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

[MrColossal]

http://www.concult.com/bm/index_tutorial002.htm

for to learn how photoshop shortcuts work and such

[12431]

are there any tutorials on how to draw Darkness(tm) style art?

[phact0rri]

I've seen a lost posts about music composing, and people not sure how to do it.  I suppose I'm in a lucky boat cause I'm an artist and a musician, but lots of good art tutorials... okay a ton!  and they are gonna help out a lot.  also the Gui Tutorial rocked Necro.

Okay so here are a few Music related Tutorials and Information sources for some softsynth programs.  For those who don't know what soft Synth is, its short for Software Synthsizers.  Which means it simulates samplers, keyboards, and programs like reason that give you a full Virtual rack.  


http://www.synthzone.com/cubase.htm - It a link archive of some exellent and some mediocre Cubase links.

http://armadaelectro.free.fr/liste-ar.html - this is a great resource for Synth encoding, theory and lots more

http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/studio/soft_synths.html - a good site that goes over some programs.

http://www.funk-station.co.uk/retutorials.htm - is a tutorial for reason, which I believe you can still get a trial copy of.

http://www.propellerheads.se/ - this is the home page for reason... check this program out.  Reason2 is wonderful.  I swear by them.

and finally if you want to listen to some of my musik I'm on mp3-dot-com under.. *gasp* phact0rri  

[Hobbes]

How to draw Buccaneer-style:

http://www.unosar.com/tut1.html

With special thanks to MrColossal and Pessi for introducing these methods to me by posting in Farlander's topic a long, long time ago.

[12431]

I love that "square" style.

[Moresco]

To start, there are too many broken links here.  Someone needs to clean them up.  Also, I can't tell where one link ends & the titles are smashed into them equally badly.  There needs to be a tutorial on how to post links next.

I didn't see any musical tutorials for games, does anyone have some?

[MrColossal]

a little thing on layers



1. The image.

2. The layers I used.

3. Visualize the layers as clear pieces of plastic that you're painting on and they rest on top of each other. That way you can easily edit things without disturbing the other parts of the image.

4. Like now I wanted to add a tree so I paint it on a new layer and just slipped it into place.

And my new image is done!

[Scummbuddy]

Lightwave 3d Tutorial on Characters

http://www.puppydoodle.biz/tutorials/Janet_01.htm

[Alexis Vale]

I took the liberty of putting all these links thus far into a html file for quick reference. They're kind of organized (translation: generally organized under categories in ABC order-ish)

http://professor_lexi.tripod.com/ags_links.html

[Minimi]

Wow! That's great! Put mine also between it!

http://minimi.spijbelaars.com/solidus/tutorials.html

[12431 at school]

are there any tutorials in this world that could teach us to make scaaary bugs or mutants?
I'd appreciate it if anyone knew of one, or made one.  

[Pau]

I've recently  found a useful tool to create tutorials. It's freeware, exports both flash (.swf) and .exe. It creates very visual tutorials. I didn't test it very deeply but it seems interesting:

Wink: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

[Scummbuddy]

Here's a link found by Proskrito:

http://www.bml.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Demos/BMLwalker.html

It helps you with walking animations for really any character you could create. (as long as their human like....)

[Al_Ninio]

I found this nice article on antialiasing by hand, thought I should share it with you people.
http://www.rpi.edu/~laporj2/essays/aa/

[Hinders]

Does anyone know any tutorials on howto make DOTT like backgrounds?
I love em!

[Mr Jake]

Are there any about cartoonish (not like DOTT) vector backgrounds??

[Hinders]

dott..dott...

[Miez]

Great tutorials for a lot of graphical software (mainly 3D) can be found at:

** 3D Cafe **

[InCreator]

Here's my background drawing tutorial:
http://www.hot.ee/increator/draw.htm

[Hinders]

looks awesome increator...however...not my style....

