Direct Guide For Beginner Spriters

[Autumn Rain]

Planning to be a pixel artist or game developer? Curious of how sprites are made? Tired of having to watch 30 minute videos? Slow internet? Well your in luck! You found a thread containing the secrets to becoming a spriter, now directly in pictures!

Tools used in this guide:

MS Paint

Photoshop

GIMP

Battle Sprite Guide

http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16694

There's already a guide. However, if you want a much shorter explanation, here you go!

MS Paint:

Forgot to mention: After you resize, click on "Crop" -or- Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V while in Rectangular Selection.

Tile Sprite Guide

The "squares" or "puzzle pieces" required in mapping.

MS Paint:

Transparent Guide

For those who want to remove white backgrounds.

Photoshop:

GIMP:

Semi-Transparent Guide

For those who want to add ghosts, butterfly wings, glass flooring, illusions, etc.

Animation Guide

For those who want their game to look "lively".

Photoshop:

Reuse frames if necessary. I'd add more programs but I think there's a line limit in this post...? Anyways, that's how I do it.

I named my frames weirdly because I'm adding additional "taunt" animations on repeat so it wouldn't be so basic.

Overworld Sprites Guide

For custom characters to be in the game.

MS Paint:

[Alistair]

Interesting read. I do not plan to do serious spriting myself, but I did make modifications of exisiting sprites on MS Paint a few times (just to make some mons fit my personal tastes a bit better).

Anyway it's always good to see some "behind the scenes" stuff. Thanks!