Seriously though, forget paint. I can see what you're going throught with your team as far as graphics are concerned, so I'll give you a few recommendations:

1. GraphicsGale - an absolute essential when it comes to sprite sheets, even the Free version allows numerous importing and exporting options, as well as Onion Skinning. It makes creating a proper animation MUCH easier - no longer will you have to move sprites a pixel to the left or right to keep them centered.

2. Paint .NET will be essential if you can't afford Photoshop. Paint Shop Pro is fantastic aswell and it's a legacy program, so you should be able to "find" it no problemo. It features both Vector and Raster graphics, so you'll be able to scale/resize with no quality loss when working in vectors and convert them to rasters whenever you want.

Good luck with the project.


This post has been edited by Foxi4, Fri, November 4th, 2011 at 17:41