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Low Poly 3D Modelling Low poly modelling is way for busy people like myself to create awesome art. Well I am lying right there, learning low-poly 3D art creation like a beginner is simple and quick but getting go enough to be able to produce professional level art is tedious, draining and time consuming. I am gonna try and reduce this problem of yours a little by sharing some of my tips and tricks with you guys. So keep reading....... I promise I won't bore ya people. TIP #1: Try and draw the object first that you want to create with basic shapes Even though I have found this trick to be awesome I tend to not do it every time I model, this trick is unbelievably helpful in helping you understand the basic structure of the object of creation. Let's take an example I want to model a dog, I will search for an image of a dog from a couple of angles and in a few poses, then I will take a print out or take them to Photoshop/GIMP and use circles and squares/rectangles to ...

Pixel Art is probably the favourite of people who have played games in 20th century, but has now once again risen to gain massive popularity in this market were the ease of creating pixel art has made it popular amongst indie devs and even in the gaming community. We see it in modern games like Broforce, Hyper Light Drifter and even Spelunky(all of them are in my favourite list). For me, I am young but the first game I ever played was Mario 8-bit on a TV console. I loved it, good game and all. And so I kinda love pixel art, I tend to like pixel art for various reasons the biggest being the fact of limitations. I love to trick and be tricked, which is what we do in pixel art. Before I start on with the tips and tricks let just increase your understanding of pixel art a little. Pixel art is any art based on pixels so all art should be pixel art! Well no. it is actually a form of art in which we use lesser number of pixels than generic art, like 25x times less, and we try and crea...

So have been tried of seeing people make horrible glitch effects in GIMP then you have come to the right place. So we shall be going through this awesome tutorial about making an awesome glitch(chromatic abberation) effect in GIMP which is rather simple and quick.  Photoshop has numerous features that make making such effects easier, but GIMP is not a waste it also has the same awesome capabilities just waiting to be tapped. So let me shut up and start on with the tutorial. A video version will be upload soon enough. For the written version just follow along: 1. Open an Image in GIMP. Locate The Image on Your Computer 2. Click On Channels next to the layers tab. Or open it by going into Windows>Dockable Windows>Channels. And select Red. Select Red In the Channel Dialog 3. Goto Filters>Distorts>Ripple. Goto Ripple Effect 4. Use the following settings in Ripple. And hit OK. Use the above settings 5. And you are done. Add some N...

Free Pixel Art Programs Pixel art is a form of art which was popular in old days and has now once again risen to claim it's throne in the most popular art styles, with time even pixel art has evolved and is now more versatile with practically unlimited colour palettes and much more. So has our needs to do pixel art, now-a-days there are loads of awesome pixel art tools which are specifically designed for this purpose. So let's have a view over some of the most popular and powerful ones that I use or have used for pixel art creation.  Here's a list of 4 such awesome application that you can freely use. Asesprite An awesome and powerful pixel art program. It has an awesome community and a hard working team of developers. It's a free and open-source product, but it's binaries/builds are paid but relatively cheap, but if you want to use it for free just do a build of your own. It's simple enough if you have Visual Studio else you may have to dig deep. ...

Photo Editing Program Photo-editing is a part of daily life of every person now-a-days so doing some photo editing should obviously be free but it isn't if your demands are high. Like if you chase professionalism so what to do, get a 10$ subscription for Photoshop or use the boring paint tool and hope for a miracle. Well if that's the question you are facing then the answer is write here. So here is a list of 4 different "FREE & OPEN SOURCE" photo-editing tools each one has a forte. So let's get started. GIMP Super popular and among the top contenders of photo-editing just like Photoshop, has ample lot of features and just as many plugins, though some are now outdated and need to be re-written. But being open-source and free even you guys can write a plugin for it for your needs, though it has got a complex code-base. Currently the latest release is 2.8.20, beta version of 2.9.x is already out. And the work being currently done on 2.10 for various fe...

Learn To Create Sunburst Effect In GIMP So you are here to learn to create an awesome sunburst effect in GIMP, so first if you don't have Gimp just download it from here , it's just a small program that is on par with Photoshop but the best part is that that it's completely free. My version of GIMP looks dark and has a little more options than the one that you might have, don't worry I am not gonna use any features that you might not have so just follow along. So let's get started you can watch the video if you prefer video content and even subscribe to my channel for more such videos. It will be uploaded soon. For a written approach just follow along: 1. Open and create a NEW FILE(Size: 1280 x 720) in GIMP. Size : 1280 x 720 2. Use the Fill tool and fill in a dark grey(505050) color. Color: #505050 3. Use the Filters>Distorts>Blinds filter with the values from image below. And make sure the background colour is set to a lig...