Sprites
So, I just wanted to talk about the sprite making process, because I just realized I did something pretty stupid and want to take a break from working on the game to write something out…
I don’t have any training in animation, and pretty much all of my sprite-animating knowledge has come from reading random animation tutorials online and studying sprite sheets for various games. Due to this, when making sprites, I tend to improvise and experiment a lot, and most of my progress has been through trail and error. This whole project has been like this, actually–sometimes I just stop and wonder at the strangeness of it all.
But unfortunately, I made one of the most basic mistakes–the sprite I’d been using as a reference for my other sprites is off from the reference sheet I made a while ago. I decided that I didn’t like how the main “standing” sprite looked, and edited a bit. Just to double-check some proportions, I brought up my reference sheet, only to realize that I’d forgotten some details and made some parts of the main character’s outfit a bit wrong. I’d been so confident of my ability to recreate the character’s design that I’d forgotten to do what I should have been doing from the start–referencing my reference sheet (the one that I posted a while ago, actually).
Gah, I really need to concentrate better than this. This sets me back a bit, but at least I’ve learned a lesson from this. Up until now, I’d just been making the sprites sort of haphazardly…now I have the reference sheet printed out and in front of me.
