you too, were once NOOB artists

[eddie hitler]

 I was wondering if any of you more experienced members, who have been spriting for some time now,
have any of your very first sprites tucked away somewhere, from when you were just a wide eyed traveller in an unkown land.If so, please post them here, I'd love to see them.

[MrColossal]

http://kafkaskoffee.com/anisprites2.shtml

http://kafkaskoffee.com/staticsprites2.shtml

oh god, so horrible... The road to my current self is paved with terrible art...

[Joseph DiPerla]

I wouldnt worry about your art. I cant draw anything near as good as that. You had (And still have) talent. Dont knock what you have done.

[MrColossal]

I don't worry about my art... But that doesn't mean I can't call my past attempts what they are, stumbling poop.

If only I still had the original sprite jam pages on my site, then you could see a bunch of really old sprite art from a lot of people like Helm, Pessi, 2ma2 and various others...

[m0ds]

I gladly stumble in your poop. Great sprites, MrC!

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Crap Montage!

These are all 4+ years ago.  The large characters are from an rpg I was coding a long time ago and never finished, the war stuff is from an action game I started on 4 years ago about world war II zombies called Dead Rising.  Sound familiar?

You will note that they suffer from what I like to call saturation syndrome.  This was before I realized that drawing really dark things was bad.  Also, some of the torsos are stretched, which amuses me in retrospect.  Learning to draw anatomy by trial and error is a really bad idea!  And check out Guybrush, he's built like a truck!  For the curious, those were for the first ags game I worked on, back when ags had just been released and was dos!

[thewalrus]

     Wow, these sprites that you guys consider crap, look great to me. I guess because I can't draw at all.....

[Anarcho]

This is my original version of Emily Enough, drawn maybe four years ago:



This is one of the first backgrounds I drew for EE.  Originally I drew the entire game in these black outlines. 

[Gord10]

http://americangirlscouts.org/bbc.com/yabb/index.php?PHPSESSID=973927a0dd0ab388fe3c2a0fb3efb50dopic=12276&prev_next=next
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=357

I wanted to commit suicide everytime I remember these.

[The Ivy]

This is all that remains of my first game project. Like most first game attempts, it succumbed to ambitiousness and an ill-timed hard drive crash.



Supersaturated, like the sugar in my coffee.



A would-be player character. She was born without a forehead.



Look at all those frames.



The other would-be player character. I still kinda like the design.

[SSH]

Lets rename this thread the "Awesome artists show off that what they call rubbish is better than what us mere mortals can ever aspire to"

[Mikko]

SSH: I agree.

Of course we should change the title, because my art is amazing too..

August, 2003 Characters for first(?) team challenge.


I believe my team doesn't mind showing them, since the game was never finished. Anyone of the team want's to continue?

April, 2003: She was supposed to be in Where (one of my games).


Oh my god, no more high-res for me, please..

March, 2003: Some sprite jam entries and stuff.


1. That carrot must be a male one!
2. Machine that turns computer off when being too long in AGS forums.
3. Spiritborg, some kind of waiter cyborg.
4. Nif, an angry creature.
5. Seamonster, spritejam entry (probably July, 2003).

Then some real history from my part, unbeliveable that these are soon 6 years old.

December, 2000:


1. Some general characters
2. He is walking! Mafia guy for some never finished game.
3. Yes, you guessed right (I doubt). It is C3PO from Star Wars! 

I don't know if I've made any progress in past years. I hope I have.

[Privateer Puddin']

August, 2003 Characters for first(?) team challenge.
IMAGE
I believe my team doesn't mind showing them, since the game was never finished. Anyone of the team want's to continue?

There have been a couple of attempts to get it going again but it normally stops due to my laziness.  My official version is that we stopped because you vanished for a few years

[Mordalles]

i only started do sprites last year this time when i started entering sprite jams. my first sprite was rincewind, seen here. my 1st actual sprite was mordy 1, but i just took a 3sized brush and roughly drew something without knowing i was doing a sprite.

all these sprites were done in my 1st few months of spriting: aug 2005 - feb 2006. so i'm still a noob really. 

[ManicMatt]

I'm "off-topic" as I'm not that good NOW, never mind then..

NOW:



BEFORE: (See signature)

First game (Well, two rooms):





Yes, the resolution is different, I went a tad wrong...

[Miez]

32 colour, Amiga DPaint crap ... circa 1990:

(all these are for games that I never finished:  turnbased RPG, turnbased RTS, etc. If you'd like to use any of these graphics: feel free!).

[MashPotato]

I still am a noob, but my first sprite ever was for a Sprite Jam earlier this year (it was also my first post at AGS) ^_^:

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I should really dig up some of my super old Amiga stuff from the early 90's, though it's mainly metroid tilesets and small final fantasy-esque rpg sprites from when I was trying to make something useful with Blitz Basic.

[eddie hitler]

Many thanks to all of you! ;Dthis is just what I was looking for.
Keep it coming peoples.

[Gilbert]

Well these are some of my older sprites (not oldest though):

Screenshot taken from a Famicom shooting game with graphics hacked, some time around 10 years ago:


Some character sprites seen from this link (See character arts in green shirt, I'm too lazy to upload the images myself so I just steal borrow the screenshots from an online page). Also about 10 years ago (I think).

And here is a real AGS sprite, meet thingie, who was starred in my first (and only) officially released AGS related demo in around 6 years ago: