In this thread, we'll be creating BW-styled sprites for all the Generation 6 Pokemon, which will be used in Pokemon Showdown should players choose the BW Sprite option. These sprites are also free for use as long as the spriter or the project itself is credited.
If you are looking for other Generations, you can find them as follows:
Generation 7
Generation 8 Onwards
Applications for spriters are currently closed. Applications for animators are open, to apply please DM either Grand Emperor of Zelron or Antiant. Sprites from non-approved users will be deleted.
Here is a spreadsheet of the finished sprites.
For GBA-sized sprites with the same style, check the Gen VI DS-Style Sprite Project.
For the sake of transparency, these sprites are free for non-profit use.
If you are looking for other Generations, you can find them as follows:
Generation 7
Generation 8 Onwards
Applications for spriters are currently closed. Applications for animators are open, to apply please DM either Grand Emperor of Zelron or Antiant. Sprites from non-approved users will be deleted.
Here is a spreadsheet of the finished sprites.
For GBA-sized sprites with the same style, check the Gen VI DS-Style Sprite Project.
For the sake of transparency, these sprites are free for non-profit use.
Before posting read this and check the google docs chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akua_VvFyhZTdEYzTS1UUUgzU19ITllWM0V4MXFpalE&usp=sharing
See release v1.1 here
If you are looking for the Sun/Moon Sprite Project click here
The Smogon XY Sprite Project
Co-led by Layell and princessofmusic, and contributed to by the talent of Smogon forums along with spriters from across the online pokemon community. For full credits on each individual sprite check our chart.
Note: This thread is for project purposes only, useless posts will be deleted.
Hello all artists and spriters, I am Layell and this is the second official smogon sprite project (the first one was for April 1st 2013 so this one will actually be good). Our goal is to create sprites of all confirmed Pokemon in X/Y with the intention of keeping faithful to the sprite style of B/W sprites. All sprites made will be custom for the project or with the specific permission of the original creator (if they were already made). As with the April Fools Day project these sprites will be used in Pokemon Showdown and Smogon. Others sites and projects can use them but require sending notice to the manager (user Layell) before implementing them (more on this down below). This system will involve levels of progress to track the ideal progress of the sprite.
Rules for sprites:
1. 96*96 with a transparent background
2. 15 colours in the Pokemon (this can be broken for mons like Xerneas but I'd like to keep it to stop people from using too many)
3. In the gen 5 style.
4. Sprites submitted are open to modification by more experienced spriters, edited for gender/shiny/animations or replaced outright for higher quality sprites (though we encourage you to take unmade pokemon rather than pull the rug out of somebody else)
5. Static sprites will not be replaced with animated ones if the animated sprite is of lesser value.
6. We encourage sprites to be made of all the pokemon before we go on an animation spree of our favs, if you really want to animate something though feel free to reserve it.
7. Spriters are expected to do the static sprites of the front and back, spriters who continue to make only fronts may not have future sprites accepted (backsprites can be harder with lack of available references, lots of people can take official art and make it a sprite). In addition to this if you're going to animate for us it would be ideal to also do the front and back.
8. Pokemon can be reserved for a week, but if there is no sign of progress the reservation will be dropped. Animation reserves can last longer
9. The pose for front and back sprites should be the same.
10. For the love of God don't steal from somebodies deviantart account and pass it as your own sprite I can find those a mile away.
