The Power of Game Illustration: How to Create Captivating Visuals for Video Games
Game illustration is a form of digital art that has been embraced by game developers, artists and players alike in order to create captivating visuals and experiences for video games. This type of art encompasses concept art, character designs, background illustrations, user interface design and more.
Game illustration is an essential component of the gaming industry as it gives life to the world of a game while enhancing the overall player experience. With stunning visuals created through game illustration, players can be immersed into their favorite virtual worlds like never before.
Game illustration is not limited to just one type of visual. It can be used in various ways to create immersive experiences for players through:
Concept Art – This form of game illustration involves creating visuals that help bring the game concept to life. Concept art is a crucial step in the development process and is used to help the team decide how a game should look and feel.
Character designs are important to make the characters look realistic. Artists put a lot of time and detail into making the characters look right and adding personality. This makes the game more interesting for people who play it.
Background Illustrations – Background illustrations create the setting that a player will be immersed in. By creating stunning visuals through backgrounds, players can experience the world within the game in a more realistic way.
The user interface, or UI, is the part of the game that players use to understand the game and how to interact with it. Artists use visuals in the UI design to help players move around in the game and have a smooth experience.
How game illustration can help create an immersive experience for players
Game illustrations are about making the game look really good. This way, players can get more into the game and have more fun.
The artwork should be related to the game's theme and story. Then players will feel like they are in the game world.
Showcase examples of stunning visuals created with game illustration
Game illustration has been used to create some of the most stunning visuals for video games.
From fantasy landscapes and alien worlds, to post-apocalyptic cities and magical creatures, artists have created visuals that transport players into these digital worlds with each step they take.
Tips on how to use game illustration to create captivating visuals for video games
When making pictures for video games, it is important to think about the game's story. This will help the artists make art that goes with the game and looks good to people playing the game. It is important to keep up with the latest trends in game illustration. This can help maintain a fresh and modern look for the visuals. Finally, it is important to practice and experiment with different styles in order to become more confident with game illustration.
Conclusion
Artists create illustrations for video games. This is important because it makes the game more exciting for people who play it. With better visuals, people feel like they are in the game and can have more fun. Artists should follow the tips above and stay up-to-date with trends to make the best visuals for video games.
This concludes our article on game illustration and how it can be used to create beautiful and engaging visuals for video games. Through the use of stunning visuals, games become more immersive and engaging for players. We hope this article has been informative and we thank you for reading!
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Long time no post (whoops) but I found this! It's for Mandarin, but I think I can modify the beginning stuff especially to help me learn Taishanese. (The later stuff suggests adding tv shows and podcasts with more and more advanced language to your daily life, which is difficult when Taishanese has no movies and tv shows and few youtube videos or podcasts (yes I know I could add Cantonese which has lots of movies and shows but I'm not learning Cantonese yet))
I've taken my notes, now I just need to start making myself a plan of action. In the video, she suggests using Week 1 to get familiar with the tones, which I'm pretty familiar with in my general floundering already, but I could use a refresher
More to the point though, she recommends learning the 55 most common radicals in Week 2, so I'm going to google a list of those, write them all down, translate the pinyin to penyim, and then continue writing them all down until they're familiar. Here is a list with the 35 most common, which I will be using
I've got a notebook I'm not using and a bunch of pens, so let's get going
Novice sewing pattern: Cut out shapes. Line up the little triangles on the edges. Stitch edges together. We've also included step-by-step assembly instructions with illustrations.
Novice knitting pattern: yOU MUSt uNDerstANd thE SECret cOdE CO67 (73, 87, 93) BO44 (63, 76, 90) 28 (32, 34) slip first pw repeat 7x K to end *kl (pl) 42 * until 13" (13, 13, 15) join new at 30 pl for 17 rows ssk 27 k2tog mattress lengthwise BO and sacrifice a goat to the knitting gods. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT "INSTRUCTIONS," I JUST GAVE THEM TO YOU
i was extremely sleep deprived yesterday when i discovered the dragon survival mod which was LIFE CHANGING when you're on three hours of sleep so of course i made a whole custom forest dragon texture in one day about it.
and. just for fun, some concept art i made for it:
🌲 From the Nakba 76 years ago all the way up until today, the Jewish National Fund has been using "environmentalism" and tree-planting to greenwash Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
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"The Global North’s political economy relies on the oppression of the Global South in general and of Palestine in particular.
As academic and writer Patrick Higgins noted in late October: 'We’re seeing a blow against the US-led world system. Since, really post-World War II, but especially post-1970 or so, Israel has been the linchpin, the basket into which most of the American chips are put, in order to sustain broader control of West Asia.'
This historical reality places a profound obligation on those in the Global North who would seek to be in solidarity to seriously consider what strategies and tactics Palestinians are calling for in the struggle for liberation, sovereignty and safety.
Such calls to action do not include that we opine on Palestinians’ methods of resistance.
They do include that we understand the history and actuality of that resistance, do all we can to stop the ongoing provision of arms to the occupation, engage in boycott, divestment and sanctions, and fight back against the criminalization of those who support Palestine’s liberation from Zionist settler colonialism.
