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The Black Cauldron?

Just finished playing this the other day. Well done! Lovely graphics/animations/dialogues and I especially liked the portraits.  I wonder what that strange machine on the bridge does...?

I went to look for a random AGS game to pass the time and this caught my attention (a coffee lover). I loved this game. Short and sweet. Charming graphics/sprites, funny little twist at the end. Many times I have awoken and went on a coffee adventure. Great work!

Some nice sketches there Icey. I wish I could sketch that well.

One question though: What is Ruby doing with her Warrior Ball? I have a sudden interest in playing this when it's complete.  :o

Ruby

Also, GhostCat is my favorite character by far.

That's great! I think a better sky would work really well since there's a lot visible. Even a classic blue sky like this might look nice:


Tutorial Link


For the grass, you could always try whipping out the pencil tool at 15-20 opacity and making some vertical strokes:



A quick attempt, but it might make the ground less blurry. I don't think any visible grass is needed way off towards the horizon.

I must say Icey, your art is becoming quite impressive. Keep it up!

Thanks Grim, Tabata, Karen, WHAM, and others for the comments! We'll keep you in mind Arjon.

Not much to say for an update. Everything is going smoothly though.

This guy is waiting for the finished game till then.


Also, a creepy wraith for no reason:

Not so bad for a first attempt! Looks like you learned several tools. Now you can bring that to the critics lounge for advice.

Also, don't be shy to try out the other tutorials like in DeadSuperHero's list.

I wouldn't recommend some of the techniques in my tutorial posted above. The smudge tool is a bit unwieldy and I abandoned that method long ago for a lot of things. However, it works fine for getting a good color/shading base or drawing grass/skies/clouds, or some basic blending. If you're drawing fine details, like on trees/rocks/furniture use a brush afterwards.

Here's a really easy mini-tutorial that works for just about any object, whether it be a rock, bricks, tables, etc... All you need is a 1 px brush. This doesn't show anything about perspective, lighting, color selection or how to use photoshop. You can probably find a lot of that stuff around the net and in the other tutorials above.


Not a perfect tree, just a quick one.

The trick is to add finer and finer detail using a lower and lower opacity brush. (easy to find in Photoshop).


Here are some tutorials that I started with that are nowhere to be found on the net anymore. These are smudge-tool based where the author added in some nice details at the end using an unknown method!

One


Two


Three


Also, lot's of tutorials here:


Fizzii's Art Tutorials


Hope that helps. Also, add lots of knotholes in trees and logs if you're making a sierra like picture. Players love to click on those.

That was a fun way to start my day. 5/5 stars! Animated Rei was great.

I got the same results as you. 

You seem to do more Wintermute stuff? I didn't see AGS on your list.

I hope he (Hassan?) does my favorite line: "Ready to sail?" 

Wow, that giant billboard looks expensive!

Naturally, you'll have to play to find out exactly what it's about.

I'm curious! I'll be checking this out.

Doesn't Amazon have higher standards, or can anything be sold there?

I have to mention that my favorite voice was the Ginger Scientist. 

"Get back you mean thing!"

What a terrible cover!


Now this is a good cover


Looks like someone's trying to make some money off Wikipedia?

Hey, you forgot my animation! HMF. Oh well, looks/plays great! Good work everyone!

I'm lovin those animations, corby!

Thanks! Also, lovely looking GUIs there.

BTW, did that Merrick getting shot animation make the game? I never saw it?

Still time left? Figured some computer activity could liven this scene a bit.