I have never done any spriting before. I took one color class my first year of college in 2007, but as far as my artistic abilities I have not spent any time developing them (that changed 3 weeks ago). I spent my entire college life in the science field and love it, but now that I am out and have my degree I finally wanted to pursue my dream as a game developer. So I am self teaching C++ and also learning how to create simple graphics ( and everything in between:Color, Saturation, Hue, Value, etc). that i may combine to create a simple rpg program from scratch. I know this may sound crazy to a lot of people and overly ambitious to others, but this has been my dream as long as I could remember :) So here I am!
How I got here was rather interesting lol. I found out that people are hacking pokemon so I did all kinds of research for pokemon, than I found out people were hacking Golden Sun (my All Time Favorite RPG on the GBA) which was all kinds of overwhelming. Then someone mentioned that there was a Fire Emblem hacking community and I got crazy excited seeing all the stuff people have been doing (heck, I am playing a few FE hacks on my phone every night just to see what people have done (and let me say its awesome )). Then I decided on learning to hack Fire Emblem. I did all kinds of research! Downloaded all the sprites the internet had to offer about Sprites, Backgrounds, etc. (Im not kidding lol whatever was on the internet I have lol) and downloaded all the programs I needed from Nightmare to Note++ and even got Photoshop (which is too advnace for me right now so I am using graphicsgale to give myself a base).
That is about when i decided to finally sprite my first FE character. I picked one and just did it ( Like Arnold Says " I failed 11 times trying to bench press 500lbs, but on the 12th time I did it.") So I just did it and here I am.
This seems more then what you wanted to know, but I figured it could serve as a bit of encouragement for other who just started
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P.S. Will do! I will stay within their color selection next time :D
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I uploaded One that I did manually, and one that I simply used the AutoRecolor slidder in GraphicGale
Here is a Link to a PDF of a colorchart for everyone!!! :D
http://research.stowers-institute.org/efg/R/Color/Chart/ColorChart.pdf