~Sprite Off~

[SHAY_CAM]

Hello to everyone
and welcome to this forums first sprite off.
If your not familiar to what spriting is, you might want to look at this first:http://www.rmxp.org/forums/index.php?topic=232

Referr to the first post for all of your tutorial needs.

First off i would like to say that this isnt to be taken lightly, i only want to see posts retaining to this thread only. (not to be harsh or anything, just trying to stay on topic)


The rules

1.You may have a partner, wheather at home or sharing and comparing online, both are allowed.
2.No picutre stealing, you must make your own template, pallette, and skeleton to your picture.
3.Picture MUSTbe of unicycle orgin.
4.Must only use Ms paint (I will know what photoshop or gimp looks like.You will be disqualified.)
5.Keep the image size down, be curtious of the 56k users.
6. Lastly, I will not be entering this competition, because i am judge. However i will give you an example pictures along the way.


Competition starts when 3 people enter.

Enter by saying "I enter"

If you have any questions you can ask here for the benefit of everybody.

Reward is this:
Sprite Off Winner 08~

[habbywall]

That thread doesn't explain spriting at all.

I do like it though, it is one of my favorite soft drinks.
I hereby, nominate myself as the winner.

[dudewithasock]

I second habbywall.

[GILD]

I'll second DWAS but only if he's willing to accept an honourable second place, which I will third, if someone else will second.

And I'll have a Mountain Dew, thanx.

[Into the blue]

Sprite off is my new swear.

"Sprite off, you spriting spriter!"

[GILD]

If they can have Coke Zero, surely I can have Sprite 768?

[Hazmat]

I don't see why not. :p

[GILD]

Maybe if you chewed more ORBITZ you'd be able to see.

[dudewithasock]

I'll second DWAS but only if he's willing to accept an honourable second place, which I will third, if someone else will second.

And I'll have a Mountain Dew, thanx.

I'll gladly accept.

And Mountain Dew is too sweet for me. Sprite is my usual soft drink of choice for lunch.

[habbywall]

Sprite is really fizzy though, sometimes that works against it. It also makes me burp like crazy, which can be a good thing because I've learned to control it so I can burp on command for about an hour or two after downing a bottle.

[maestro8]

I'll second DWAS but only if he's willing to accept an honourable second place, which I will third, if someone else will second.
I... plead the fifth?

I have the formula for Sprite 768, BTW. (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showpost.php?p=954323&postcount=1458) It's open-source. You're welcome.

Sprite is really fizzy though
Bottled Sprite, yes. Fountain Sprite, no. Soda fountains >> bottled soda.

Most flat sodas are quite nasty, IMHO, but flat Sprite, for some reason, is divine. Give 'er a try sometime.

[dudewithasock]

One thing I experimented with when I worked at Marble Slab Creamery were interesting floats/ice cream sodas....I found that Sprite and raspberry ice cream made an absolutely wonderful and refreshing product. Mmmmm, I miss the free sweets.

[Buddy]

Can I have a root beer?

[poofengle]

Most flat sodas are quite nasty, IMHO, but flat Sprite, for some reason, is divine. Give 'er a try sometime.
+1

Flat sprite's my favorite :D

[petad]

First off i would like to say that this isnt to be taken lightly, i only want to see posts retaining to this thread only. (not to be harsh or anything, just trying to stay on topic)

Can I have a root beer?

lol.

I don't get how to make a sprite, basically it's a little piece of pixel art, but how do you make it semitransparent (which wikipedia says sprites are) and stuff? Can you give an example?

[GILD]

Most flat sodas are quite nasty, IMHO, but flat Sprite, for some reason, is divine. Give 'er a try sometime.
I got nailed by a nasty virus-puppy recently which lead to severe vomiting and diarrhoea. This hit me at around midnight so we were caught without having any medicine type stuff in the house. By two in the morning I was running on empty when Beloved came up with the inspired idea of mixing some Sprite we had in the fridge with water.
The resulting unbrew not only tasted rather yummy, it also stayed down and made me feel a lot better.

