CRE-514 Super Mario Video! : Creating our own Sprites

Ryan

I drew my 64x64 pixel sprites firstly on graph paper at 16x16 pixels which allowed me to work out there animations frame by frame. I used a square on the graph paper as a pixel on Illustrator which was handy when re-creating the sprites. With the pixels being vector based images scaling them up was easy and no detail was lost. In the Super Mario games the characters movements are looped so I felt it would be better to create them as gifs instead of animating them frame by frame on After Effects. I used Piskelapp to add the different frames and was able to adjust there speeds as well. At this moment I am not entirely sure on what movement my sprties will do during the video but im sure that will come along further on in the project. For now I am very pleased with my sprite designs.

64x64 Enemies.

Sketches drawn at 16x16 so they can be scaled when drawn digitally. Bigger sprites drawn 32x32 to add detail but still need to be scaled. I drew the Goomba first as a test run to see how they are broken up into pixels. Each square equals a pixel on Illustrator.

Clipper

Strawberry

Pear

Doughnut

Carrot

Brocolli

Tomato

Pencil

I created myself as a sprite for the video to travel on the bus. I used the same style Mario is drawn in and made alot of adjustments to suit my body form. My clothing was based on what I was wearing that day. I think I look pretty cool as a sprite don't you?

Bus

Bus Body

Wheels

Lavinia

Lavinia: These are my sketches for designing my enemy sprites for the video. I sketched out my banana, blueberry, orange and also sketch out the bus stop sign and the basic outline for my bus. I believe it went well as sketching them out first, gives me a good idea of what shape Im looking at when creating them on illustrator, will make it easier for me.

Lavinia: I was really pleased with designing my own sprites, The piskel website was really great to use to help me and Ryan to create our GIFS for our sprites, it was very easy to use.

Banana