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2D Game Artist: Learn GIMP For Game Art

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Overview

Make 2D Art for Video Games Using GIMP. Master GIMP's interface & Create Greate 2D Art From Scratch

What you'll learn:
  • Master GIMP's powerful interface
  • Convey meaning through shape and colour
  • Use GIMPs fundamental drawing tools
  • Work with layers for complex images
  • Create gradients, drop shadows and reflections
  • Organise and professionally export your work.
  • Work to a specification like a pro
  • Create pixel art assets for your games
  • Create your own character
  • Becoming a digital artist

GIMP is a super powerful, free,2Dart package. It's also 'open source' whichmeans it's owned by the community, and constantly updated. Most of the features of the much more expensive Photoshop are available, giving you the power to create industry strength 2D art.

The challenge withthis package is it can be intimidating for beginners, especially those who don't have much confidence in art or drawing. Wemake learning from scratch easy with our simplestep-by-step process.

Even if you have no prior experience in drawing, or computer art, we'll take you from the very basics. By investing in a structured course like this you'll learn faster and more effectively than on your own, just check-out our latest reviews.

We provide challenges in every video to cement your knowledge, an active community of students and instructors to help you if you get stuck, and continuous updates to the course to improve the learning journey.

How is the course structured?

  1. We start by helping you master GIMP's interface

  2. Then we constrain you to just 8x8 pixels, to get you started

  3. Moving on we add colour, contrast and more to bring your images alive

  4. In section 2 we increase our canvas to 32x2 and beyond

  5. By the end of the course you'll be able to create great looking 2D icons.

Looking for 3Dart, Blender, Unity or more? Check out our other courses, let the green leaf logo be your guide :-)

Also included with the course...

  • Get plugged into our communities of amazing developers on Facebook (nearly 20k), in our own TA-curated Community (17k views/day), and our student chat group (10k live at any one time).

  • Use of our custom built texture sharing service

  • Daily responses to your Q&A.

2D artwork is in demand, and now's a great time to get into GIMP.

Taught by

Ben Tristem and GameDev.tv Team

Reviews

4.6 rating at Udemy based on 1518 ratings

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