Blur Fixing Tutorial

Aight, if you’ve been on chat recently, you might have seen complaining about “evil blurs.” The blurs in question are rotation blurs. Why are they evil? They cause the amount of colors in a sprite to skyrocket. This is a massive issue for alternate colors, which are currently confirmed for 0.9. Now, I notice some people want to help with spriting work. This is probably the easiest way you can ease yourself into spriting. Anybody can fix these blurs; it’s just a matter of recoloring or removing frames. I’m going to start with the later, because it’s easier. Sometimes, the blured frames in question are unneeded additions to an animation.

METHOD 1: DELETING THE FRAME
For this tutorial, I’ll be using Wario’s back air.
OK, so the first step is to know a blury frame if you see one.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133045400/TUT/example1.png
That is a blury frame. See all of the colors? Now, this frame pretty much has no reason to be in the animation, so you can fix this issue by removing the frame. Next, you keep looking through the animation to see if there are any more blury frames.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133045400/TUT/example2.png
This frame also serves no purpose, and can be removed by being deleted. However, once this frame is removed, the animation seems more choppy. What can you do to fix this? You can take the non-blured frame (in this example, frame 11) and copy paste it into paint.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133045400/TUT/example%203.png

Since the end of this animation is just a simple roll, the rotation does not need to be very precise. For more precise rotations, download a program that is designed for high quality sprite rotations, such as rotsprite. But for this animation, you would use the select tool and select Wario as precisely as possible. Once selected, you go to the rotate option, and select “Rotate Left 90 Degrees” Because in this animation, Wario is rotating to the left. In other animations, the character may rotate to the right.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133045400/TUT/example4.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133045400/TUT/example5.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133045400/TUT/example6.png

Once rotated, you select the whole image, and copy paste that back into your animation software. (If you are using iaza.com, save the frame, and add it to the animation)
And there you have it.


METHOD 2: RECOLORING FRAMES
This is what is going to have to be done 90% of the time, as most of the time, the blured frame is a key frame in the animation, such as an attacking frame. For this tutorial, I’ll be using Captain Falcon’s up smash.
In preparation, and for the purposes of getting the correct colors, I’ve made a blank paint document, then pasted Captain Falcon’s idle into it.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133045400/TUT/example7.png
The idle frames should ALWAYS have the correct colors. In this animation, the blury frames are the frames where he kicks.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133045400/TUT/example8.png
To fix this frame, you would use the eyedropper tool to collect the correct colors from the idle frame, then use the pencil tool to recolor the kicking sprite into the same colors as the idle. Once that is complete, you copy the new frame into the animator, and save.


Please provide feedback, I don’t think I did the best I could have on this.

NOTE: CHARACTERS WITH SKIN TONES SUCH AS SAKI OR CAPTAIN FALCON ARE HIGHEST PRIORITY AS FAKE ALTERNATE COLORS LOOK BAD WITH THESE CHARACTERS. NON-HUMAN CHARACTERS ARE BEARABLE

Master List of Blured Animations: *Note that this is sorted by file names for your convinience.

Spoiler:

This should help a lot. In fact, I may try this a few times and see if I can contribute. Now that I have no more school I should have time to work on these.

blur are shite

An index/list sort of thing would help a lot.

Procellum wrote:

An index/list sort of thing would help a lot.

Yeah, I'm going to add one. The issue is that it takes a lot of time. I have to examine every ingame animation and record which ones are blured with the exception of Bomberman, because he has already been deblured.

Gee Whiz blue

I have to say I did not expect this, and I am very impressed.

GigaPichu wrote:

Gee Whiz blue

I have to say I did not expect this, and I am very impressed.

It had to be done eventually...

That is fritzing Rsome

For those who want Beneton Movie GIF without the malware that comes with the download from the site
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ld8bh43mnped48/Beneton%20Movie%20GIF.zip
It's the program I used in the tutorial BTW.

OK, Blur List updated. It's not complete yet (and prolly won't be for a while) but it's something to start with.

I'm gonna give Toon Link's edgeclimb a shot.

Who else is gonna join the fun of fixing blurs? lol

Ness Broken

YES! FINALLY SOMETHING!

Sorry keep you waiting, there are 3
Peach Broken
Link Broken
Ness Fair
or this version with deleted useless frames

What is wrong in Ness Bair?

P.S.: All the animations are gif but it doesn't repeat

Peach's broken still contains color changes, but the rest are okay I guess.

because you all suck Toon Link, Chun-Li, Captain Falcon, Ryu, and Evil Ryu are done. There's probably one more, but I forget. Lesson learned: Never have hope in spriting recruits.

Many Characters are done now. Those include:
-Toon Link
-Chun-Li
-Ashley
-Ryu
-Evil Ryu
-Captain Falcon
-Goku
-Link
-Lucas
-Megaman
-Ness
-Peach
-Saki
-Samus/Zamus
-Snake
-Toad
-Wario
-Waluigi
-Weegee
-Porky

Wow thats almost the whole roster

rjones1325 wrote:

Wow thats almost the whole roster

No it's not it;s only half and I will not stand for only me (with some help from Giga) working on these.

Half = almost

rjones1325 wrote:

Half = almost

Not even close, considering we have more than 50+ characters ingame.

- broken
- broken
- bthrow
- dair
- dthrow
- nair
- roll
- uair
- usmash

Looks good, but that dair needs one minor fix: Pikachu flashes brighter. This may seem minor, but it throws off the color count regardless.

Like this?

Dustination wrote:

Like this?

Ah, yes exactly. Pikachu is almost done I guess. Check his air dodge. That might also have him flash. 90% of the airdodges in the game do that.

way to go dust

you bring happy tears to my eyes ;v;

Dust, keep up the good work and you'll be red in no time!

I can easily see you replacing Ganon

Sorry, I forgot about the air dodge. :p


airdodge

Thank you guys. ;v;

No, thank you. Seriously, we really need the help with this stuff. :3

Of course! I'm always happy to help.

Here are three quick ones, I'll try to whip some more out later.

airdodge

broken

I'm assuming "gokufair" is "gokumeteor"?

oh actually goku is done.

Blue posted a list of the done characters, its on page 1.

but thank you for that anyway