Let me start by clarifying some common believes when it comes to creating games. With the vast variety of software available at the moment and the sheer endless amount of our art creation tools and techniques it is impossible to cover everything but I will try to keep my examples basic enough to work with the software of your choice. I will try to mention the different approaches for those software packages. The workflow will be similar if you work with different software like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PhotoShop, CorelDraw or others. All of the examples will be based on free software. I will try to start with some basic ideas and exercises to improve this kind of understanding. With the help of free software like gimp, inkscape, truespace, daz studio and vue pioneer (just to mention a few) combined with a basic understanding of art creation pretty much anyone can create impressive and professional looking results. Due to the budget restraints or in a lot of cases the complete lack of a budget a lot of young indie game developer can’t afford to hire an artist or buy art assets. Creating your own artwork is a necessity for most independent developers. This blog and its tutorials are designed to help non-artist from beginner to advanced increase their skills using tools likee Inkscape. Play around with different STROKE and FILL colors and attributes to change the appearance of your chain just the way you like:ġ0] Try the same technique by using a circle or a SPIRAL and with different objects (a star, or a cube, etc.).Creating game art in Inkscape – Beginner Skills Circles Introduction: Your chain will be created before your very own eyes.Ĩ] Click and drag the chain to separate it from the path underneath.ĩ] Select and delete the underlying path (curve). Click the TOP SELECTION button as shown below:Ĥ] Select both images by pressing the CTRL+A keys or selecting Edit > Select All from the main menu.ĥ] Select Effects >Generate From path > Pattern Along Path from the main menu to display the Pattern Along Path dialog box.Ħ] Configure the Pattern Along Path dialog box settings as below:ħ] Click Apply first, and then click Close. Here is how you can draw a curving chain in Inkscape (version 0.46):ġ] First create one link of the chain with the side view of the second link:Ģ] Then draw a curve, either with the Bezier pen tool or by using one of the closed path (rectangle, circle, star, polygon) tools.ģ] IMPORTANT: Make sure that your chain-link image is the TOPMOST selection.
It’s available for both Windows and Mac OS X systems. However, if you are a technical writer generating relatively straight forward illustrations, you can create amazing drawings by using Inkscape. If you are a commercial artist working for a Madison Avenue advertisement agency the chances are you’ll need Illustrator since it became the industry standard.
Inkscape is a wonderful FREE vector drawing program, almost as powerful as Adobe Illustrator.
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