[DragonRose]

I managed to find some tutorials for writing at
http://teenwriting.about.com/cs/gamefiction/

It's not all tutorials though. There's a link to Josh Roberts' design journals on AdventureGamers and one to AGS itself. Nifty!

[jannar85]

http://www.unosar.com/tut1.html <--- background tut

[Corby]

http://academic.algonquincollege.com/students/lacr0094/Lesson/tut.htm
Quest For Glory like Town Tutorial

[Darth Mandarb]

I read through all links and didn't see this one ...

A slew of tutorials available at GFXArtists.com:
Tutorials Directory

There are some great tutorials there.  An especially nice one for making clouds (realistic).

~ d

[Babar]

Does anyone know where to get some tutorial on how to draw animating water? Preferabely with it hitting the beach/rocks/ship.

[Farsight]

I'm looking for a good easy VGA tutorial. Can anyone help?

[Blackthorne]

I'm looking for a good easy VGA tutorial. Can anyone help?

No such thing bro.......

Gotta read all kinds of tuts, and amalgamate them yourself.....
Time and work, bro to make EGA to VGA bkgs.

[veryweirdguy]

Earlier on, I think someone mentioned Sumaleth's Link Archive. Well, if they didn't, there it is. If they did, there it is again.

Anyway, browsing through it I found this most awesomest of tutorials.

BEHOLD!

Now I can finally make awesome graphics like I've always wanted.....

[Edwin Xie]

Pretty cool on Increator's website. You could problably use a shareware program for 1000 years.

[Alexis Vale]

http://www.free-webspace.biz/textfiles/xxxx/ags.doc

A big list of the sites thus far.
I'm working on the list, taking out broken links and adding descriptions and re-sorting them into categories.

[Migs]

Thanks for doing that, AlexisVale.Ã,  Here's another link for you, on Isometic Pixel Art: http://www.zoggles.co.uk/asp/tutorials.asp?show=index

There's a bunch of other links on there, too, under "Other Tutorial Links."Ã,  You might want to add those, too, if they haven't already been added.

[NaStY_FrEaK]

Hello  from me 
I wan`t to ask if there are any Flash drawing tutorials ,because I bought this program long ago,but didn`t realize how good Bg`s it can make!
Help apriciated!

[Gfunkera]

Looking for some good MSPaint Tuts for 320 x 240... I'm having a hard time with shading, and texturing rooms...      I guess any tutorial for 320 x 240 but MSPaint would be nice.

[Mephistophilis]

How about tutorials on Custom Save/Load GUIs? I can't get Necro's Link to work. And i'm asking for a Tutorial as opposed to A big block of Scripting to Chuck into the global, I've Tried using the GAC one but it's to much hassle.

[falconmusic]

my website http://www.falconmusic.tk has a (in the works) tutorial and mixing composing and mastering music on your computer.

[Edwin Xie]

You know, I think andail needs to update the first post, some has broken links.

[Phemar]

EDIT: The tutorials on my site were removed, no point in posting a broken link.

[aussie]

I made a 320x200 background drawing tutorial (DOTT style graphics). Please paste link on your address bar, otherwise geoshitties will tell you the page cannot be found.


http://www.geocities.com/pscribetute/


It's "the sustainable way".

[intermalte]

A "Building stairs step by step tutorial" with a focus on perspective.

http://www.interphilz.de/ags/tutstair.html

[Scummbuddy]

A fellow by the name of "Lain" has posted a mini-tut of how he makes his backgrounds, over on the FOY forum.Ã,  Here's the link: http://www.miez.nl/yabbse/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=418












-------------

Go to the link to get his commentary and notes about making it. And leave some praise for him.

