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2D All the way! / Artist's Hello!

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tunners
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Posted: 31st Aug 2010 07:40
Oh hi!

I'm a musician and artists, currently looking into programming and there's something about dB that's very appealing

I've seen a couple of topics with art in it, so I thought I'd post a couple of pics here from a game I'd like to make at some point:

Rhea Jackson and Captain J. Splinter:




JLMoondog
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Posted: 1st Sep 2010 10:52
I like the design, very monkey island. So whats your game?

tunners
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Posted: 1st Sep 2010 20:46
sort of a platform-shooter with a twist.

you control two characters at once (sort of )

you control Rhea, she's very athletic so can jump high etc, but she has no offensive capabilities whatsoever. she's controlled with WASD.

in terms of weapons, you control a magic picture frame (which was made out of Captain Splinter's pegleg after he died) with the mouse. it can only move in a small circular zone around Rhea but can blast magic in the direction it's facing.

you can also double jump by pointing the frame downwards and firing a blast.

of course, i'm completely new to programming, so that pipe dream is up there with my plan to open a bakery
LBFN
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2010 02:38
Looking very cool. May I ask what program you used to draw them? Have you used 2D animation software?

So many games to code.......so little time.
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2010 03:26
Actually sounds like an interesting idea. Would be cool to see in action. I think if you break everything down and work on each function separately it's possible to build. DB is easy to learn as-well so it's closer to possible then impossible.

Libervurto
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Posted: 25th Sep 2010 15:21
Charming graphics.

luskos
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Posted: 26th Sep 2010 03:30
Very good work!What software you used for making?I'm targeting to something similar and i'm new with the brush.Mainly i'm interested what do you use to animate characters in 2d?

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tunners
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Posted: 26th Sep 2010 07:32
hey thanks a lot for the nice comments

LBFN and luskos: I first did some sketches on graph paper, then scanned in the best one. Then I used Photoshop and the pen tool to draw out the main lines and added details using my old wacom graphire 3. Then I just used the brush tool and tablet to colour everything in.

About animating, for sprites I use GraphicsGale and for bigger drawings I use Toon Boom Studio. I do need more practice at animation though
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Posted: 27th Sep 2010 16:34
You obviously have artistic talent to be able to draw/fill like that.

I have the free version of Graphics Gale, but I have only drawn a couple of things with it. It seems the free version does not allow for animation.

Since I lack the talent you do, sometimes I will create a 3D model, texture it, grab a screen pic of it and make adjustments to it in order to make 2D stuff. It makes for better images than I could draw. Anyway, good going. Looking forward to seeing them included in a game.

I'm not really a programmer.....I only play one on TGC.

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