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[Jamos]

I'm not sure where to ask this, so I guess I'll do it here. I enjoy working on sprites, but it is rather tiresome to completely make one from scratch every time. What I want to do is have a couple of human based sprites to work off of. I'm not too good with the human form, you see. If anyone has a couple of male and female sprites that are similar in size, could you please post them? I have had some troubles finding decent specimens so I come to you guys. This would make things a little easier for me.

[Denmo]

You could just take a picture of a person and simplify it to pixels.

[Jamos]

That sounds like a pretty good idea. How do I go about doing this?

[JPS]

go into mspaint and go to Edit->Select All then reduce the picture down to the desired sprite pixels using resize, then zoom in all the way, turn the grid on, and voila

Thats how I do it anyway, there might be an easier way, Ill post pics in a minute

[edit]

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b87/silent_nightmare777/Untitled.jpg

not sure if this is what you were looking for

[Denmo]

Start with a subject/drawing/whatever and shrink it down in Photoshop while keeping the same pixel resolution, then on another layer work over it with pixels.

I can't tell you the technical aspect of this process because I can't remember.

[hitogoroshi]

Den, thats an awesome idea, man. :D

[Jamos]

Yep, very good idea. Makes me sad that I don't have photoshop. I think I may have a way around that problem, through. Thanks a bunch, Den. :D

[hitogoroshi]

Hey, Gimp users (and it's free, so everyone can be). Heres a great way to make faces into video game looking head profiles (and this might work for sprites, I haven't tried.)
First, Filters- Blur- Pixelate for 2/2. This will get rid of some of the "real world look" of the face. Then, filters-artistic-cartoon with mask radius 20.00 and percent black 0.300. :D
[EDIT: For cartoon sprites, it's the same deal but the pixelate modify is not 2/2 but instead image width / sprite width and image height / sprite height.]

[Denmo]

Another thing about sprites in general Jamos is head size. Keep in mind that heads usually make up 1/3-1/4 (depending on the height) the size of the person, to make them look cuter as a sprite. Chrono Trigger comes to mind.

But that all depends on what kind of sprite you want.

[Jamos]

That is a good point. I may do some experimenting around to see what I end up with. I may shrink the head seperately from the rest of the body.