Comments on: Art for Flash Games: Characters

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:19:15 +0000

I used to sketch characters and even objects on paper and then try to look at them and duplicate them on screen. Duh! Use the scanner! Since I’ve been doing that the characters/objects have a much more hand drawn feel to them as opposed to straight horizontal/vertical lines and perfect circles, etc.

By: navnneet kaur

navnneet kaur — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:57:42 +0000

i like the ideas of hw they tells us the charactres to make stuff actually now i gettings ideas how
thaks

nav

By: egypt web design

egypt web design — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:09:37 +0000

thanks for this nice Tutorial.

By: Kaolin Fire

Kaolin Fire — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:12:03 +0000

So how would you go from this to animating him? :)

By: SomeNick

SomeNick — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:04:47 +0000

Nice article! Thanks for the tips. I always have a lot of trouble in the graphics department!

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:50:19 +0000

That last comment was meant to be ironic, btw.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:49:28 +0000

Good stuff! Of course, Rob’s art could never compare to mine! :P

By: robotJAM

robotJAM — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Spoken like a true code warrior :)

By: Bob Ippolito

Bob Ippolito — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:05:41 +0000

Maybe people think blue is #0000FF because that’s what the HTML4 specification says it is ;)

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#html4

By: Tim Aste

Tim Aste — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:47:55 +0000

Great article Rob, it’s always very refreshing to see how other artists attack these types of problems. I totally agree, anyone can draw with taking the right first steps. :)

I was actually thinking of writing a similar article on the pipeline I have going for a flash game I’m helping develop. The game uses small 32 color sprite sheets(as opposed to vector art) and I had to create a batch process for getting the animated 3D models out of 3DS Max. I’m not sure how useful such an article would be though.

Example: (http://www.subreal.net/media/tank_fire.swf)