I did go to the medicos the next morning and ended up on a drip to sort out the dehydration issues, but it would've been worse if I didn't have the Sprawter.

It's become a regular drink around our place now.

[Jerrick]

This is new to me, so ill give it a shot. Just for fun. I dont want to enter anything until ive had some practice.

[SHAY_CAM]

Wow, thanks for taking something serious and turning it into bullshit. Very nice of you people. Even after the line that said (i want to be taken seriousy) it didnt occur to you this wasnt the most replys thread?

On a more serious note;

I don't get how to make a sprite, basically it's a little piece of pixel art, but how do you make it semitransparent (which wikipedia says sprites are) and stuff? Can you give an example?

Spriting is basicly just art in pixel form.
Pixel art.
The sprite (or picture) cannot be semi transparent unless you use a program that senses a certain color to be transparent.

An example of a sprite:

http://www.rmxp.de/nopaste/data/1224958644_Beispiel.png

or

http://www.mogunet.net/~mack/looseleaf/img/50.png

or ( the best thing to start fooling around with)
Mario

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l195/serithica/mariocharacterset2.png


Play around with the mario sprite. just take the first frame and add little things until you are satisfied. That will start you out. then you can create a unicycle sprite eventually!

[1wheelwonder]

moo juice with milo, aaaahhhhhh yum

[GILD]

Wow, thanks for taking something serious and turning it into bu**shit.
It's okay, we didn't really have to do that much.

http://www.futureofthebook.org/sivavaidhyanathan/archives/warning-sign-generator.php.gif

[SHAY_CAM]

Mind stopping? I asked nicely in the first post not to post crap replies. I really mean it, please stop.

[maestro8]

By two in the morning I was running on empty when Beloved came up with the inspired idea of mixing some Sprite we had in the fridge with water... It's become a regular drink around our place now.

My pop would put a little brandy in sprite and give it to me when I had a cold. Said it would quiet my cough... sure did... I'd always fall asleep!

His medicine cabinet had three things in it: a knife, a roll of tape and a bottle of brandy. Sooner or later, everyone in my house (including the cats) got the "hot knife" treatment, such as when a boil appeared.

Back on topic:

[maestro8]

I asked nicely in the first post not to post crap replies.

Just 'cause you asked...

http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/images/p-jokes/toilet/cat-crap-big.jpg

[dudewithasock]

Just 'cause you asked...

http://www.lolwut.com/layout/lolwut.jpg

And Shay, you make it so easy to get on your nerves. If you just took everything in stride and joked around with us instead of getting so uptight, we'd all be happier. :)

[SHAY_CAM]

You guys took a competition and turned it into a mind game, after i asked three times. Screw you pricks.

[dudewithasock]

If you just took everything in stride and joked around with us instead of getting so uptight, we'd all be happier. :)

.

[SHAY_CAM]

You wouldnt do this kinda shit to foss or gilby, or harper.
Why me?
If your going to be disresprectful, and not follow the rules of the thread, why post in it?
Just leave.
This is for people who want to take it seriously, not for you guys to bully me.
If it continues ill get help. I asked 3 times.

[johnfoss]

You wouldnt do this kinda shit to foss or gilby, or harper. That's because we know better than to put rules on a thread. You learn something new every day (though in your case you should shoot for many things per day). Today's lesson is that threads with rules don't work. Calling people pricks generally makes it worse.
If it continues ill get help. You could use some help. Tomorrow you may learn where help comes from in here.

My advice to you for now is to stop creating threads for a while (which I recommend to almost anybody). Read more, post less. Look at how some of the other people write to see why others listen to them. Come back stronger, smarter and more forum-friendly.

[Jerrick]

Psh. Screw that!

Im not sure if should work on a small character first or just go straight for a unicycle.

Im going to use photoshop though. White background, and only use a 1px brush. Same exact result as paint, and now handicap or anything like that. Besides, I took MS paint off my computer. Haha.

Not sure when ill finish cause im not sure when ill have a good amount of freetime to just sit at home.


In other words. I enter.

