How do I rip Rayman 1 sprites to create custom Rayman poses on custom backgrounds?

[Cartoondude135]

Ok, after stumbling upon this:

, I just had to screen capture this as his hair helicopter blades is a MIX of blue and purple in this rainbow background freeze frame. But that's a low quality resolution screen capture. And since this is a glitch in that player's Atari Jaguar system, I might as well build this thing from ripped sprites.

But how do I rip Rayman sprites? I'll need that Picture City background with the rainbow along with Rayman's Super Helicopter haircolors to rebuild this thing along with something like the latest version of Macromedia 8 or something, because it has a feature called "onion skin" that allows me to cycle between making a sprite opaque, transparent, and invisible to make posing more accurate.

BTW, million thx to RayCarrot for redirecting me to Ray1Map as I learned alot about how they set up the wrong answer traps in Rayman learning games! This map viewer brings back so many memories of MapleStory's BannedStory 4. And...

I got what I came for!

It's just mind-blowing how much detail is shoved into one small sprite! And the blue and red antitoons are basically... how do I say it? "Mirror color palettes" of each other. - Blue body, red shoes with blue tips and vice versa.

That picture of the antitoons is what 4k resolution is and I wish to reconstruct those two screen captures of Rayman's mixed color Super Helicopter hair on a rainbow background in 4k resolution with Rayman 1 sprites in something like a Today version of Macromedia 8.

[Hunchman801]

Not sure what your question is; do you already have the sprites handy? If yes, and they come with an alpha channel for transparency, any image editing software should allow you to merge Rayman's helicopter hair with the background of your choice. Even without transparency, you could just apply it uniformly across the sprite and probably get a pretty decent result.

Anyway, interesting discovery regarding the red antitoons being just the regular ones with mirrored colors. The technique is simple, but it works well!

[Cartoondude135]

Not sure what your question is; do you already have the sprites handy? If yes, and they come with an alpha channel for transparency, any image editing software should allow you to merge Rayman's helicopter hair with the background of your choice. Even without transparency, you could just apply it uniformly across the sprite and probably get a pretty decent result.

Anyway, interesting discovery regarding the red antitoons being just the regular ones with mirrored colors. The technique is simple, but it works well!

I do have a Rayman 1 PS1 ROM, but not the sprites... yet. I have yet to extract them, so I need instructions to extract the background sprites of Picture City. Then I need to gather the sprites of Rayman's body so I can pose him in his two super helicopter poses (one with eyes closed and one with eyes open) with his special blue and purple super heli hair in that glitched form you see in the images above. In many freeze frames, his helicopter hair blades are just blue in one form and just purple in another. But thanks to a glitch in this person's Atari Jaguar, Rayman's hair is somehow BOTH blue and purple in this freeze frame and it's perfect in front of this rainbow background!

But those images above are a low resolution quality, I want them in a 4K style quality. So I might as well reconstruct this Rayman pose in front of this specific rainbow background with extracted sprites. But in the process, figuring out how to make his super helicopter have that gliched appearance with both blue and purple in that freeze frame shot.

[Hunchman801]

I have sent you a link to download the sprites for the PlayStation version.

[Eurotool]

Found this website with most (all?) sprites and backgrounds: https://www.spriters-resource.com/playstation/rayman/