Low res arcade graphics artwork (small, animated) ?

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Low res arcade graphics artwork (small, animated) ?

I have a couple LED scrolling signs that I'm messing around with. 3 color scrolling. I'm working on setting up one to display sport scores/news headlines. I've got that working, just not automated yet.

On another I'm trying to put some arcade related animations. Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwJQMEU9vqM or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJekXNMYSt4

I was in contact with the programmer for this a couple years ago through arcadecontrols.com but he hasn't been there much lately. He gave me some of his sotware and I was playing around but that's as far as I got.

Does anyone know if there is an online source for some small graphics images? Animated GIF? There isn't a lot of room to work with on these. 120 pixels x 16 pixels. and only 3 colors Red, yellow, and green (and black). I've seen a couple pacman, or at least ones I can start with. Looking for some other options, suggestions.

I'm hoping someone has done all the tedious work, getting something that small.
 
After a little more research, I think what I'm looking for is sprites pulled from the video games themselves. Then somehow create GIF files from that, and then reduce the colors, etc. I was hoping for a simpler approach!
 
After a little more research, I think what I'm looking for is sprites pulled from the video games themselves. Then somehow create GIF files from that, and then reduce the colors, etc. I was hoping for a simpler approach!

A really simple approach, power up whichever game you want in MAME and use the save-screen feature. You can probably capture all the sprites and their animations if you save enough screens and then edit in an art program.

You'll find the vast majority of the classic game sprites are only 16x16 pixels in size, 4 or 16 colors including transparent.

- James
 
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Thanks for the info. That spriters website looks like what I need. Now I just need to brush on my Photoshop Animation skills.
 
Looks like those sprites will work! It's going to be a lot of layers in Photoshop but I should be able to make this work. Attached is a sample Ms Pacman animation. The sample through the LED software looks proetty good (which it should since it's pixel for pixel)
 

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