Pidgey: I liked to think of it as the "Ice shard" pokemon
Ekans: I didn;t think i did it well
Pika: I couldn't think of anything to do but shrpen its claws and make a tail burrowing in the ground XD

Not much to say besides asking a quick question-- when I do pillowshade infernoes, do I use the single main color, or do I edit the shading of each section like I did here?

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Can you take a look at my sprites? I posted them on the last page.

So all I have to say is I EPICALLY FAILED so... no Golbat... there was NOTHING I could do... sorry D:

Ready for an exam, I believe.

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Hey. Sorry it took so long.
Here it is:

how many months i have to post here?3?
i remember i was learning fusion.what was my last assignment?

thanks aqua!!!they should be done tomorrow.i want to do them now but i have to close the pc.thanks again aqua.

I'm sure I did Rhyperior correctly, but it just doesn't look like much has changed.
Not much to say about Archeops, it was easy enough.
Magmortar in the end seems a little oversimplified, and I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
I...don't get Cryogonal. It has a really weird mix of shade types and I can't even figure out how many there are, let alone how to organize them and shade the sprite accordingly. If you really want me to do it, I need some help with it.

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I decided I can't do this anymore! I UN-enrollin re-types... EXPECT ME TO ENROLL IN SOMETHING ELSE SOON! its just retypes isn't my thing :[

i hate all of them

i don't think that those were good pokemon to fuse

I would like to enroll in Re-Vamps

Wonderful! Okay, time for my to take the final class involving Recoloring-- Devamps.
Also, should I pass this class, I plan to apply to be a teacher.

Ooh, boy. I'm guessing Advanced Devamps will also give me the experience of Basic Devamps, which is better if I plan to teach, so I'll take Advanced Devamps.

Finally got mine done

I had problems with Kyurem as Moltres so I did Virzon as Genosect and Registeel as Regirock.

I would like a fusion exam.
Examples of my fusions

Hey, Shiny.
I've tried scratching, and I am just plain horrible at it. As such, I'm going to switch from Advance Devamps to Regular Devamping. Are the assignments the same nonetheless?

I'm not lovin' them...
Moreover, I'm pretty sure that I just plain don't get it. This is just my best shot at it, so you can assess exactly what's wrong with them.

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Originally Posted by SyracuvatTenlii I'm not lovin' them... Moreover, I'm pretty sure that I just plain don't get it. This is just my best shot at it, so you can assess exactly what's wrong with them.

• A Devamp only consists of 4 colors on the sprite. This includes black, which is commonly used for shading, and white, which is commonly used for highlights, as well as two other colors.
• Devamps are shaded using a technique of shading called dithering. Dithering is shading use a checkerboard-like pattern.
• Like how you did in your Munchlax, the outlines never really connected in the older sprites. A lot of them were broken off by random pixels.

Well, I'm back, but I still don't have the time to work on any of my sprites quite yet. I'll let you know when I am, and I also forgot my last assignment.

Uh, damn. Forgot all spriting info. I'll take basic recolors again (And sorry for being away from the forums for so long, I'm back!)

So here is my revamps. No matter what I couldn't do the 3rd one, it was too hard for me. but here are the two other ones.

Well, I'm done.

I noticed and fixed a couple flaws with them, and I tried my hand at the dithering process with Marill, but that wasn't really going to work with Munchlax or Pichu since I was using two completely different colors. Is that ok, or should I use two of the same from now on?

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Not really in my spritin' groove today. Seviper was probably the worst, had a huge screw up with him.

Decided to get a little creative with Sudo, so I fused his head with Charizard's flame. I hope you like

Finished. Dialga, due to some bad colors, isn't that good, but all the rest I liked.

Great! I'll take advanced recolors next.

