Tutorials

[Andail]

Think you have a useful tutorial to add to this list?  One or more of the links here dead?  Send a private message to ProgZmax and let him know.

Edit:  Did some judicious pruning to remove dead/obsolete links and off topic posts.  Should streamline things and make it much easier to find what you want.

Special thanks to Venus for compiling this long list of tutorials and making sure they all work!

ART
http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/index.htm
Mainly for manga style, but there are a few scanning tips and computer coloring tutorials.

http://maniacco.tripod.com/tutorials.htm
By igor, tutorial on walking animation.

http://www.sumrallworks.com/freebies/buttonhole/psp/tutorials/scene/
Paint Shop Pro tutorial.

http://www.digital-creativity.co.uk/tutorials.htm
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?view=4
http://www.spoono.com/photoshop/tutorials/
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-tutorials
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/
http://myjanee.home.insightbb.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.eyesondesign.net/pshop/tuts.htm
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.phong.com/tutorials/
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/category/tutorials/?id=tutorials
http://www.aqa-d.se/2007/fwf.html
http://www.magicpixel.com.au/html/workwel.html
http://www.rtideas.com/ticks/
http://www.screaming-art.com/tutorials.php
http://www.digitaltropic.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.distortion.co.uk/freebies/tutorial.html
http://www.eyeland.com/tutorials.php
http://www.eyesondesign.net/
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
http://www.liknes.no/photoshop/
http://webdeveloper.com/design/
http://www.nalf.se/paintings/index_tutorial002.htm
Lots of different Photoshop tutorials.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d112/Tommy007_/Art/04bfad48.png
How to create a realistic sky effect in Photoshop.

http://www.bluesfear.com/tutorials.php
Photoshop and 3DMax tutorials.

http://www.sumaleth.com/links/
Links to lots of advanced art tutorials.

http://home.quicknet.nl/mw/prive/jjjdekker/backup/tutorial.htm
"Background Drawing With PSP" by def

http://netmonkey.cellosoft.com/tutorials/
Two tutorials by netmonkey: "Hand-Drawn Sprites" and "Lowering Byte Size in High-Color Games"

http://www.zengrenade.com/html-site/tutorials.htm
Tutorials related to creating cartoons.

http://www.animatedbuzz.com/tutorials/proportion.html
http://www.animatedbuzz.com/tutorials/anatomy.html
Human proportion and anatomy.

http://www.fineart.sk/
Human anatomy pictures (WARNING: contains nudity!) and scanned versions of some of Loomis' books.

http://kafkaskoffee.tripod.com/tutorials/phototochartut.htm
How to pixel a character using a photo as reference.
http://kafkaskoffee.tripod.com/tutorials/chartut.htm
How to pixel a low-res character.
http://kafkaskoffee.tripod.com/tutorials/walkcycletut.htm
Templates for walkcycles.
http://kafkaskoffee.tripod.com/tutorials/hirestut.htm
Creating hi-res backgrounds using Photoshop.
http://kafkaskoffee.tripod.com/tutorials/lowrestut.htm
Creating low-res backgrounds using Photoshop.
All these were made by MrColossal.

http://www.idleworm.com/how/anm/02w/walk1.shtml
Tut on creating a cartoony walkcycle.

http://www.anticz.com/Walks.htm
Creating a more realistic walkcycle.

http://www.hot.ee/increator/draw.htm
Background tut by InCreator

http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials
Loads of tuts on drawing, digital illustration etc.

http://www.zoggles.co.uk/asp/tutorials.asp?show=index
Isometric pixelart, though not all in English

http://www.interphilz.de/ags/tutstair.html
"Building stairs step by step tutorial"

http://herculeaneffort.adventuredevelopers.com/tutorials/ian/background.html
How to draw realistic-looking backgrounds by big brother.

http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~rpyjp/a_notes/anim_contents.html
Animation tuts.

http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm
Coloring tutorial.

http://www.starwars.com/kids/activity/draw/
Drawing in the style of the Star Wars comic books.

http://www.derekyu.com/extras/pixel01.html
Pixelart tutorial by Derek Yu.

http://www.indylc2.com/tutorial.html
Background tut by Carl-Johan Hagberg, Indiana Jones style.

http://website.lineone.net/~john.montgomery/howtodrawmonkeys.html
"How to Draw Monkeys the Lucas Arts Way" by William Tiller.

http://www.lucasstyle.com/tutorials.htm
Links to tutorials related to the Lucas Arts style.

http://www.geocities.com/indyprojectus/stalwarttutorial.html
How to make LucasArts-style backgrounds.

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/rje.jpg
A random tips and tricks image by 2ma2.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=410461
Digital Painting Video Sketchbook by Bobby Chiu.

http://www.gimptalk.com/
GIMP tutorials.

http://oliwerko.wz.cz/Tips.txt
Tips for beginners on how to create first background and character with all walkcycles by Oliwerko.

MUSIC
http://www.baco.nu/music
Links to tutorials on lots of different aspects of music. For some reason, so stupidly designed that it's hardly readable without marking the text.

AGS
http://www.sylpher.com/TutGUI.html
Some scripting, GUIs.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/actutor.htm
The official AGS scripting tutorial by Chris Jones.

http://www.geocities.com/akk13us/rpg-tuto.htm
Making RPGs with AGS by Gord10.

GAME DESIGN/WRITING
http://www.sirlin.net/Features/feature_RethinkingStoryGames.htm
An article on shocking insights on game design.

http://www.ihfsoft.com/articlesgamedesign.htm
Offers lots of links on game design, but unfortunately mostly to Gamasutra, which requires a login.

STORYBOARDING
http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/TechHelp/Storyboarding.html
Tutorial using a storyboard to explain storyboarding.

MISC
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/
Some fantasy art, writing and marketing tutorial site. Lots of tutorials.

http://www.greggman.com/pages/making2.htm
About making games in general.

http://www.icehousedesigns.com/tutorials/
Offers links to different tutorials on how to create a website and Photoshop.

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20020308/saltzman_pfv.htm
Creating Characters, Storyboarding, and Design Documents.

http://www.gamedev.net/
http://gamasutra.com/
Sites on game development in general.

http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html
Helps you to create walkcycles. Not really a tutorial, but great anyway.

http://www.artnatomia.net/uk/artnatomy.html
Like the link above not a tutorial, but more of a neat online application that can help you to create facial expressions.

http://www.bripro.com/scistudio/tutorial/index.html
Making a game with SCI Studio.

http://www.barnettcollege.com/tutorials.htm
Three tutorials from the FoY team on writing an Indy story, realizing a particle system and drawing backgrounds in Indy style.

[JD]

http://home.quicknet.nl/mw/prive/jjjdekker/backup/tutorial.htm

A really old tutorial of mine, made it back in 1998 or something. I was talking to
Pessi about it, and he suggested I should re-post it. Well, hope it helps someone!

[Igor]

Some animation tutorials:
http://maniac.adventuredevelopers.com/tutorialsmain.htm

[jannar85]

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/8551/howto.html

[Butcher]

there's also some scripting tutorials by spyros in :
http://www.gac.gamespage.com

[edmundito]

http://netmonkey.cellosoft.com/tutorials/
Tutorial one: Hand-drawn sprites
Tutorial two: using  256-colored backgrounds in your hi-color games (and how to reduce the size of your hi-color games by doing so )

[Evil]

i has a tut now too... CLICK ME!!!
the rooms are sad, i know... but its teh... no, its not the thought...um...i tryed...

[jannar85]

http://www.andygriffiths.com/

[gonzalezj]

Here is the updated MISC Url.

http://home.attbi.com/~gonzalezj144/tutorials/install.html

It might take a while to load because it has alot of pictures and it's on a sort of a slow server.

[jannar85]

Full of Photoshop tuts:
http://photoshopresource.com/tutorials.asp

Tech for Painter:
http://home.earthlink.net/~athene/painter/

*** edit ***
This site r0x0rz!!1
http://www.thewebmachine.com/

http://www.teamphotoshop.com/photoshop/tutorials/ps_tut_techniques.php

http://www.tutorialforums.com

http://www.designerslounge.org/

[OneThinkingGal and ._.]

http://www.animatedbuzz.com/tutorials/proportion.html
http://www.animatedbuzz.com/tutorials/anatomy.html

[OneThinkingGal and ._.]

www.fineart.sk - Lots of anatomy refs and Loomis' books (Warning:contains nudity, both sexes)

[Jimi]

CMI style characters

[EDIT]
Link should work now.

[Synthetique]

sorry jimi.. that link didnt work..  

[Scummbuddy]

CMI Characters:
http://user.tninet.se/~vqb114l/ilb/tutorials/col.htm

Great stuff over at the AGS Academy

http://agsacademy.tripod.com/tutorial.htm

[jannar85]

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?view=4

[OneThinkingGal and ._.]

