whats a good program for 8 bit graphics
gilesgka
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just wondering what would be the best program to use and maybe if u guys had any useful techniques to making 8 bit/retro graphics to help?
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www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
Illustrator too.
Cant get any better than those two.
If you need a grid, the newer shops CS4+ have the pixel grid feature when you zoom in.
The guy who made the art for Sword & Sworcery used ProMotion, but that seems like it's because he knows the tool well, which is always most important. I've seen amazing art made in Paint because the artist knew how to use it properly.
http://www.cosmigo.com/promotion/index.php
My personal favorite is corel's photo paint for it's ability to make animated gif files and has decent palette controls (plus I can throw in vector sketches without a problem) and promotion (http://www.cosmigo.com/promotion/index.php) which is a really nice pixel editor in line with my all time favorite DPaint (from the old Amiga days).
However I mainly use photoshop to do it, I'm working on an isometric game and with PS I have a strong layer system that helps me a lot.
If you dont know how to get PS for free and your trying to design games for a living... it's time to go back to school! It definitely is overkill, but since when is too much a bad thing? Having too much is always better than too little. And yes, you can create animated Gifs in PS (shame on you SpriteAttack =P ). You have full pantone selection over palette control. and you can create your own custom palettes using the swatches tab.
I think MetzoPaino hit the nail on the head though, it really is whatever you are best with and most comfortable with. Pixel editing is such a universal ability you would be hard pressed to find an image program that doesnt let you create pixel art. I like PS because that's what i was taught and that's what i'm most efficient with.
Tell me how to get PS for free. I hope you know that cracked software is illegal and can not be considered free software?
Pixen for Mac
Quite Honestly, Pixen is what I use for up to 64x64 art. I love it xD
Look if you are making money off the software then by all means, you should pay for it. But if you are a student, or doing things as a hobby its ridiculous to expect you to pay hundreds, in some cases thousands of dollars for software before you even get a job.
Every professor at college condoned the use of illegal software for students. These were professionals working in the games industry. They know that companies and schools HAVE to license their software and were talking every single computer in large studios and schools with hundreds of computers. They also know its in companies like Adobes best interests to allow students to use the software for free.
Students need to use the software in order to learn it and get jobs using the software. If they didn't use it for free, they wouldnt learn the software and there wouldn't be anyone to buy the software in the future.
Unless of course, you know, we all decide to start buying software we don't know how to use..... riiiight. If you want to let something as ridiculous as the morality of using cracked get in the way of you succeeding, that sucks for you. I payed over $800 for my license for Maya back in the day, !@#$% them if they think they are ever getting another penny out of me ><
I can agree your argument to use pirated software for learning/education. I mean 30trial for photoshop or maya might not be enoght to base an decision of to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a pieces of software ( unless they have an PLE version).
BUT, if you're making games and earning money ( either through paid versions, ads or free version) you're an criminal in my eyes. And I think GS would not be to happy to earn money through playhaven ( everything released with the free version) with games containing graphics produced with illegal software.
If you don't think PS is worth it's price, find something cheaper ( like PhotoLine). Or something free ( like GIMP).
-Max
I just encountered one of those 'smart bastards' with my 2D game assets. Buying digital content from myself and deepblueapps and then disputing the transactions on paypal. Wow - what an ingenious idea - you get a few bucks worth of content for free... What a heroic achievement. It has one nasty side effect - enough people stealing from small content providers of software developers kill their motivation to create the content, templates or software you so eagerly wanted but didn't want to pay for.
You would get upset if your successful game would be hacked and distributed freely, wouldn't you?
I am far from defending or liking Adobe or Autodesk or Microsoft but they create software that we like to use. If money is the issue go for a free alternative - there are more than enough of them out there.
I don't like Adobe's price policy and do skip a version or two when I don't think the upgrade warrants the price-tag (or in the case of illustrator or flash (tools I rarely use) I won't upgrade at all and work with my 8 or 9 year old version when I have to).
...but thanks anyway for letting us what a 'smart cookie' you are and what morons we are for handing over our money to Adobe and the likes.
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