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Rydium-41 · 03-08-2007

Thanks for the replies.

I use MS Paint myself for drawing custom sprites. Drawing is not the problem but it's the animation part there that I really need help in. For instance, whenever I want to make a simple rotation to fit in the next frame, I have to copy the default frame or frame segment, paste it in the rotating software, then copy it back and paste it in the next corresponding frame. This isn't necessarily the hard part but when the image/segment is rotated, the result needs quite some editing . Repeating the aforementioned process continuously for so many of the other frames truly saps the energy and will to proceed further and it consumes too much time. This is why I need some other software to work in. Recently, I've been using Adobe Illustrator CS 2 but I am having some confusions in it:

1) The Pencil tool sometimes diverts a line whenever it passes through it. How can I stop this from happening?

2) The lines are much too smooth. How do I make them slightly rigid?

3) When I copy a pencil drawn from Illustrator to MS Paint, it is a little too thick. Anyway to reduce this?

I hope I can use Adobe Illustrator to draw and animate custom sprites so If the above questions can be answered, will appreciate it greatly. Perhaps if someone here could exhibit me a sample of what Illustrator can do with it's drawing and animation capabilities, that would be great also.

Thanks.

03-08-2007	#5 (permalink)
Rydium-41 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Karachi, Pakistan Posts: 10	Thanks for the replies. I use MS Paint myself for drawing custom sprites. Drawing is not the problem but it's the animation part there that I really need help in. For instance, whenever I want to make a simple rotation to fit in the next frame, I have to copy the default frame or frame segment, paste it in the rotating software, then copy it back and paste it in the next corresponding frame. This isn't necessarily the hard part but when the image/segment is rotated, the result needs quite some editing . Repeating the aforementioned process continuously for so many of the other frames truly saps the energy and will to proceed further and it consumes too much time. This is why I need some other software to work in. Recently, I've been using Adobe Illustrator CS 2 but I am having some confusions in it: 1) The Pencil tool sometimes diverts a line whenever it passes through it. How can I stop this from happening? 2) The lines are much too smooth. How do I make them slightly rigid? 3) When I copy a pencil drawn from Illustrator to MS Paint, it is a little too thick. Anyway to reduce this? I hope I can use Adobe Illustrator to draw and animate custom sprites so If the above questions can be answered, will appreciate it greatly. Perhaps if someone here could exhibit me a sample of what Illustrator can do with it's drawing and animation capabilities, that would be great also. Thanks.