[big brother]

I made this background tutorial a while ago, but some of you may still find it useful.

http://herculeaneffort.adventuredevelopers.com/tutorials/ian/background.html

[viktor]

I found these great tutorials. Maybee not for games but great for GUIs and websites.

http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/

[Damien]

I've been looking Andrew Loomis' pdf books, but the saveloomis site doesn't host them anymore. Searching the net I found one zip including 5 of his books in odf format:
-Creative illustration
-Drawing the heads and hands
-Eye of the painter
-Fun with a pencil
-Succesfull drawing

Get it while it's still online here:
Loomis Books.zip - 129mb

[Queen Kara]

Somebody suggested to me that I should put a list I made in some places other than in my newbie thread / that it was better suited here and another place. I think it's a good idea so I hope you all like it.

May Not Always Be Working Links
http://bfaq.terran-x.com/
http://www.garage.co.nr/

Working Links
http://bfaq.xylot.com/
http://www.freewebs.com/skimbleshanks/
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/rmakesrc.zip
http://www.sylpher.com/tuts.html
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/scifonts.htm
http://www.hot.ee/increator/draw.htm
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ags231manual.pdf
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ags24bmanual.htm
http://sylpher.com/kafka/anisprites.shtml
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/actutor.htm
http://www.geocities.com/akk13us/rpg-tuto.htm
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/hosted/german/Gameslate_Index_D.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Cheeze_head675/makeback.html
http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~fjds/ags_notes.html
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/acplugin.htm
http://www.strazer.net/ags/tidbits.htm
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ackb.shtml
http://www.sylpher.com/ig/
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/acfaq.htm
http://www.tdrdesign.net/downloads/fontedit.exe
http://www.3030deathwar.co.uk/editor3.zip
http://www.bripro.com/scistudio/index.php
http://www.adventure-treff.de/fanadv/tutorials.php
http://www.btinternet.com/~ctswin/web/

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/midiptch.zip

Broken Links
http://user.tninet.se/~vqb114l/ilb/tutorials.htm
http://www.gameslate.com/murder/ags/
http://swunlimited.freeservers.com/AGSTUTs.htm
http://www.mattgoble.com/interaction/ags/
http://enom.overtureparking.com/index.php?domain=slaveinostudios.com
http://www.juncmodule.com/mt/archives/cat_games.html
http://www.mattgoble.com/interaction/ags/
http://xo7.adventuredeveloper.com/

[Estaog]

Umm.... why did you post broken links?

[Scummbuddy]

so we can see about getting them fixed....

[magintz]

Found a nice one today, worth a look at for making walk animations. It's based aeound flash but the idea is all the same

http://www.eyeteach.com/

[MrColossal]

[cleaning out the contributions thread, reposted by eric, originally posted by lo_res_man, thank you Steve]

It may be weird seen a hi res art teplate from ME, but here you go...

this is the VERY large( in IMAGE size not file size) verson that you first draw. it is done with the curve tool and the 2 line width marker for small details


and here it is after you copy it to Irfan view and did a 50%resize, with the RESAMPLE on.

Here is stage one of outer edge lighter colours removal, done inÃ,  ms-paint

and here is stage two. Almost done!

And here is the done sprite, perfact for uploading into AGS
NOTES.You MUST copy the double line image in a EVEN number image size. That uses the least colours. And allows you to do the one-two unwanted edging removelÃ,  the way I did.
AND here he is. M'Lud in Boxers!
this is a template to show how i make hi res charactors, hope it helps.

[Neutron]

here's my tutorial  http://home.att.net/~zolgnar/grassyplane2.htm
it covers the making of: sky, distant mountains, and a grassy plane, and teaches you how to make an image pipe in GIMP.

[rika]

 Anyone who has music doubts can ask me... I'm no pro but I got some very compositions on a guitar site.

[RocketBoy]

After a bit of online research on walcycles (especially front walk cycles), here is my best find:

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

Make sure to check the following link in that site; good references for front walkcycle are rare!

http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~rpyjp/a_notes/walk_reference_03.html

EDIT: Check also
http://www.anticz.com/Walks.htm

[Mr Flibble]

Heres a good colouring tutorial. I've heard it described as "best ever".
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm

Enjoy.

