Lesson 1 - MS Paint Cannot Save in .gif Format
My first ever edit/recolour. I actually spent a bit of time on it. Imagine my surprise when after I had finally saved it, feeling proud of myself, I noticed that it became of horrendous quality. A quick search showed me why, and I swore to never again commit the same mistake. Saved the images in .png instead.

Lesson 2 - MS Paint can do Bad Things to Your Colours
Having saved my first edit in .png format, I started copying and pasting it all over the place in order to maintain the same style/colour on the following poses. I made what I believe amounts to 7 or 8 edits, when I noticed something was slightly off...
The colours! They changed from the originals!
Turns out, copying and pasting things in Paint can go wrong, since Paint tries to keep the colour scheme, or whatever it's called, to 256 colours, meaning that when I copy the completely recoloured Pose A into the separate page for Pose B, which I plan to edit next, the colours in the copy&pasted Pose A are changed to their most approximate ones within the 256 colour scheme, assuming there's colours outside of it. I coloured things incorrectly 7 times before I noticed, which means I had to redo 7 sprites...

I researched the problem. Turns out the only way to copy and paste without messing up the colours is to save in .bmp format, and it has to be "24 bit" something.

Lesson 3 - Sprite Making Requires Patience
I cannot count the number of mistakes I've made in the colouring or stuff I missed as I hurried along. Everytime I thought I was nearly done, something went wrong. Either I finished my hard, hard work of animating a sprite only to notice one of the frames was off, or maybe I suddenly noticed that the colouring I thought I had fixed from Lesson 2's effects is actually still wrong, and Edgeworth's hair has lost its sparkle and become more faded (veracity of this statement cannot be confirm- who am I kidding. I just noticed the hair on all my sprites is wrong and I can't be bothered to fix it).

Lesson 4 - Breaks are Useful
In other words, every time I came back from ragequitting I things seemed to go much smoother than when I quit. I can only imagine my exausted/saturated self failed to spot simple solutions to the problems I was facing. A clear mind is always best.


First two days spriting. Goshdarn, there's only so much punishment I can take.

Confident:

This sprite taught me that the silky smooth shading of the sprites in AAI comes from actual work. After cursing at it repeatedly, I pretty much destroyed half the existing shading in my version.
Simply put, shading with more than 3 colours is far, far too much for me.

It took me 3 gifs to get the talking sprite right, but it should be fine now.

Determined:

My perceptive eye believes that the cuffs should not be visible in this image. Awaiting feedback. Additionally, how the bloody hell is one supposed to draw glasses? It's fine if it's a couple of black pixels, but this?


Disclaimer: The idea of animating Edgeworth in his DD clothes came from Sligneris (They can be found here, in the Miles Edgeworth section - DD styled prosecutor sprites). I have been unable to contact him and until then I'll keep all the sprites directly based on his in private. I have chosen to share this one since I didn't copy anything from his original sprites beyond the idea, which I hope would not be considered theft in this situation.
Apologies if I take anyone else's work as my own, that is, by no means my intention.

Normal:
Normal2:
Nervous:
Shy:
Surprised:
Pouting:
Pouting2:
Apathetic/Bored:

You might wonder... For whatever reason would I come upon the idea of making this sprite (with an uncanny resemblance to Viola, no less!)?
Well, that has an explanation too.
Yesterday I watched The Incredibles™, and I really wanted to do a character who would have one of her eyes covered.
My initial undertaking was attempting to modify Adrian Andrews to fit the bill.
That, I dare say, did not go well. Somehow, two aberrations appeared instead, lord knows how:
http://i.imgur.com/3pvr5fa.png
http://i.imgur.com/N7dRMTo.png
I thought to myself... I need someone whose hair is simple, so I can edit it easily. And so I opted for Viola OC nº1 (Violini Cadavera).
(Note: The removed bandages were done by me. I am aware there already exists some made by another member, but I didn't base myself on those.)

Original/Simplified version
Truer to the AAI sprite

Step 1:
Pick up the original image.
http://i.imgur.com/2RTRZOP.png
Step 2:
Open it in MS Paint and select a colour. Preferably a rational one, though it's up to you. Then recolour the various parts of his suit with this in mind.
Step 3:
Ragequit when you notice the shading in his sprite and how it'd take ages to replace it all. Not that you know what to replace it with.
http://i.imgur.com/WcpEpzu.png
Step 4:
Prevail and just replace everything with a darker tone of the lighter part, or maybe a lighter tone of the darker part.
Of course, by hand. Every single pixel.
Yeah you're not going to do them all. Neither am I.
Step 5:
Replace nearly all of them with different tones of your chosen colours basing yourself off the shading already existing made by professionals. Finally, look at your completed sprite and choose an incredibly obnoxious colour for the buttons, just to ruin your work.
Voilà: http://i.imgur.com/f5b2QxS.png

Step 6 (Optional):
Realize you've spent over and hour spriting that thing for no reason other than to make a practical joke.

My perceptive eye believes that the cuffs should not be visible in this image. Awaiting feedback. Additionally, how the bloody hell is one supposed to draw glasses? It's fine if it's a couple of black pixels, but this?

Normal:
Normal2:
Awkward/Shy:
Awkward/Shy2:
Surprised:
Apathetic/Bored:
Apathetic/Bored2:

Normal:
Normal2:
Nervous:
Shy:
Surprised:
Pouting:
Pouting2:
Apathetic/Bored: