I prefer working with the actual png, it's nicer for me, I'm OCD like that. Gawd I haven't played with Pixel art for an Avi site since ZaffCast, I've just been doing custom work on Maple Story Sprites.

I'm working on shading, other then that I'm decent, I couldn't be an item creator or anything but I like to play around from time to time, when I started spriting in the maple community I became I big critic so when I first joined Tris I was like "omg what is this crap" but I've warmed up to it, still bugs me that the newbie items don't match and look hideous. The only thing I ever liked newbie stuff in was Mabinogi but that's another story. I really need to stop being so critical of the items here xD

The thing with Mabinogi is that it's not meant to be a solo game, it's a very community based game. Minus the few elitist pricks who think they're the most bad-ass players on the servers. Some MMO's play different and you just need to find that thing you're good at in it, you said something about having an elf, which trying to be a mage on an elf is one of the worst ideas, the skills cost more AP but have no bonuses to the human magic.

With Mabi you should start in Tir and do the beginner quests to become familiar with the combat, because it isn't just another game that you can just jump into and click monsters. Alot of people don't like Mabi because it actually requires you to do something and not just click the enemy.

what server were you on, because if you say Ruairi then that's why, everyone on that server are pricks. I'm on Tarlach which is a great server and has alot of awesome people and guilds, yes we have alot of pricks too but we have more cool people then any of the other servers.

Well if you ever decide to try again, join Tarlach and let me know I can help you out, I love helping newbies that don't annoy me.

They have custom colours on alot of the pets, the limited time Dragons and Griffons had custom colours, I almost got a pink Dragon. I wanted a purple one but they didn't have purple. I got the png of the Avi so if I'm slow to respond I'm playing with that >.>

They have flying mounts now, and animals that actually sit on you. like the owl which sits on your head. It really is a great game you just have to find a group of people who are actually cool.