Fawful's HD Paper Mario Sprites

[DragonDePlatino]

Well I don't know about vector programs. I have experimented with them in the past and they're nothing like what I'm used to. I made the lines in Photoshop by using the Pencil tool and holding Shift to click the other end of each line. For curves (I'm not sure how to make those in Photoshop) I used a circular selection and manually formed the curved edges by filling in parts of the selection, then moving the marquee and using it to delete any excess pixels. Count Bleck took me all day to do. Nastasia was a bit easier since she has far less parts.

Yeah, that's definitely a problem. When you are drawing simple-looking characters like in Super Paper Mario, Inkscape works much, much better. Photoshop works with bitmap graphics while Inkscape works with vector graphics. And there's a huge difference between the two when you scale them up and down:



Notice how the dwarf on the top looks pixellated when you resize him, but the dwarf on the bottom has nice smooth curves. Drawing vector graphics is more difficult than bitmap graphics, but once you get the hang of it resizing is never an issue. So why not learn how to draw vector graphics? If you can use the curve and line tool in MS Paint, learning how to vector isn't hard at all.