Arkveveen

False alarm, that ugly outline doesn't appear if you click the image on Discord. I was sharing my results with a friend just now. It might just be a weird thing with transparent PNG thumbnails in Discord chats.

Yeah, the ugly outline doesn't appear when viewing it via Windows Pictures... huh. You know, I am just going to have to trust that is what it's going to look like in-game. I hope.

Sadly, this might be a bust, because I have no idea what is causing this ugly outline. It is not showing up in Clip Studio Paint.

I sadly might have to do some cleanup work because there is this weird gross edge that didn't quite show up in Clip Studio Paint. Hm... I hope this doesn't become a problem going forward.

This is his final design as well, it went through a couple of iterations. But I feel like the arm and leg armor he had looked too silly. The top heavy look is a sharp contrast. The pauldrons becoming angelic wings is a nice touch that was there from the start in his design. Proud of this design ~

YouTube video by Fangamer HOUR HAND - OFF Original Soundtrack

Hats off to Toby Fox as always for providing amazing music and inspiration. When I start practicing making music I will definitely study this. This is the music accompanying the creation of this enemy sprite for my game up above. The game, as always, is Fireheart Saga. youtu.be/hWC1NQqFuVw

Yes, I did it! Yes! That was fast as well! Maybe I should just make enemy sprites for a bit, get a feel for my game. I initially was supposed to be doing things like drawing tiny little dioramas with the colors and designs of each region of my world, like little isometric plots of land in one image.

There is also another major consolation: Enemy battle sprites, for my game, are STILL, they are not animated. I am going to go the Final Fantasy 6 route, and combine it with Octopath Traveler with a 3D world, with battles that have a camera low to the ground and the party faces to the left.

I want this enemy to really highlight the gravity of the threat to dragonkind, and why they must be defeated. "Greater Anima source intercepted. Commencing extraction." Should be a chilling line to hear before you get your ass kicked. XD

This is another song I will study heavily. Thank god for Toby Fox, I swear, he is amazing.

YouTube video by Fangamer HOUR HAND - OFF Original Soundtrack

As always, music is a driver for me in creative endeavors and my autistic ass mind, so the song for this sprite and all similar ones is "Hour Hand" from the OFF remaster/remake! youtu.be/hWC1NQqFuVw

If there is any consolation to myself, is that the thing is, my monster designs have always been unique and strange ever since I was a kid. I always like bizarre proportions like Darkside or Twilight Thorn from Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 respectively.

Okay, I will try to work on the sprite of a major foe we will face in my game, Fireheart Saga. The sprite is 392x388, using an actual canvas size template from an existing sprite asset from the Time Fantasy/Final Boss Blues sprite pack I bought a month or so ago. I have a lot of useable assets.

I mean, despite my sorrows and problems... I feel really good today? Like in terms of overall mood, I have energy and motivation. I swear I'm bipolar or something, I was just having an awful time yesterday and spent hours literally doing nothing but spiraling about game dev stuff. Sigh.

I don't even have a workflow developed that works for me, that is not something that a tutorial can teach me. Unless it can. But if I want to finally break through I must suffer through this, it might end up getting easier and faster if I just try, focus, and make something decent.

I'm also tired of people telling me to just watch or read a tutorial. Well I rather listen to a tutorial or watch one that I can follow closely. It isn't that easy. It doesn't change the fact that it is daunting and still too tedious. Then there is the problem of aligning each frame correctly.

The problem with my game dev journey is that I keep doing this song 'n dance over and over again. I want to start making a spritesheet, or sprites, I freak out over how hard it is or not knowing how to begin. Then I quit. This has happened 3 times by the way, maybe more. This can't go on.

if you take something erotic that openly signals its intended audience and expose it to a different audience with the intent to gawk at it in disgust, even if it was posted on a public platform to begin with, you're lowkey doing a sexual harassment & it's a grey area that should be noticed more imo

The chart asks "what type of gamer are you"? New school : Highguard Old school: Concord Retro: LawBreakers Ancient: Evolve Pre Historic: Battleborn

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Am i still animated with 2 hours of sleep

Blaidd did offer you an ample reward.. 🎂🐺

Check this out in HD as well as this month's animation below!

Diane Foxington is gonna help me make rent. Every $, like and RT adds another LB!
Those LBs are rocking her bod now.
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The thing is, despite me suffering. Do you have to be crazy to make games? It seems like it. The thing is, I still want to do it, I still want to make my games and my ideas a reality through my own effort. Despite the pain and suffering. I don't know why. It's crazy, it really is.

Fireheart Saga might never become a reality. It was a waste of time and energy. All that effort, to make the things I already made, was wasted. There is nothing more that I can do, unless I somehow keep pushing myself through like some insane person. I wonder if I will, and just bounce back.

I don't even know how to do this in a way that works for me. I don't even know where to begin.

Remember, I suck at animation and can't possibly keep character proportions or height consistent enough for it to look right, let alone not knowing how to align each frame properly so they don't have a vibrating effect when animating. This is it, my game dev journey is over.

This is very bad. Everything is coming crashing down and I'm realizing I might've wasted so many months of my life learning something I can't even possibly do. I don't know how to do it.

I don't know what the origin point is for sprite frames. Or where it should be. I have no idea how to do this in Clip Studio Paint. I don't want to use any other art program like Asesprite, because I don't know how to use it. I am most comfortable with Clip Studio Paint.