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[Sqawl]

oh; that explains things... I'm not good at throwing things.

[KitsuKitsu]

QUOTE (Sqawl @ Mar 30 2013, 03:45 PM)

Holy crap, pro as usual, Nih. To be able to do that in just five minutes is nothing short of amazn. QUOTE imo you should've made a custom sprite, because splicing fe characters out of the gba ones is not easy at all. lol What alternate dimension do you come from and how can I get there? I splice everything because I can't custom. Like, I don't even know where to start. I wish I could do it, but I can't, so I just have to go with whatever pieces of existing GBAFE I can use. Actually, looking back on it, I guess the clothing has a fair bit of customing seeing how it was originally just Marisa's torso. But I know that that's not what you mean. @Ryoku: The headband not being totally there is probably because it uses skin colors. I wish I could make it white, but argh color limits. @Tchy: I see what you mean (on my version, that is). There is kind of a lump in the head there...

I could give a rough tutorial for full customs... Though it would be pretty rough hehe.

Besides, I'm not even good lol.

[Lasagnih.]

QUOTE (Lancer @ Mar 30 2013, 11:12 PM)

QUOTE (Sqawl @ Mar 30 2013, 03:45 PM) Holy crap, pro as usual, Nih. To be able to do that in just five minutes is nothing short of amazn. QUOTE imo you should've made a custom sprite, because splicing fe characters out of the gba ones is not easy at all. lol What alternate dimension do you come from and how can I get there? I splice everything because I can't custom. Like, I don't even know where to start. I wish I could do it, but I can't, so I just have to go with whatever pieces of existing GBAFE I can use. Actually, looking back on it, I guess the clothing has a fair bit of customing seeing how it was originally just Marisa's torso. But I know that that's not what you mean. @Ryoku: The headband not being totally there is probably because it uses skin colors. I wish I could make it white, but argh color limits. @Tchy: I see what you mean (on my version, that is). There is kind of a lump in the head there... I could give a rough tutorial for full customs... Though it would be pretty rough hehe. Besides, I'm not even good lol.

Didn't notice that, It's not that hard really (Says the one who hasn't posted any of them) all you need to do is make an outline that fits the box of death, make the sprite, shade the crap out of it and a crap ton of editing and boom. A sprite that may or may not suck

[KitsuKitsu]

QUOTE (DJ @ Mar 31 2013, 12:42 AM)

QUOTE (Lancer @ Mar 30 2013, 11:12 PM) QUOTE (Sqawl @ Mar 30 2013, 03:45 PM) Holy crap, pro as usual, Nih. To be able to do that in just five minutes is nothing short of amazn. QUOTE imo you should've made a custom sprite, because splicing fe characters out of the gba ones is not easy at all. lol What alternate dimension do you come from and how can I get there? I splice everything because I can't custom. Like, I don't even know where to start. I wish I could do it, but I can't, so I just have to go with whatever pieces of existing GBAFE I can use. Actually, looking back on it, I guess the clothing has a fair bit of customing seeing how it was originally just Marisa's torso. But I know that that's not what you mean. @Ryoku: The headband not being totally there is probably because it uses skin colors. I wish I could make it white, but argh color limits. @Tchy: I see what you mean (on my version, that is). There is kind of a lump in the head there... I could give a rough tutorial for full customs... Though it would be pretty rough hehe. Besides, I'm not even good lol. Didn't notice that, It's not that hard really (Says the one who hasn't posted any of them) all you need to do is make an outline that fits the box of death, make the sprite, shade the crap out of it and a crap ton of editing and boom. A sprite that may or may not suck

It's more complicated than that if you want a good sprite. The key to getting that is using references. I tend to follow a certain number of steps.

1. Create or use an existing template. Resize that template to be fire emblem compatible (dimensions are 96x80, minus box of death), and outline the template.

Templates depend on the spriter's personal art and design skill, so keep that in mind.

2. Split your mug into parts; hair, face halves, neck, shoulders, heart, etc. Use outline, but not the darkest one. Use a mug reference if you're confused about what colour to make the template. Outlines are not to be the same; different body parts should use different outlines.

3. General shading: while in real life painting, one goes from light to dark, it is viable to go from dark to light on a sprite due to the eraseable nature of pixels. Focus on conveying dimension using lighting rather than colour. Again, use references for best results.

4. Hair is just a stupid mess that would take too much work to explain- plus I suck at it and need to get better at it myself.

I could make something more in depth, but I am on le cell phone currently.

[Sqawl]

SO WHAT'S OL' SQAWLY-SAN BEEN UP TO?
Well... You've already learned why people fear the Ganelon Bandits. Now?

ONLY I HAVE THE BRAINS TO RULE CAELIN!





So, Eagler, you show your true form!



I've gotten back to my other things and will post them here sometime SOMETIME. There is a reason why I haven't been posting things in sprite form lately. This reason will become manifest in less than four days.

[Tchyrimi or halfrohp]

Sqawl, I think I just found a deeper admiration of you and your sprites. It's settled, I'm coming to your haus right now, at midnight.

[Sqawl]

thanks~

it's 0:30 where the hell are you

[Flame Emblem]

Can I use that in my hack? xD

[Lasagnih]

^NO DAS FOR ME K?

also sqawlbb i have some criticism to offer:



palette is p awful, and the overall shading of the feathers is really dark. it looks like a grey eagle, not a white one (and yes, dat issue remains even on my edit xD)
I just wanted to fix the head and eye shading. Also, the angle is p wrong imo. you should rotate the body more

other than that, it is really cool, good job bb<3

[Sqawl]

Holy crap; Nih makes even joke sprites beautiful.
The shading issues come from not only the fact that I suck at shading, but also I literally just copypasted an image of an eagle into Usenti and re-sized it, and then slapped it onto Eagler. Since it was already made mostly-grey by Usenti's color reduction, I just went with the colors that were already there. I'm not trying to justify its crappiness, only explaining it.
Anyway, rotating his body is something I'm going to try and do because I already squished his shoulders horribly to make him fit in the hackbox. But then it might run the risk of looking less like Eagler.