Sephiroth Final Fantasy Six style by Bendilin

http://panelmonkey.org/html/sephiroth-final-fantsy-six-style-by-bendilin.html

Anime Mine: Liz Thompson.

Sonia The Hedgehog by Bendilin.

http://panelmonkey.org/html/sonia-the-hedgehog-by-bendilin.html

Japan is as schizo about censorship as America.

I recently watched a YouTube video about how Nintendo censored many video games back in the day when they were imported from Japan to America and still do. It went on and on about how this is bad and how dare anyone mess with the artists' original intent.

I could go on and on about the reasons why the North American market tends to be more conservative about nudity and cursing on TV, but I won't, it'll be too boring. Instead I'll post two screen shots of a fairly popular anime. How popular is it? You can buy the soundtracks on the American version of iTunes. These screen shots I think proves the point made in the title of this post.

Why tuck, fold, and constantly change the length of a skirt if she is wearing shorts underneath?  I do thank the animators of Yuru Yuri for NOT ever giving us panty shots of 13 year old girls.

Though I have to wonder that even accounting for the fact that Yuru Yuri is satire on the yuri genre, why was it ever necessary for a woman to put her sisters panties on her head.

Tikal the Echinda by Bendilin and Daniel Sideny.

http://panelmonkey.org/html/tikal-by-bendilin-and-daniel-sideny.html

Anime Mine: Kotone Noda 2.

Vivi Ornitier by Bendilin.

http://panelmonkey.org/html/vivi-ornitier-by-bendilin.html

Forgotten Worlds. Arcade. Players 1 and 2.

The month of December was pretty hectic for me. January is looking the same.
So it'll take me some time to get caught up on all my updates.

http://panelmonkey.org/html/forgotten-worlds-arcade-player-2.html

http://panelmonkey.org/html/forgotten-worlds-arcade-player-1.html

Once again I ran into the problem of the 000 black background.

The first thong I did was to see if the purple that has been used as background on many a sprite sheet on many sites since Windows 7 came out is used in the sprite itself.

(That's the reason why the sprite sheet for Grolla Seyfarth is orange.)

Good, it's not. Now to the The People's Sprites files I was at least smart enough to save off the Internet Archive.

Going into the file folder itself:

What I need to do is change the checkerboard pattern to purple.

Problem solved in a much easier way than the last time.

All I have to do now is take several screen shots and sew them together.

Sparkster, Rocket Knight Adventures for Sega Genesis and Mega Drive.

http://panelmonkey.org/html/rocket-knight-adventures-sparkster-sega-genesis-mega-drive.html

Sparkster for Super Nintendo.

http://panelmonkey.org/html/sparkster-snes.html

This sprite sheet caused me some heart burn. You see the sprites sheets as originally seen on The People's Sprites were all Transparent GIFs or PNGs. I change that because there is no telling how a paint program will react.

Here's what the Sparkster sheet looks like when opened in MS Paint or Paint Shop Pro.

For some reason it comes up as 0,0,0, black. I have no way if that was intended, but it's not good. You never ever want to use 0 black as a background or in a sprite. Same as 255 white. It will screw you up in the long run. (You can use 255 white as a background, please not in the sprite.)

To fix this I open the sheet up in Paint Shop Pro and deleted the background. I then copied the sprites and open the sheet up MS Paint, Ctrl+A, delete, flood fill purple, and pasted the sprites in. Finally I used the maximum magnification to see if the background has shown through any of the sprites.

Normally I would take screen shots of the sprite sheet in Windows Photo Viewer; but the same background color used in it was used in Sparkster's sprite.

I did miss one detail. Turns out Ace_Spark used black font on the tag. So it was deleted when the black background was deleted. I discovered the mistake before writing up this post and fixed it. That was a pain in the butt. About a dozen screen shots of Windows Photo Viewer is what it took to find the proper font size.