2D Game art help
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Hi Guys, I'm rather new to the game development scene and I'm currently working on my first platformer for iOS using cocos2D. The problem is, i have all my art drawn on paper (concepts etc.) but I don't know what programs I can use to transform my concepts on paper into game art for my game. I googled this and most answers pointed me to (1) Photoshop: too complex for me. (2)Pixen: cant find any tuts on how to use this. Any and all help would be nice. Don't be nice or gentle. Let me hear it straight. Thanks
If photoshop is too complicated for you, you should check out gimp or paint.net. Gimp is a bit more complicated, but they are both very helpful, and easy to use tools that i have used. If you are using mac, i cannot help you, but for Windows or Linux (well Ubuntu anyways), gimp works on both, and as far as i know, paint.net only works on windows without wine or some other program to run windows programs. And they are both free.
I've used Gimp, Paint.net and Photoshop for some of my 2D projects in the past and I would personally suggest Gimp. While it is, at first, a little more complicated than PS, I would say it takes no more than a week or two to become fairly competent with the UI. Also, it is extremely well-documented (the user docs are here), has a huge user-base and an active forum at gimpforums.com and has an enormous plug-in library so it will be hard to find anything that it isn't capable of accomplishing.
You really should be using a layer-based image editor for game art as it will speed up the process of generating your sprites once you've got the hang of it.
You really should be using a layer-based image editor for game art as it will speed up the process of generating your sprites once you've got the hang of it.
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Thanks Matthew and runner.. I just got GIMP and It looks like a good choice.
Joew, could you recommend any good starter tuts for Pixelmator? I might check that out as well.
You should definitely check out Pixelmator which is very user friendly and low cost.
Joew, could you recommend any good starter tuts for Pixelmator? I might check that out as well.
Actually they host a ton of them on their site ranging from beginning up to advanced as well as have links to third party.
Just got a Mac (not the retina version unfortunately) and this looks like a great solution for the cost.
It is on sale right now as well for $29.99, down from $59.99.
It is on sale right now as well for $29.99, down from $59.99.
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