MartyRallner

*dons his Pixel Pimp hat* You rang?

There's a few steps to follow in making a good sprite manip.

1. Find a sprite of a character that has at least a similar bodytype as the character you want to turn it into. For example, when I did this one of Brandon's Crimson Storm I nicked a sprite of Psylocke from the Marvel vs. Capcom games, mainly because a) they're both athletic females and b) the outfits were similar enough to save me a lot of work.

Finding the right sprite can be tricky, sadly. The best places to look are MUGEN groups and the like who deal in such things anyway. I honestly have no idea how to rip sprites from an emulated game, but if you ask around about it in MUGEN circles it can help make the search easier.

2. Save the chosen sprite to your hard drive and open it up in whatever paint program you have. I prefer Paint.Net over MSPaint because it's loaded with features and options, one of which is a vastly larger color palette.

3. Now painstakingly alter the colors of the game sprite (REBOOT!) into the colors of the character you want to create. In order to maintain shading I recommend choosing a lighter and a darker color from the primary (eg red in the Crimson Storm sprite above) to match the color variation in the game sprite.

While tools like the Paintcan and paintbrush can save time, more often than not you're going to have to zoom in close and recolor pixels one by one with the pencil tool. It may be tedious, but it'll be worth it.

4. Once the recoloring's done, there's probably stuff you'll want to add or remove to get the character you want: masks, tails, symbols, etc. Just use your best judgement and use the pixel-by-pixel approach to make the alterations.

5. Save that sucker and congrats, yer done

*smiles and hands Sassy a friggin' HUGE paddle labelled "Enjoy Yer Birthday Beats, TA!" before fleeing*

Man, this thread still rocks XD

*swears profusely* I KNEW there was something special about today! Thanks Dave! *goes to get dressed*

I KNEW that yellow LEGO smile was familiar...

Welcome to the collective

*drives in with a forklift carrying a pallet of Raspberry Smirnoff*

Alright, where d'ya want it?

Happy birthday Scarfles!

In my experience, super-pets tend to be more trouble than they're worth. That said, these are bloody brilliant Kilo, keep it up XD

Somehow I can picture a hamster with glasses, goatee, and pencil-shaped markings for Alex... someone help me...

Visual aids tend to help, especially when dealing with people who may have a tough time visualizing it on their own.

As usual Daggerpoint has rocked the casbah WITH THE POWER OF A MILLION EXPLODING SUNS!

And I like the lightning, it's a neat effect...

Blah blah blah, clamber for attention, blah, DO MEH!, blah blah, blah.

http://zerry.deviantart.com/gallery/scraps/ If anyone catches your eye/inspires you, be my guest.

*holds up a big sign*

[u]WASSY: YOU FREAKIN' ROCK! BELIEVE IT! AND WE MISS YOU, TOO! [u]

Ask her if she's got a DeviantArt account, she can keep in touch with the loony bin easily from there

By Oprah's chins!

Wow, rockin' it old Norse style... who's the artist?

Oh, I think it's high time for my main alt on Liberty find a new home

And seriously that's a damn fine chunk of art! You and your friend ought to team up and do more =D

As I've said Star I <3 <3 <3 ChibMarty w/ BFG. So perfect XD

Considering Marston was more concerned with his "bondage makes the world a better place" (seriously, wiki up William Moulton Marston for the whole sordid story) mentality than any sort of research or common sense, we're lucky WW's *only* as muddled as she is...

Anyway, great designs Sorah... while not much of a fan of her colorscheme (she's got more red, blue, and white than Captain America...) you've done a grand job in revoomping a tired design into something cool. (You listening, DC?)

Ah Cap, we miss you already.

I love Cheif's expression... almost like he's thinking "OMG, I'm fighting alongside HIM! Okay, calm down... must... avoid... fanboying out..."

Great stuff as always, Douglas *salutes*

The way the cape's up it really reminds me of Jean Grey/Phoenix... y'know, when she isn't dead *rimshot*

This is just great stuff. It's got a feeling of "WHEEEEEE! =D =D =D" about it, but in a more dignified fashion.

Woo, great work on the fur texture, looks good and fuzzy.

And because tempting fate is always fun, I shall give a little pun*: Meow-chikka-wow-wow *flees*






*and, a rhyme, apparently. This is what I get for being a literary geek

I set up shop in the Freedom District downtown because that's where the friend who got me hooked played. But these days she's off running her supergroup and we've kinda lost touch. I've got a second apartment on Pinnacle Boulevard when the noise downtown is too damn much. I got people in places all over and I *want* to hang on Virtue Street where all the cool kids live, but it seems whenever I come up with a really good concept character they end up living elsewhere >.>

As for Guardian Street, I've got, um, ... one Stalker I don't like too much. Sorry Iggy.

Best.

Battlecry.

EVAR.

O_O

... whyyyyyyyy did I have to make Freedom home base? Why?

Seriously Scarffles, those're just awesome =D And it was cool reading DB's entry...

Awesome stuff oh Spiny One, but thanks to your thread title I have that song stuck in my head @_@

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And, just for the heck of it,

BEEEEEEES

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Well someone had to say it...

Man, you're a genius when it comes to character bios XD And that comic page is amazing! Keep it up!

I LOL'd.

Hard.