[SHAY_CAM]

That's because we know better than to put rules on a thread. You learn something new every day (though in your case you should shoot for many things per day). Today's lesson is that threads with rules don't work. Calling people pricks generally makes it worse.
You could use some help. Tomorrow you may learn where help comes from in here.

My advice to you for now is to stop creating threads for a while (which I recommend to almost anybody). Read more, post less. Look at how some of the other people write to see why others listen to them. Come back stronger, smarter and more forum-friendly.

Ive posted 13 threads since december of last year.
This was a contest thread, it was meant to be serious.
All the other contest threads i have ever come across i have seen rules.
I am tired of being made fun of for my opinions, for what i beleive, and for what i post. I dont post racial slurs, i dont post nonsence. I post things that have meaning, and that are not scarcastic or directed to anybody meanly. Recently my experience here has only gotten worse and worse by the people that have taken a liking to messing with me. I asked nicely to stop.

Thanks for nothing.

[SHAY_CAM]

Psh. Screw that!

Im not sure if should work on a small character first or just go straight for a unicycle.

Im going to use photoshop though. White background, and only use a 1px brush. Same exact result as paint, and now handicap or anything like that. Besides, I took MS paint off my computer. Haha.

Not sure when ill finish cause im not sure when ill have a good amount of freetime to just sit at home.


In other words. I enter.

Thanks you friend.

A good tip would be to start at the rim of the wheel. Use the circle tool and make a partly isometric standpoint out of it. Then create width within the rim, then the tire. It goes on and on. Ill mess around and give you a good start for it.

[Jerrick]

Ignore list. Use it proudly! :)

Oh, one question. I dont have to animate this do I?

[Jerrick]

Thanks you friend.

A good tip would be to start at the rim of the wheel. Use the circle tool and make a partly isometric standpoint out of it. Then create width within the rim, then the tire. It goes on and on. Ill mess around and give you a good start for it.


Thanks. I figured id start with the rim and take it from there. Should be good.

[habbywall]

I was off visiting a friend at college today and had two bottles of sprite. I must agree with what was previously posted in that it's the bottles that are so fizzy. The can's are still very fizzy, but not near as much as the bottles.
I'm not to big a fan of flat sprite, but when I'm in a certain mood it tastes swell. It's sorta like its own different flavored soda.

[catinabag1]

they say the ingredients for sprite are lemon and lime, well i tried to make it myself and there is more to it than that.

[SHAY_CAM]

they say the ingredients for sprite are lemon and lime, well i tried to make it myself and there is more to it than that.

Please...

[unidunc]

I was off visiting a friend at college today and had two bottles of sprite. I must agree with what was previously posted in that it's the bottles that are so fizzy. The can's are still very fizzy, but not near as much as the bottles.
I'm not to big a fan of flat sprite, but when I'm in a certain mood it tastes swell. It's sorta like its own different flavored soda.

I'm going to agree with Shay on this one.
This thread seems like a pretty cool idea to me, and people could actually be interested in joining.
However now that people like you are posting random garbage, potential entrants now have to sort through your junk in order to get to the actual content of the competition.
Please refrain..

[SHAY_CAM]

I'm going to agree with Shay on this one.
This thread seems like a pretty cool idea to me, and people could actually be interested in joining.
However now that people like you are posting random garbage, potential entrants now have to sort through your junk in order to get to the actual content of the competition.
Please refrain..

Support is apreiciated.

[JJtheunicycle]

A couple of off topic posts are...ok. But now you all are being poop faces just to be poop faces. SHAY, can you post some more examples?

[SHAY_CAM]

A couple of off topic posts are...ok. But now you all are being poop faces just to be poop faces. SHAY, can you post some more examples?

Yeah, just a second. Ill make a few little quick ones.

[habbywall]

Before posting more examples perhaps you could tell us what spriting is?

[SHAY_CAM]

Before posting more examples perhaps you could tell us what spriting is?

reffer to first post.

[SHAY_CAM]

I started on a wheel, heres a rough design.

