In this blog, I made several 2D carnival (specifically circus) themed pixel art sprites. I began by searching for some cartoon style candy floss machines on Google Images as a reference for my assets. Here are the images I used. Here’s the development of my Pixel candy floss stick… .. And here’s the development of … More Creating 2D Carnival Assets.
For the carnival theme, I will try to make a 3D popcorn machine stand. Here’s some reference pictures I found on Google Images to use… First, I began by making two basic rectangles. One will be for the legs for the stand and the other is for the main popcorn section. Here’s what it looks … More 3D Art: Creating a popcorn machine stand…
In Photoshop, I tried creating a 9mm Glock Pistol. …. I then decided to animate it. I used this video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fr5ccyriJI Here’s the development of the animation: …. Finished result:
It’s important to present artwork to a high standard. Poor presentation and a good piece of work can make it look bad and vice versa. Layout: – Consistent layout, spacing between items. – Background colour, neutral colours such as gray. – Margins – Size & Resolution, must be A3 at 300dpi. – Fonts, keep simple. … More 2D Art – Presenting Artwork
In Photoshop, I designed a rotating pixel art style coin. Made up of 8 frames/layers, I began by creating a basic 16×16 ring, then colouring it in and adding shading and highlights, and finally added a shining effect to it.
Sprite: A sprite is a graohic image, usually a character or object incorporated into a larger scene. Sprite sheets are used for animation purposes to speed up the process of displaying images to the screen. Turning a sprite sheet into a GIF animation: Firstly I loaded up this pre-made sprite sheet into Photoshop and separated … More Animated Sprites:
In this 2D art session, we were tasked to create a 2D texture for a crate using Photoshop and a graphics tablet. Note – The pressure sensitivity was not working due to an error in the graphics tablet drivers. ……… I started by having a basic wood colour, then, using the graphics tablet, I added … More Creating 2D Painted Textures…
Animation techniques: Traditional animation (hand drawn, cell animation) Computer animation (3D, motion graphics, GIF, Flash, Photoshop) Stop motion (Clay animation, cut out, models/puppets) Experimental techniques (flip book, oil on glass, drawn on film, sand animation) Invention of animation: 19th century, scientists discovered you could make still images look like they are moving. Has to be … More 2D Art: Animation
Many games use tillable textures to make creating levels faster and more efficiently. A strong example would be the textures use in the procedurally generated world of Minecraft. As a beginner I plan on going for a pixel art style as it takes less skill to pull off. To begin, I created a new project … More Homework: Creating tile sets.
In this session we explored a variety of topics… Edit: I did not do GCSE Art so most of this was entirely new to me. Character Mashing: The first activity was folding a piece of paper into 3 and drawing one section of a character (head, torso or legs) then folding it over so that … More First 2D Art Session (Collaging and Anatomy/Proportions)
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