Make sprite for your game

you dont need to make borders transparent a program erase automaticaly

the background (1 color background )

heres the adress:

sdb.drshnaps.com/downloads.php

his name is alfred spritesheet unpacker

Thanks, tonycrew - works a treat! (kbdmaster, Alferd Spritesheet Unpacker is for unpacking spritesheets - which is not my need at the moment, but may come in useful in the future.)

you can use a light table to draw all angles of movement and to easily manipulate your drawings. Here is a video on how to create your own light box. I made mine (portable) because I used an old scanner. it cost me around $10 at home depot and then of course destruction of the old scanner I never used, time and effort, etc. !

This video was my inspiration and I hope it helps!

youtube.com/watch

Nice one, Bob... but I still think it's a lot easier to set up elements in vector tools like inkscape and do the animations there - Undo-Button and all...

<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ekTaHgI3Tao/Tsv-OhZE8YI/AAAAAAAAAFU/PFozyz_jIUY/s1600/tutorial_sample11b.jpg" border="0" />

The tutorials I am writing on inkscape should allow the simple creation of game art - with a lot of topics still in the pipeline (there is just not enough time in the day)....

Hi,

Good topic at all.

I have some questions:

• SpriteAttack: Have you used table like wacom? Can I draw using keyboard and mouse as well without any wacom? Can Gimp or Inkscape handle onion animation?

SpriteAttack really nice tutorials :D

i'll steal some of those techniques for a future game :D

— - I use a wacom tablet for all my art [pixel, vector, digital painting and 3D] but it's just a matter of what you feel more comfortable with... Inkscape and Gimp work fine either way...

As far as onionskin animation in Inkscape goes it's limited but works - see my latest tutorrial on animation:

2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2011/11/character-animation.html

Ize - I am glad you like the tutorials and would like to see what you come up with.

SpriteAttack

Thanks for your reply. I checked the birds tutorial you did, very nice colors and shapes. I started the Inkspace to try to do these birds alike yours and I got confused how gradient works under it. Very weird, not easy, different as CorelDRAW does.

Later I will post here the picture I created, I think its OK but can be improve it further.

Nice blog SpriteAttack

Looking at your tutorials, it looks so simple ^^

I'll have to install inkscape again some day and mess in it a bit.

I just wrote a tutorial on creating game assets with bitmap output in mind... It might be helpful for the Scirra community...

<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wdYUy2qrtsc/T0WHnNfY_SI/AAAAAAAAAzY/If_QwBKU6Zs/s1600/tutorial_sample28b.jpg" border="0" />

Enjoy!

I use Anime Studio. It's really amazing that you can draw everything so quickly and still looks stylish and professional. And it's not that expensive as PhotoShop :)

Alex - Inkscape is free and so is gimp... ;)

The quick answer is: see video tutorials at spritetools.com

In these tutorials you will learn how to:

1) Draw and edit a vector image    http://youtu.be/rdJLS45O9XA

2) Raster images to vector images youtu.be/nPuv4jbsBgM

3) Make the first frame of a model youtu.be/vW7pkDw8VX4

4) Animate and make a sprite sheet youtu.be/R6RdZiX0EAs

5) In game testing                 http://youtu.be/NzOayKnuFbc

Hey, man. Give Pro Motion a try, from Cosmigo. (Search "Pro Motion Cosmigo" or you probably won't find it). It costs a few dollars but it's a fantastically powerful tool built specifically for spriting. There are video tutorials on how to use it, and there's a manual with it.

Cheers.