MarioKirby
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Progress~!
Going in a different direction than the first time. Still obviously got work to do, not to mention finishing up some other details not present.
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Wow, these are really good!!! Also, are you going to continue the spriting your favorite 100 characters thing? It was interesting to follow...
Thank you! I might...
In fact, more than might. Gonna try a different style for this, something a bit more readable. Obviously still a WIP.
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[spoiler=My thoughts in bold]
You guys gave such good answers and were so helpful last time I have to give the final version of the experiment to you guys. :o
Any native English speaker can answer these questions. It'll only take like 5 minutes.
I'll just post the first half of the experiment, and in a few days the second half.
Instructions: You will be asked to judge the acceptability of each sentence on the following scale: Acceptable, Unknown or Unacceptable. The acceptability of a sentence is basically the same as the grammaticality of a sentence, but it's not the same kind of grammar that you learned in grammar class. Basically, grammaticality in linguistics is just how acceptable a sentence is for a native speaker (but maybe slightly robotic) of the language. Don't think too deeply about the answers: just give your initial thought after reading the context-sentence pair and thinking about it for a few seconds.For each of these sentences, imagine that a narrator says it after analyzing the situation. Don't expect a perfect description of the situation at hand; rather, can the sentences be used to describe the context imperfectly (but without giving outright false information of course)? Just copy paste the questions, type in your answers and post it. (In spoiler tags so other people don't see)Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be executed.1) It is dangerous to fail this exam.Your answer: Acceptable, if a bit vague.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be forced to clean the entire department without being allowed to eat or take breaks.2) It is hard to fail this exam.Your answer: Unacceptable. The wording suggests that the exam is easy, rather than the consequences being harsh.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be executed.3) It is dangerous for the students to fail this exam.Your answer: Unacceptable. The wording suggests that the students are taking the exam, not the teachers.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be forced to clean the entire department without being allowed to eat or take breaks.4) It is hard for the students to fail this exam.Your answer: Unacceptable. Same reasons as 2 and 3.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be executed.5) It is dangerous for the teachers to fail this exam.Your answer: Unknown. While the wording is better than in 3 and 4, it still suggests that the consequences apply to the teachers.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be forced to clean the entire department without being allowed to eat or take breaks.6) It is hard for the teachers to fail this exam.Your answer: Unknown. Same reasons as 2 and 5.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be executed.7) It is dangerous for the students, for the teachers to fail this exam.Your answer: Unknown. This has the best description of the context, but it's not correct grammatically.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be forced to clean the entire department without being allowed to eat or take breaks.8) It is hard for the students, for the teachers to fail this exam.Your answer: Unknown. Same reason as 7.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be executed.9) This exam is dangerous to fail.Your answer: Acceptable, if a bit vague.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be forced to clean the entire department without being allowed to eat or take breaks.10) This exam is hard to fail.Your answer: Unacceptable. Same reason as 2.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be executed.11) This exam is dangerous for the students to fail.Your answer: Unacceptable. Same reason as 3.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be forced to clean the entire department without being allowed to eat or take breaks.12) This exam is hard for the students to fail.Your answer: Unacceptable. Same reasons as 2 and 3.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be executed.13) This exam is dangerous for the teachers to fail.Your answer: Unknown. Same reason as 5.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be forced to clean the entire department without being allowed to eat or take breaks.14) This exam is hard for the teachers to fail.Your answer: Unknown. Same reasons as 2 and 5.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be executed.15) This exam is dangerous for the students, for the teachers to fail.Your answer: Unknown. Same reason as 7.Context: Kyle kidnaps his syntax students and forces the rest of the linguistics faculty to take an exam together. If the teachers fail the exam, the students will be forced to clean the entire department without being allowed to eat or take breaks.16) This exam is hard for the students, for the teachers to fail.Your answer: Unknown. Same reason as 7.I'm not sure if you were wanting tips on improvement. If you are, then, to me, on numbers 7, 8, 15, and 16, the ideas, "It is dangerous/hard for the students," and, "the teachers to fail," are joined in a way that sounds awkward. I would drop the comma and change "for" to "if". Also, while the "to fail" portion sounds fine on most of the sentences, for the ones I listed, dropping the "to" would make those sentences sound better.
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So, while working on the mug in the previous post, I started looking back through a lot of my splice mugs that I had made some progress in fixing up. However, I stopped upon a particularly old piece that I suddenly got an urging to work on.
So, I did, and here's the current progress:
[spoiler=You'd be surprised...]
Yeah, I think this is one of the first custom mugs that I had ever made, so I feel like it could use a fresh fix-up. I really have only worked on part of Mario's face and a tiny bit on the hat.
From left to right: Original; Touch-up (FE8 palette); Touch-up (FE7 palette); Touch-up with white changed for skintones (FE7 palette)
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Slowly making progress~
Just worked on fixing the collar. Still a little stumped about what to do with the rest of the body, though, but I'm sure I'll figure something out.
