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Post by Samson on May 23, 2013 7:16:22 GMT -8
Who am I to give you advice? Literally no one. I'm not a bad splicer, but I'm definitely not the best. I have been splicing for quite some time, and I've picked up some things along the way. And, I'm planning on becoming a teacher, so hopefully I'd be good at explaining things! You can definitely say, "What a pretentious asshole!", and walk away from this thread right now. No hard feelings. But if you're not feeling that way, I hope you do stay and you find the advice here helpful. I'll post some advice here, as well as detailed diagrams to go along with the written advice. If there's anything specifically that you want to see, please feel free to ask. Other than that, I'll just post whatever I can think of. Topics "In Between Colors""Importance of Outlines""Matching Colors""Layering""Resizing Images on MS Paint"
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Post by Mama Zaxis on May 23, 2013 9:20:18 GMT -8
hello advicer samson
how do i get a date
sincerly, dateless dude
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Post by Samson on May 23, 2013 9:21:55 GMT -8
I.... This is clearly posted in the "Splice Advice" board Also you have a gf
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Post by Mama Zaxis on May 23, 2013 9:31:36 GMT -8
i want to splice myself into a date with a girl
oh wait you're right i do shh don't tell anyone they might think i'm not attractive because i'm taken ANYWAY, ON WITH THE SPLICE ADVICE SORRY
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Post by Samson on May 23, 2013 9:49:01 GMT -8
"In between colors" This isn't a huge make or break issue on a splice, but if it's done correctly, it will make your splice look a lot better, with minimal effort. Let's say you're splicing Numel and Lapras. And you've got him all spliced and ready to recolor! Let's do it! "But wait!" you say. "That's not how I'd recolor this splice!" Well, for the sake of this example, let's say you did. So far so good! All finished. But.. you've noticed that there's something off. Or maybe you didn't. It's okay, that's what I'm here for! Right there. Those dark blue pixels just seem sort of... out of place. That's because they're "in between" colors that are headed in the wrong direction. Originally, Numel's (lighter) yellow was transitioning into a (darker) green. So, a darker yellow was needed in between to help the eyes transition from the light color to the dark color. But now, Lapras's (darker) blue is transitioning into a (lighter) ... uh what color is that? Peach? Sure. (lighter) peach. So, a lighter shade of blue should be used to help the eye transition better. See? Now you hardly notice the in between colors at all, and you've got one cohesive splice.
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Post by TheBestSplicer on May 26, 2013 18:38:20 GMT -8
Who am I to give you advice? Literally no one. I'm not a bad splicer, but I'm definitely not the best.Well, duh. Otherwise that would be your name.
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Post by koffspring on May 29, 2013 17:54:42 GMT -8
I need assistance. I tried to give hitmontop a spin (hehe) as a koffpsring and the results are making me uncomfortable. He's Naked! Let's add the jacket (freeform because of size differences)? How can I fix him before I actually publish him to my blog?
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Post by Samson on May 30, 2013 11:33:10 GMT -8
koffspringFirst, sorry it took me so long to reply. Second, I think it looks really good! My only recommendation would be to make the outline dividing the brown and blue parts different shades? I'm not very good at this myself, but see how on the .. hair looking part o the sprite, it's sort of alternating between brown and black? Try breaking it up like that. Like I said, I'm not very good at this, and I'm actually afraid to do it myself, because I don't want to mess up. You can definitely try though! If nothing else, do the outline that's closer to the shaded part in black, and leave the lighted part brown.
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Post by Mama Zaxis on May 30, 2013 20:47:49 GMT -8
koffspringRemove the koffing craters on the bottom of the body where it connects to hitmontop's head thing. And remove the border there? That will make it look like part of the same creature.
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Post by koffspring on May 31, 2013 11:21:49 GMT -8
Thank you so much! I'm super happy with the results after taking your advice into account. Final version is in the queue but you guys can see it first!
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Post by Samson on May 31, 2013 13:29:24 GMT -8
If there are any topics you guys want me to address in general, please tell me. Otherwise, a lot of the stuff that tends to bug me is related to color choices.
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Post by chandelure on Jun 3, 2013 11:18:31 GMT -8
hi, i was wondering if you had any advice to offer when it came to this splice i was just working on, since there's a couple of pixels i'm not too sure what to do with (like around the frills on the chest) but some other stuff would be nice uwu !
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Post by Samson on Jun 3, 2013 11:24:22 GMT -8
I'd either go with Staravia's chest markings or Frillish's chest frills, but not both at the same time. It just gets a little sloppy with those pixels. Also, maybe make the wing/flipper go on the top of the chest frills.
Other than that it's hella cute and made me giggle.
