Originally posted by AJ Nitro's Tutorial

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The Outlining: As you can see, Mario's and Koopa Troopa's outline is in Colour, while the Monty Mole is in Black. That is because the sprites have more walking poses than others, but the Mole only has two.

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The coloured outline's colours always depend on what's being outlined. For example, Mario's hat is red, so it has to be outlined in a darker red. But Koopa's shell design is black which is because it makes the red line look soild and part of the shell.

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See Mario's hand that's not outlined in another shade of white? That's because outlining it in another shade of white would make it transparent. Since it's a solid object, you outline it in a dark colour such as brown or black.

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But Koopa's eye isn't outlined at all because it's not a completely solid object. Get it?

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The objects such as these have no outlining what so ever. The reason is either because the object isn't solid or because they're transparent. Objects that are hard to see such as the Ghost Lakitu's cloud can be seen easier in a darker background. See the difference?

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The Shading: If you notice these sprites, the shaded part is at the bottom of the sprite's objects while the brightest shade is at the top of the sprite's objects. But the white parts of every sprite has no shading, so you don't have to worry about shading the white colours. Look at the white part of Yoshi's nose. That mean it is a smooth object. The smooth objects are shiny which are the closest to the top of the sprite.

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But if you look at the Bob-omb, you'll see that it's completely black with no shading or outlines what so ever.

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The Banzai Bill is black too, but it's a very smooth object, so make some brighter shades as you get to the top. Just imagine that the Spark is a light. It's at the north east corner, so the light comes from that direction.

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The Movements: Most of the enemies have two walking poses. Unlike the Koopa Troopas that have three as they turn their bodies around.

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When an enemy walks, they move their bodies left and right if they have two feet. Take a look at the Goombas and how they move their bodies. See? That's what I mean. But enemies such as the Buzzy Beetle have four feet. They don't tilt their bodies left and right, so it just sits still while their legs move.

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Same goes with the fishes. They only move their fins or their mouths.

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But the Wigglers have eight feet so they only move their middle body pieces up and down, one by one. When animating, just line up the feet or the lowest part of the body.

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The Colours: The sprite you make won't be Super Mario World styled unless you use the correct colors. So here's a pallet to help you out.

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Notice that there are some different shades of white. I said earlier that white doeesn't need to be shaded unless you're spriting Boo or Fire Mario because they have more white on their body. Eyes and the bellies have no shading remember that.

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When you use this method, you should come up with your own Super Mario World styled sprties like my Shy Guys here.

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Originally posted by FreeDOS +

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Not only is the tutorial pretty dumb, why is it just a large PNG file?

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Originally posted by Stephan Reiken

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I do not see why Super Mario World has the worst graphics in the series. It, just makes sense. SMW has graphics that just flow to me. Graphics that go with eachother. Unifying art design, I do not see any instance where the design of any single tile or sprite contradicts the design of another in SMW. They all work with eachother and Mario.

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Bomb-omb isn't shiny, therefore has no shine marks.. it is simple. Doesn't make it wrong.

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Mario's hand is oulined with brown... never noticed, looks fine. Close up maybe not, but it isn't close up. But the Transparent thing in the tutorial... not everything can be perfect,

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Four Legged creature, they move forward but the body doesn't turn. It could, but then it would be moving its entire left/right side, both legs at the same time. Doesn't make sense, unnatural. A two Legged creature moves its left leg, and the body goes with it. It doesn't have to, but it is more interesting.

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I happen to like SMW graphics, they have more personality then SMB3, All-Stars edition or the rest of the All-Stars.

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Originally posted by FreeDOS +

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Not only is the tutorial pretty dumb, why is it just a large PNG file? It's a pretty ugly font on it, too.

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Originally posted by Raccoon Sam

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That is so true. I've even contacted the author and noted that there are holes in his theory of this "Super Mario World Style", but it didn't get anywhere. I'm surprised the tutorial got to the site itself.
Truly horrible.

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