Pixel Art

[ScareCrow1226]

can anyone give me A
A) The dimensions of the fallowing images

Icon
Tile
TileSet
Battler
Character
BattleBack
Enemy

B) can anyone recommend a free ware program that works better then paint ?

 

[xgamexfreakx]

These all apply to XP just so ya know.

Icon - 32x32
Tile - 32x32
Tileset - 256xwhatever
battler - 128x128 i think though may be 256x256
character - any size as long as it's a multiple of 4 and it's split into a 4x4 grid.
battleback - I really don't know this one...sorry
enemy - same as battler

and as for other programs, I use a combination of paint.net and gimp. both work really well together for differnet things.

Hope this helps a little!
~xgamexfreakx

 

[ScareCrow1226]

thank you very much

 

[regi]

Icons are actually 24x24 pixels. Battlers can be any size, although you should stick somewhere around 125x200 for regular humans and larger for bigger monsters. Battlebacks are 640x320.

For programs, you might want to check out Graphics Gale (the free version), or you can go with one of the two gamefreak mentioned. They're all pretty good for pixeling.

 

[Ocean]

http://tilesettutorial.wordpress.com/about/

Here's a list of programs you can use, which I tossed on my blog which I am shamelessly advertising now.

If anyone has any other good recommendations for it, I'd be happy to add it. I've not tried some of these myself however. I should note that pixen is for Mac, but I'll do that later.