Program used: Paint Tool SAI 2
For our vertical slice, we wanted to have a tutorial in the Hubworld with the God of Gravity giving you powers. Parker already had one sprite, but I had to redraw it (like I did with Eta) and I did 5 poses for the Lord which will alternate depending on what they’re saying in the dialogue box. Hopefully, this will be accompanied by sound effects.
- Drawing the ragged cloth of the lord was fun, this main part was tracing all of that before I started to draw my things.
2. I then started making folders and separating the lifted (arm raised) and normal (arm down) state of the Lord.
3. After I was done, I cleaned up the sprite slightly and added the gradient effects. This is also when my personal Hell began… When drawing the sprites, I decided I wanted to make them into a GIF to give the effect of the electricity pulsating through the Lord’s body. I ran into so many problems such as the layers stacking, and forgetting the layer meant for the corresponding GIF Number. I also had to make sure the Lord’s lifted state and normal state had the same gradient colours, so I had to keep tinkering with SAI 2’s Gradient tool.
Some of the Finished Sprite GIFs
What I learnt
- I have 200% more respect for Visual Novel Creators.
- Creating Spritesheets is relaxing when you know what you’re doing.
- I hate doing multiple-character poses.