5 tips for finding artists for your game project by Pix3M, journal
5 tips for finding artists for your game project
Earlier today, my team was at a panel at a convention about game development, namely what it takes to successfully create games as a team. When we asked for a bit of Q&A, somebody came up and asked us...
"So, I have a game project and we used to have artists. I have trouble finding artists. How can I find more artists to work on my game project?"
Me myself being an artist, this question is something I can answer as I know what I want to look out for when choosing to work on a project. I have several suggestions.
1. Show potential artists, something cool
Many artists are tight on time. We can be picky about the kinds of projects we may
Technicalities of Pixel Art - File Formats by Pix3M, journal
Technicalities of Pixel Art - File Formats
I've seen too many pixel works being saved in bad file formats, so I may as well write this to help others and to save me time when I have to explain something.
In a nutshell:
PNG (Stands for Portable Network Graphic)- The best file format for pixel art.
You generally cannot go wrong with this. This file format works best with images with areas of solid color, which includes pixel art as well as vectors.
However, if you use MS paint, you may have difficulty replacing colors using the eraser tool if you try to edit a PNG file.
GIF (Stands for Graphics Interchange Format)- Next best thing for pixel art.
To be safe, only use GIF's if you know
I think I'm obsessed with colour!!!
In celebration, here are some of my favourite rainbow pictures from around dA.
I hope you like them! Please check out the artists' pages and comment and fav where you can!!
R,
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It is always a great feeling when I see someone talented, like yourself, has added one of my photos to their favourites. Glad you like "Red Jockstrap Cap" that much.