Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competition
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
Hmn..if I can be arsed to animate and get it done in time, but I suppose on if it has to be -entirely- original or if frankensprites are allowed. since that's about all I can do. But even then, though I'm somewhat proud of it, I'm sure there's a lot better frankensprites out there.
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
Of course frankensprites are allowed.AzuraKnight wrote:Hmn..if I can be arsed to animate and get it done in time, but I suppose on if it has to be -entirely- original or if frankensprites are allowed. since that's about all I can do. But even then, though I'm somewhat proud of it, I'm sure there's a lot better frankensprites out there.
P.S: Still working on my entry. I have a few additional poses, but I'm revamping the base a bit to try to make the shading clearer.
Admittedly the base of the head is now pretty much nonexistent, which is good because I have had to switch between bases from pose to pose.
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
I might enter a fellow if this dude here seems appropriate and I can get him finished up in time.
This is the first AA sprite I've ever attempted, and I'm having a lot of trouble with animation, but hopefully I can pull it together in time.
You can tell that my animation is a little wonky. Hopefully I can get that fixed.
This is the first AA sprite I've ever attempted, and I'm having a lot of trouble with animation, but hopefully I can pull it together in time.
You can tell that my animation is a little wonky. Hopefully I can get that fixed.
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
Good for a first attempt, actually. Most of the issues just come down to the animation, and all of it is fairly easy to fix up.Tyadran wrote:I might enter a fellow if this dude here seems appropriate and I can get him finished up in time.
This is the first AA sprite I've ever attempted, and I'm having a lot of trouble with animation, but hopefully I can pull it together in time.
You can tell that my animation is a little wonky. Hopefully I can get that fixed.
1. He has no teeth. Take a look at the open mouths of some other AA characters and try to make it look similar. Should probably just take a row of white.
2. His mouth needs a clearer outline. Try using a darker colour, like the shading at the bottom of his nose.
3. The animation timing, as you said, needs work. Here is how you should generally sequence it.
----Mouth closed
----Mouth open
----Mouth half-open
----Mouth open
This is the timing I usually use, if you want to give it a try:
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
Thanks a lot for the tips for the tips. Let's see now...Good for a first attempt, actually. Most of the issues just come down to the animation, and all of it is fairly easy to fix up.
1. He has no teeth. Take a look at the open mouths of some other AA characters and try to make it look similar. Should probably just take a row of white.
2. His mouth needs a clearer outline. Try using a darker colour, like the shading at the bottom of his nose.
3. The animation timing, as you said, needs work. Here is how you should generally sequence it.
----Mouth closed
----Mouth open
----Mouth half-open
----Mouth open
Best of luck, and please keep at it, because you've got some obvious potential here.
Here's what it currently looks like, before I saw your post:
Spoiler : Current Version :
Spoiler : Deskslam :
3. I'll give that a try and update this post once I've done so.
As for doing more, I took a little bit of time off of Alan Light here to start work on my prosecutor (I'm working on sprites for my own case, just felt like I should enter Alan in the contest if I finish while I was at it):
Spoiler : Damien Umbra :
Updated:
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
It looks like you're using Mia as a base. Why don't you have a close look at the timings for some help? If you have GIMP, disable layers one at a time or go to tools->animations->playback and play the sprite one one frame at a time?
For half-mouth animation, it's usually a lot smaller than the fully open mouths, usually as if the character is saying "o", but a lot smaller, as in
(focus on the mouth openings, not the expressions these smileys express)
For half-mouth animation, it's usually a lot smaller than the fully open mouths, usually as if the character is saying "o", but a lot smaller, as in
(focus on the mouth openings, not the expressions these smileys express)
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
I'm only using her eye and face, really, but yeah. I am using GIMP, and I'm using the timings Lind provided, which I think look fine. What's wrong with the updated version?E.D.Revolution wrote:It looks like you're using Mia as a base. Why don't you have a close look at the timings for some help? If you have GIMP, disable layers one at a time or go to tools->animations->playback and play the sprite one one frame at a time?
For half-mouth animation, it's usually a lot smaller than the fully open mouths, usually as if the character is saying "o", but a lot smaller, as in
(focus on the mouth openings, not the expressions these smileys express)
I understand what you mean with the mouth thing, though, and I agree that mine is kind of terrible at that. Is this any better? Obviously a different pose, but in the mouth-movement respect:
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
Hmm... That mouth still looks wrong. Perhaps the half open should have the sides of the mouth moved inward. He looks like his teeth are clattering (unless that was the intended effect). Try to look at this sprite of Franziska as an example. Also, the chin/jaw seems to be moving very oddly, like left/right instead of up/down.
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
The real issue with your teeth is that they move. You need to have the teeth be in the exact same place, and have the lips move around them.
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
Hmm, I see. I'll have to work on that.Lind wrote:The real issue with your teeth is that they move. You need to have the teeth be in the exact same place, and have the lips move around them.
Let's please move any more discussion of my sprites over to http://www.aceattorney.sparklin.org/for ... =30&t=9979, because I feel like I'm unintentionally derailing this topic.
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
MUST... FINISH... ENTRY...
Seriously though, I've nearly done an absurdly difficult base sprite that I have spent an entire month trying to get right. About three of her poses will be done from this sprite, so with any luck, and a lot of caffeine, I can finish it.
Seriously though, I've nearly done an absurdly difficult base sprite that I have spent an entire month trying to get right. About three of her poses will be done from this sprite, so with any luck, and a lot of caffeine, I can finish it.
Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
Hm? So, are we to expect another entry from you?
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
Good luck. And to anyone else who is trying to finish last-minute.Lind wrote:MUST... FINISH... ENTRY...
This deadline crept up really fast, it's a little worrying. I still have to fix the other entry and finish three more sprites for another because it was a good idea to restart at the time...
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Re: Special event: The Bright Age of the Law Sprite competit
Here's my entry. I'm pretty impressed with it myself. The strange looking thing in his face is a scar. I made the thing because I'm sick of all the character getting scar over eye and wanted to do something different to my character.
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Another? This is the same entry. I only posted the base sprite before, and that was because I was fishing for opinions. I haven't properly shown off any of her finished poses yet.Nearavex wrote:Hm? So, are we to expect another entry from you?