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Game development => Game design => Topic started by: Kaddafi on October 24, 2005, 06:08:37 PM

Title: Can anyone share with backgrounds and colouring tutorial links?
Post by: Kaddafi on October 24, 2005, 06:08:37 PM

thx

Title: Re: Can anyone share with backgrounds and colouring tutorial links?
Post by: Columbo on October 25, 2005, 05:12:34 AM

Hi Kaddafi!

Background tutorials vary depending on what style of graphics you intend on using and how experienced you are as an artist. If you want to create a 90's retro-style adventure game, I would recomment http://www.corbydesigns.com/forest/ (http://www.corbydesigns.com/forest/) as a starting tutorial for background graphics. (It also discusses light). The tutorial will appeal to people even with minimal graphics experience.

If you're into creating full 3D graphics, I recommend just getting your hands on a 3D application such as Maya, Max, or something similar, and doing the tutorials that come with them. (Bear in mind however that Maya costs about $10,000 American dollars, and Milkshape does a dreadful job of importing Maya files)

http://www.gamedev.net/ (http://www.gamedev.net/) also has some excellent articles about graphics, audio, etc. In fact, their latest article (at time of writing) is, "Real-Time realistic cloud rendering and lighting". Unfortunately however, the site appeals to programmers and project managers as it discusses things such as classes, methods, and functions. If those words don't hold much meaning with you then you might get a bit lost. However it's still worth a look though.

Hope that helps. :)