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Character Sprites for Visual Novels and JRPGs
Character sprites are the emotional core of anime games—your characters are the story. This course teaches you how to design clean, versatile sprites for visual novels, JRPGs, and dialogue-driven games while maintaining consistency across expressions, poses, and costume variations. You'll learn professional workflows for creating reusable sprite systems, designing clothing that reflects personality, and building layered expressions that support dynamic dialogue and storytelling. The course also covers practical considerations such as sprite organization, resolution, export preparation, and visual consistency, helping you create production-ready character assets suitable for a variety of anime-inspired game projects.
Skill Level
Beginner
Purpose
An introduction to what a game sprite is, focusing on designing one simple bust-up sprite for a character.
What You Will Learn
- Learn the basics of bust-up sprite design, and practice creating one simple sprite with a single pose and expression
Outcome
You'll be able to design one basic, clean character sprite suitable for a simple dialogue scene.
$ 300.00
Skill Level
Intermediate
Purpose
Expands into multiple expressions and poses for the same character, with attention to keeping them visually consistent.
What You Will Learn
- Practice maintaining consistency across emotion and pose sets, and study how to design clothing that reflects personality across variations
Outcome
You'll be able to produce a small consistent set of sprite variations for the same character.
$ 450.00
Skill Level
Advanced
Purpose
Focuses on professional sprite-system workflows, including building layered expressions and managing resolution and canvas size correctly.
What You Will Learn
- Study how to build expression layers and variants efficiently, and practice optimizing resolution, canvas size, and export formats for games
Outcome
You'll be able to build an efficient, layered sprite system ready for use across a dialogue-heavy game project.
$ 650.00
Skill Level
Expert
Purpose
The complete sprite design course, producing a full, organized set of sprite variations for one character. At this level, the emphasis shifts from individual sprites to building an actual reusable system - the kind a small studio or solo developer could drop into a project.
What You Will Learn
- Work through the complete curriculum on sprite design, pose and expression consistency, resolution optimization, and export workflows
- You'll design one character across a complete set of expressions and at least two pose or costume variations, organizing the files into a clean, labeled export structure suitable for use in a game engine
Outcome
You'll finish with a complete, organized sprite set for one character and the professional workflow to build similar sets for future game projects.