Very good walk cycle tut:

http://www.idleworm.com/how/anm/02w/walk1.shtml

[Miez]

Not afraid to get stuck with a measly 320x150 pixel background? Check out this tutorial on backgrounds, Fountain of Youth style:

http://screen7.adventuredevelopers.com/foy/tutorial1.htm

Have lot's of fun!

[jannar85]

Photoshop Remember that some might be duplicates...
http://www.thinkdan.com/tutorials/index.html
http://www.deepspaceweb.com/
http://www.spoono.com/tutorials/photoshop/
http://www.pixeljunction.com/tutorials.php
http://www.eyewire.com/tips/photoshop/
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/photoshop-tutorials-tips.html
http://www.spyroteknik.com/
http://www.carbonfour.com/tutorials/
http://jereme.gfxsites.net/
http://www.dubtastic.com/
http://www.digitalwebgold.com/resources/tutorials.htm --- metal effects gallore
http://www.designsbymark.com
http://www.effectlab.com/
http://www.jlswebsource.com/tutorials.html
http://tutorials.dreaminfinity.com/
http://www.eyeball-design.com/page09.htm
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop.htm
http://www.myjanee.com/jnetuts.htm
http://www.eyesondesign.net/pshop/tuts.htm
http://www.deepspaceweb.com/sections.php
http://www.thinkdan.com/tutorials/photoshop.html
http://www.photoshopcafe.com
http://www.phong.com/tutorials
http://robouk.gdesign.nl/tutorials/
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials.html
http://www.pankpages.com/tutorials/photoshoptut.htm
http://www.stewartstudio.com/tips/phototip.htm
http://www.aqa-d.se/
http://www.magicpixel.com.au/html/workwel.html
http://www.rtideas.com/ticks/
http://www.screaming-art.com/tutorials.php
http://www.digitaltropic.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.perfectpixels.com/index.cfm?method=photoshop
http://www.distortion.co.uk/freebies/tutorial.html
http://www.arraich.com/ps_intro.htm
http://www.stridingstudio.com/tutorials/
http://www.eyeland.com/tutorials.php
http://user.fundy.net/morris/main.html
http://europa.spaceports.com/~beatop/tutorials.htm
http://www.carbonfour.com/tutorials/
http://umojan99.tripod.com/
http://www.webteknique.com/
http://www.nebulus.org
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/
http://www.wastedyouth.org/tutorials/index.html
http://www.masteratwork.com/ed/7denierave/
http://www.tutorialforums.com/index.php?referrerid=62
http://www.theroot42.org/forum/
http://www.shadowness.com
http://www.dreaminfinity.com
http://zap.to/simsi
http://rainworld.com/psworkshop/
http://www.bluesfear.com/PS_tutorials.htm
http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html?photoshop.shtml
http://www.designcentret.com/pstips.asp
http://www.arsiweb.com/mainindex.htm
http://www.shadowness.com/tutorials.html
http://www.eyesondesign.net
http://www.eyeball-design.com
http://www.neofrog.com
http://www.somethingleet.com
http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html?photoshop.shtml
http://www.myjanee.com/PSRL/tutfind.htm
http://tutorials.yo.lv/
http://rainworld.com/psworkshop/
http://www.screaming-art.com/tutorials.php
http://www.hah.net/p5/
http://www.relique.net/brushy/
http://www.andygraphics.com/
http://www.ozones.com/
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
http://www.go.to/designstudios
http://www.designsbymark.com/
http://home.no.net/infernoz/
http://www.liknes.no/photoshop/
http://www.gfxmania.com/
http://www.phong.com/
http://doodle.quadrent.net/main.html
http://www.thinkdan.com/
http://www.deepspaceweb.com/
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/
http://webdeveloper.com/design/
http://www.shoggot.com/bronze/home.html
http://www.hl-design.com/Reopening/index2.html
http://www.wastedyouth.org/
http://www.screamdesign.com/
http://www.digitalwebgold.com/resources/tutorials.htm
http://actionfx.com/index2.shtml
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/
http://www.phasegfx.com/
http://nijiro.net/serene/
http://www.dubtastic.com/tutorials.html
http://www.stridingstudio.com/Studio
http://planeta.terra.com.br/
http://vectorize.de/tutorial.html
http://www.vegar.net/

[Necro]

A nice custom GUI tutorial...


http://www.amazing-ebooks.co.uk/ags/tutorials/tut5.html