That's correct.
Advanced recolors is, if you had not guessed by the title, a more advanced way to recolor Pokemon.
One big, main aspect of Adv. Recolors is creating your own custom color palette. This has to do with another main aspect, which is following a theme. The themes can be anything from a seasonal theme such as Winter, to an animal theme, such as a Cow Miltank.
Every theme involves you to create your own palette for the Pokemon. Some themes also require some scratching. Don't worry though, it's not major scratching. Only minor scratching of accessories or certain parts.

Your first assignment shall be:
Autumn Grovyle
Winter Grotle
Summer Ivysaur
Spring Bayleef

Done. Grotle was a hassle, but it was quite fun.

Well, you seem to have the gist of it.

Next assignment is:
Rainbow Mew
Sewer Rat Ratatta
Leopard Purloin

I'd like to enroll in the spriting curriculum, I would like to start with basic recolors.

I would love to make my own creative sprites. Just tell me what to do and I will get around to it.

Well, this is what I got, but I don't think it's all that great. But what would I know? I've never done any sort of sprite editing before this.

Actually, I'll take infernoes, sorry.

Shiny, why must you not pay attention to this thread?

I'd really like to get my next assignment.

Patience, Quad.
I'll get to it soon. I have things other than VR to tend o.

Alright, so Granbull actually proved to be a bit of trouble for me due to just how basic it really is.

Finally finished that assignment. It didn't seem that hard, although I may have been going about it incorrectly. Not entirely sure 8P

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Pretty easy, but it takes a long time.

Done. I like this Golurk recolor (Even though I never seen Golurk anywhere else before this).

Okay, so these assignments turned out alright, I think. Not much I could do with Cubchoo, and Heracross was a matter of picking the two most prevalent colors and shading and dithering based off of them. Roselia was strange because I had to keep two shades of green and recolor the red and blue roses accordingly.

Dusclops, though.
I don't know what happened, but for some reason, I think I managed to get a REALLY good effect from the shading. When I was working with the preliminary shade altering, I decided to experiment with the Color Changer tool and ended up shading about a quarter of the sprite Black. I thought at first "crap, now I have to shade by hand", but then I looked at it, and I thought, "wait...that looks pretty cool, actually."

Also, I think after this I should be ready for an exam.

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That Dusclops looks pretty cool. I actually kinda want to take it.

Hello all I've been away for a while because but I'm back for thanksgiving holidays. Shiny, here is the last assignment you gave me for the advanced recolor class.

May I switch to Devamp?

Hi, Shiny! I'm sorry I haven't been on. I'm back for now. Congrats on being assistant mod! (I don't seem to remember you having that before.)

I have a question on classes. If I wanted to take Retypes, but I haven't taken Fusions in the VR Spriting School, would I be able to post a few of my fusions for your inspection? Before moving on to Retypes, I mean.

Yes. Just post 'em and I'll see if they're good enough.

This assignment was a really tough one. I couldn't really think of anything to do with them, sorry about that but hey at least i tried it.

How do I do?

I tried to make Rattata a murkier color, but that was hard. And Liepard was confusing... please guide me trough my mistakes.

Thank you. Here are a few:

Here it is.

Okay, now I think I've gotten the hang of it. I'd like an exam next.

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And that's that.
The solid red white and blue colors on Kyogre remind me of Yu Gi Oh Abridged...IN AMERICA.


Right. That's the 5th class. If I've passed this, I'd like to apply to teach...
-Basic Recoloring
-Advanced Recoloring
-Revamps
-Devamps I
-Infernoes

Also, I'll be moving along to the Fusions class.

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Once my computer is out of viruses, i`ll do it! but, i`d like SyracuvatTenlii to teach me. I already have a original Reshiram pose to post.

I've decided to sign up for the spriting school as Syra's student. (even though I have no idea what Im supposed to do xP)

Well here's the pokemon for the assignment Syra. I dont really like how the Pikachu turned out, but this is what I have.

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Alright, Reun. Let's see how this turned out...

