If I'm being honest, this isn't my best sprite work. I've been working more in the Gen 2 style lately so I'm a bit rusty on the Gen 5 style. But I think it does the job and gets the stylistic elements across.
We forgive you. Your such an underrated youtuber. Its obvious that you do your research, and share your opinions in a clear and concise matter, and yet you dont have as many followers as other poketubers. Funny how that works, isnt it?
@@UmbreonLibris I honestly forgot that I asked you this to be honest. 😣 And due an act of carelessness on my part I haven't been able to draw on my laptop. Not at least not until I can find someone to fix my drawing tablet. Or have enough money to buy another one. But I think I was hoping to see if you had any advice on how to make regional forms, say for past regions? Like in Hoenn what if the Grimer and Koffing lines were all part fire type? Of the Vulpix became ghost type? Side note: Have you heard about that site with the Pokemon generator that uses an AI? Nokemon something? It makes some pretty crazy fakemons.
Even tho I'm not an artist myself, your series on spriting is some of your most interesting content. It's really amazing to see these techniques and styles and how they affect the outcome of the sprite, what gen it fits in for example.
I think you forgot (i guess) to mention is the fact the sprites from all 2D generations had another limitation about what colors you really could use. They all have a limitation you can see better on sprites taken with no palette fixing conf. on emulator (or sort of). Sprites all in these generations could only use colors where they had to be divisible by 8, so, the minimum you could use was between #000000 (black) and the maximum #F8F8F8 (white). It is not that noticeable when the sprites between generations are more and more better colored, but, you can notice when seeing their hexadecimal values on the colors. This is also why some generation 2 games had some sprites that if so not related, they accidentally has the same color on one of the two available space for the palette. Thanks for my uninteresting talk, it was just a detail I thought it was important for technical thinks (such as turn the Sprite for the real hardware).
Been waiting for this episode! Didn't know that the animations were broken up to make things easier, that's really cool. Do you think you'll do an episode making a sprite of yourself as a trainer, or is the pixel art finished with now?
Funnily enough I did something simlar when doing gen 5 sprite art without even realizing the same technique was used in the actual game (this was before I knew that a sprite sheet on Spriters Resource is not necessarily how the data is stored in the ROM)
I have made a trainer sprite of myself before, haha. But I don't think there's much reason to cover trainer sprites specifically since the styles and techniques match the Pokémon sprites pretty closely. This is the last _planned_ episode to cover pixel art, but after the next episode I'm open to suggestions for other more specific styles y'all want to learn about.
I actually block out my animation before I draw the sprite, so I draw the design on a digital art program and then I get the proportions right using wire frames in pixel art and then I animate that wire frame and then I go to the first frame and draw the pokemon in sprite form and then I fill out the rest
The fact that animated sprites indeed need more neutral poses to look natural makes me especially mad that BW didn't keep the HGSS sprites for Raikou, Entei, and Suicune 😬
I'm not sure what you mean. The BW sprites for Raikou and Suicune look pretty similar to the HGSS sprites. Entei is the only one that looks more like Platinum.
Little nitpick here I wanted to point out, but you made an error with displaying an example of a Gen 5 Sprite at 6:11 as you used Tangrowth's sprite in Platinum and not its sprite in Gen 5, where its Gen 5 sprites has its arms down and is standing as opposed to being slouched over and having one arm up like in the Platinum sprite
i think i understand everything, im not animating the sprites but i have a hard time shifting the colors in the outline to make it look more official, it either comes out so colorful it looks stupid or not enough where it just looks black, are there any good techniques i can use?
@@UmbreonLibris Shuckles (this is definately wrong), Kecleon, Klink, Xatu, I have no idea at all, Ekans, Chinchou, Roggenrola (I was also not completely sure about the Kecleon)
Do you do commission sprite work? Im thinking about making a fan game but i am artisticly challenged lol. Im just curious how much front, back, and icons sprites would run without animation.
That wouldn't really fit the point of this series. I don't know anything about 3D modelling, but maybe one day I can get a guest on to do an episode about Pokémon models.
That's a great question, but I'm not the best person to answer it. Throughout my pixel art career, I have only ever used the Windows XP version of Paint, and Photoshop. Paint was super simple and easy enough to use, but it didn't support transparency or animation. Photoshop can do it all and soooo much more, it often gets in its own way. I'm used to Photoshop by now, but I also know it isn't ideal. I don't have any experience with it myself, but if you are looking to start out, I would suggest you try something that is designed for pixel art, since it would be the smoothest experience. This guide might help: conceptartempire.com/pixel-art-software/
@@UmbreonLibris Thank you for the recommendation. I think I will try using photoshop, but I really want to make gen 4 style sprites for my own fakemon and this should be a perfect guide :)
Yeah, I'd seen Charizard's FRLG sprite first, which was way better, probably my favourite appearance of the Pokémon, so when I saw it RS sprite I was like "ew" and then it went back to that sprite in Emerald 🤢
@@KaiCyreus I'm convinced the presence/absense of gen 1 Pokemon in the Hoenn Dex was based on the quality of their sprites, seeing as how the vast majority of characters that were cut had sprites that looked like total ass Edit: Imagine if FRLG had used that sprite, it would have been one of the most hated games in the franchise
@@UmbreonLibris Really? He looks something other than fire is about to come out of his mouth 🤮 But hey to each their own. Nidoking's RSE sprite is much worse imo, he looks like he's constipated or having a stroke
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I died when your wife said “Hue’s that Pokémon” XD
I was waiting for him to say "no he's the rival from Pokémon Black and White 2!"
