Character Animation...

I should state that this is just one way of doing animations. It's very similar to old school cut out animations. It's not as fluid as hand drawn animations or 3D work but it's a straight forward and somewhat easy to follow approach. It works quite well with small size sprites. Creating the [soon to be animated] cavemanIt's pretty much...

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Creating more characters...

I am still working on the animation tutorial but thought I post some characters that happened on the side while creating the tutorial...&nbs...

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Cracking up

Here's a quick post on how to create the crack in the office window tutorial. It's basically a quick use of the straight line and bezier curve tool and some moving around of nodes. Note:Combining the spiky shapes (Path/ Union) cleans it up a little bit more - as you won't see the overlaps. Keep in mind to combine two objects at a time...

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Creating a basic face

Taking the last post a little further this tutorial will feature a basic face by using mainly circles (again), some more advanced straight line tool and the node modifier. With the inital setup done it's time to play with the shapes and try out some variations.I hope you enjoyed this addition and it gave you some ideas how to have fun...

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More fun with circles

I just played around with more circles and a different approach to the eyes from the first tutorial... as well as using the bezier curves and straight line tool for some simple shapes.Variation is the key. You can use the elements to form all sorts of critters. As always - I hope you enjoy this tutorial and I hope you have more fun with...

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Creating a game character

 Let's get  started on a simple 2D character. There are a lot of resources and tutorial out there on character creation and animation - most of which written by and for artists and animators. I will try and break in down to simple elements and easy to follow steps. Note:Some of the techniques used in this tutorial have been...

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Quick tutorial on the stamp shape

During the beach tutorial I created stamp border for the illustration. Here is the step-by-step on how to get there. Note:The reason for ungrouping and combining the circles first lies in the restriction in Inkscape to only do a Union, Difference, Intersection, Exclusion or Division between two objects.Tools like CorelDraw can do these...

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Creating a character...

I was playing around with some shapes for the animation tutorial when the character started to take on a life of it's own....

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Office windows... a quick request tutorial

One request I have is a quick tutorial of a simple, shiny office window for a game tile. All you do is play around with some rectangles, the clip tool and some gradient fills.I hope this explains it a little bit. Enjoy and keep the requests and feedbacks coming...Get the source art (svg file) of this tutorial forUSD 3....

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Staying in shape... the Clip Tool...

In line with the water theme let's go ashore and look at a sunset on the beach to introduce some more helpful tools and techniques.This is our basic 'pop style' sunset with some modified circles and gradient alpha fills added to represent some rocks in the water. It's time to add some palm trees for the tropical feel.One of the 'wonderful'...

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