A Place for new Spriters

[Neoriceisgood]

i dont mean to come off as a douche, i just come from a forum full of people who have been stuck doing edits for years because they're too scared to progress, and who encourage newbies to be fairly unambitious and safe. i've had this argument so many times there my views on the subject have gotten really polarized.

There's a difference between allowing people to stagnate completely cause of a "yeah can't demand too much from a newbie"-mentality and not using all out force in preventing edits.

I personally think that (although I do feel that edits and similar works might need a new section of sorts that's more noob-oriented) the only big difference is that, instead of completely shooting down (and sometimes bashing) edits just for the sake of being edits, it could be more helpful to give actual critique.

Face it, most people who do edits aren't exactly good, even within the constraints of the sprite they've chosen they make plenty of mistakes that need fixes.

However unlike scratch sprites, it's much much MUCH easier for an outside viewer like us to point out glaring flaws especially because we can tell exactly what a person is going for.

The number of spriters that are just starting who can edit a sprite while having it max the original style perfectly is very very slim, we can make use of that fact.

Currently, we don't, cause we just go "pfft, don't edit /lock" in 99% of the cases.


Do I think edits (and other similarly problematic things like sprite comics) should be allowed to be posted all across the board like original artwork? not at all.

Do I think that, within a community that seems interested in hosting tons of commercial sprites and would thus seem like a natural place for people to post edits of those sprites you'd expect people to be a bit more lenient about it.

I strongly feel that most/if not all communities that people cite where people stagnate allow for edits and provide them a "well this person isn't very good let's avoid super strong C&C and it's okay if they stay bad)-mentality, which is a bigger problem than the edits themselves.

And if a person honestly doesn't want to improve? Well, nothing you can do about that.