The Spriters Revised Dictionary

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tSR'S REVISED SPRITING DICTIONARY

Check the old version here.

Welcome to TSRD,
the free encyclopedia that anyone only the staff can edit.

Starting on pixelart and confused with technical terms? Don't know what banding is? Don't understand why pillowshading is bad? Your problems end here, with the new, Revised Spriting Dictionary.

The entries are organized in alphabetical order and displayed in many posts so you can find exactly you want. Have fun learning!

Contents

8-bit
Anti-Aliasing
Animation
Background
Banding
BMP
Cluster
Color theory
Contrast
Custom Sprite
Dithering
Edit
Frame
GIF
Isometric
Lightsource
Lone pixel
Megamanning
Motion blur
Hueshift
Jagged lines
JPEG
NES
Palette
Perspective
Pillowshading
Pixelart
PNG
Readability
Recolor
Resolution
Sprite rip
Saturation
Selout
Shading
Splice
Subpixelling
Tile
Tileset
Tweening