Have a Battle Charset request?

[Valiere]

All right, Krizzit, here is the ranger.





He looked like kind of a "calm, collected" type, so I used kind of minimal movement. I think it works nicely. Oh, and animating someone firing a bow is harder than it sounds.

Since I'm sick to death of battle charsets, I think I'll start work on my very own chipset.

[Krizzit]

Oh my god, You nailed Krizzit to a T, calm collected type, definitely him. You rock, and i like the little bit of writing at the end. "To give them an A" that's awesome! You are truly amazing.  Thank you a ton,

~Krizzit

[Valiere]

You nailed Krizzit

This is how rumors get started.



Seriously though, glad you liked it. ^^

[Fisherson]

All right, Krizzit, here is the ranger.





He looked like kind of a "calm, collected" type, so I used kind of minimal movement. I think it works nicely. Oh, and animating someone firing a bow is harder than it sounds.

Since I'm sick to death of battle charsets, I think I'll start work on my very own chipset.

Another imnpresive battle by Val in her new style. Impresive you exceed even my own skills.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

This is how rumors get started.

Hahahahahaha.

[Krizzit]

Meh it happens. how about nailing my secondary character? eh, eh? I'm sure it'd be Fun.  ... or not.
Thanks again

~Krizzit

[Valiere]

I'm kind of knee-deep in chipset right now. D: Are you having trouble emulating the style? Weren't you going to use Gemini's template thing?

[Krizzit]

Hehe, I was joking it was more of a joke, I want to try to emulate Gemini's thing before i ask for any more help, I want to get better at this and the only way to do it is to fail, over and over. Thanks though, Any Tips for a newbie?

[Valiere]

Uh, let's see...tips...


1. Keep whipping out RM2K3 and watching the animations as you try them. This is the only way you'll figure out what looks off and how to fix it.

2. Copy/paste is your friend (obviously).

3. The various selection tools are also your friend. Just highlighting a foot, moving it over a couple pixels, and fixing the leg to match is an easy way to show a foot shifting.

4. The Rotate tool is sort of your friend. SORT OF. It never, ever works perfectly unless you're doing 90-degree turns. Be sure to correct the object you just rotated so it looks right, or else it will look like a deformed mess of pixels.

5. Dark colors recede, light colors advance. So color a foot in the background with a darker color than one in the foreground.

6. A big dash of color to show movement usually looks a lot cooler and faster than, say, just showing three stages of a sword swinging. I use this a lot.

7. Do a Google Image search for "man holding sword" or "man firing gun" or whatever if you need to know how to draw a certain pose.


That's all I can think of for now.

[Krizzit]

What do you use for image editing software? I'm currently using gimp because we are programming in java, Sorry i don't want to high jack your thread.

[Valiere]

No worries, this thread is defunct anyway. I use Idraw3.