As Virginia Tech’s Bikrum Gill exhorted: 'Show no fear, no surrender, as you oppose those who support the US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Bring your institutions to crisis if their functioning requires silence or complicity.'"
Just saving this for my own writing purposes cos I can never remember what time their store is open and apparently I've let Steve get off work early way too many times lol
I've always wanted to learn bookbinding, ever since I was a wee little nerd, but there are a lot of things I've always wanted to learn, and this one has both a daunting upfront materials cost and a daunting upfront research cost. however, my sister is a jewel among siblings and gave me for christmas last year a handy dandy bookbinding manual, a block of good paper, and a little bag of tools.
but I still didn't have a suitable workspace, nor any of the many important tools and materials that she didn't include in her gift. so I just read the manual and pined. until maybe a month ago I got fed up with pining, flattened a cardboard box for a cutting mat, and went to town.
and I'm real proud of myself, so here's me rambling, plus photos!
I went to the thrift store and got glue + some fabric to bind the cover, went to Michaels for a paintbrush (and later went back for a metal ruler lmao it's amazing how useful it is to have a straightedge for cutting the paper), and...could not find material for the cover boards. so I went home and pined some more. but the urges were too strong, so after a couple hours of moping I got a stack of printer paper at the grocery store (I could not bring myself to use the good paper for my first, inevitably weak attempts, I just couldn't do it) and started making a little booklet. which was a great idea, it turned out, since it makes for good practice with cutting the paper, measuring things, punching holes in the signatures, etc.
I have a big box of greeting cards from Michaels, which I used for the covers. it didn't feel like I was making a Real Book, so I got some colored paper from the stationery store and used that for end papers.
so fancy~
galvanized by this success, I ordered a stack of chipboard online to use for cover boards; and once I was confident that I could cut paper without making it look too stupid (getting that straightedge ruler sure helped lol), I made signatures out of the good paper, left them under some heavy books overnight since I don't have a book press, and then punched holes in them! (huzzah for this nice video on getting the holes right)
my sister's gift included good linen thread. it's unwaxed, but after some poking around on r/bookbinding it looks like that just means I'll have to be more careful to avoid tangles and keep good tension. I am fine with this. I can be extra attentive. (I considered just running it over a beeswax candle, but one commenter said if your wax has paraffin in it, it could melt in a hot car, ruining the spine. I can't guarantee my candle is 100% beeswax, I didn't make it, so maybe we just move on.)
I don't have good linen fabric to use for the tapes, but the important part there is that the fabric be thin, sturdy, and not stretchy. the probably-cotton I got from the thrift store fits the bill, so it'll do!
this is a french link stitch, which I got from this exceedingly good tutorial. apparently it's strong enough on its own that for a book of this size, I don't actually need tapes, but I'd already cut the things so eh here we are. and tapes plus french link will make it a stronger binding still (according to a friendly redditor on r/bookbinding), so we carry on.
specifically we carry on to the gluing step. now as I mentioned, I do not have a book press, and you....kinda need one for this step. you need to hold the book block in place with the signatures facing upwards, pressed together hard enough that the glue won't run down between them and stick the pages together (though you do want the glue to get between them just a little, just for like a 16th of an inch). you at least need some clamps and a couple boards to sandwich the book block with.
but you know what? I'm not a professional, this is my first ever book, if it's a little bit off it'll be fine. so we grab all the heaviest books off the bookshelf and improvise.
it's fine! I'm sure it's fine! and just in case it's not, I've tucked a bit of cardboard underneath to catch any glue that drips down so it won't land on the floor. see? I'm prepared! I'm acing this.
and actually, it really was fine. I used clear elmer's glue, applied with a flat paintbrush from the art supplies aisle at Michael's, and frankly I liked the way the flat paintbrush let me slip glue in between the signatures. I did poke around on a couple bookbinding sites to see what kind of glue I should use, and the gist is that although there are better options than this, elmer's glue is perfectly serviceable, and the main downside is it's not archival grade. but I don't need my first bookbinding attempts to last 200 years, that's fine.
the next step is to add the mull. mull is a specific type of fabric – extremely loose-weave linen – and the idea is to paste it down over the spine to essentially hold the tapes and signatures all in place in relation to each other.
but I don't have mull! so I'm using more of the thrift store probably-cotton, because it's thin enough and not really stretchy at all. I'm sure this will be fine too. I painted a layer of glue onto the spine, then left it to dry a bit while I measured and cut the fabric, then painted a generous stripe of glue down the center, where it'll affix onto the spine. then I added a bit more glue to the spine, just to be sure, and pressed the mull into place, rubbing it thoroughly to make sure it's firmly affixed to every signature, with no creases in the fabric or air bubbles beneath it.
honestly I might have overdone it on the glue. I've never done this before, I don't know! I think it's okay, though – I tried not to ever let it become a thick layer, just a slight coating, since the danger of too much glue is that it might crack once dry and weaken the spine.
and now we leave it in the press overnight to dry, and pick up the next step in the morning!