Create 2D video game art with Inkscape!
Offered By: Skillshare
Course Description
Overview
If you have a good game idea, and you want to create your own custom graphics, this course is for you!
You will learn Inkscape, a free design program, and create all the game art you need to create a 2d mobile game! And why stop there?
As Inkscape is a vector graphics program, your game assets will be scalable and higly versatile. Create them once and use them on any device and any resolution! From Android and iPhones to desktop computers.
What we will create:
- hearts and stars
- platforms
- buttons
- characters
- animations
- backgrounds
- and monster trucks :D
And while creating useful game art, you also learn all about Inkscape!
Join the course and
- create characters, platforms, buttons and simple animations for your mobile game!
- create quality game graphics, that can sell on online marketplaces!
- create 2d game graphics suitable for Yoyo games Game Maker, Gamesalad, Unity 2D or any other program!
- use the free design tool Inkscape and create much more than just game art
And remember: I am here to teach and help you! If you have any question, just ask!
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Inkscape user interface
- My first object
- Dealing with multiple objects
- Basic color usage
- Path operations
- Gradient and group
- Modify path - the fun begins here!
- BOOM! Create a bomb!
- Export Your svg file!
- Export bitmap
- Text tool basics
- Align and distribute
- Creating button states
- Button variations
- Create a platform
- Tiling the platform
- Platform mutations
- Draw a top down character
- Basics of character design
- Making character states
- Another guy: simple blob character
- Set up a character walk cycle
- Finish walk cycle
- Understand backgrounds
- Tiling backgrounds
- Foreground and background relation
- Backgrund mutations
- Modularity - the best Inkscape can do for your game!
Taught by
István Szép
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