Sinful Sprites ~ Chaos

[Asha]

I'll add a persian to the list

[Muto]

If you still do these I don't even know, out of the Eeveelutions you're missing Flareon and Leafeon, do those maybe? Also Kecleon as a third if he hasn't been made?

[Gluttony]

5 new ones for the first time in quite a while.

From the (long overdue) list of chaos to be done: Farfetch'd.

From Pokédex order: Ekans.

Because the RNG told me to make it: Muk.

And because I felt like doing them: Shuppet and Petilil.


On the list:
- Ninetales
- Persian
- Flareon
- Leafeon
- Kecleon

[Gluttony]

Adding Natu, because a friend on another site requested it (and unlike the requests I've still got pending, it was easy to make):

[catdogmouse]

Wow, that's so cute! Do you mind me asking how you make these? You don't have to share if you don't want to.

[Gluttony]

I use a template (shaped pretty much the same as Bulbasaur in the first post of this topic, minus the bulb, as the basic shape. Colour it in with the main colour of the Pokémon-to-be-made's body, then (at maximum zoom) alter the shape pixel-by-pixel using the pencil tool on paint until it's a decent match to the Pokémon I'm making. I keep the Pokémon's Generation V sprite beside the chao I'm working on at all times for reference.

Once the shape is good, I get to more complex colourations, adding in shading on newly-added or modified body parts such as tails. If there are any extremely oddly-shaped Pokémon, I often save them at this point to use as a template for similarly-shaped Pokémon. For example: Chikorita was used as a template for the similar shapes of Mudkip, Poochyena, Mightyena, Grotle, Torterra, and Dialga; Poliwag was used as a template for the similar shapes of Golem, Natu, and Shroomish; Seviper was used as a template for the similar shape of Ekans; and Articuno was used as a template for the similar shapes of Pidgeotto and Fearow. Making a new shape for the first time is difficult, but I actually re-use material quite a bit to make things easier.

I then add in colour patterns such as stripes, spots, different-coloured underbellies, and other such things. Once that's done I zoom back to normal zoom to see if everything looks good. If anything doesn't, I zoom back in and change it pixel-by-pixel until it does look good. Then I save it on a single-coloured, 47x47 pixel square, with the Pokémon lining up, so that one specific pixel (the spot between the feet, specifically) lines up to be at the exact same spot on every sprite, giving them a uniform look when standing in rows, such as in the first post of this topic.

Once the image is good, and on a single-coloured background (incidentally, the background colour is always markedly different than the Pokémon used, so for example: Bulbasaur is saved on a yellow background, because he has no yellow on the sprite. This helps ensure that no part of the sprite itself will be accidentally made transparent during the transparency process), I take it to www.iaza.com and use their image editor on the background to make it transparent, saving the resulting gif. file to my computer.

I then upload that gif file to my photobucket account in my Chaos album, and post them here. ^_^

[catdogmouse]

^^ Wow. That seems... difficult

[Gluttony]

Nah, it's pretty easy, I just described it in detail.

I'll see if I can upload a step by step picture process of how I do them, if that would make it any clearer.

--Edit: Here we go, a step by step process for Larvitar!

Step 1:
I load up my template.


Step 2:
Paste the Pokémon to-be-made alongside the template, and copy the sprite on the right onto the outline on the left.


Step 3:
Shading begins! I take the lightest shade of the Pokémon-to-be-made's main colour, in this case the lightest shade of green on Larvitar's BW sprite, and use the fill tool on paint to put that green over the lightest blue spots on my template.


Step 4:
Next-lightest shade of green over next-lightest shade of blue. Working from lightest to darkest helps me not miss any spots.


Step 5:
Next-lightest shade of green over next-lightest shade of blue again.


Step 6:
Next-lightest shade of green over next-lightest shade of blue again.


Step 7:
Next-lightest shade of green over next-lightest shade of blue again. At this point the sprite is now fully-green, so I can start to get to work on editing the shape.


Step 8:
No need to do new work when I've already got something I can use. I load up Charmeleon, copy the shape of its horn, and voila! I've got Larvitar's horn done.


Step 9:
Using Larvitar's BW sprite as a reference, I drew a face. This usually consists of eyes and sometimes a mouth, and I often vaguely copy shapes used in the official sprite. Not too difficult.


Step 10:
Put some red on its belly, and that's about all the detail complete! Larvitar is pretty stocky, and its tail is presumably directly behind it, so I don't need to sprite the tail.


Step 11:
Put in on a 47x47 pixel square, solid-colour background. Larvitar has no yellow in its sprite, so I used a yellow background.


Step 12: Make that background transparent with http://www.iaza.com and then upload it to my photobucket and post it here. Done.

[catdogmouse]

That would be great. Thanks, Glut.

[Gluttony]

Alright, done. I edited my step-by-step into my previous post. Enjoy.