DS Vania Rip Project

[EvaXephon]

Anyone who wants to use them can piece them together easily enough.

That kind of begs the question...if it's so easy, then why doesn't a spriter do it?

I think that the difficulty of such an undertaking varies from sheet to sheet. Some sprites have around 4 frames of walking animation and attack animation, where the torso and head never change and only the limbs move. For those sheets, assembling the sprites takes a few minutes at most. However, the Shanoa sheet is the opposite extreme end of the spectrum - it would take hours, if not days to compile all of those fragmented sprites into every solid frame of an animation.

If someone has designed a game and requires sprites to use (either repurposed as placeholders or as final sprites), they're not looking for a giant disorganized sheet of fragmented sprites; they're looking for a sheet of organized, solid, assembled sprites.

A sprite layman would have no idea how to put together that Shanoa sheet. At this point, any fan-made game involving Shanoa would require the maker to assemble those sprites. Wouldn't you rather have the sprites all nice and compiled so that loads of people don't have to assemble Shanoa themselves ? If one spriter does the job, that saves dozens of other people the work. I think it makes much more sense for the spriter assembling the sheet to take care of that in the first place.

I'm not ungrateful for the work that spriters do, nor unappreciative for the time and effort that all of you have put into the project thus far...

But, giving someone fragmented sprites and telling them "Here, I have given you a sprite sheet, use it to animate a character!" is like giving someone car parts and saying "Here, I have given you a car, use it to drive places!"

It's not that simple unless someone has the time and knowledge to put together a car.