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Post by Fusion »

Greetings.

Many people have been asking for help with creating comics, and others have obvious room for improvement in their stories. The purpose of this post is to offer tutorials and guides on how to create artwork and stories, and resources for comics (i.e. sprite-sheets). So, here they are.

Story writing guides:
Story reviewing guide - by The Cave of Dragonflies.

Comic making guides:
Comic creation video tutorial - by chaomaker426.

Artwork making guides:
Shading in MS Paint - by Zargata.
How to make and edit a sprite - by SuperAnthony.
Sprite recolouring guide - by The Cave of Dragonflies.
Recolouring with PhotoFiltre - by chowchow48.
Convert raster graphics to vector images online.

Sprite resources:
The Spriters Resource.
The ShyGuy Kingdom.
Sonic backgrounds - by The Mystical Forest Zone.
Sonic sprites - by The Mystical Forest Zone.

Finally, if you can think of any useful threads, guides or websites that deserve a place in this post, please PM them to me or post them in this thread.

Thank you very much for reading!
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The ShyGuy Kingdom is too confusing. I always relay on the spriters recource
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http://www.themysticalforestzone.com/Ka ... Sonic5.htm

this is a great place for sonic and chao backgrounds
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I love that website^^ It has alot of good custom sprites
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Added to the main post, thanks!
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Post by Devil Fear »

Is that how you make comics??
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Devil Fear, some of these are resources used in making comics. If you'd like to know how to make comics, see this:
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SuperAnthony wrote:The ShyGuy Kingdom is too confusing. I always relay on the spriters recource
I love TSGK, but I doesn't have exactly what you want always.
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Fusion wrote:Devil Fear, some of these are resources used in making comics. If you'd like to know how to make comics, see this:
well im wondering what program did you use to make the back rounds and stuff :thinking:
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Go MFZ and TSR
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Post by supermariofan546 »

Hey Fusion WHat About Sprite Movies? (I know How to make them just saying for other people incase they want to learn)
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Mephiles wrote:
Fusion wrote:Devil Fear, some of these are resources used in making comics. If you'd like to know how to make comics, see this:
well im wondering what program did you use to make the back rounds and stuff :thinking:
i used paint. nothing special
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Seems hard to make comics... I'll just stick with stories.
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what is a good site for sprites/?/
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Wut Is A Good Site To Find Sprites How Do I Do My Signature
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Yeah, what Shorty15 said, same problem here
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Useful stuff in general: http://pixel-zone.rpgdx.net/shtml/downloads.shtml
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Post by Maple »

http://www.chaotropolis.sstrike.net/media/sprites.php
this is the place i get alot of sprites
they have alot of different sprites and they are really good
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Does anyone know a really good drawing program for macs. Right now I use appleworks 6 but if my recent one is good tell me.
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There's always Photoshop. I used it more for editing, when I was younger, but it should work just the same. ;D
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Hey, does anybody know what program to use to make a sprite movie?
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Depends on what sort of movie you want to make.
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I entered a tutorial.
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