Hello everyone, I’ve been spriting for quite a while now, and If I say so myself,
I suppose that I am a decent spriter. So the point of this thread is to explain how
to improve your spriting skills and more specifically, considering splicing.
What is a splice? :
A splice, is a method of spriting, basically a “mixture” of sprites that is mostly aimed
/and used by starters but there are also “pro” levels of it.
Levels of splicing:
A splice can be “poor”, “medium” and “pro”
From ‘this’:(@serif made this) to ‘this’: (a quick edit of mine)
From ‘this’: To ‘this’: (a edit of Wendy for my hack, she’s a reqruit)
From ‘this’:(a portrait from the muggin blitz) to ‘this’:(a quick edit of mine as well)
From ‘this’: to ‘this’:
Common mistakes :
When splicing, you should be aware of the fact that, no matter how much you splice
you will have to deal with the shading, or small areas that might seem, awkward.
So try avoiding -pillowshading, and awkward spots.
Avoid pillowshading tutorial: http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299
As I said before, I considered a splice being a mixture of sprites.
Although to my mind, that is not sometimes the case, a splice can also be a single sprite(when saying single sprite I mean single, splice sprite, don’t get mad at me, I suppose I wasn’t clear enough, sorry.)
just moved around, like so :
How to splice :
Now, I will be showing the process of how to splice, and improve your splicing and generally spriting skills.
What most people do, is combine two or three sprites. Although it’d be better to use only 2 for a start.
Step 1: Make all of the sprites that you are gonna use, have the same skin tone, so you won’t have to deal with annoying diverse skin shades that are gonna be hard to see for you to be able to make the sprite insertable.
Example :
Step 2: Splice your sprites.
Example :
Step 3: As I noted before, you can (and mostly should) move things around more the splice to look better.
Example :
Step 4: Taking into account the above, you may suppose the sprite being messy and not looking so fine, although if you clean it up and repeat those 2 steps, it will end up looking great
So step four : clean up messy shading/parts.
Finally: The finished product (Sorry I didn’t have enough time to make the whole sprite but I made the head.)(I have showed you previous examples so I suppose you get my point)
That’s all, I hope my advice was helpfull.
(I can tell that you are all mad at me due to the fact of me not having splices here. and you are right. The reason is that I really don’t have enough time and so I just threw a bundle of portraits to give you the image of how your splice can develop, sorry once again. Will be making splices sometime, I swear.)