Thank you so much! I've put a lot of love and effort into spriting the characters. I still need to make Ultra Violet and Kontrast but I'm happy you like it!
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Xiahou Ba
Mags
How did you make it? Individual sprites slapped together on a loop?
Xiahou Ba
Yep, they're just individual sprites compiled.
The form themselves are a combination of a drawing and a 3D model of them, the body form helped a bunch with the reference. Also, using GIMP helped with rotations of the arms.
The form themselves are a combination of a drawing and a 3D model of them, the body form helped a bunch with the reference. Also, using GIMP helped with rotations of the arms.
Xiahou Ba
It's at points where I wish the forum allows for CSS edits, I would spice my sig up with a snazzy background while they're animating. Unfortunately, if I want to do that, I have to make sure all sprite animations perfectly sync up and that'll be a pain to do.
Mags
GIMP? CSS?
Oof.
How do you put them together? Is there like a software you use to do that, because now I kind of want to try.
Oof.
How do you put them together? Is there like a software you use to do that, because now I kind of want to try.
Xiahou Ba
GIMP is basically free Photoshop. CSS is pretty much layout edits for the website, like changing the color of the background of the forum. Some forum sites allow users to personalize their post layout, though a drawback that people can poorly format their posts and mods will have to step in and disable their layout if it's bad enough.
GIMP allows you to animate your sprites yes. What you do is that you piece individual images together through its layers, and export it as a gif animation. An option will come up, and you need to check layer disposal for each frame and have all frames do the same time lapse. And finally, upload them to imgur, and you can then link them.
And, I think I may know what to do for a background: piece the background together with each Protector sprite image, and make it seamless between them. I'm going to attempt something like that. First I actually need to draw a background.
Testing this image so that there's no gaps between sprites, so it should allow for tiling horizontally....
...apparently not, saving the post creates a gap. Oh well, there goes the idea of creating seamless backgrounds...
...testing again, appears to have no gaps. I'll attempt a version with a background!
GIMP allows you to animate your sprites yes. What you do is that you piece individual images together through its layers, and export it as a gif animation. An option will come up, and you need to check layer disposal for each frame and have all frames do the same time lapse. And finally, upload them to imgur, and you can then link them.
And, I think I may know what to do for a background: piece the background together with each Protector sprite image, and make it seamless between them. I'm going to attempt something like that. First I actually need to draw a background.
Testing this image so that there's no gaps between sprites, so it should allow for tiling horizontally....
...apparently not, saving the post creates a gap. Oh well, there goes the idea of creating seamless backgrounds...
...testing again, appears to have no gaps. I'll attempt a version with a background!
Mags
CSS sounds like something they have on the Zelda Dungeons. You can pick between like, six different colors for the site.
Sounds like a lot of work. How long did those four take?
That doesn't sound too hard.
You said it would be a pain to line everything up, and that sounded hard.
Sounds like a lot of work. How long did those four take?
That doesn't sound too hard.
You said it would be a pain to line everything up, and that sounded hard.
Xiahou Ba
CSS is just web design in general. I honestly don't know too much about it, but I did made a pretty neat post-layout in one forum. Acclmboards is one forum software that allows post layout edits through CSS.
Making two of these characters takes around 4 hours total, I did them in pairs, but it doesn't take into account the sketch of them I had already nor their 3D assets I rendered but I suppose I could work without their 3D assets since it's not necessary, though it did help with pose and lighting. Animation was its own thing.
I don't think it would be a pain to put them in a background. I just have to draw the background, fragment them, and piece them together with the Protectors inside them, so it gives off the illusion of a seamless background.
Making two of these characters takes around 4 hours total, I did them in pairs, but it doesn't take into account the sketch of them I had already nor their 3D assets I rendered but I suppose I could work without their 3D assets since it's not necessary, though it did help with pose and lighting. Animation was its own thing.
I don't think it would be a pain to put them in a background. I just have to draw the background, fragment them, and piece them together with the Protectors inside them, so it gives off the illusion of a seamless background.
Mags
Hey, you added Kontrast and Ultra Violet.
I like how Konny is ready for a fight.
I like how Konny is ready for a fight.