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a complete art tutorial.

Started by Biere et punk Dec 4, 2001 at 8:29 PM 24 replies 1.6k views

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Dec 4, 2001 at 8:29 PM

I was wondering if there would be any interests for a full tutorials on art. I''d start with theory (colors, perspective etc...) to go to traditional drawing (sketch & ink) and progress toward computer graphics to finish with 3d modeling & texturing. Reply to this message and show your interest and I''ll write ''em over the christmas holidays... Biere et punk

Myopic Rhino

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Myopic Rhino

Dec 5, 2001 at 9:36 AM

We've always wanted GDNet to appeal to every type of game developer, but we're in a situation where most of our audience are programmers, so they submit programming articles, which attracts more programmers, etc. Needless to say, then, I'd love to have any art tutorials we can get to start attracting more artists.

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CaptainJester

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CaptainJester

Dec 5, 2001 at 10:57 AM

My main interest is programming, but I hate that I can''t even make decent graphics for a game. I would be interested in the tutorials to see if they could improve my abilities. Also with the release of GMax, you might find a lot of interest when you enter the 3D stage, especially if you can expand beyond the technical tutorials included. Those tutorials are great for learning the interface, but they don''t teach you art.

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Prozak

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Prozak

Dec 5, 2001 at 2:51 PM

hey, one more interested dude over here!!

Hugo Ferreira
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RabidChild

Dec 5, 2001 at 3:10 PM

Since as Myopic Rhino pointed out, the audience is mostly programmers, a tutorial on art would probably be even more welcome. It seems to me that most programmers (myself included) can only do amazing things with graphics that someone else has made (in other words, can''t draw worth a lick). I know I''d definitely be interested in the tutorial you''re suggesting.

polly

Dec 6, 2001 at 7:21 AM

Interested!
Jon

Fox Mc Cloud

Dec 6, 2001 at 7:57 AM

I''m very interested too ! Excellent idea !
Like the others, I''m a programmer and some 3d skills would be more than welcome

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Biere et punk

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Biere et punk

Dec 6, 2001 at 8:25 PM

So basically everyone wants *3d* art but you prefer me to skip the traditional arts?

My plan was to design a character and model/texture it in 3d later. I wanted to give basic tricks to "visualize" in 3D and shading tutorials that would also be useful for creating 3d textures...

Well tell me what you think...
If everyone wants only the 3d stuff I won''t bother writing the drawing series, this would be much less work for me, but I wouldn''t feel it would be a complete tutorials, as I don''t believe it would cover the basics of character creation.

I''m not saying I''ll be doing a lot of theory on color and perspective, just the basics so you konw how to draw a character that looks real. The objective of the tutorials was to make a character (not still life) from sketch to fully textured animated mesh...

Please post feedback again, basically what you feel are the most important topics I should cover

Biere et punk

Prozak

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Prozak

Dec 6, 2001 at 9:35 PM

Post 3D Basics first, then medium-advanced trick later...
That seems the logical path to me, right?
Also, I can offer to translate your tutorials onto lots
of diferent formats, html, .pdf, .doc, .chm, etc...

Lets learn something...

Hugo Ferreira
Positronic Dreams
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max621

Dec 9, 2001 at 6:32 PM

A tutorial on improving that good old programmer art would be welcome here!

Blazeroni

Dec 9, 2001 at 9:45 PM

Count me interested.

polly

Dec 10, 2001 at 1:57 PM

DO the drawing series too- I''m sure it''ll be invaluable!
Jon

Moogle

Dec 10, 2001 at 2:09 PM

Ok I will write some tutorial on 3dsmax and Gmax, telling you how to do everything in both.

For people who are intrested in general (traditional) drawing and coloring using the computer I can only redirect you too polykarbon.com

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Kylotan

Dec 17, 2001 at 9:15 PM

polly

Dec 18, 2001 at 10:03 AM

Also,
Does anyone know anything about drawing sci-fi art. More specifically space craft. I am jotting down some ideas about a 3D space game and I''m thinking of having a stab at drawing up some design documents for the game as a whole, part of which would include the game ''look''. I am OK at drawing something I can see in front of me, but find it harder to draw from real life and impossible to draw from imagination alone. Any thoughts on how other people manage to do this?
Jon

Ook666

Dec 23, 2001 at 6:32 AM

I''d like to read about 2d art(not necessarily pixel-art) even more than 3D, cause even for a 3D game you''d need textures to cover the models and all such nice things. And mainly because I don''t do much 3D programming

TheSalmon

Dec 23, 2001 at 6:40 AM

I would like to see some 2D art tutorials.

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The Dragon

Dec 23, 2001 at 6:55 AM

i''m defenitely interested.
BTW, do you have any idea in wich program you''re going to do the 3D modeling?
I''d suggest 3DSMax or Maya 4, since they seem to be the most widely-used programs for 3D modelling.
Also i would like BOTH 2D AND 3D tutorials, it is always best to start at the beginning, NOT at the end.

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Master Jazzman

Dec 23, 2001 at 7:39 AM

Another one interested! ESPECIALLY the 2D "old-school" Art!
Go for it!

Gibbz

Dec 25, 2001 at 2:29 AM

quote:
Original post by Biere et punk
I was wondering if there would be any interests for a full tutorials on art.

I''d start with theory (colors, perspective etc...) to go to traditional drawing (sketch & ink) and progress toward computer graphics to finish with 3d modeling & texturing.

Reply to this message and show your interest and I''ll write ''em over the christmas holidays...

Biere et punk

maybe thats cos you dont have any appealing art tuts....

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