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Japanese Portraits

Started by scatttman, October 23, 2009, 02:55:58 am

goldenshinywire

November 30, 2009, 01:59:58 pm #40 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by goldenshinywire
Gosh, those are amazing... o.0

I know when it comes to spritesheets you go off of an existing sprite. Is this the same for portraits?

mav

November 30, 2009, 05:02:34 pm #41 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by mav
Well, yes and no. Yes, many people do go off existing portraits and modify to create "new" ones (I do this extensively), but no, you don't have to. Smash and Curu, for example, could whip up phenomenal custom portraits without any bases at all. It's really more about skill-level than necessity.

goldenshinywire

November 30, 2009, 07:44:47 pm #42 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by goldenshinywire
That sounds like it'd be kind of difficult. What program do you use to make portraits? Is there a certain one that is more acceptable than others?
Thank you for replying, by the way. I'd like getting into spriting - or, at least, making portraits first - and I was wondering where to start. The Japanese seem to have a really good artist/team. :D Those portraits are great.

mav

November 30, 2009, 08:01:52 pm #43 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by mav
I use MS Paint to cut, copy, and paste eyes, ears, hair, etc from portrait to portrait till I get something I like. Simultaneously, I work on the palette. After I have a somewhat uniform palette, I usually post a version or two here on the board and continue refining it over and over again. After it looks decent, I incorporate people's suggestions and then I may reduce the colors to 16 (or so) in Macromedia Fireworks. Even after it's 16 colors, I still find myself cleaning it up. I think I'll post like 6 or 7 versions before the final one...

Then again, I am by no means the standard around here, so...

goldenshinywire

November 30, 2009, 08:07:31 pm #44 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by goldenshinywire
Yeah, I've lurked around the spriting forum and there's usually several portraits/sprites posted in each topic. I'm kind of interested in making portraits for Disgaea characters and then, if I get confident enough, make the sprites to accompany those portraits. Do you sprite as well?

mav

November 30, 2009, 08:27:25 pm #45 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by mav
Spriting takes too much time, skill, and patience for me--so no, I don't sprite...

By the way, could someone link me to the Japanese site? I always seem to lose it, and I'd really like to keep track on what they're working on...

goldenshinywire

November 30, 2009, 08:39:44 pm #46 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by goldenshinywire
I'd like to see what they're doing, too. Do they do patches?

SilvasRuin

November 30, 2009, 09:42:30 pm #47 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by SilvasRuin
Quote from: "goldenshinywire"Yeah, I've lurked around the spriting forum and there's usually several portraits/sprites posted in each topic. I'm kind of interested in making portraits for Disgaea characters and then, if I get confident enough, make the sprites to accompany those portraits. Do you sprite as well?

Someone has an Etna portrait somewhere around here.

scatttman

November 30, 2009, 10:35:46 pm #48 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by scatttman
the way they made hair on their portraits is great i will borrow some hair for my portraits

jimmyjw88

November 30, 2009, 11:35:50 pm #49 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by jimmyjw88
I actually found it previously but I lost it and now I can't find it. So, if anyone can post the link would be appreciated.
Kindly upload the images to other image hosting sites. I can't view imageshack. Thanks.

goldenshinywire

December 01, 2009, 07:56:05 pm #50 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by goldenshinywire
Quote from: "SilvasRuin"Someone has an Etna portrait somewhere around here.

Really? I'm going to have to look around for that one. ^_^

Seushiro

December 01, 2009, 08:06:49 pm #51 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by Seushiro
well I dnt know if this is what they are talking about. . . but earrings need work. . . found this ages ago. . . it was a members avatar when i took it

goldenshinywire

December 01, 2009, 08:22:23 pm #52 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by goldenshinywire
Oh, cool, it's Etna! ^^ I could try to mess with it, but my initial attempt at portrait art looks like ****.

jimmyjw88

December 01, 2009, 09:36:39 pm #53 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by jimmyjw88
Yeah, been ages.
Kindly upload the images to other image hosting sites. I can't view imageshack. Thanks.

Smash

December 03, 2009, 11:12:32 pm #54 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by Smash
Quote from: "mav"By the way, could someone link me to the Japanese site? I always seem to lose it, and I'd really like to keep track on what they're working on...

jimmyjw88

December 04, 2009, 12:05:29 am #55 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by jimmyjw88
Quote from: "Smash"
Quote from: "mav"By the way, could someone link me to the Japanese site? I always seem to lose it, and I'd really like to keep track on what they're working on...
Kindly upload the images to other image hosting sites. I can't view imageshack. Thanks.

Zozma

December 08, 2009, 02:53:04 am #56 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by Zozma
its a shame their sprites to go with these portraits suck ass, because the portraits are beautiful
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jimmyjw88

December 08, 2009, 02:58:37 am #57 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by jimmyjw88
Yeah. If we can work together, it will be awesome; Great sprites by us, great portraits by them. PERFECT ^^
Kindly upload the images to other image hosting sites. I can't view imageshack. Thanks.

Cheetah

December 18, 2009, 03:45:48 am #58 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by Cheetah
Not by the Japanese site, but this is still a really good portrait done by some guy over at pixeljoint:

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/45896.htm

Sounds like someone we should bring into the fold haha.

Oh here is another guy with a portrait and a decent looking almost isometric Tonberry:

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/45896.htm
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/48158.htm
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Xifanie

December 18, 2009, 08:31:48 am #59 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by Xifanie
If anyone wants to give a try speaking with the Japanese admin, go ahead. I'm sick of a talk that goes nowhere. It's already annoying enough to have someone else post for you and he doesn't want to e-mail me. What does sending an e-mail cost? >_>
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