Kunio-Kun (Alex)

[Silverthorn]

Well, the proper way to shade things is going to be fully manual. You can, however, ease up the process if you are willing to sacrifice quality compared to pure painting.

- Gad's Flash Template (let me know if you'll need a working copy of the template)

- (extremely rudimentary method) use a "bevel & emboss" effect and apply it to the sprite. Ideally, apply it to individual body parts, and even better, overpaint to give it a more natural look.

In general, spriting from scratch is going to take an awful amount of time and by the time you are able to produce them a bit faster, you'll have spent so much time creating sprites that it mostly does not matter for most. Up to you


edit: aaaaand ninja'd again!