11. Special animation and shiny rules are here: http://www.smogon.com/forums/thread...-animation-rules.3486712/page-15#post-4871636
Badge goals
Tools of the Trade:
-paint
-paint.net
-photoshop
-http://www.gifmagic.com/ to make transparent gifs
-http://amethyst-sprites.heroku.com/palette Palette grabber
Animated stuff
http://dragondeplatino.deviantart.com/art/Pokemon-BW-Animation-Style-Tutorial-344596875
http://www.smogon.com/forums/thread...-of-the-metagame.3486712/page-11#post-4863329
If you would like to use these sprites in your project
You are free to use this in any project that is not a for-profit product. You must make a credit page and link back to this thread. If you are only using a few sprites we appreciate you crediting the individual spriters. Please do not redistribute these sprites as it gives the false impression you created all of them. These sprites are not open source, because we do not have the rights to the characters depicted. Please respect these rules and enjoy the sprites. If you have a completed game or project, feel free to PM me or post it here
General FAQ
A sprite generator is also here: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-sprite-generator.3484083/
The PS thread is here: http://pokemonshowdown.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2667&p=29003#p29003
Current Sites/Projects that have asked to use the XY sprites and have shown formal recognition for them:
Note: I am no longer writing every single project using the sprites, I am going to be reformatting this since I've gotten a ton of small fangames that don't go anywhere. Soon enough I will be posting featured projects that are really cool and fleshed out. But until then I just have too many things to feature them all. I will always update wall of shame though!
Wall of Shame: Why didn't you just post credit, was it that hard?
If you would like GBA sized Kalos sprites check out the Gen VI: DS-Style 64x64 Pokemon Sprite Resource: www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=7972072
If you are a good spriter and would like to help out post in this thread, reserve a mon and begin spriting! If you are new to spriting this may not be the project for you but keep at it.
See release v1.1 here
If you are looking for the Sun/Moon Sprite Project click here
The Smogon XY Sprite Project
Co-led by Layell and princessofmusic, and contributed to by the talent of Smogon forums along with spriters from across the online pokemon community. For full credits on each individual sprite check our chart.
Note: This thread is for project purposes only, useless posts will be deleted.
Hello all artists and spriters, I am Layell and this is the second official smogon sprite project (the first one was for April 1st 2013 so this one will actually be good). Our goal is to create sprites of all confirmed Pokemon in X/Y with the intention of keeping faithful to the sprite style of B/W sprites. All sprites made will be custom for the project or with the specific permission of the original creator (if they were already made). As with the April Fools Day project these sprites will be used in Pokemon Showdown and Smogon. Others sites and projects can use them but require sending notice to the manager (user Layell) before implementing them (more on this down below). This system will involve levels of progress to track the ideal progress of the sprite.
Rules for sprites:
1. 96*96 with a transparent background
2. 15 colours in the Pokemon (this can be broken for mons like Xerneas but I'd like to keep it to stop people from using too many)
3. In the gen 5 style.
4. Sprites submitted are open to modification by more experienced spriters, edited for gender/shiny/animations or replaced outright for higher quality sprites (though we encourage you to take unmade pokemon rather than pull the rug out of somebody else)
5. Static sprites will not be replaced with animated ones if the animated sprite is of lesser value.
6. We encourage sprites to be made of all the pokemon before we go on an animation spree of our favs, if you really want to animate something though feel free to reserve it.
7. Spriters are expected to do the static sprites of the front and back, spriters who continue to make only fronts may not have future sprites accepted (backsprites can be harder with lack of available references, lots of people can take official art and make it a sprite). In addition to this if you're going to animate for us it would be ideal to also do the front and back.
8. Pokemon can be reserved for a week, but if there is no sign of progress the reservation will be dropped. Animation reserves can last longer
9. The pose for front and back sprites should be the same.
10. For the love of God don't steal from somebodies deviantart account and pass it as your own sprite I can find those a mile away.
11. Special animation and shiny rules are here: http://www.smogon.com/forums/thread...-animation-rules.3486712/page-15#post-4871636
Badge goals
-Spriters who can make good front and back sprites, their work being largely self-motivated and are capable of producing work that can be easily QC'd.
-Animators that will create regular and rare animations, who edit sprites to make them more suitable for animations, such as adding poses
-Quality Control Spriter: art can be up for interpretation but all sprite projects will be following a specific style. Spriters with a high degree of QC work have an eye for quality and are helpful to bring other spriters to a higher level of work. No one spriter is perfect and QC people should help in how they know best.
This will largely be handed out by myself in consultation with the artist badge leaders Birkal and Zracknel based on a large quantity of work.
