daemonseele]

I better use paint or photoshop o.o?
Paint.

I don't get it, why does every beginner of spriting think that photoshop (or a similar program) is needed for sprite editing/making? :g-hmph:

['Shadow]

I tried this out and made a successful navi, but this doesn't help with overworld sprite... Any way you could make a tutorial for that or do you basically do the same thing? I will try that. This is great though. Now I won't have to rely others for my sprites.

[Don Kalypso]

I better use paint or photoshop o.o?

While I don't suggest either, if I was you I would stick with MSPaint, not because it is easy, but because almost every beginer thinks that Photoshop will make them better. NEWS FLASH: It doesn't make you any better, while it is very powerful, if you don't know how to use it, you could end up even more confused than you were before. I use GIMP because I have a Mac, and I could not figure out how to use AppleWorks to make my sprite stuff, I would also not suggest GIMP for a beginer, but if you want to use a powerful program I say go for GIMP, not just because it is free, but because it is simpler than Photoshop, but it can be confusing for beginers, so if you do go with GIMP prepare to take a chunk of time to figure out how to use it.

[Triggerman.exe]

Wow this is so useful,it was bugging me how to make a custom sprite so this useful

[mega rock.exe]

There is one thing you didn't cover, how to make it EXE styled. You picked out the colors, but the way they were used may render your sprite useless. Different sprites use a different color level. Luckily, that sprite didn't turn out so bad.

[Plaz]

:g-drop: Um... Well, I just wanted to use the "official" colors of this character. He did turn out rather bad... But I suppose he'll work, for a guide...


I hope...

[mega rock.exe]

Yeah. Good for a guide. You could go more in-depth on the colors that are used.

[megajosh2]

This. Is. Awesome!! I can finally do more spriting and less frankensteining. Oh yes. BTW I don't know but think you could try and tell how to get the gradients right. That thing can sometimes be a problem.

[Plaz]

I would like t if people would put sprites they made with this guide in this thread... And, just to clear things up, THIS IS NOT JUST FOR NAVIS. That is just the style I decided to use. Get it?

Got it.

Good.

[megajosh2]

Coo. I'll try doing that right now.

Edit: This is indeed a very bad sprite.
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[The Walrus]

Don't double post, edit your first post instead

[megajosh2]

Don't double post, edit your first post instead

The posts are 1 hour apart. It isn't a doubl post unless it's at LEAST in the net like maybe in 10 mnute spans or so.

[Don Kalypso]

MegaJ: It is a double post, even if they are an hour apart. Since this isn't your thread, you cannot double post to show updtes.

[megajosh2]

How do you get on the gradients? I'm not sure how. Just look at my previous misfit. Maybe you could add that to the tutorial.

[Don Kalypso]

I was willing to let the first time go, but two double posts, on the same page, I cannot let that go. So, reported.

[megajosh2]

The posts are 3 hours apart!! Come on. Can't anyone help me with sprite gradients? Must I make a thread for it?

[Don Kalypso]

MegaJ: PM me, and I will give you a way to contact me, and I will help you in anyway that I can.

[megajosh2]

Okay. Now let's continue with this tut.