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jetryl
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"pixel artist/programmer"
# Statistics
Favourites: 1; Deviations: 13; Watchers: 414
Watching: 44; Pageviews: 23916; Comments Made: 154; Friends: 44
# Comments
Comments: 107
I aspire to one day do the things you do. I have begun on a path towards game art/development myself but you are leagues ahead of my current level. +Respect
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Hello fellow programmer! I love your work, Wesnoth is especially!
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Hey, do you mind if I use the Fire Dragon for a project? I will give full credit to you, of course.
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you are amazing O.O
keep posting these great works!
kissu
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impressive gallery. i've added you to my watch list.
also i here your looking for some good animators. why not ask the legendary "fool". his a great animator and if he has the time i'm almost curtain he'd accept the offer.
worst case senario he says no and you keep looking. so whats to lose?
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Mostly because I'm looking for schlep work. It's reasonably high-skill requirement, doing walk cycles and such, but it's really boring and procedural, and a lot of decent pixel-artists can do it. It's doing all the boring filler-animations that make up a tactical game like FFT (in this case, they're for wesnoth). They need to be well-done, but they need to NOT break the mold.
If I'm gonna tap fool for something, it ought to be something he's uniquely suited to; something he can do well that other people couldn't. Because even with money to motivate people, an individual person is a limited resource.
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Just wondering, why exactly are you looking for skilled pixel art animators? You seem to be a good enough artist to do pretty much anything you want by yourself. Finding someone who's better at you might be a difficult task. Just saying.
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Because two of me is 2x more art than one of me. A huge game like wesnoth is just too much work for one guy, no matter how good he is (and there are plenty out there much better than me).
Wesnoth has money and we want to hire people (at a good working wage, not cheap indie prices!) to animate our sprites - just like a real commercial company would.
We're looking to do it, currently, at $250 per character, 2 directions of animation, and the characters are already designed, so we're just looking for skilled animators. That last bit makes it much easier to fulfill, since character design and animation skills often don't overlap.
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Good working wage instead of cheap indie prices? Well, that sounds like something most pixel artists would love to work for. I'm nowhere near being good enough for something like this, but I'll be sure to let some good people know about it.
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wow, you have some amazing pixel works. i would love to see more like those animated characters. good job!
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You have some amazing work
watched :3
(maybe more inspiration for me returning to pixel practice Γ§.Γ§)
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Hey, hey - no need. You've got some awesome stuff there, good sir.
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NOT available for hire, commission, or to work on your project. Please don't ask.
This went up today, the day you got a DD. True or false?
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It went up when I got my last DD, because I got like 5-something requests. I mentioned "wanting to make an RPG", but I wasn't lamenting having not run into the right people, but being short on time, myself. I mean, I'm making two sweet games right now - I just wish an RPG was one of them.
Same with an FPS, a free-movement fighting game, a RTS, an MMO, several puzzle games, et cetera, et cetera. I just have way too many ideas and way too little time to do them in.
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oh, you got a DD before?
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Honestly, though? It was for some tiny RPG icons, and I personally was a bit bewildered what people saw in them, since they're just run of the mill stuff for me, but ... hey - I won't turn that down.
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Oh wow, you made Wesnoth? Awesome! I just came here by means of your Fire Dragon DD (like many others I'm sure) and I think I'll have to give you a watch!
It's been quite a while since I last played Wesnoth, but maybe I'll check it out again soon.
Awesome work.
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Why thank you.
And yeah, wesnoth is on a slow process of polishing up the stuff in the game. It's really getting better over time.
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Awesome. 
By the way, I just downloaded your Frogatto game, so I look forward to seeing how that is. I love the pixel art in the screenshots.
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Fancy bumping into you here!
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Days, possibly months later... nothing has been updated.
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Wow, all your sprites looks so professional! Do you work for a game developer or something? ^^
I really hope you will make more! +watch
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Yes. Read my deviantID; download my games. Enjoy.
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Woah; hadn't realized you were on hereβ¦or rather, when I checked last year (or the year before?) you weren't.
Anyway, Skizzaltix here--watching you because your sprites are one of the things I look forward to every time I actually get around to downloading then newest version of Wesnoth or Frogatto c:
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Oh, sweet. Your post just made my day (given the relative bleakness of this page which hasn't updated in the past few months).
I really need to get some frogatto stuff/etc up here.
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I've decided I'm going to release my RPG items as public domain:
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You may use them for any purpose. You don't have to give credit. Yes, there are no strings attached. Make Cool Games.
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I looove your work, thanks for the watch!
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Thanks!
(actually I won't lie, your chun-li sprite may have been a factor in inspiring me to do one of my own ... which I don't know how to say without it sounding slightly creepy. 
Keep making cool stuff.
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Not creepy!
I'm so inspired that you're actually working on some games. I aspire to making one at some point, but it's so much work. XD
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Yeah, no kidding. (This is not necessarily directed at you, just more of a PSA: )
The hardest thing about working on a game is maintaining motivation. I hate to use the term "honeymoon", but that's pretty much exactly how it works - there's this initial period of awesome motivation, when you feel like kicking ass all day long and you get tons done. But then, no matter how cool your project is, you've just been way too exposed to it, and it loses the magic. It really has nothing to do with the quality of the project; no matter what it is it just stops being fun once the novelty wears off.
Sometimes the magic will come back, but the key thing is that there WILL be some major periods of time when you hate your project. Half of those times you'll just want to reboot and do it differently. It's times like that that you need to stick to your guns and actually -finish- the project you start. Not reboot it, not switch to doing something else - finish it. It hurts, but it's the key different between being an *actual* game developer, and a "wannabe" game developer.
The huge reason we always tell people to start small isn't that they aren't *able* to finish stuff; most people do enough free-time stuff that they're fast enough to do it. The problem is that by the time they're halfways there - they usually no longer *want* to.
If you keep it small, then finishing it after you've started to hate it is easy. But if your game is this huge, ridiculous, sprawling dream-project, there's no way you can finish it after you start to hate it.
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If you have random videogame art lying around collecting dust, maybe for a project that isn't going anywhere, consider showing these guys some love:
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Note to random pixel/other artists: If you've got art that was made for a game project that's not going anywhere, consider showing these guys some love:
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I double post because I rule. Either that or the internets had a caching error.
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Couldn't let a good Pixelartist down, now could I?
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