i’ve had a lot of people asking me how i make hi res versions of sprites so i’ve put together a really shitty tutorial because i suck wieners when it comes to making tutorials. if anybody wants to edit this tutorial or just add a completely new one, then please do so. here’s the shit:
if this shitty tutorial didn’t answer all your questions then please post here or pm me and i’ll try to help you out. again, sorry about the shittiness of the tutorial
well it depends. the more detail the longer it takes. twelve would be the easiest while gill, urien, chun, alex, and hugo would take waaaay too long. necro is a pain in the ass too. makoto took about 3-4 hours which makes it possible to animate some of her moves a lot faster.
i was thinking of doing an animated one to see how it would look in higher definition. i’m in the middle of doing a yun sprite and after that i have gouki planned. after those i’ll do a short animation of one of the 3rd strike characters.
to animate the sprites will be a tough process. i’m used to animating everything on flash, but obviously that wouldn’t look good. it would have to be all on photoshop, using layers like see-through paper. i’ve done it before and it is a long process but i thing it’s worth it for about 6-10 frames. after that i would just be too frustrated to do any more.
if i ever do animate one of them, i’ll post up a tutorial for others too use and build upon. i’m sure there’s a better way to animate the sprites.
Always wondered how you do your lines/coloring. They look so smooth that I thought they were vectored in Flash or something.
Good stuff, looking forward to seeing how you animate. I know that usually it’s just a matter of putting in the time (just drawing/tracing every frame) with very few tricks… But it’s always neat to see what kinds of methods people use to go about doing it.
yeah looks like they’re down. let me see what i can do.
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ok, i went ahead and just put everything on photobucket. they’re also in img code so i can see when one of the pictures goes down. if they go down again, just let me know and i’ll fix it.