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What do you do if the sprite doesn't fit the box?

July 8th 2011, 01:10 PM
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Kerrek
Peasant He/Him United States
oao 
Like if you'ure editing the Dink character, and something goes too far to the right, do you just make it bigger, or move the character? I don't want to screw anything up.
July 8th 2011, 01:14 PM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
That's tricky... I'll leave this to more experienced editors. Increasing the image size I think IS fine, but it needs to be in a specific corner? I don't know, I just know some of Dink's frames are larger than others and it still works.
July 8th 2011, 01:17 PM
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Kerrek
Peasant He/Him United States
oao 
This is my problem.

http://public.fotki.com/Bungholebob/elite/asdasdasd.html

His arm armor would go off the side of the canvas.
July 8th 2011, 01:23 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Yes, you should increase the image size. So that the character is about halfway in the image.
July 8th 2011, 01:27 PM
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Kerrek
Peasant He/Him United States
oao 
Thanks.

I just made the canvas wider by 2 pixels.
July 8th 2011, 01:35 PM
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Increasing the size of the image to the right or down is perfetly okay. If you have to move the character to make room on the top or left side, you need to move the character in every single frame. Otherwise, the animation will look ducked up.