A Place for new Spriters

[Cobalt Blue]

Back in 2001

i dont really think you actually get the point in wich Specifically SPRITE edits are wrong. its not a matter if you started with them or not, or if you continue to make them even after all these years.

let me put it this way: sprite edits and beads that mimic sprites are two similar issues: they certainly took time, they do need a degree of skill in order to produce a decent result, but ultimately they are not going to improve you as a creative agent.

sure you can go ahead and scream "shit i am not suposed to reinvent spriting as we know it am i" and certainly no, you're not suposed to. nor even forced, since thats something that eventually /you/ decide and set as your goal.

sprite edits are the answer from all those extremely distinguished gentlemen who cant afford to just sit, study and/or develop content on their own, take the feedback from people, asume mistakes, evaluate their performance and so on. specially in an art medium such as pixel art/spriting where several amounts of atention and time spans are commonly required, its easy to run out of attention and simply let a "fuck this shit" out of your guts and take the shortest shortcut posible.

and that shortcut is taking a sonic sprite, painting it black and call it shadow.

now, you also say that "hey we're beginers give us a break". no shit sherlock you're into sprite edits. should i asume that editing models when learning 3D modeling would speed up your learning process would it? when you just modify someone's book and add random strings of your own breed that would make you a better writter?

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our task here, as the spriters resource is to guide, teach and or instruct begginers into why sprite edits should be avoided at all cost and why they should never rely on them.