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/7791/unismalloq5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/8673/unilargeekj7.th.jpg (http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=unilargeekj7.jpg)http://img513.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

[GILD]

You wouldnt do this kinda shit to foss or gilby, or harper.

Totally would!
Nothing/nobody's sacred around here.
Except for Billy-The-Moo-Cow.


Im going to use photoshop though. White background, and only use a 1px brush.

Oops, that's against the rules.

Are you being a poopface?


Thanks for nothing.

Pleasure, fancy some more?

Support is apreiciated.

So is spell check.

you all are being poop faces just to be poop faces.

Hi, I'm Dave and I'm a poopface...

"I'm a poopface and I"m okay..."


Oh, and while we're her (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73107&highlight=sprite)e.

[dudewithasock]

Pretty nice so far, Shay. Are you gonna make a sprite-based unicycle game with RPG Maker?

[SHAY_CAM]

No, i just wanted to pit 5 people against each other in a unicycle spriting contest. my main project is dealt with via rmxp.org since my threads die to fast here.

[dudewithasock]

Oh ok.

By the way I apologize for earlier, I was just in one of those moods. I was a dick earlier.

I still won't participate in the contest though, just cause I suck at spriting. Oddly, I'm probably better at 3D modeling. :p But good luck! Post progress on your game here, I'd be interesting in seeing what's up with it!

[SHAY_CAM]

Sure, its fine, i just decided to ignore it. Even that last post by gild.

[dudewithasock]

Post progress on your game here, I'd be interesting in seeing what's up with it!

:)

[GILD]

Dude, you just gotta grow a sense of humour at some point.
It's handier than pubes.

[SHAY_CAM]

Im actually working 2 projects right now. My main project is an FF style side view battle system, ambiant world setting with fantasy and humor mixed all around. I have put a whole summers work of 5 pm to 5 am work. theres a lot of hours into this. I probably have mapped and scripted 4 hours of good storyline/gameplay.

[Ducttape]

I'm going to agree with Shay on this one.
This thread seems like a pretty cool idea to me, and people could actually be interested in joining.
However now that people like you are posting random garbage, potential entrants now have to sort through your junk in order to get to the actual content of the competition.
Please refrain..
it's not Random Garbage, just by reading the thread title I almost skipped to the last post and posted about the fact that I prefer Pepsi to any other soft drink and think that Sprite is gross.

Dude, you just gotta grow a sense of humour at some point.
It's handier than pubes.
Tee Hee!

[Jerrick]

I went and got MS paint reinstalled, just to be official.

Ok. I got an hour of freetime right now. 30mins will be spent on pixel art, and 30mins on guitar art. Got some solo practice to work on.

[1wheelwonder]

rock on

[Jerrick]

K. Here is my first uni. reminds me of mario. I wanted to be able to make it look like super nintendo sprites. Secret of Mana, Lufia, Secret of Evermore and the like.

2946229463

[Jerrick]

http://www.zoggles.co.uk/asp/news.asp

Found this site. Its gonna help a lot for my next go at this, specially when getting into people.

I think I just found a new hobby. :)

[wickedbob]

they say the ingredients for sprite are lemon and lime, well i tried to make it myself and there is more to it than that.

Mitch!:D

[napalm]

I dont post racial slurs, i dont post nonsence. I post things that have meaning, and that are not scarcastic or directed to anybody meanly.



shay- if you can pixle art a little nazi obama for me i will ignore the contradictions you present everyone on these forums with. Don't expect people to forget what you have written in other threads.

mark

[SHAY_CAM]

shay- if you can pixle art a little nazi obama for me i will ignore the contradictions you present everyone on these forums with. Don't expect people to forget what you have written in other threads.

mark

Ill sprite you a nazi obama if you pay-pal transfer me 1$

[Unitik908]

ALL SHAY POSTS.
bahaha
are you serious man?

Chase

[johnfoss]

The fact is, you never explained what a sprite was. The link you offered tells how to make sprites, but not what a sprite is. What's a sprite?

