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DerekLaufman — Tutorial: Creating Game Art Assets
Published: 2014-01-03 03:52:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 27660; Favourites: 612; Downloads: 455
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I'm working on my new game and I plan to share a lot of the work along the way.
This is my process for creating background assets for the game. Hope you guys find this helpful!
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With Step 4 - Blocking in shadows - what exactly are you doing there? all the line art looks to have changed colour and what colour are you picking for the shadow?
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Nice! I have used separate layers for colors and shadows for things but never to Game assets or backgrounds. Seeing how lovely the results you got, I will try this now.
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I've been looking for something like this for ages. I taught myself how to make sprites but I had no idea how to make background elements. Thanks for sharing this!
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This is very helpful! Thanks for taking the time to make this!
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Came across Bullet Age today and then found my way here. Love your art. Very clean, silhouettes read well, colors pop. Good stuff! Wanted to ask what you're using for animation.
I did work on an indie game once and they had me create each frame as a layer in Photoshop, so the devs could then plop it in Unity. Didn't seem like the most efficient way of doing it. Been dabbling with Flash and After Effects, just not sure which program I should sink more time into.
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I use a combination of Spine (esotericsoftware.com/) and Photoshop. I create the art in photoshop but then the final animation in Spine. They have some great video tutorials on their site. Check them out.
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Very cool. I'll give this a look, thanks!
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I love games which looks like this one!
but can't find any information about this game on site
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It won't be out for another year. We're in the process of creating it.
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can't wait to play it!
btw if you interesting I worked 2 years on classic 2d game for iOS which should be released soon!
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Wow that looks really awesome! Let me know when it's out and I'll download it
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Hey Derek, This is absolutely amazing. I really want to take my art in this direction so I would LOVE it if you were to share more of this process. I haven't forgotten about the interview that I want to send your way either I'll try to organize that this week if you're still keen. Would really like to show some of your process on my website and how people get into what you're doing.
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I'm pretty busy atm but shoot me an email and we might be able to set something up.
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I've been playing around tonight trying to recreate this tonight to some degree Derek. In terms of your lines are you hand drawing all of them or do you go point to point with the brush or line tool to make this? Are your colors on top of the lines to make the lines disconnected or do you just color in parts of the lines after you're done?
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For the line art a hold shift at times for some of the straight lines but I don't do that for all of the lines. I alternate to keep it feeling loose but still having some control. The lines are on top and all one color.
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Same to you, good friend!
Keep up at the great work!!
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now i see: you are the creator of Blocks Cometh XD right?? i love your game!!!
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Indeed I am! Glad you like the game!!
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That looks supercool *O*
Thank you for making a tutorial it's so interesting to see.
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Great tut Derek! Hope the game plays as well as it looks...
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looks like a cool game. looking forward to this coming out in the future.
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