If I'm being honest, this isn't my best sprite work. I've been working more in the Gen 2 style lately so I'm a bit rusty on the Gen 5 style. But I think it does the job and gets the stylistic elements across.
We forgive you. Your such an underrated youtuber. Its obvious that you do your research, and share your opinions in a clear and concise matter, and yet you dont have as many followers as other poketubers. Funny how that works, isnt it?
Any advice on how to alter existing sprites to make fan made regional forms?
The technical aspects should be pretty much the same as described in this video. Do you have something specific you're struggling with?
@@UmbreonLibris
I honestly forgot that I asked you this to be honest. 😣
And due an act of carelessness on my part I haven't been able to draw on my laptop. Not at least not until I can find someone to fix my drawing tablet. Or have enough money to buy another one.
But I think I was hoping to see if you had any advice on how to make regional forms, say for past regions?
Like in Hoenn what if the Grimer and Koffing lines were all part fire type? Of the Vulpix became ghost type?
Side note: Have you heard about that site with the Pokemon generator that uses an AI? Nokemon something? It makes some pretty crazy fakemons.
Your wife's pun proficiency is through the roof. Hold on to her her, Libris, and never let her go.
Even tho I'm not an artist myself, your series on spriting is some of your most interesting content. It's really amazing to see these techniques and styles and how they affect the outcome of the sprite, what gen it fits in for example.
Well, now I’m gonna be saying “Hue’s that Pokémon?” all weekend.”
I think you forgot (i guess) to mention is the fact the sprites from all 2D generations had another limitation about what colors you really could use. They all have a limitation you can see better on sprites taken with no palette fixing conf. on emulator (or sort of). Sprites all in these generations could only use colors where they had to be divisible by 8, so, the minimum you could use was between #000000 (black) and the maximum #F8F8F8 (white). It is not that noticeable when the sprites between generations are more and more better colored, but, you can notice when seeing their hexadecimal values on the colors. This is also why some generation 2 games had some sprites that if so not related, they accidentally has the same color on one of the two available space for the palette. Thanks for my uninteresting talk, it was just a detail I thought it was important for technical thinks (such as turn the Sprite for the real hardware).
I’ve been having a difficult time animating my sprites, but I think I know how to fix it now. Thank you.
Oh yes I was waiting for this one!
Been waiting for this episode! Didn't know that the animations were broken up to make things easier, that's really cool. Do you think you'll do an episode making a sprite of yourself as a trainer, or is the pixel art finished with now?
Ooh that sounds like a fun idea
Funnily enough I did something simlar when doing gen 5 sprite art without even realizing the same technique was used in the actual game (this was before I knew that a sprite sheet on Spriters Resource is not necessarily how the data is stored in the ROM)
I have made a trainer sprite of myself before, haha. But I don't think there's much reason to cover trainer sprites specifically since the styles and techniques match the Pokémon sprites pretty closely.
This is the last _planned_ episode to cover pixel art, but after the next episode I'm open to suggestions for other more specific styles y'all want to learn about.
@@UmbreonLibris what about art school for chibi sprites? Like overworld characters and pokemon, and menu pokemon?
@@UmbreonLibris Figured as much, yeah. Looking forward to the rest of the series! ^_^
Wow that gen 1 sprite is amazing
this is actually super helpful for me making gen 3 sprites, because i would get the two styles mixed up so much lmao
This needs more likes!! This is good!!!
I actually block out my animation before I draw the sprite, so I draw the design on a digital art program and then I get the proportions right using wire frames in pixel art and then I animate that wire frame and then I go to the first frame and draw the pokemon in sprite form and then I fill out the rest
Can someone animate the sprite? that would be awesome!
I certainly won't complain!
i have a question, will you be making a model for Slotter (did i spell that right) but instead of just being them, it's a mega?
I don't know enough about 3D modelling to teach it, so whether I do an episode on that will depend on finding the right guest lecturer.
@@UmbreonLibris oh neat!
Subscribed. Glad i discovered this! More sprite making like this pls! A trainer would be good
People generally are not my forte, but maybe!
Thankyou for providing great content as always
This was really helpful, thanks a lot! :)))
Hues that pokemon made my year!
Indigo will be happy to hear this
I'll keep this video in mind next time I sit down to make my Fakémon's prevo 😤👌
The fact that animated sprites indeed need more neutral poses to look natural makes me especially mad that BW didn't keep the HGSS sprites for Raikou, Entei, and Suicune 😬
Most of HGSS's sprites were bad (poor Jolteon) but those were some of the best
@@williamdrum9899 it had many more I loved, like Charizard, Blastoise, Pidgeot, Scizor, Lugia.. lotta good ones imo
I'm not sure what you mean. The BW sprites for Raikou and Suicune look pretty similar to the HGSS sprites. Entei is the only one that looks more like Platinum.
