Ready to put some graphics and art into your game! Most excellent! We have so many graphics and art resources listed here, just for you!
Create Your Own Graphics
Here are two lists of paid and free software for you to use. Check them out and then decided which is best for you!
Pay for Graphic Software
Sometimes, it’s just better to get the paid for software, if you can afford it. Paid for graphic software typically has a more responsive support team, more tutorials available, and if you ever need to do work for someone, the paid for software is universal across many companies. Check out the list.
Adobe has several pieces of graphic software, from sketching to photo edits and websites to video editing Adobe has just about everything you need. Adobe offers several software packages as a subscription. Check them out to see what would be the best package for you. Below is a list with a short description of all of Adobe’s different pieces of software.
Photoshop – Image editing and compositing. Great for concept sketching with a Wacom tablet, as well.
The SketchBook® drawing app is made for creative professionals, aspiring artists, and anyone who draws every day. The app is available for almost every platform and device.
Advance your digital art style with painted textures, subtle glazing brushwork, interactive gradients and realistic Natural-Media® in Painter® 2017. Easily transition from traditional to digital art with thick oils, dripping watercolors and many other texture-filled strokes. Explore workflow layouts like illustration, fine art, concept, manga and photo art with specialized tools for each style. Welcome to the world’s most expressive digital art software that’s changing what’s possible in art.
Spriter enables the “modular” method of creating silky-smooth animations where key-frames are constructed from small, re-useable images (such as body parts). This method of animating offers many benefits for several aspects of a game’s development and for the finished product.
Free Graphic Software
Free software is great for when you are starting out and have no money to spend on software. Check out the list below for some free graphics software.
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
Graphic Software Tutorials
\nThis is a list of places where you can get some tutorials on various graphics software. Don’t forget to also check out #YGDs tutorials. Or, if you can’t find a tutorial you need, contact #YGD and we’ll get a tutorial made for you on the topic you need.
Tuts Plus, or Envanto Tuts offers over 1000 online video tutorials from coding to graphic design and even photography. They offer some videos for free but also have paid services to allows access to the videos without commercials or to be downloadable.
#YGD, or Youngstown Game Developers, has a library of tutorials that have a focus on game development. From marketing your game to creating your game and everything in between, #YGD has a tutorial for you. #YGD also takes requests for the tutorial you need. Right now, all tutorials are free with commercials. #YGD is working on a paid program for you, coming soon, which will offer commercial-free videos, downloadable videos, and downloadable source files for you to learn from.
Lynda.com is a paid service which offers tutorials about everything. From iOS games to some software you’ve never heard of, Lynda.com has a tutorial for you.
Get Some Graphic Assets
Need some graphics but can’t or don’t want to create them yourself? Check out some of the graphics asset resources that #YGD has for you.
