Alot of the questions on the boards lately have been art related questions, eg, what programs should i use?? How do i make l33t backgrounds or kickass characters!!
Well this thread here is going to be your one stop shop for art type links and stuff!
Anyhoo, just add your art links to this thread, and we will get chris to make this a sticky topic so it's always here for reference.
Image Creation/Manipulation Programs:
www.jasc.com/ - The Jasc web site, authors of Paint Shop Pro.
www.adobe.com/ - The Adobe web site, authors of Photoshop.
www-msi.ensil.unilim.fr/~...rafx2.html - The home of Grafx2, a dos based paint program.
download.cnet.com/downloa...15.8774710 - NeoPaint for windows. Free paint program.
download.cnet.com/downloa...14.8774713 - Neopaint for dos. Free paint program.
www.ultimatepaint.com/ - paint program... don't know anything about it.
Generic Art Tutorials:
www.polykarbon.com/ - This is mainly for manga style tutorials, but there are a few scanning tips and computer colouring tutorials.
2d Game Art Tutorials:
kafkaskoffee.tripod.com/ - Mr Colossal's Home page. Tutorials are in the games section. There are some cool sprites in the art / sprite section.
user.tninet.se/~vqb114l/ilb - The Intoxicated Little Bunny web site. Contains great tutorials by 2ma2.
tsugumo.swoo.net/tutorial/ - excellent 2d art tutorials that deal with rpg and street fighter type graphics. Still helpful though... And read the faq as well.
pixelation.cjb.net/ - The pixelation msgboards. Lots of great stuff here too.
maniacco.tripod.com/tutorials.htm - By igor, really nice tutorial on walking animation.
www.geocities.com/rotokoco/tutorials/ - Tutorials by some guy who hangs out on the pixelation msgboards. Both are really good!
elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/ - Some fantasy art tutorial site. Lots of tutorials. I didn't think it's relevant (i dislike many things fantasy, so i'm not a geek, hehehe... nah) but someone requested it to be put up, so here it is. Suckas!
Documentation:
www.idevgames.com/downloa...torial.pdf - An excellent document on game animation. Highly recommended!


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