Some time ago I was asked to help polish branch of Adobe to record some video tutorials on how great Flash CS 5.5 is for mobile game development. Together with some great guys from Adobe and Eduweb.
Category: "Tutorials"
During the last weekend the BlackMoon team was attending FlashCamp 2010 in Warsaw. I had this pleasure to give a presentation at the event, titled “Usability in Flex projects” (you can check the video of the presentation and download it below).
Here’s a short video with a fast-forwarded process how we create character illustrations.
Character illustration step by step from Robert Podgórski on Vimeo.
I’ve created this pixel-art illustration for the purpose of the article I wrote for Digital Artist magazine. The article (and illustration itself) was published in April’s issue.
Our article in SDJ
Category: Case Studies, Games, Pixel Art, iOS
BlackMoon team write up a article for a magazine Software Developer Journal, about the process of creation a Flash game – starting with the idea, how to design graphics and what are the best code techniques.
Fantasy illustration in Gimp – tutorial
Category: Case Studies, Games, Pixel Art, iOS
In this post I’ll show how to create a fantasy illustration in Gimp. We’ll design a (rather sexy) fairy.
Here’s short (6 minutes) tutorial showing how to separate a complex object in GIMP. It’s extremely useful for cutting out hair blown in the wind.
Before:
After
You can download higher resolution video for that tutorial here.
In this tutorial we’ll create a simple (yet very usable;) AIR application.
This is a calculator widget with custom, chrome window.
I would like to demonstrate what you can do with Gimp in creative photo manipulation.
Gimp is a very powerful tool – and you can have it for free at http://gimp.
One of the most common tasks I do with Gimp is to seperate a part of the photograph, so I can use it in my Flash projects later. At first I had problems when it came to a objects with hairs – fortunately I’ve learnt quite easy way how to do it. So – here it is.