Spriter needed!

[Coolpikaaa]

Hey all,

My friend and I have been working on a bit of a website.It has many differnt elements but basicly you have to go around and befriend creatures into joining your group.(Think classic pokemon games)

But we hit a bit of a snag.

The website looks good and is somewhat done but we don't have sprites for the creatures.This is a rather big problem and is holding us back quite a bit.

If anyone out there can do sprites please help me out it would be very helpful.

-coolpikaaa

P.s. If anyone wants to check out the site it is here at:
www.freewebs.com/imagidex
Feel free to join!

[3kul]

Interesting concept you've got there coolpikaaa, I'm tempted to join up as I used to be really into Pokemon, but it looks like you can't actually catch anything just yet .

Anyways, I'd be willing to give spriting a shot if you can't find anyone who's actually good at it, I think I could probably produce something that's old school Red and Blue quality if I tried hard enough. All you'd need to do is pass me a few images of what you've got in mind for some of the creatures (anything's fine really, whether it's a rough sketch or a quick MS paint job, all I need is a vague idea as to what it should look like), and I'll give it a shot.

If it turns out I really suck at this or you just don't like my work, feel free to turn it down, I just wanted to try turning my hand at spritery .

[Mitsukai]

'ello! This is said friend. =P

[Coolpikaaa]

Thats great 3kul!

I have lotsa concept art for ya and for the catching part you musthave came at a time where the bot was offline.

Anyway thanks,i'll sned you a pm or something

-coolpikaaa

[3kul]

Alright, here are the agreed upon final versions for you two. I wouldn't recommend putting them in photobucket for hosting, because for some reason it kept downgrading mine to a lesser quality file (it doesn't show so much with Ballbell, but the Kirdrop line looks terrible in photobucket). Anyways, here they are, do with them what you will .

#004 Ballbell:


#007 Kirdrop:


#008 Kirplop:


#009 Kirfin:


I've got a few more concepts to work with now, I'll most likely be going with the Styro line next, because those look very easy to sprite, followed by Arrow. I'm saving the dragons for last, because whilst they look awesome they'll be a lot harder for me to do .

For anybody interested in how I'm doing this, it's MS Paint all the way .

[Coolpikaaa]

Thanks alot 3kul!

So can i put them up on the site?

-coolpikaaa

[Mitsukai]

The dragons might be harder... but I'm sure you'll figure out something.

*whips up a batch of muffins* Let's see... there's chocolate chip... blueberry... cranberry... rasberry.... all-brand... and ones with squid chunks. Feel free to help yourself.

And thank you for the suggestions 3kul.

~Mit

[3kul]

[addman]

I must admit, this is a really interesting thing you've got going here. I've decided to sign up and give it a try, but I have a few questions.

1) Will people be able to battle each other?

2) Will you be posting some sort of syntax that people must use to communicate with the capture-bot?

3) Do you have to buy/find anything before you can capture?

4) Are you looking for new ideas for new Imagines? Because I could always offer up some suggestions.

[Coolpikaaa]

ok addman heres your questions

1.The battling factor may come into play once we get the site functional.
2.The capture bot responds to square adresses that match up with the grid.If the bot says something is there type "catch" and it should work.(if you have the right tools)
3.You will prolly have to buy the item used to capture and we are still trying to figure out exactly what that is.
4.HECK YES
please anyone with suggestions post this form in this thread

---form---
Name:

Type:Most of the types are up on the site,if you have a new one type here too

Picture:a rought drawing on a peice of paper or a rough drawing in paint our wonderful image staff can probably make it look good

Evolution:does it evolve?(you have to have a new form for the evo)

-coolpikaaa

[Embri]

Looking good, 3kul!

I've got a whole stack of imaginary monsters lying around, and a few sprited critters. Don't know if those would interest you - Often it's better to have a single artist (or a few with similar styles) spriting, so you have a cohesive style.

[3kul]

Thanks for the compliments Embri, I'd very much appreciate a look at some of your sprites - even if the style is different (I imagine that your sprites would be a lot more complex than mine are though, but if I'm lucky I might learn a thing or two from you ).

Anyways, more new stuff:

#001 Styro:


#002 Styreem ver.1:


#002 Styreem ver.2:


#003 Styrex:


The two Styreems are just alternate takes on the 'mouth' middle part, up to you two as to which one you ultimately go with. I tried to keep the colour scheme with these the same as the colours that were used in the concepts, I think that it worked out pretty well. As always, let me know if there's any problems or if you want anything changed .

[Embri]

Well, you're certainly faster than me, 3kul.

Here's one sprite to add to your collection, if you'd like it, CP. I used Cayalin - hopefully that wasn't custom made art of your Imagine. (I'm guessing not since it had a dragon.bmp name, but you never know.)

I've tried to match 3kul's style by using only web compatible colours (like MSPaint, IIRC), and failed rather miserably non the less. -_- Too set in my ways. I did get it down to only 6 colours... (not counting transparent and black)

If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to whip off a tutorial of how I do my sprites. It's not terribly complicated.

[3kul]

Yours is more quality over quantity though Embri, mine are fairly simple by comparison and I just churn them out . It's also a bit bigger than mine, but still looks totally awesome.

*raises hand for the tutorial*

I'm interested

[Embri]

All righty, I'll whip one off as soon as possible, with pictures! ^_^

Yes, it is a bit larger - I didn't have room for the wings otherwise. My other fault - I have a hard time working with very tiny sprites. Dragons are particularly challenging to fit into small spaces, because of the wings and tail, and often long necks. I'll be making pre-evos I suppose for Cayalin while I write the tutorial. I've always found it easier to do the final form first, then work backwards.

As for quality, I wouldn't say yours are any less in that department at all. I just have more levels of shading (the shading curse!). That's pretty much the only difference I can see, and if you feel like adding more shading to a sprite, it's easy to do later on.

*goes to make said tutorial*