Allow me to be a Grumpy Gamerâ,,¢ and rant for a bit.
Many people throw around the term "hand-drawn" to describe the backgrounds in their games.Ã, What this usually means is that they have drawn the background on paper, then scanned it in and painted it on the computer.Ã, Or perhaps they have done all the drawing and coloring on paper.Ã, In any case, I think we all agree that it implies that some scanning has been done, right? Right.
Now, there are a couple of things that bug me.Ã, First of all, "hand-drawn" doesn't strike me as a valid term, because everything is hand-drawn.Ã, Unless you're a pretty darned talented artist that draws using your feet, chances are you used your hands to draw your stuff, even if you did it with a mouse or a tablet in PSP or Paint or whatever.
Second of all, (and maybe this is just me being nitpicky) it bugs me that "hand-drawn" is listed as a feature in games that have scanned backgrounds.Ã, Something about saying it just makes it seem like the game is going to have amazing high-quality backgrounds, when 9 times out of 10, it's just crummy graphics that have been drawn on paper first.Ã, Just because a scanner is involved doesn't automatically mean quality. There are plenty of AGS games with scanned backgrounds that are great, but they aren't the majority.
Am I saying you shouldn't scan in your backgrounds? Not at all, in fact I'd love to see more of it. I would be fascinated to see a game that used scanned in oil paintings like MI2 or watercolors or stuff like that.Ã, But please, if you're going to go through the effort of scanning in a background, I'm going to hold you to a higher standard artistically than if you did it in Paint.Ã, By no means am I saying that backgrounds done on the computer are inferior, but drawing on paper gives you certain freedoms that the computer doesn't, so make sure you do a good drawing first.
So my suggestions are either or both of the following:
1) If you want to brag about your game having "hand-drawn" backgrounds, please use another term such as "scanned backgrounds" or something similar.Ã, Feel free to suggest a better term.
2) If all you did was draw a crappy background on paper with no sense of perspective and curly clouds and then scanned it in, please don't advertise your "hand-drawn" backgrounds along with your game.
That is all.
Many people throw around the term "hand-drawn" to describe the backgrounds in their games.Ã, What this usually means is that they have drawn the background on paper, then scanned it in and painted it on the computer.Ã, Or perhaps they have done all the drawing and coloring on paper.Ã, In any case, I think we all agree that it implies that some scanning has been done, right? Right.
Now, there are a couple of things that bug me.Ã, First of all, "hand-drawn" doesn't strike me as a valid term, because everything is hand-drawn.Ã, Unless you're a pretty darned talented artist that draws using your feet, chances are you used your hands to draw your stuff, even if you did it with a mouse or a tablet in PSP or Paint or whatever.
Second of all, (and maybe this is just me being nitpicky) it bugs me that "hand-drawn" is listed as a feature in games that have scanned backgrounds.Ã, Something about saying it just makes it seem like the game is going to have amazing high-quality backgrounds, when 9 times out of 10, it's just crummy graphics that have been drawn on paper first.Ã, Just because a scanner is involved doesn't automatically mean quality. There are plenty of AGS games with scanned backgrounds that are great, but they aren't the majority.
Am I saying you shouldn't scan in your backgrounds? Not at all, in fact I'd love to see more of it. I would be fascinated to see a game that used scanned in oil paintings like MI2 or watercolors or stuff like that.Ã, But please, if you're going to go through the effort of scanning in a background, I'm going to hold you to a higher standard artistically than if you did it in Paint.Ã, By no means am I saying that backgrounds done on the computer are inferior, but drawing on paper gives you certain freedoms that the computer doesn't, so make sure you do a good drawing first.
So my suggestions are either or both of the following:
1) If you want to brag about your game having "hand-drawn" backgrounds, please use another term such as "scanned backgrounds" or something similar.Ã, Feel free to suggest a better term.
2) If all you did was draw a crappy background on paper with no sense of perspective and curly clouds and then scanned it in, please don't advertise your "hand-drawn" backgrounds along with your game.
That is all.
