A while back though, I had an idea for a private investigator character. Initially, I planned for him to wear a full length dark coat like my previous versions of the sprite did, but I figured that was way too generic. I started with one of my templates that fit the rough dimensions I had in mind for the character. Lastly, here is a quick example of my process, with a wall of text in a hide tag to explain it all. If you can't find a copy of it online someplace, I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple of sites that have new programs that are built to replicate its functionality. If you're lucky, you can get it running in 1024x768, but you're stuck with a 256 color palette. The only downside is that being an ancient piece of software, it is kind of finicky about detecting modern graphics cards. If you know what you're doing, you can even set it up to test your animation cells in sequence. It has a smooth feature that, when used correctly, can take a slapped together sprite and make it look like someone knew what they were doing with it. You can make masks and stencils with a couple of clicks, you can shear and bend things in perspective, you can set it to automatically shade things for you, you can use angular/circular patterns on gradients so that they don't just look like gradients. It was possibly a decade ahead of its time when it first came out, and even now there are things that it still does better than other programs.

They used it for everything from Secret of Monkey Island to the character graphics in the first Dark Forces game. It was, for a while at least, Lucasarts' go to program. I've used this program since I was a kid back in the late eighties.

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