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Step 2Getting An Image
What you want to do is find yourself a picture of your character, in case you didn't already know, the character images on 8/16-bit consoles are called sprites.
The easiest way to find these images is to google them, you want to find a relatively small image with nice sharp edges and no blur. The main things to search for for say, a mario sprite would be "mario sprites", "super mario sprites", "mario sprite sheets", etc.
Once you have the images, open them in GIMP or Photoshop, whatever you use, and seperate them from their sprite sheets (if they were on one) and scale them up; make sure when scaling to set the interpolation to none, otherwise you end up with anti-aliasing everywhere.
After you get an image, print up a nice big version of it to use as a reference.
The easiest way to find these images is to google them, you want to find a relatively small image with nice sharp edges and no blur. The main things to search for for say, a mario sprite would be "mario sprites", "super mario sprites", "mario sprite sheets", etc.
Once you have the images, open them in GIMP or Photoshop, whatever you use, and seperate them from their sprite sheets (if they were on one) and scale them up; make sure when scaling to set the interpolation to none, otherwise you end up with anti-aliasing everywhere.
After you get an image, print up a nice big version of it to use as a reference.
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Nov 19, 2009. 4:50 AMadam adkison
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any suggestions on where to find good screenshots?
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Nov 19, 2009. 6:19 AMadam adkison
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Did some checking, found if you type in 'game characters 8-bit sprites' into google and select Images from the search engines you receive a nice selection to pick from.
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