-Animators that will create regular and rare animations, who edit sprites to make them more suitable for animations, such as adding poses
-Quality Control Spriter: art can be up for interpretation but all sprite projects will be following a specific style. Spriters with a high degree of QC work have an eye for quality and are helpful to bring other spriters to a higher level of work. No one spriter is perfect and QC people should help in how they know best.
This will largely be handed out by myself in consultation with the artist badge leaders Birkal and Zracknel based on a large quantity of work.
Tools of the Trade:
-paint
-paint.net
-photoshop
-http://www.gifmagic.com/ to make transparent gifs
-http://amethyst-sprites.heroku.com/palette Palette grabber
Animated stuff
http://dragondeplatino.deviantart.com/art/Pokemon-BW-Animation-Style-Tutorial-344596875
http://www.smogon.com/forums/thread...-of-the-metagame.3486712/page-11#post-4863329
If you would like to use these sprites in your project
You are free to use this in any project that is not a for-profit product. You must make a credit page and link back to this thread. If you are only using a few sprites we appreciate you crediting the individual spriters. Please do not redistribute these sprites as it gives the false impression you created all of them. These sprites are not open source, because we do not have the rights to the characters depicted. Please respect these rules and enjoy the sprites. If you have a completed game or project, feel free to PM me or post it here
General FAQ
Q: Why doesn't _______ have a shiny/animation
A: We didn't do it yet, animations take time and shiny mons aren't a priority. Once a sprite is deemed perfect we then make a shiny and eventually an animation.
Q: How long until you update?
A: I tend to update whenever I feel like it, if there is something important that needs updating, such as a new form I tend to get on that relatively quickly. I'm the only one that sends in updates to Smogon and PS and that is to ensure consistency and we are only putting on what we want to put on the Smogon website or PS battle system.
Q: Sprite _____ doesn't look right on the sim, who should I tell?
A: Don't tell the admins, or on smogon, here ought to be fine if it isn't fixed in a week. If anyone is paying attention to how the sprites looks it's me. I know what is wrong and what is right. I spectate a ton of gen6 matches. I don't use the PS forums much but I'll try to check this every so often.
Q: Can I use these sprites for my website/fangame/project?
A: It really depends, for one thing I went out to find spriters that would contribute specifically for PS/Smogon. If you want to use a specific spriters stuff ask them on Smogon, Deviantart, or PS. Many of the spriters will say yes, some of the Deviantart ones will say you can with credit right on their page. But take the time to find out, and link to them and the XY project if it was a collaboration between many spriters of the project. Personal use for avatars/threads should link to the artist and/or sprite thread especially when outside of Smogon/PS.
For use of the project on the whole do take the time to contact Layell, it's a public project but we like to know where and how they are being used. Layell might also help send updates easily if need be. We do require the site and project to have a credits page to link back to this thread. Any games that charge money will not be accepted as a rule, but asking individual spriters to use their work is still possible.
Q: Can I sell perlers or crafts with these sprites?
A: I would prefer nobody crafts these with the intent of profit, nobody is paying us and we put in much more effort than you did.
Q: Hey I found some random DA artist who has sprites can we use them?
A: I have personally sought out every DA spriter, I probably don't want or don't need to use their work. If they have only fronts I really don't care.
Q: Trainer sprites?
A: See here: http://www.smogon.com/forums/thread...-of-the-metagame.3486712/page-58#post-5031340
Q: I'm going to post this somewhere on the internet and claim I made them all.
A: On behalf of everyone who contributed to this I will find you, and if I don't somebody who does know about this will.
Q: With the 3D models on PS will this project end?
A: Nope, the 3D models are nice but we will keep going because we believe the pixels are useful for tiers such as Doubles, CAP, and anyone who has good taste. In addition with the fact that ripping the models will likely be more difficult in the coming generations it is all the more important to keep this project going.
Q: Why are leaders Layell and princessofmusic so flirty?
A: Because we're dating irl (we met through this).
Q: Wow good job you guys are amazing!
A: Thanks.
A: We didn't do it yet, animations take time and shiny mons aren't a priority. Once a sprite is deemed perfect we then make a shiny and eventually an animation.
