Niennab - Spriter Application

[niennab]

Ckey/BYOND Username: Niennab

Discord Name: Laowra#3847

Position Being Applied For: Spriter

Past Experiences/Knowledge: I have dipped my toes into spriting here and there throughout the years. While I am nowhere near great, I believe my experience sprinting and my traditional art background can be applied to my knowledge regarding sprites.

Examples of Past Work:

https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/14395

https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/14518

Below I have added a few of the things I’ve made over the years. Until the above PR, my work was lumped into PRs from other contributors (usually Stryker's). However if need be, my credit can be confirmed in any of the relevant PRs to the below assets.

• I made the unbranded sprite:

• I recoloured the below suits as well as recoloured existing Golden Deep assets in order to have them better reflect their respected materials:

(old = top)

• I think that this isn't relevant anymore, given that I (think) the IPC chassis’ are black and white by default now, but I originally updated the G2 sprite before that change.

• I made some antennae for IPCs:

• I made a number of flags as well as tweaked the colourable trench coat. I also made the 2x1 Zavodskoi flag:

• I do not believe these lab coats are in game any longer but I recoloured the labcoats to make two Zeng-hu variants plus the transparent gloves and apron:

• I recoloured and made a number of premade lipstick colours to suit actual real life shades and a few fun colours:

• I’ve also previously added baseline screens and fixed the issue where they were animating too quickly. However, since it’s been so long, I am unsure which are mine or are by other contributors in the community or ported from polaris.
• I also made the Synthetic title cards:

Additional Comments: I would hope that by being taken on as a developer, it would give me the availability to work with other teams in order to provide art for the wiki or title screens as well. If not, that’s of course fine.

I suspect I will only be able to review PRs that focus solely on sprites as well.

Some things I wouldn't mind adding are new flowers and sprite improvements to the current flowers, the ability to make flower bouquets in hydroponics, resprites of a lot of the grown fruits/vegetables/etc and with lore approval, a portable mind wiping device for IPCs.

[Desven]

I really like your ideas and your ZH sprites were always my favorite. I support this application fully.

[NewOriginalSchwann]

Lauren was great to work with while they were on the lore team and their sprites have been a significant benefit for synthetic lore even after their retirement. I'm excited to see what they can do as a full spriter, and entirely support this application!

[wowzewow]

Nienna is a cordial and polite member of the community and I no doubt think they'll be a welcome addition to the developer team.

Their sprites are pretty good and the fact that they taught themselves how to use Git and make pull requests is already a major plus.

Give it my +1

 

 

Edited August 8, 2022 by wowzewow

[Gem]

i support this application.

[niennab]

On 08/08/2022 at 17:37, wowzewow said:

Their sprites are pretty good and the fact that they taught themselves how to use Git and make pull requests is already a major plus.

Admittedly it was Stryker who taught me how to PR, so the honour should go to him. Thank you for the kind words however!

Since making the application, I've made some more things.

Two screenshots from the PRs listed in the first post: 

As well as two recent changes to some toys and the addition of the portable memory wiper: 

[Desven]

Just something I was wondering: some of our sprites that feel the most outdated are some machines, furniture, and foods. Would you feel comfortable spriting the first two? I know you've mentioned the latter, but just thinking since it's probably what's required at the moment.

[niennab]

On 14/08/2022 at 22:08, Desven said:

Just something I was wondering: some of our sprites that feel the most outdated are some machines, furniture, and foods. Would you feel comfortable spriting the first two? I know you've mentioned the latter, but just thinking since it's probably what's required at the moment.

I could! Although I wouldn't feel comfortable starting any of the larger overhauls unless I am taken onboard. The furniture is a good point though. Which machines would you say look outdated? So I can keep them in mind.

Edited August 17, 2022 by niennab
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[niennab]

Recently made a Konyang flag as well as some tweaks to existing flags as well as updating the soap sprites.

PR here: https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/14685

[Desven]

On 21/08/2022 at 05:43, niennab said:

Recently made a Konyang flag as well as some tweaks to existing flags as well as updating the soap sprites.

PR here: https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/14685

Those look really good, though I do miss the heart on the deluxe bar.

[niennab]

On 29/08/2022 at 19:12, Desven said:

Those look really good, though I do miss the heart on the deluxe bar.

I could likely add it to deluxe in the future. Since, if it was successful, diamond, red, and syndie have it after all. (and there's a lot of NT bars from my sprites)

Lately I've been adding an opened version of the labcoats as well as tweaks to the existing shading.

Is there normally a standard wait time for developer applications however?

 

 

20/11/2022 EDIT

I figured I'd add the corgi to my application however I wanted to also put a note that until I get a word on my app, I will be halting development for now.

Edited November 20, 2022 by niennab

[Desven]

As it's been a while without official response, I would probably contact an admin to see if a head developer can give you a trial. I think there are no pressing sprites at the moment, but you have enough good suggestions on things you'd like to work on so I think it would be welcomed.