[AlbinoPanther]

we need good character tut. if it's not good give us any just please help

[Mr Flibble]

Heres a tut about how to make a character (not draw) penned by myself for some website.

http://www.fangames.co.uk/V6/features/index.php?feature=6

[AlbinoPanther]

Heres a tut about how to make a character (not draw) penned by myself for some website.

thanks this help us a bit but still don't know how to draw character.Increator said that that is more like a skill and it is skill but every skill in some point is learned from somewhere.Do anybody knows where to find character DRAW tut. thanks for help

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I'm not really sure about drawing characters being a skill you can learn from a tutorial.  I don't read drawing tutorials anyway, didn't go to school for art (Electronic Engineering), and I don't consider myself particularly gifted.  To draw a really good character (I think) all you need is:

1.  A really good idea (only imagination can provide this)
2.  Alot of patience and dedication.

If you're really stuck for ideas, try to work out the size and detail you want and then look at some reference sprites that fit your requirements.  I am not an advocate of paint overs, I don't feel you learn anything useful by drawing over someone else's work.  Using it as a visual aid, however, can often be useful.

[Mr Flibble]

Photos/Other sprites are invaluable when you're starting out.
If you played my one room game The Find, the player character was the only bit I considered finished. And I drew his standing view (never seen in the game though) whilst looking intently at Boston Low from The Dig, as that was the type of character I wanted to draw.

If you're going low res, and it doesnt look right to you, play about with it. One pixel can make a pile of difference.

[Andail]

As a response to recent troubles with perspective with two viewpoints.
A little step-by-step 2 tutorial. It's rather self explanatory.






x2

[Nine Toes]

Was doing some research on how to add more detail to isometric pixel art, and found this: http://rhysd.syntesis.org/tutorial/.

[FlyRider]

Andail, your "Create an installation program for your game"-link does not work... http://www.xoing.com/member/bobjonesiscool14/tutorials/install.html

[Happyhelmet]

The "Create an installation program for your game" was one of my old tutorials from way back in the day. I found it and put it back online and found that it was a tad outdated. I will hopefully create a new one in the future, but here you go anyways.

http://i.domaindlx.com/happyhelmet/tutorials/install.html

[AlbinoPanther]

Is there any good photoshop BG tut

[Bastos]

Hey everybody, about a year ago, i made some images based upon screenshots from LSL3.
I recently got back to them and i made a small tutorial on how i created them.

I hope it can be of some use....

http://users.telenet.be/kristofds/




Enjoy....

[TheYak]

For facial expressions, came across this interesting web-based app:
Artnatomia
Useful for seeing layers of muscle and skull in varying opacities as well as showing more basic common facial expressions.  Even if not useful in specifics, reproduction would make an excellent drawing lesson.

[Corey]

maybe we should critizise the tutorial...??

[SinSin]

maybe we should critizise the tutorial...??

Maybe you should get a life

[Krysis]

If you are a Star Wars® fan you would like this one:

http://www.starwars.com/kids/activity/draw/

It has a dosen easy and fun to do step-by-step tutorials on how to draw SW characters, ships and stuff.

[MarVelo]

Here is a tutorial for how to do sky's in your backgrounds with photoshop. It pretty much sucks because it's by yours truely but It is simple, short, and to the point. Read and learn n00bs.


http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d112/Tommy007_/Art/04bfad48.png

[Scummbuddy]

Here's a pixel art tutorial I found while browsing around the net by a Derek Yu:

http://www.derekyu.com/extras/pixel01.html

[Business_Eskimo]

Scummbuddy, thanks! Looks quite helpful.

By the way, I have been going through the links in this tutorial for my own personal use, sorting them into categories and removing broken links and whatnot. At least half of the links are broken. Would it be appreciated if I posted a list of the reorganized links here on the AGS boards?


