Minggu, 27 November 2011

Tank Tutorial

Here's a quick tutorial on a cute and cartoony tank requested by one of the members on a game development forum.Note:When you scale in Inkscape holding SHIFT+CTRL down allows for the ratio of height to width to stay intact - which is rather helpful at times... Remember to keep moving and overlapping parts separate when exporting to...

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Jumat, 18 November 2011

Lightning strikes

I had a request for an electricity effect/ lightning strike and think I found a rather quick and simple way to do it in Inkscape. With a some additions it turns into a night lightning strike.If you want to animate these I suggest doing the lines first and altering a copy of the line shape in a new layer [see the animation tutorial for...

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Senin, 14 November 2011

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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Minggu, 13 November 2011

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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Jumat, 04 November 2011

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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Kamis, 03 November 2011

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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Selasa, 01 November 2011

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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Kamis, 27 Oktober 2011

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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Sabtu, 22 Oktober 2011

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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Kamis, 20 Oktober 2011