Dux's Guide to Animation
NOTE!!!: This guide is prefferably for paint. I'm pretty sure it works w/ other things though!


First off, for animations like Fire Emblem, you'll need a sheet. A great source for FE sheets would be www.feplanet.net.

Next copy the sheet and open a document.

Paste the sheet

[img]http://www.feplanet.net/img/sprites/fe7/battle/sheets/class1/jaffar.gif[/img]

This is a Fire Emblem sheet of Jaffar to use as an example. Use it as a template for this guide.

Open another document. Copy and cut the first sprite from the sheet and paste it in your newly made document.

Then do the same with the second sprite. Zoom in on the first one before you paste the second one though. Make sure that their shadow's match in this case. (Trust me)

Repeat this process until you get to the sprite where it looks as if hes leaping or jumping.

This is where it gets tricky. Keep the same sprite and move it forward bit by bit. If you wanna speed up the proccess, make a sprite of him leaping and make the next one just nothing. Then make him far away from where he was before. This will make your character move like lightning. It's a great method and I'm a fan of it.

After you've done all of his moves and stuff, when he hops back, use the lightning method. Then when he's just standing, stop using it.

Keep pasting the sprites like you did previously and his cape will wave. When you're done with that, You're almost done.

All you have to do is get an animator such as UnFreeZ and animate it. UnFreeZ is a universal GIF animator and can be found here: www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/

You can also add cool things like lightning bolts and fireballs.

You can even add character's to make them battle!

If you don't quite understand this, here are some finished products that you might want to take a look at:

[img]http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/904/assassindux4wv.gif[/img]
[img]http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/1210/icantakeonanything8rv.gif[/img]
[img]http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8194/3709386jaffarvkarelfinal115ge4.gif[/img]

I hope you liked this guide and it helps you out. If not, don't be TOO harsh with your criticisms please.

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