But here's another suggestion for having a thread with a specific topic. PUT THE TOPIC IN THE THREAD TITLE. Two words is at least one word too short. In your case, something like "Sprite-making competition for console video games" or similar. Don't feel bad, you're like the 100th person I've suggested to use longer thread titles. But better yet, don't create threads.

[dudewithasock]

That's pretty sweet, Jerrick.

You know, I might actually give this a try later. Looks kinda fun.

[SHAY_CAM]

That's pretty sweet, Jerrick.

You know, I might actually give this a try later. Looks kinda fun.

Whadoya know.

[dudewithasock]

Hey, I never said it didn't look fun. I was just having fun hijacking it. ;)

[SHAY_CAM]

K. Here is my first uni. reminds me of mario. I wanted to be able to make it look like super nintendo sprites. Secret of Mana, Lufia, Secret of Evermore and the like.

2946229463

I really like it! I think the only thing on this one you really have to work on is panning off. Look at the frame and you know what im talking about.

[Jerrick]

I really like it! I think the only thing on this one you really have to work on is panning off. Look at the frame and you know what im talking about.


Yeah, the frame definitely needs work, same with the seat. After reading through the site I posted I should be able to fix it up a bit. But ill do that later.

[petad]

Oooooh! Will shay see this? He put me on his ignore list!
Now I gotta make one with a rider.

[dudewithasock]

Are y'all using a reference picture like off UDC when you do these?

[Jerrick]

I just started with a pink circle, then went pixel by pixel from there. All in MS paint.

It reminds me of working with midi.

[dudewithasock]

I understand that Jer, but are you just working from a picture in your head or looking back and forth between a real unicycle picture and your sprite workspace?

[Jerrick]

Just going from my head. I looked back at my unis seat to see how the color goes, but then I noticed my seat is all black, so that didn't help me much.

I should of had a reference picture though, that would of made it easier to pick colors, shape, and lighting. But for now im sticking with my Nintendo uni. Ill photoshop a Mario on top of the seat when I get home later tonight. =p

[SHAY_CAM]

I thought yours was really cool. Im working on one right now thats gonna be in a front view, like your looking at a person riding toward you, kinda view.

[catinabag1]

Mitch!:D

someone got my reference! yes! mitch hedberg was hilarious. too bad he died.

[SHAY_CAM]

Oooooh! Will shay see this? He put me on his ignore list!
Now I gotta make one with a rider.

Dont post stuff you shrank to size in paint.
Thats not your picture.

[SHAY_CAM]

Just made this quickly at school. Im at school right now...

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/3434/unisg3.png (http://imageshack.us)

[unibikeling]

bahaha
are you serious man?

Chase

I think he is.

Chase

[maestro8]

Dont post stuff you shrank to size in paint.
Thats not your picture.

Awesome. Way to hold a contest. If you don't like someone's entry, then tell 'em they're cheating. Why didn't I think of that?

Why can't we shrink things with paint? They look better, IMHO. If I were making a game, I'd use sprites made this way.

[monkeyman]

Why's it called spriting?

[wickedbob]

someone got my reference! yes! mitch hedberg was hilarious. too bad he died.

I know. I've heard both he's CD's to many times to count. He was the best comedian.

[maestro8]

Why's it called spriting?

I think if you don't drink a lot of soda, your picture actually comes out good. You want to "sprite" to get your picture to look all tiny and blocky.

[Jerrick]

Awesome. Way to hold a contest. If you don't like someone's entry, then tell 'em they're cheating. Why didn't I think of that?

Why can't we shrink things with paint? They look better, IMHO. If I were making a game, I'd use sprites made this way.
Well, im taking it as an oldschool art. Making full designs with only 4 shades. White, black, and two shades of grey. Like the did for the gameboy.

Only have a 16px-16px to create a character that still shows detail and with limited amount of colors.

Starting out like they did in the begining is pretty hard, then trying to create stuff as high quality as Capcom did with their street fighter characters.

Anyone can take a stock picture and shrink it down. Thats easy. Can you actually draw that character? Then add animation? Thats the fun part.

[Ducttape]

I don't have the patience/attention span for this... I tried to make a sprite and got bored...

[dudewithasock]

I actually supported this thread until Shay accused someone of cheating with absolutely no basis for that claim.
I sympathized with you for a bit, Shay, but come on, be real here.

[Jerrick]

I dont know. I was gonna say something cause to me it looks like a Koxx uni took into paint and scaled own by quite a bit. Looks like some artifacts around it too.

[SHAY_CAM]

I actually supported this thread until Shay accused someone of cheating with absolutely no basis for that claim.
I sympathized with you for a bit, Shay, but come on, be real here.

http://koxx-one.com/images/matos/monos/devilgold.jpg

Look familiar?

[unibikeling]

http://koxx-one.com/images/matos/monos/devilgold.jpg

Look familiar?

HEY! Your Cheating!!! :p

Chase

[_Ground_Zero_]

http://i38.tinypic.com/egczr4.jpg

I am SO the winner.:p

[wickedbob]

That made me lol.

[SHAY_CAM]

Heres an update from home.

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/9429/uniwy2.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uniwy2.jpg)
http://img243.image

[URL=http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uni2uf0.jpg][IMG]http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/627/uni2uf0.th.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/img243/uniwy2.jpg/1/)http://img217.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

[SHAY_CAM]

http://i38.tinypic.com/egczr4.jpg

I am SO the winner.:p

You have the thought in mind, just try to elaborate more. I dont think it would have looked bad at all if you spent more than 4 minutes on it.

[unibikeling]

heres an update from home.

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/9429/uniwy2.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uniwy2.jpg)
http://img243.image

[url=http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uni2uf0.jpg][img]http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/627/uni2uf0.th.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/img243/uniwy2.jpg/1/)http://img217.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)


joo cheetad!

[SHAY_CAM]

joo cheetad!

Ok?

[unibikeling]

Ok?

yeah. Really.

Chase

[SHAY_CAM]

Very intelligent.

[unibikeling]

Very intelligent.

soo... as i take this thread, its just drawings you made in paint?

k.

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/lardmcfatso/ScreenHunter_02Nov072249.gif

[SHAY_CAM]

soo... as i take this thread, its just drawings you made in paint?

k.

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/lardmcfatso/ScreenHunter_02Nov072249.gif

That made me lol. I enjoy your humor. Try and make a unicycle, but more detailed. Add different shades to give it depth.

[unibikeling]

That made me lol. I enjoy your humor. Try and make a unicycle, but more detailed. Add different shades to give it depth.

Depth? Depth?!! Dude! I had a tree in the background!

[SHAY_CAM]

Depth? Depth?!! Dude! I had a tree in the background!

Do you want dis sandwitch?

[dudewithasock]

Look familiar?

Still, give him the benefit of the doubt. He might've just used that picture as his reference. Don't immediately say he's cheating just cause his result is good.

[monkeyman]

Still, give him the benefit of the doubt. He might've just used that picture as his reference. Don't immediately say he's cheating just cause his result is good.
I've seen a lot of shops in my time, and the shadows are all wrong.


That's how I know the government blew up the Twin Towers!

[SHAY_CAM]

I've seen a lot of shops in my time, and the shadows are all wrong.


That's how I know the government blew up the Twin Towers!

You're right, the shades are all out of proportion.

[GILD]

shades

Hey!

http://www.e-potpourri.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/oakley-nanowire-minimalist-shades-brimming-with-technology.jpg



(Sorry mate, now I'm just being childish.)

[unidunc]

2948229483

my first tries.
I think I went a tad too small. Will up size next time

[SHAY_CAM]

2948229483

my first tries.
I think I went a tad too small. Will up size next time

Very good! A bit bigger next time yes, but i like them.

[petad]

http://koxx-one.com/images/matos/monos/devilgold.jpg

Look familiar?

Pshhh. Naw! It was totally an orange bud!

[unibikeling]

i think i did good.

30 minutes, a small trip into town, and a tube of club crackers results in this.

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/lardmcfatso/spirted.jpg

[SHAY_CAM]

Bumpage

[unibikeling]

Bumpage

my picture wins.

