Uh. Hi. Atlas here.
Felt like making myself a custom avatar. So I did that. Really happy with how it turned out. People gave feedback along the way and generally were a fan of how things were put together.
So I decided to continue. As per the forum guidelines, I decided to make a thread. Hope you enjoy the stuff here. I'm relatively new to spriting and using MS paint. Feedback appreciated. I'll post the drafts (if any) and my thought process for each sprite.
Credit to Clementine for the Unown ? from the Help Staff avatar
Decided to use the final frame for Colress' ingame animation. Next step was choosing the pokemon I wanted. Decided to go with Koffing as it's smogon's mascot and what Lobby generally uses, I found the Unown ? pretty symbolic of the Help Room since, y'know. Questions. And Dragonite from the Tournaments room to finish the Official Chatroom Trifecta.
For Koffing I went through https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ to find one that seemed cool. Grabbed Gen 3 Koffing because it felt like it had a rotational ring around it. I already knew which Dragonite sprite I wanted, so it was just a matter of finding it. And, I kinda always liked the Unown ? in the Help Staff avatar. So, with permission from Clementine, I used that. This was the first result.
All in all, a decent baseline. Some notable issues here. First is that the two ? Unowns wasn't really understandable. Koffing made the sprite feel more overwhelming and, it kinda didn't interact well with the fumes near Dragonites face. And the worst part? THE ANTENNA FOR DRAGONITE WAS ASYMMETRICAL.
Nothing much changed here. Koffing was moved up to experiment with how spacing might work between the 4 entities. The top half of the smog was removed.
The first big edit. DRAGONITES ANTENNA IS FIXED. Decided to add some space dust to Koffing because I like space. I decided to use a dark purple colour and filled the smog in, then added different shades. I used lil light blue pixels to give it much more of a cosmic vibe, and then a lil star to really make it stand out more! The skull was also edited, and Koffing was lowered. Unown now has a psychic aura around it to make it stand out a bit more. Colress' undershirt + feet were now coloured red just to experiment with the colour.
Two things here. Unown ? was now separated to be more clear while also retaining an interesting pattern. Colress was changed to Purple. Main issue here now is that it didn't really work well on dark mode on PS. The final part was changing that specific shade of purple.
Credit to Blaquaza and leParagon for the Cinderace sprite.
Not super finished, but just a practice sprite. Jayi was in Lobby and I shared my above. I think, from there, he asked if I could make a CA out of a !randpoke (to which it was Cinderace, to which we both thought of Kennedy) - so I decided to take on something for Cinderace. Went through the trainer sprites, grabbed Buck for the thematic of fire, and off I went.
But, wait? Isn't that it? Just, slap a pokemon onto a trainer and call it a day? I could've, but I felt that would've been a cop out considering I'm trying to get better. But, I didn't have any good ideas on what to do. So, what did I do?
...Oh it's a bunny. Bunnys have ears. Bunny ears are decorations people wear... That's it! Oh. And I thought the pants were boring, so I added the yellow "fluff" to it. Is that fluff? I dunno.
Here's another one Jayi was interested if I could do. Interestingly enough, this was a bit tougher since I wanted to add more. But, again, what do I add? I ended up recolouring the trainer sprite to have a light blue satchel with a lighter blue for its pants, while giving him a shirt that matched squirtles inner shell.
I also gave him Squirtles tail.
Credit to kyledove for the base Sonia-Masters avatar.
So, as a Lobby Moderator, one of my jobs is to listen when someone has a problem with another user. So, when it came to my attention that a GLOBAL staff had an issue, I had to take it very seriously. The issue? Make Sheep Liver a Custom Avatar including Delibird. Why Delibird? Sheep Liver HATES delibird.
Not much to say to be honest. I mean, grabbed sonia, delibird, matched sonia's colours to be delibird as well as adding some different shades, added a christmas hat to delibird to give it a bit more and yeah. Not much else to say.
As seen in the first CA. This iteration has its full "fumes" being spacified, and I gave it a psychic aura.
Not much else to say. Ctrl C above, Ctrl V with the already existing sprite. The only notable other changes is the trainer sprite had pink instead of light blue. And Koffing didn't have his space eyes.
Doesn't meet CA quality guidelines as it isn't 80x80. In fact, a lot of these probably don't. But oh well.
This one was an interesting one. I went with Probopass because it's a favourite of mine, but commonly viewed as negative. So, hell with it. Let's do one of Probopass! It felt too empty for my liking though. So I grabbed two Nosepass sprites from different games, and stuck them on there. I recoloured the Maniac's bag and his hat. I also got the original hat as its own file, and gave it to the other Pokemon. The small one at the back of Probopass was a bit more work, since I had to resize it, and then make it of higher quality. Regardless, I am very happy with how it turned out. I don't know if I'll make an 80x80 version.
Very simple. Shades of black instead of blue. maybe that left leg could be done better. Otherwise, looks VERY neat. This might be the base (might need more recolouring) of a Custom Avatar (yes, an actual one) that I might or might not work on in future.
Credits to kyledove for the initial Aarune sprite and surfer sprite.
Jesus christ Atlas, where the hell did this come from?! Honestly? I don't know. This is Aarunes sprite with the surfboard of the Gen 7 Surfer sprite retextured, as well as a Krokorok with a hat from a familiar previous work... (it's the ruin maniac's hat from gen 4.) The eye was shifted slightly so that even when horizontally flipped, it was still looking left.
And that's it from me. Yes, I intend on working on more stuff. I'm neck deep in event stuff for Lobby and other various personal tasks for PS. If you have a request for anything, feel free to post it. I'll just be working on more for practice. Got feedback? Quote the sprite and add the feedback in a reply!
