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Steven
Site Moderator
Joined: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:13 pm Posts: 7252 Country:
Gender: Male
Waifu: ElvisDitto
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Welcome to the spriter's toolshed. Here we discuss what programs and tools we use for our artistic adventures. Looking for new programs? Ask here.
I'm kinda in the market for a new animation tool myself. I currently use beneton since it's very easy to use and I like that. I've heard good things about fireworks, is that worth looking into?
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Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:18 am |
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That One Sage
Joined: Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:01 pm Posts: 1787 Location: Drawing for grades! Country:
Gender: Male
MGN Username: SageHarpuiaJDJ
Skype: SageHarpuiaJDJ
Currently Playing: The game of Life
Waifu: Beruka from Fates
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Awesome thread! I mainly use Graphics Gale, Photoshop, and Gimp. GG for small sprites, Photoshop for large sprites, and Gimp for palettes. I honestly never thought of using programs for animation since GG has an onion skin function. I say try fireworks to see how it feels. Also found this another forum: http://www.pixel.tools/Seems very useful. I plan on getting it. Speaking of GG, I was wondering if there's a better alternative since it has some issues.
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Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:45 am |
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DettaDoodle
Joined: Sun Apr 10, 2011 2:18 am Posts: 899 Location: drowning in pixels and waifus
Gender: Male
MGN Username: Detta
Waifu: Zinnia
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I use Paint almost exclusively for making individual frames (I'm still in the middle of my first experiment with Gimp), and Falco Gif Animator for putting animations together. Falco provides you with relatively simple options for transparency, image speed, frame reorganization, etc and saves into more than just GIF. Copying and pasting frames in from something like Paint is easy, and when you start a new animation, the default dimensions are what you have copied (if an image, at least). I don't think I've used anything else in my 3.5 years of spriting.
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Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:52 am |
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clubby
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I use Paint.NET for everything except animating, which I use a website for.
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Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:13 am |
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FriendAlias
SSF2 Developer
Joined: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:11 pm Posts: 201 Location: Here. Country:
MGN Username: spid3y916
Currently Playing: SSF2
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I believe I have the most outdated set of programs used for spriting.
I mainly use 2002 XP MS Paint for making nearly all of my pixel art. I personally prefer this version of Paint more than Vista/7/8 since it's more simpler to use and not trying to be a water down Photoshop.
I use Photoshop 7.0 (not CS7) for minor things like color and pixel corrections. Nothing too major unless it's something that I can't do in Paint. For animating I use Adobe ImageReady. Never heard of it? Well it's because it was integrated into Photoshop after CS2. While it's a pain having to switch between Photoshop and ImageReady, it gets the job done.
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Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:37 am |
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Deciton_Reven
Joined: Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:41 am Posts: 1913 Location: In a candy coated heart of darkness. (free hugs!) Country:
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I'm also a MS Paint user, however I use GIMP for transparencies. I can't honestly recall the last GIF I made it was so long ago, since the games I sprite for animate from frames for you.
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Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:47 am |
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Zero Insanity
Site Admin
Joined: Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:37 am Posts: 2315 Location: Over There Country:
Gender: Male
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I also use MS Paint for most of, my spriting needs and Photoshop for animating or for making any image(s) transparent when needed.
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Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:04 pm |
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DJ Wizard Cop
BR Member
Joined: Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:38 pm Posts: 425
Gender: Male
Currently Playing: Chaconne
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GIMP all the way for me.
+ Layers/Opacity + Built-in animation + Easy Index/RGB switching + History + Comfortable keyboard short cuts + Color inversion, brightness/contrast, colorize + Huge time savers like color selection, perspective and Iwarp
Most of the time I just use the color picker and pencil tools but those other things come in handy very often.
Edit: plus it's free.
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Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:28 pm |
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kenniky
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:14 pm Posts: 25 Location: I forgot :P
Gender: Male
MGN Username: kenniky
Currently Playing: Check my signature!
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MS Paint, pixlr.com/editor for transparency, layers, and other fancy stuff, and Game Maker for checking animations.
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Thu Aug 07, 2014 7:05 pm |
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Geno
Site Admin
Joined: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:32 am Posts: 11709 Country:
Gender: Anime Girl
Currently Playing: Undertale
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Fireworks exclusively.
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Thu Aug 07, 2014 7:07 pm |
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PixelBoy
SSF2 Developer
Joined: Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:13 pm Posts: 726 Location: Minnesota Country:
Gender: Male
Skype: LegitPixelBoy
Currently Playing: Super Smash Flash 2
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Once you learn how to use Fireworks, you'll have no limitations. I personally draw my frames in mspaint and quickly copy them into Fireworks where I can place frames where I want, use onion skin to sketch my next frame out, make further edits, etc... Very good tool for animating sprites. To my knowledge there isn't anything that compares.
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Thu Aug 07, 2014 8:12 pm |
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MistahJayden
Joined: Sat Aug 10, 2013 3:53 pm Posts: 51 Country:
Gender: Anime Girl
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I use Paint.net for all my spriting work. Got to used to it xD But I do use Fireworks when I'm animating in flash.
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Sat Aug 16, 2014 1:08 pm |
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Nicko
Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:01 am Posts: 1310 Location: someplace where the kangaroos run wild Country:
Gender: Male
Waifu: your dad
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I use Paint.NET for spriting and IconLover from Aha-Soft for animating
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Sat Aug 16, 2014 7:40 pm |
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Tsu
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:54 pm Posts: 1761 Location: Everywhere Country:
Gender: Male
MGN Username: God-sama
Currently Playing: Minecraft, SMBX , Kirby Dreamland thingy.
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How do you set up paint.net in order to make pixel art?
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Thu Aug 28, 2014 11:52 pm |
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Lisnovski
Joined: Wed Oct 15, 2014 8:03 pm Posts: 882 Country:
MGN Username: Lisnovski1
Skype: lisnovski1
Currently Playing: Super Smash Flash 2 Beta
Waifu: Myself
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Photoshop Both for Spriting and Animating.
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Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:59 pm |
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