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Post by chandelure on Jun 3, 2013 11:25:41 GMT -8
I'd either go with Staravia's chest markings or Frillish's chest frills, but not both at the same time. It just gets a little sloppy with those pixels. Also, maybe make the wing/flipper go on the top of the chest frills. Other than that it's hella cute and made me giggle. okay, thank you ^u^
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Post by scolipedesplices on Jun 3, 2013 15:15:14 GMT -8
I'd either go with Staravia's chest markings or Frillish's chest frills, but not both at the same time. It just gets a little sloppy with those pixels. Also, maybe make the wing/flipper go on the top of the chest frills. Other than that it's hella cute and made me giggle. that'd make it look like it's wearing a little tutu perhaps? (what I was thinking) that's pretty cool.
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Post by Samson on Jun 4, 2013 11:59:00 GMT -8
"Importance of Outlines" Let's do a basic splice, since this topic can be applied both to complicated splices, and simple ones as well. There we go. Cute little Squirtlechu, all ready to get recolored. How considerate of him, he even brought along a color palette. Thanks buddy! All done! But.. wait we missed a spot. Outlines don't seem like much before you're splicing, but once you recolor, it can become a huge problem! NOW we're done. All nicely recolored and everything. But what's that Squirtlechu? We can do better than that? See, we weren't just missing one, but TWO outline colors in the original palette. It's not necessary to add this color in, but it will make all the parts really flow together, and seem like they're part of one Pokemon, rather than two different Pokemon pieced together. Let's start with the lighter shade of the outline, which is the second from the bottom on the color palette from the previous image. We're only going to change some of Squirtlechu's outline, so that we can leave some spots for the darker color. Choosing where to change from the light to the dark outline can be tricky. I suggest looking at original Pokemon sprites, to see the placement of colors. What I normally do is follow the highlights and shading on the body of the sprite, and match the outline accordingly. Fill in the rest of the outline with the darkest color, and FINALLY, we're done.
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Post by Samson on Jun 4, 2013 12:25:48 GMT -8
"Matching Colors" Sometimes, the Pokemon that you're splicing have very similar colors. Is it worth your time to even change the colors, or can you leave them as they are? Let's find out. (/Tootsie Pop owl voice) Here we have a very cute Flarzel. Okay, obviously that yellow has got to go, and maybe we can even change those little blue things on his arm to match the blue in Flareon's eyes. But if we change Buizel's orange to Flareon's red-orange, things really start coming together! Lookin' good, dude. Now this may seem a bit nit picky, and you might not even notice the difference at all. Buizel's face and belly are cream colored, and so is Flareon's tail. But they're different shades of cream. If you change Buizel's colors to Flareon's, it doesn't make a drastic difference, but it actually does help with the overall appearance of the splice. Okay, there's one last thing I want to say before we let little Flarezel run along. If you noticed in the images above, I didn't use the darkest shade from Flareon's tail to recolor Buizel. If I did, he'd end up looking like this, which is just odd. Again, this is something you pick up from lots of practice and observation, and it's not something that has a hard and fast rule. Anyways, to answer the question, I'd say that it's definitely worth your time to recolor the entire splice. Besides, it only takes a few seconds or something. How busy are you?
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Post by Samson on Jun 4, 2013 12:57:27 GMT -8
"Layering" I was already doing this splice, so I thought I'd share this with you guys. And I'm a little embarrassed, since I VERY recently figured this out.. Anyways, let's get started! A giant eye on Probopass? Sure why not, that sounds like fun. But.. how are we supposed to squeeze that eye in behind the hat and nose? Erase the middle part and drop it on top of the eye? Nope. We're going to layer. Alright, we've already got our pieces that should be in the front (the hat and the nose) copied off to the side. Now, we place the eye where we want it. Next comes the actual layering, where you put those pieces that you copied (hat and nose) on top of the piece that you added in (eye). I typically copy a larger area than I need for two reasons. 1. I'm not sure exactly how much I'll need, and more is better than less. 2. I can use the excess to line up with the parts that are already on the sprite, to be sure that I'm putting things back in the right place. Just move the part around until it looks right. You don't want a thick line like what's shown in the green circle. That means you're a few pixels off. Add in the hat, clean up any stray pixels, and you've successfully layered parts!
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Post by scolipedesplices on Jun 5, 2013 4:30:10 GMT -8
What about enlarging smaller pokemon so that a bigger pokemon spliced into it would fit easier.
Like Glalie's Mask fit onto Duskull's body?
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Post by Samson on Jun 5, 2013 9:16:27 GMT -8
scolipedesplices When splicing larger and smaller Pokemon together, I try to make the parts from the bigger Pokemon smaller to fit onto the smaller Pokemon. It's easier to take things out, rather than adding them basically. Enlarging a smaller Pokemon to fit into a bigger one would require free spriting, which honestly, I'm not very good at.
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