Felt like making myself a custom avatar. So I did that. Really happy with how it turned out. People gave feedback along the way and generally were a fan of how things were put together.
So I decided to continue. As per the forum guidelines, I decided to make a thread. Hope you enjoy the stuff here. I'm relatively new to spriting and using MS paint. Feedback appreciated. I'll post the drafts (if any) and my thought process for each sprite.
Credit to Clementine for the Unown ? from the Help Staff avatar
Decided to use the final frame for Colress' ingame animation. Next step was choosing the pokemon I wanted. Decided to go with Koffing as it's smogon's mascot and what Lobby generally uses, I found the Unown ? pretty symbolic of the Help Room since, y'know. Questions. And Dragonite from the Tournaments room to finish the Official Chatroom Trifecta.
For Koffing I went through https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ to find one that seemed cool. Grabbed Gen 3 Koffing because it felt like it had a rotational ring around it. I already knew which Dragonite sprite I wanted, so it was just a matter of finding it. And, I kinda always liked the Unown ? in the Help Staff avatar. So, with permission from Clementine, I used that. This was the first result.
All in all, a decent baseline. Some notable issues here. First is that the two ? Unowns wasn't really understandable. Koffing made the sprite feel more overwhelming and, it kinda didn't interact well with the fumes near Dragonites face. And the worst part? THE ANTENNA FOR DRAGONITE WAS ASYMMETRICAL.
Nothing much changed here. Koffing was moved up to experiment with how spacing might work between the 4 entities. The top half of the smog was removed.
The first big edit. DRAGONITES ANTENNA IS FIXED. Decided to add some space dust to Koffing because I like space. I decided to use a dark purple colour and filled the smog in, then added different shades. I used lil light blue pixels to give it much more of a cosmic vibe, and then a lil star to really make it stand out more! The skull was also edited, and Koffing was lowered. Unown now has a psychic aura around it to make it stand out a bit more. Colress' undershirt + feet were now coloured red just to experiment with the colour.
Two things here. Unown ? was now separated to be more clear while also retaining an interesting pattern. Colress was changed to Purple. Main issue here now is that it didn't really work well on dark mode on PS. The final part was changing that specific shade of purple.
Credit to Blaquaza and leParagon for the Cinderace sprite.
Not super finished, but just a practice sprite. Jayi was in Lobby and I shared my above. I think, from there, he asked if I could make a CA out of a !randpoke (to which it was Cinderace, to which we both thought of Kennedy) - so I decided to take on something for Cinderace. Went through the trainer sprites, grabbed Buck for the thematic of fire, and off I went.
But, wait? Isn't that it? Just, slap a pokemon onto a trainer and call it a day? I could've, but I felt that would've been a cop out considering I'm trying to get better. But, I didn't have any good ideas on what to do. So, what did I do?
...Oh it's a bunny. Bunnys have ears. Bunny ears are decorations people wear... That's it! Oh. And I thought the pants were boring, so I added the yellow "fluff" to it. Is that fluff? I dunno.
Here's another one Jayi was interested if I could do. Interestingly enough, this was a bit tougher since I wanted to add more. But, again, what do I add? I ended up recolouring the trainer sprite to have a light blue satchel with a lighter blue for its pants, while giving him a shirt that matched squirtles inner shell.
I also gave him Squirtles tail.
Credit to kyledove for the base Sonia-Masters avatar.
So, as a Lobby Moderator, one of my jobs is to listen when someone has a problem with another user. So, when it came to my attention that a GLOBAL staff had an issue, I had to take it very seriously. The issue? Make Sheep Liver a Custom Avatar including Delibird. Why Delibird? Sheep Liver HATES delibird.
Not much to say to be honest. I mean, grabbed sonia, delibird, matched sonia's colours to be delibird as well as adding some different shades, added a christmas hat to delibird to give it a bit more and yeah. Not much else to say.
As seen in the first CA. This iteration has its full "fumes" being spacified, and I gave it a psychic aura.
Not much else to say. Ctrl C above, Ctrl V with the already existing sprite. The only notable other changes is the trainer sprite had pink instead of light blue. And Koffing didn't have his space eyes.
Doesn't meet CA quality guidelines as it isn't 80x80. In fact, a lot of these probably don't. But oh well.
This one was an interesting one. I went with Probopass because it's a favourite of mine, but commonly viewed as negative. So, hell with it. Let's do one of Probopass! It felt too empty for my liking though. So I grabbed two Nosepass sprites from different games, and stuck them on there. I recoloured the Maniac's bag and his hat. I also got the original hat as its own file, and gave it to the other Pokemon. The small one at the back of Probopass was a bit more work, since I had to resize it, and then make it of higher quality. Regardless, I am very happy with how it turned out. I don't know if I'll make an 80x80 version.
Very simple. Shades of black instead of blue. maybe that left leg could be done better. Otherwise, looks VERY neat. This might be the base (might need more recolouring) of a Custom Avatar (yes, an actual one) that I might or might not work on in future.
Credits to kyledove for the initial Aarune sprite and surfer sprite.
Jesus christ Atlas, where the hell did this come from?! Honestly? I don't know. This is Aarunes sprite with the surfboard of the Gen 7 Surfer sprite retextured, as well as a Krokorok with a hat from a familiar previous work... (it's the ruin maniac's hat from gen 4.) The eye was shifted slightly so that even when horizontally flipped, it was still looking left.
And that's it from me. Yes, I intend on working on more stuff. I'm neck deep in event stuff for Lobby and other various personal tasks for PS. If you have a request for anything, feel free to post it. I'll just be working on more for practice. Got feedback? Quote the sprite and add the feedback in a reply!
