ABC's Sprites

[thelongabcsong]

Since I'm getting into spriting I figured I may as well open up one of these little workshops to get some critique. I'll probably be doing this very slowly since I have a life and I'm still far from great. (All of my sprites will be RTP until I can get really good at that and then I might move on to something bigger).


I'm starting off my making a Character Set to match Dollmage's blue mage battler. I have the first 4 frames done, tell me what you think please!

Spoiler: Blue Mage

Here's the Refernece and my WIP. C&C would be great =D
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<img src="http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/qwerty1357/DMWWIP-3.png" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"><br><br>
This is also my first sprite EVER, so umm yea just wanted to say that XD

1 more thing, kinda off topic but, how do you make animated gifs? I'd like to animate things before I post them up so you can see how it looks while it's moving and stuff.

 

[brainstorm]

sorry if this doesn't help much, but I don't know how else to explain: It really looks like an upper body balancing on a twig... sorry if that's sounds mean. Make her lower body look more like a regular woman's.

EDIT: eh... or just make the dress flow more.

 

[thelongabcsong]

sorry if this doesn't help much, but I don't know how else to explain: It really looks like an upper body balancing on a twig... sorry if that's sounds mean. Make her lower body look more like a regular woman's.

EDIT: eh... or just make the dress flow more.

sorry if this doesn't help much, but I don't know how else to explain: It really looks like an upper body balancing on a twig... sorry if that's sounds mean. Make her lower body look more like a regular woman's.

EDIT: eh... or just make the dress flow more.

Ugh I just had one with a body that wasn't so umm...twig...like...but it looked to big so I changed it. What do you mean by making the dress flow more?

 

[Sonata]

sorry if this doesn't help much, but I don't know how else to explain: It really looks like an upper body balancing on a twig... sorry if that's sounds mean. Make her lower body look more like a regular woman's.

EDIT: eh... or just make the dress flow more.

Are you critiquing Dollmage's battler?

 

[jbart321]

I don't know, I think the sprite looks fine.  The battler is kind of skinny, but you can only do so much with the character sprite.

 

[thelongabcsong]

Ok well the battler is dollmage's so I'm not gonna do anything with that...
Sooo the sprite looks okay? I just wanna make sure the fronts are good before I move onto the sides

 

[hayato]

I really like the sprite. It looks like a very good match with Dollmage's Battler.

Keep up the good work.

 

[Samboy]

I think the ribbons coming from her dress are about 1 or 2 pixels too thick. Just do that, and it'll be perfect.

 

[thelongabcsong]

Ok thanks ;D, I thought the ribbons looked a little weird but I wasn't sure what to do.
I'll have this one done and be started on my next one by Sunday hopefully.

 

[brainstorm]

lol sorry. pay no attention to my statement. I was critiquing the battler. Your sprites are good though.

 

[thelongabcsong]

lol sorry. pay no attention to my statement. I was critiquing the battler. Your sprites are good though.

oh ok lol, thanks I guess I'll get to work on the rest of it then =)

 

[iceplosion]

It looks great abcsong.

 

[geox-2.0]

pretty good for a first sprite

 

[dollmage]

@brainstorm the battler in whole animation is floating and is meant to look like that. and no its not a twig and the dress is flowing like silk

any way about the sprite, could you make it look more smexy :D the battler is smexy so i would like the sprite to be smexy too, its a bit chubby but it looks good, but one thing notice bout the hat. Some part of it was cut off due to frame size other than that its well shaded oh and work with the arms a bit the moving arms both looks good, but when it comes to standby post the arms look well ah buff kinda muscular. a very well done sprite for your first try.