[habbywall]

I vote for unibikeling.

[unibikeling]

I vote for unibikeling.

on the contrary, i vote for habby.

[dudewithasock]

I vote for unibikeling too! His looks good.

[1wheelwonder]

I vote for me

[Hazmat]

I vote for Hazmat. :D

and/or

Every1 else above me on this page.

[CoreTechs]

Nice idea, Shay. I have a friend who did spriting for a while. He liked making Megaman comics. I've had a go at spriting in the past and it didn't turn out well, so I don't think I'm going to try again any time soon.

As for defining what a sprite is, you need to be more clear. I guessed it was this type of spriting when I came here only because I've had some experience with them, but for the lay folk, I'll try my hand at helping define what a sprite is for the competition.

Basically, it's character designed and created with pixels, usually with a 256 color scheme. It is not just something that was drawn in paint, but something that is designed on a small scale with a minimal mindset to get the basic idea of the character's shape and how it looks.

Some examples of this would be the characters from older and still some newer game-boy games. Think of pokemon, especially the older versions, you could see each pixel very clearly. Each character and object was a result of designing a sprite to represent that.

Here are a few examples:
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/9257/teamrocketattacksyq7.png

And this is a more detailed sprite:
http://www.anime-graphics.org/images/bulbasaur.png

For further reading, here is the Wikipedia page for sprites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)).

Anyway, have fun! I can't wait to see some more unicycle sprites.

- James

[SHAY_CAM]

Nice idea, Shay. I have a friend who did spriting for a while. He liked making Megaman comics. I've had a go at spriting in the past and it didn't turn out well, so I don't think I'm going to try again any time soon.

As for defining what a sprite is, you need to be more clear. I guessed it was this type of spriting when I came here only because I've had some experience with them, but for the lay folk, I'll try my hand at helping define what a sprite is for the competition.

Basically, it's character designed and created with pixels, usually with a 256 color scheme. It is not just something that was drawn in paint, but something that is designed on a small scale with a minimal mindset to get the basic idea of the character's shape and how it looks.

Some examples of this would be the characters from older and still some newer game-boy games. Think of pokemon, especially the older versions, you could see each pixel very clearly. Each character and object was a result of designing a sprite to represent that.

Here are a few examples:
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/9257/teamrocketattacksyq7.png

And this is a more detailed sprite:
http://www.anime-graphics.org/images/bulbasaur.png

For further reading, here is the Wikipedia page for sprites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)).

Anyway, have fun! I can't wait to see some more unicycle sprites.

- James


Thanks, i guess i couldnt really put it into words.
Anyways, ive been spriting for my rpg maker xp project for a long time now, just looking for more inspiration.

[dudewithasock]

I might try my hand at some spriting in Paint later; question: what pixel dimensions should I start with for normal-sized characters/objects?

[Jerrick]

If you want to be old-school. 16x16.

[SHAY_CAM]

I might try my hand at some spriting in Paint later; question: what pixel dimensions should I start with for normal-sized characters/objects?

Yeah, what jer said, 16x16, or if you want to you can take the paint tool(not pencil) and click the biggest square brush, and make the number five like on dice.

[habbywall]

http://bash.org/?14258

[Jeremy R]

Heres mine. Been working on it since the start of the comp:

[Tyler_N]

Bs^

[GILD]

Heres mine. Been working on it since the start of the comp:

I didn't realise this was still going on.
I've been having withdrawals lately.

768

[Jeremy R]

Bs^
Anyone could do it with enough timr, and if you can't then you wrack discepwine!

[TheGreenMonster]

Heres mine. Been working on it since the start of the comp:

dont be a idiot you just stretched the image out

[Jeremy R]

nope :) I did it the real way.

[GILD]

dont be a idiot you just stretched the image out

NO!!?!

Say it isn't so?

BTW, is that an accordion in your avatar?
Do you play?
Any video of you playing on your uni?

Send word.

[tobbogonist]

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[tobbogonist]

Spot the sprite.
http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/root-tangler-sprite-at-work-randall-arthur.jpg