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So, I got the sudden urge to do something Fire Emblem-related, so I decided to start touching up my first ever splice. I've only worked on the head so far.
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So, I've been trying to get into a spriting mood again.
Result. Really experimenting with the shading on this one; trying for a comic-book look. The gun's kinda blah, though.
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So, today I bought a New 3DS XL, and I was wanting to perform a system transfer from my old 3DS to the new system. Before I do so, I had some questions about the transfer process.
1) In general, so long as I haven't messed with it, will all of the data linked to my 3DS system's profile either be transferred from system to system or saved on my SD card? I ask this to make sure that I don't lose anything in the transfer, especially eShop purchases.
2) More specifically, will the Ambassador games also transfer?
Any information regarding these questions would be great.
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No, the rival's a dude.
Speaking of...
I've made an "enemy" concept, slight edit to the walking animation, both with and w/o hands, and some other general touch-ups to ensure smooth viewing pleasure.
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Derp, double post.
Small fix-ups that have been mentioned.
And some more work with this concept. More poses and some little fixes, along with a rival character for Miss Evelyn.
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Series-wise, I would say the Legend of Zelda series or the Pokemon series being the next non-Smash amiibo, seeing as they're the next two bigest franchises that Nintendo has.
For the Mario series, probably Daisy, Waluigi, or some of the other regulars for the spin-off games.
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Looks perfect for a platformer lead ^^~ (Really fond of the design and going against the typical build for a platforming char, and her(?) design's formatted in a way that it looks like she can do just about anything / is a relatively easy animation base.
aw you're not going anywhere more with it ;w;)Guess on the crit side, the broken outline seems a little distracting on zoom (it's only on a few spots of brown on her ears, you haven't really used selout anywhere else so it seems odd to me). Maybe you could add an extra color to selout the entire piece (not sure if it'd look better, kind of fond how black unites everything currently but just a thought).
Glad to see you're still around~
Thank you! Yeah, I feel like this is one of the few times where my idea transfers to the sprite almost exactly. And yes, she's female.
Well, let me rephrase: I would like to do more with it, but my given track record and lack of skill in animating inhibits that.
I'll change the selout bits to black. It was a means to give the ears a bit better shape, but it's negligible from regular view.
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Something new:
Another concept of mine that won't move past that. An idea for a standard platforming protagonist. I really like how it turned out. Comments and criticisms are welcome.
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Remember those protagonist ideas from a couple pages back?
Tried doing some more functional sprites for this character. This is actually a second attempt, but the first never really went anywhere and didn't look too good. Main focus is the one in the top-left corner, but I made so many small variations in the process that I wanted opinions on everything.
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And it is snowing. Hard. It's even slowly piling up in some places.
My mind is breaking right now like this shouldn't be possible but it's happening.
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Think I got the arms right now.
More of this style. Now featuring Toad in both original and 3D World flavors.
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Figured I'd try out something different. Haven't quite figured out KSSU-style shading, but it's interesting.
Well, for a first try, it looks official, almost like it was ripped straight from the game.
The sharp corner on each hand looks odd. Maybe try smoothing them out?
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Another upscale sprite. The arms still look off to me, though.
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Mario's new hat is looking nice~ ^^
The last guy, are you referencing anything? It looks right now like the nose/mouth/eyes/ears are suggesting different head angles (and I'm not sure which you're wanting to go with). It's not bad for a first go, though.
Thank you~!
Nope, no reference, and that's more than likely my problem. Then again, I first started this like...a year or two ago, when I really didn't know what I was doing. Not having any formal teaching doesn't help, either.
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Sorry for no content in a while, peoples.
There was a tend on another message board I kinda attend of turning 8-bit and 16-bit sprites into larger version. This is my attempt at following.
A random update to this dude I made a long while back. Nothing special.
Practice WIP. Trying to teach myself facial anatomy. ...Not doing a great job, to be honest.
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First off: thank you both for the suggestions. I'll look into them.
This should cover the problems I saw so far in the animation.
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Tried a walking sequence for this character. Would somebody mind animating this for me, or at least point me to a free animating program?
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So, luckily, I was able to find an NES palette online.
And here's the result. I have been wanting to do more 8-bit sprites so I can practice animations more, but I didn't want to use an existing character, so I made my own.
Also, there's a bunch of other palette ideas in the bottom row. Feedback on what looks good and what doesn't would be helpful.
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I hate to post so many times in a row, but...
Redo on Luigi; sacrificed the pose for something less creative but better looking.
Also, would anyone happen to know where I could reliably find an NES color palette?
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Nickt's work on converting FE9 mugs to GBA style inspired me to do some touch-ups to my own Ike mugs. The first two on the bottom row are attempts at fitting them into 15 colors (with FE8 and FE7 varieties), along with some other changes. The bottom-right is an attempt at smiling.