A Place for new Spriters

[Neoriceisgood]

A bit off-topic but, am I the only one who actually likes Sprite Comics here? Atleast when they're done right?

I like them when they're unique enough, most of them can be put in several awfully original categories that I don't care for.

Most of the sprite comics that aren't based entirely on original art fit a general idea/story that just doesn't hold my interest at all, naming a few;

1. The hoardes and hoardes of Bob and George clones

2. The whole sonic spriting community, I think they originated with "Psyguy" ?

3. "crossover" comics where people just take a few sprites that don't fit in together at all and try to make different characters intermingle that way.

4. "custom" sprite comics where every character is technically original but not entirely self-made and often provided by tons of different low-quality artists, leading to something worse than bittage-mixing, namely, bad quality bittage mixing.
(not to mention the second big flaw, "me and my friends having adventures and I want to cameo 30 of them"- often leads to horrid stories that nobody outside of the direct friendcircle would care about.

The only "sprite" comics that aren't 100% self made that I can think of when I think of enjoyable sprite comics generally have the following traits:


1# The person in question actually knows quite a bit about photoshop (or sometimes paint), leading to pages actually looking very clean and readable, people who do this still use too many "effects" for my taste, but at least the comics are presentable.

2# As long as the quality is high, another important factor is that the person in question does something with the sprites that makes sense;

BobandGeorge, back in the day, still had it's very "traditional" megaman-beating-the-robot-masters segments which really made the use of sprites fitting, the big problem is, of course, that not all games are fit for this style of storytelling and that, if someone has done it before, you immediately seem like the rip-off.

When a person takes a game with sprites that genuinly work well within the context of a comic (not just story-wise but artistically as well) and uses the sprites to make a comic that in some way relates to the game/sprites, It can actually seem good. (as long as the writing is)


Other than that situation, I've seen some okay sprite comics that take something like, say, RPGmaker2K sprites and backgrounds, which are so devoid of character that one can actually use them as original characters without it seeming odd that Sonic's suddenly called Mel. (and Rpgmaker has a lot of different sprites people can use, meaning that people can generally use plenty of characters and aren't forced to rely on bittage mixing)


The number of sprite comics that fit these criteria to the point where it genuinly makes them good? I'm not sure if there's honestly any, I kinda feel that the only people honestly capable of producing those are people capable enough of making a good comic without the use of premade sprites, I might be wrong though.