Q: How long until you update?
A: I tend to update whenever I feel like it, if there is something important that needs updating, such as a new form I tend to get on that relatively quickly. I'm the only one that sends in updates to Smogon and PS and that is to ensure consistency and we are only putting on what we want to put on the Smogon website or PS battle system.
Q: Sprite _____ doesn't look right on the sim, who should I tell?
A: Don't tell the admins, or on smogon, here ought to be fine if it isn't fixed in a week. If anyone is paying attention to how the sprites looks it's me. I know what is wrong and what is right. I spectate a ton of gen6 matches. I don't use the PS forums much but I'll try to check this every so often.
Q: Can I use these sprites for my website/fangame/project?
A: It really depends, for one thing I went out to find spriters that would contribute specifically for PS/Smogon. If you want to use a specific spriters stuff ask them on Smogon, Deviantart, or PS. Many of the spriters will say yes, some of the Deviantart ones will say you can with credit right on their page. But take the time to find out, and link to them and the XY project if it was a collaboration between many spriters of the project. Personal use for avatars/threads should link to the artist and/or sprite thread especially when outside of Smogon/PS.
For use of the project on the whole do take the time to contact Layell, it's a public project but we like to know where and how they are being used. Layell might also help send updates easily if need be. We do require the site and project to have a credits page to link back to this thread. Any games that charge money will not be accepted as a rule, but asking individual spriters to use their work is still possible.
Q: Can I sell perlers or crafts with these sprites?
A: I would prefer nobody crafts these with the intent of profit, nobody is paying us and we put in much more effort than you did.
Q: Hey I found some random DA artist who has sprites can we use them?
A: I have personally sought out every DA spriter, I probably don't want or don't need to use their work. If they have only fronts I really don't care.
Q: Trainer sprites?
A: See here: http://www.smogon.com/forums/thread...-of-the-metagame.3486712/page-58#post-5031340
Q: I'm going to post this somewhere on the internet and claim I made them all.
A: On behalf of everyone who contributed to this I will find you, and if I don't somebody who does know about this will.
Q: With the 3D models on PS will this project end?
A: Nope, the 3D models are nice but we will keep going because we believe the pixels are useful for tiers such as Doubles, CAP, and anyone who has good taste. In addition with the fact that ripping the models will likely be more difficult in the coming generations it is all the more important to keep this project going.
Q: Why are leaders Layell and princessofmusic so flirty?
A: Because we're dating irl (we met through this).
Q: Wow good job you guys are amazing!
A: Thanks.
A sprite generator is also here: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-sprite-generator.3484083/
The PS thread is here: http://pokemonshowdown.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2667&p=29003#p29003
Current Sites/Projects that have asked to use the XY sprites and have shown formal recognition for them:
Note: I am no longer writing every single project using the sprites, I am going to be reformatting this since I've gotten a ton of small fangames that don't go anywhere. Soon enough I will be posting featured projects that are really cool and fleshed out. But until then I just have too many things to feature them all. I will always update wall of shame though!
Wall of Shame: Why didn't you just post credit, was it that hard?
-Pokeisreal: http://www.pokeisrael.net/?page=pokedexer&id=699
- http://www.ginomegelati.de/: and their damn hilarious hypocritical support banners
-A collection of random tumblr artists as resourced here: http://pokemonspritecredits.tumblr.com/
I can't remember ever getting a request from you and I can't read Hebrew so until I see a credit page enjoy being on this list
- http://www.ginomegelati.de/: and their damn hilarious hypocritical support banners
-A collection of random tumblr artists as resourced here: http://pokemonspritecredits.tumblr.com/
I can't remember ever getting a request from you and I can't read Hebrew so until I see a credit page enjoy being on this list
If you would like GBA sized Kalos sprites check out the Gen VI: DS-Style 64x64 Pokemon Sprite Resource: www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=7972072
If you are a good spriter and would like to help out post in this thread, reserve a mon and begin spriting! If you are new to spriting this may not be the project for you but keep at it.
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