I could use some information

[Lammorra 0]

Is there any really good sprite tutorials that I can get my hands on. I want to learn to make sprites. I am using Gimp and Paint right now. I also have Ulead Photo Impact and Animation. I want to put these programs to good use and work them to their fullest. The have had some experience in working with Photo Impact and the Animation program. This was a few years back. I need special characters for my game, these characters sometime have two or more forms or bodies that help them to get their jobs done. Many of my actors in my manuscripts can change at will. If you read my story posted in the story section of this forum, you will see what I mean. It has become a way of life for my actors or people to change. I have also developed some very different characters and monsters for them to defeat. Even though my actors fight for justice and peace, they use their brains and try to not use their brawn to fight with. They fight with love not hate, for the monsters they fight devour everything in their path. I have only submitted Book One of ten manuscripts that I have written. It has taken me twenty-three years to write and revise these ten books.

Now, I my dream is to put at least part of my manuscripts into a game for my grandson.

If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it a great deal. Thank you

Lammorra

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The best way to learn spriting, is simply to practice.

 

I will give you some links that will help you get started, all from the site rmxp.org.

 

To create sprites, most people use templates. This is what all your characters are based on. I think you will need an account to view most of these links, but I think I've actually seen you at this website.

Here's a link to a template topic, which basically contains a bunch of character templates: http://www.rmxp.org/forums/showthread.php?t=4142

Now, most of these are useless actually. But you can look through and find the ones you want to use for your game. I would recommend these two(RTP Male & Female):

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/7060/male1kx.png

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/6219/female7ch.png

 

So that is what you use to sprite on. Next is learning how to do it. This is done by practice and also by looking at examples. .ORG have an academy, or a bunch of tutorials on how to make games. They have a lot of spriting tutorials which increase in difficulty. These are good if you have a lot of time, and are dedicated to learning. I suggest looking through whats here. You dont have to spend hours on each one, just get the basic concept. Heres the link their spriting academy: http://www.rmxp.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=49

Also there you will find video tutorials linked to youtube made by Tana, which you will find very useful: http://www.rmxp.org/forums/showthread.php?t=21230

 

Lastly, I recommend opening up your RTP charactersets and zooming in on them. Look at how they are made. Then try to replicate this on your own sprites. Then practice practice practice. Creating full charactersets takes a lot of time and patience, so you have be dedicated to learning how to do it.