Hm...there seems to be a common problem among these sprites, and that's a pallet swap. I said in the tutorial video that you want to organize the shades on your pallet from lightest to darkest of as many shades you see. That's what you need to do before doing ANYTHING about coloring the sprites. The problem is that you're giving most shades of one hue their respective shades of the matching hue on the other sprite, but then when you get to that last shade, you color it a completely different hue. For example, the bulb on bulbasaur's back. If you're going to make it Yellow, then all of the bulb must consist of shades of Yellow. What you did is colored most of it Yellow, but then you colored the darkest shade Blue, which is not what we're going for in this class.

My point is, if it even makes sense, you're being a little bit too creative. The point of this class is getting the hang of changing ALL of the shades of one sprite to match respective shades on another.

I'm going to have to ask, in the end, that you redo these sprites, and my suggestion is that you follow along with the video I showed you almost exactly, and I'd say because it works so well with pixel art, I'm also going to ask you to download Paint.net if you haven't already.

I'd like to enroll in Basic Recolors please.

Aaaaalright, Lloyd. Shiny and I will be your teachers for this first course. His tutorial on Basic Recoloring can be found in the first post of this thread. I also have a video tutorial on how to do Basic Recoloring right here--

Is it okay if I make one, upload it then edit my post with the other 2 when done? I only want to do this because I could get some advice on what to and what not to do when making the others.

EDIT #1:

EDIT #2: That was a hard one.

EDIT #3: Ran out of colors for the outline at one point, so I had to revert to using all black for it.

Right, I now have a new system for grading--
I: Very impressive (I give these out rarely).
II: Adequate Quality, easily enough to pass.
III: Has a couple problems, but not enough to Fail.
IV: Has some serious problems, please redo.
V: Misses the concept. See me for help.

Okay, Lloyd, let's see how you did...
EDIT #1:
I like it. II
EDIT #2:
I can see how that would have caused problems, given that you're putting two shades on a three-shaded sprite. You handled it well, though. II
EDIT #3:
Okay, there's a problem here. You never want to make the entire outline black, because that does damage to the depth. I see where you outlined the tail black, and the result was that it looked 2 dimensional. This is a very minute problem, although it does need to be addressed, so I can't really fail you for it. III
But for future reference...
If you ever run out of shades for a section of the body, you should actually make one up. Here's what you do-- take the darkest shade of the hue and go into Advanced Color adjusting. Then, you can either make it a deeper or a darker shade of that hue, depending on what looks better. Add that to your palette, and you have a good outline that effectively blends into the tail.

WALL OF TEXT YAY

Assignment 2
This assignment contains 2 tasks
1.) Color swap Krokorok and Ledian. That is, color BOTH Krokorok as Ledian AND Ledian as Krokorok.
2.) CHOICE TASK: Recolor 1 of the following 3 with another 1. Ivysaur :: Loudred :: Pansage (Yes, one will be left out)

I'll start in an hour or so.

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Wasn't many colors to work with.


I had a bit of trouble at the end, but I managed to fix it easy.


This was really easy. Ivysaur's colors work well with Loudred.

I think the shades matched up nicely. II


Eh, making Ledian's mouth area black wasn't such a great idea, since now I can't really see his actual mouth. III


Nice Choice! Yeah, every once in a while, I make some sprite that seems easy enough to the point where I think it's too simple, but then it turns out to be one of my best works. This is kinda like that. I

You're definitely getting the hang of this. I think I'll give you one more assignment, then you can take an exam.

Assignment #3
This assignment contains 5 tasks.
1.) Gothorita as Reuniclus
2.) SHINY BONUS: Noctowl as Shiny Umbreon
3.) Blaziken as Gardevoir
4.) Scyther as Scizor
5.) CHOICE TASK: Raichu as any pokemon of your choice.

I didn't really notice making Ledian's mouth area black. ;x

Alright, I'll start later.

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I kinda like this one.

Kinda like this one too.



Regret mixing Raichu and Dialga because it took a while to make. ;x

Just a little something I threw together in about 5 minutes:

It's a dark Ivysaur.

And another.

It was supposed to be a light color, but I didn't have much of a selection.