Gimp is one of the most well-known examples in the 2D realm as well as Blender in 3D field.įor the full-time game artist upgrading your tools to ‘ industry standards’ makes sense. No, you don’t! There is a huge amount of free tools available that offer a true alternative. “I need expensive software tools to create truly professional game art.” Let me start by clarifying some common believes when it comes to creating games.

With the vast variety of software available at the moment and the sheer endless amount of our art creation tools and techniques it is impossible to cover everything but I will try to keep my examples basic enough to work with the software of your choice. I will try to mention the different approaches for those software packages. The workflow will be similar if you work with different software like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PhotoShop, CorelDraw or others. All of the examples will be based on free software.

I will try to start with some basic ideas and exercises to improve this kind of understanding. With the help of free software like gimp, inkscape, truespace, daz studio and vue pioneer (just to mention a few) combined with a basic understanding of art creation pretty much anyone can create impressive and professional looking results.

Due to the budget restraints or in a lot of cases the complete lack of a budget a lot of young indie game developer can’t afford to hire an artist or buy art assets. Creating your own artwork is a necessity for most independent developers. This blog and its tutorials are designed to help non-artist from beginner to advanced increase their skills using tools likee Inkscape. Creating game art in Inkscape – Beginner Skills Circles Introduction:

Easy inkscape art