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21st September, 2005 at 07:51:54 -

I normally design my own sprites 100%, but I'm finding it hard to get the style, design and proportions for a cartoony sidescroll character.

So I thought I'd use the Link sprite from Zelda as a base.

I've tried to do a lot of fundamental changes, but do you think it's still a tad too close to the original?

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21st September, 2005 at 07:59:12 -

I myself have no problem if sprites are ripped or modified, as long as they look good and fit in well then its fine with me.
I don't think it looks too close to the original, looking good! may i ask what game its for?

 
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21st September, 2005 at 08:25:55 -

seems fine to me, Try not to use in any actual sprites, although a link cameo could work i guess and make the nintendo fanboys happy.

 
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21st September, 2005 at 08:58:29 -

"I myself have no problem if sprites are ripped or modified, as long as they look good and fit in well then its fine with me."

He didn't sa he modified the original, he just used the base to make his OWN pixel art with the right proportions.

 
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21st September, 2005 at 09:04:26 -

he did modify the original. he hasn't changed the arms or feet AT ALL. except for the colour. if you delete the entire body and draw the rest from there it will be passable.

 
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21st September, 2005 at 09:05:22 -

If you hadn't have mentioned it, I wouldn't have even noticed, it looks completely different.

 
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21st September, 2005 at 10:46:21 -

Minotauro: Yeah, it's just a copy of the Link sprite with a lot of modifications. The head has the biggest mods to it, but the back was re-done, I gave her a bit more of a skirt than Link has (although this is seen more on the animated versions, when she's jumping), and of course she has a bit of boobage where there was none before, lol.

But other than that, yeah, the feet, arms and most of the shadow are the same, lol.

I don't really know what it's for yet, but it's a dream to animate with. I miss all the days I spent making Zelda fangames, lol - I'd forgotten how easy it was to modify and animate the Zelda sprites!

If I can find a free GIF-animator then I'll port the animations into a gif file and post them up. I'm kinda proud of them, cos at least the animations are all my own work

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21st September, 2005 at 14:52:06 -

Movies13 at http://jansfreeware.com/jfgraphics.htm#movies is okay, I think. Making the animaions by importing still images is the best way to animate in there, though.

 
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21st September, 2005 at 18:35:12 -

I normally design my own sprites 100%, but I'm finding it hard to get the style, design and proportions for a cartoony sidescroll character.

A sidescroll character? You may be going the wrong way by ripping three-quarter overhead characters, then.

 
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21st September, 2005 at 21:47:21 -

Yeah. And as long as you don't claim it's entirely your own work and then act like a spoiled bitch when you get called on it, nobody really minds. Tracing certainly beats ripping if you can't work from scratch.

 
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22nd September, 2005 at 01:47:54 -

Looks good!

 
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22nd September, 2005 at 07:35:41 -

Cool, thanks for the comments!

Radix: Yeah, the partial overhead has taken a little tweaking with the other graphics, but it doesn't really notice now

 
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