@@UmbreonLibris oh my bad you're right, it is only Entei I was trying to think of here
Any chance we'll get another entry in the Art School series?
Little nitpick here I wanted to point out, but you made an error with displaying an example of a Gen 5 Sprite at 6:11 as you used Tangrowth's sprite in Platinum and not its sprite in Gen 5, where its Gen 5 sprites has its arms down and is standing as opposed to being slouched over and having one arm up like in the Platinum sprite
Looks like you're right. I must have gotten mixed up when downloading the sprites. The shading style is the same, though.
Thank you this is a big help for my ROM hacks
did you drop this series? :0 no shade if so, i love all your content!
It's not dropped, I just have not prioritized making the last entry in the series. But it'll happen!
Do you do all this with a stylus or a mouse?
I know im late, but wha software do you use? I'm making a game which will have animals and humans mimicking the pokemon (Gen 5) style.
What is the size of the sprite you use like the box you have drawn
Em qual programa voce faz os sprites?
Tem algum aplicativo que eu consiga fazer sprites utilizando um tablet?
i think i understand everything, im not animating the sprites but i have a hard time shifting the colors in the outline to make it look more official, it either comes out so colorful it looks stupid or not enough where it just looks black, are there any good techniques i can use?
Which tool to use for drawing not colouring
I use the same tool for everything in pixel art: the Pencil tool in Photoshop.
A bit of a newbie, but looking around, what is the actual canvas size that is utilized for the gen 4 sprites?
He says this near the beginning, but it's 80x80 hope this helps!
I got every Unown-Pokémon except for 1 (and I am not 100% sure about another one)
All but one of them were created in my Unown redesign video! I wonder which one you didn't get?
@@UmbreonLibris Shuckles (this is definately wrong), Kecleon, Klink, Xatu, I have no idea at all, Ekans, Chinchou, Roggenrola
(I was also not completely sure about the Kecleon)
Ah yeah, you mistook Torterra for Shuckle, but the others are right!
@@UmbreonLibris Yeah, I was sure that was wrong, probably watched too much Dorkly. But what about the one I didn't know at all?
Oh yeah, you missed Wimpod!
I love your intro how did u make that tutorial?
What are you using to do the work
Do you do commission sprite work? Im thinking about making a fan game but i am artisticly challenged lol. Im just curious how much front, back, and icons sprites would run without animation.
I don't normally, no-I have enough going on as it is! But I know there are many artists out there who would be happy to take on this project with you.
There should be more color in the outlines.
On such a dark-colored sprite? Maybe a bit more, but not much.
Can you do gen 6 I know it’s a 3d model but maybe you can do a high res sprite that looks 3d🤷♂️
That wouldn't really fit the point of this series. I don't know anything about 3D modelling, but maybe one day I can get a guest on to do an episode about Pokémon models.
What are the easiest software to use to create these sprites in your opinion?
That's a great question, but I'm not the best person to answer it. Throughout my pixel art career, I have only ever used the Windows XP version of Paint, and Photoshop. Paint was super simple and easy enough to use, but it didn't support transparency or animation. Photoshop can do it all and soooo much more, it often gets in its own way. I'm used to Photoshop by now, but I also know it isn't ideal.
I don't have any experience with it myself, but if you are looking to start out, I would suggest you try something that is designed for pixel art, since it would be the smoothest experience. This guide might help: conceptartempire.com/pixel-art-software/
@@UmbreonLibris Thank you for the recommendation. I think I will try using photoshop, but I really want to make gen 4 style sprites for my own fakemon and this should be a perfect guide :)
Good luck!
What website did you use for this?
Website? I use Photoshop, but any art software that supports pixel art is enough.
that's just swiper
You have to be kidding me, you made me watch 10 minutes of video and you didn't show the animated sprite...?
I say at 1:10 that I won't animate it
Good grief Charizard's Ruby sprite was awful
Yeah, I'd seen Charizard's FRLG sprite first, which was way better, probably my favourite appearance of the Pokémon, so when I saw it RS sprite I was like "ew"
and then it went back to that sprite in Emerald 🤢
@@KaiCyreus I'm convinced the presence/absense of gen 1 Pokemon in the Hoenn Dex was based on the quality of their sprites, seeing as how the vast majority of characters that were cut had sprites that looked like total ass
Edit: Imagine if FRLG had used that sprite, it would have been one of the most hated games in the franchise
Oh it's not that bad. It looks pretty good for the space they had! And the shading was pretty standard for the time.
Geodude however I think was the worst offender 😅 the FRLG sprite was an uncountable number of leagues above its RS sprite
@@UmbreonLibris Really? He looks something other than fire is about to come out of his mouth 🤮 But hey to each their own. Nidoking's RSE sprite is much worse imo, he looks like he's constipated or having a stroke