Thread:Strunton/@comment-26176113-20150817233022

(Disclaimer) I know this is going to sound complicated at first, but once you make a few of these, you'll be used to it. Also, if you don't have Windows, this won't really work.

The first thing you need to do is find sprites for each of the characters you want to use. Look up something like "(insert character name here) sprites". If that doesn't work, you might want to check any games they've been in that has sprites of them. You can download an emulator and a game rom to play that game on your computer. You can take a screenshot when the character is in the stance you want, then erase everything around the character so you have his/her sprite. It would be better if the sprites had a similar style, almost as if they came from the same game, but that's optional. Copy and paste the sprites into MS Paint. Click on "Select" around the top left of the screen and check "Transparent Selection" If there is a box around a sprite of any color, click "Erase" in the top left and erase some of it. Click on the Color picker where it says "tools" Then click on the part you erased. Select the paint bucket option and click on the color around the sprite and it'll erase all unwanted colors around a sprite. Next, find a background to put the sprites on. You can go to spritedatabase.net and search "backgrounds" Try to use backgrounds from a game that one of the fighters is from. For example, when I made Riku VS Cynder, I used a background from a Kingdom Hearts game. Depending on the background you use, you might need to put another sprite of an object, or land for the characters to stand on. Now place the characters' sprites on the background. Add in the FIGHT! picture and you're pretty much done. Also, if you have to make something bigger or smaller, Click on select make a box around the sprite. Right click inside of the box and change the numbers in the Horizontal/Vertical boxes to change the size of the sprite. You can also use these sites for resources http://spritefx.blogspot.com/ , http://spritedatabase.net/, or http://www.spriters-resource.com/. If you have any questions just ask me! :) 