Yo! I'm an "Amateur developer" who only started messing around with RPG Maker VX Ace a few days ago. I'm planning on making a Persona 3 fangame after I fully grasp it, but I realized that making assets is going to be a pain in the butt. Any advice on how I can get good character sprites or even make my own?
If you’re talking charsets, I just altered the sprites that came with the asset pack I was using--though I also make original art only rpg maker games, and all I can really say for that is... look at other sprites that you like the look of. Study them to figure out what sort of dimensions, posing, coloring techniques, etc you should use. I don’t recommend stealing/tracing assets, but if something’s free to use or free to edit then go nuts. I make my own bases for my other projects, though, as I’m picky as hell 🤷
I wish I knew of any good sprites you could just use but unfortunately I don’t :( If you want to make (or edit) your own, though, I’d like to recommend a good pixel art program: aseprite / libresprite (second one is free, first one isn’t). They work really well and you can use them on multiple platforms!