Edit 5/8/06 - I am done going through the links and I am just sorting them now. I'll have it done soon

[MashPotato]

I think that would be very helpful.  Thanks! ^_^

[SinSin]

http://www.elementgaming.simgames.net/
http://www.emugifs.emuita.it/home.htm
http://www.explore-rpg.com/resources.htm
http://fated-circle.com/
http://www.fireball20xl.com/sprites.html
http://flashstand.com/sprites.php?mode=main
http://www.gaminggroundzero.com/
http://www.gamingw.net/
http://www.gsarchives.net/
http://www.molotov.nu/?page=graphics
http://pages.cthome.net/mnoni/webpage/spritesheets.html
http://www.panelmonkey.org/
http://rpgdragoon.2ya.com/
http://www.rpginfinity.com/
http://www.rpg2knet.com/resources/
http://tsgk.captainn.net/
http://www.sprite-town.tk/
http://www.odinsrealm.com/tatakau/
http://www.vgws.com/
http://www.gifsyndicate.com/
http://www.deekman.cjb.net/
http://www.psyguy.com/

Just thought these might be useful

[Saberteeth]

cjhrules/Calle made a tut for making LC style bgs:

http://www.indylc2.com/tutorial.html

[Cookieswithmilk]

Lots of useful stuff here; theories on puzzles, everything...

http://www.adventuredevelopers.com/features.php

Bill Tiller, the guy who did backgrounds in CMI, wrote this about how he did them. VERY good read for anyone interested in any kind of art, not just art to do with games.

http://website.lineone.net/~john.montgomery/howtodrawmonkeys.html

Much like the first site; lots of theories on game design, puzzle design, anything...

http://www.lucasstyle.com/tutorials.htm

An interview with Bill Tiller; more stuff about his style and some nice pictures.

http://www.scummbar.com/resources/articles/index.php?newssniffer=readarticle&article=1013&page=2

That's about it; hope it helps someone!

[DoorKnobHandle]

There is a new tutorial available on the FoY-page since today. I wrote it and it discusses the creation of a PARTICLE-SYSTEM with AGS - also it gives you lots of information about programming with AGS and coding in general. Check it out if you're interested!


I hope it's okay to post "non-art related" tutorials here, but there are other tutorials around in this thread that talk about creating installers etc., so I thought it couldn't hurt!

[TheSaint]

whats going on with saveloomis.org i cant see any books there anymore. if anyone of u needs them i saved some so just ask me and ill host them for u.

cheers,
TheSaint

[Penguinx]

Not sure how helpful this is, but I posted a few general drawing videos to my blog.

Link to video 1.

Link to video 2.

Link to video 3.

I intend to take videos of a lot of the things I draw from here on out. Might be of some use?

[2ma2]

I made a random tips and tricks image..

[Afflict]

Site revamped tuts need to be reloaded, sorry for inconvenience.

[Meowster]

The first page of this thread should probably be edited 'cause none of the links work anymore

[Mikko]

Yutzter: I was just clicking through all of them, noticed the same and was going to post a similar post like yours.

I could take a little project and gather working tutorials in a list. Unless I found some other topic/page where this job is already done.

Edit: Empty promise. But hopefully someone has the time and patiency to collect a working list some day.

[MrColossal]

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=410461

Just wanted to spread this around... Not related to making game art but could potentially help people.

Eric

[Stupot]

I don't use GIMP, but I'm thinking of trying it becasue I'm desperate to start making some shiny backgrounds and still have lost my copy of photoshop.
I know a lot of people here use it and I came across a website with a whole archive of tutorials for it.

http://www.gimptalk.com

It's got everything.

[Fee]

I think a Mod should go through this thread and find all the links that still work.

Delete the thread and start it agin with working only links.

This is barely helpful having to sort through all these links when so many dont work.

Fee

[Oliwerko]

I made a beginner tips for first background and character with all walkcycles.
If anyone's interested, here it is:

http://oliwerko.wz.cz/Tips.txt



Hope it helps anyone.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Thanks to Venus the first post has been updated with an exhaustive list of working tutorial links!