LCV Custom sprites

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taking a moment to read the Spriting Glossary/Dictionary, we can understand the diferent terms we use and accept on these boards towards how spritework is made, and how well accepted it is.

CUSTOM SPRITE- A custom sprite is basically a COMPLETELY NEW sprite; it doesn't use another sprite as a base. Notice that a sprite made in someone's style can still be custom, though, as long as it was designed all by yourself.


SPRITE EDIT- Sprite editing is when you get an already-made sprite and modify it. may it be an oficial sprite(from an existing game, published or not) or someone else's custom work. any work that starts from an already existing source would fall into this category.

Usually, sprite edits aren't welcome here because most of them are shitty. However, there's possibility to make a GOOD sprite edit. One tip on how to make a good sprite edit is to modify it a LOT until the original base is unrecognisable.
note: given the effort you would need to actually make a decent looking sprite edit, you might as well not do it and work on your own, custom work. Bear in mind, Custom spritework will always be superior to any sprite edit of any quality.

Here's an example of a decent edit, courtesy of ULTIMATE HAMMER BRO:

And this is a terrible piece of shit edit.


RECOLOR- Possibly the lamest thing concerning spriting. Recoloring is changing the sprite's colors, without modifying any pixel from it. "Reshading" and all its prosible variants are still recolors, and they all take the same amount of effort considering they are purely a shift in the colors of the original, existing palette(no, adding colors doesnt make it more elaborate)

This technique isn't well-seen here in tSR because it takes literally no effort to do.
It can have a decent use when making game graphics; You can use differently-colored sprites in RPGs (stronger monsters) or Fighting Games (alternate palette), but that's it.

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to add to what you did here: you resized an existing sprite, added more colors based probably on the palette of the Willy Wars game, and thats all.

it would had any kind of merit if you actually gave better animations or better shading to the existing sprite, but that would be quite hard considering Willy Wars is an horrible game and an ode to recolors on its own.

the actual sprite work value on this is nowhere near being remarkable, besides not screwing up the existing shading when porting it to a more elaborated shading. however, i must warn you that this board's main purpose is to help sprites ontheir works in progress, and posting content purely for the sake of showcasing might not get you the results you are expecting. if you have something you're working on and need some feedback on how you can change/improve/fix it, feel free to do so. otherwise you might as well use a site for your display purposes -such as deviantart-


not to mention the amount of "custom" work is barely minimal, considering mos t of the bodypart were taken from other robot masters on the game.