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I'm not a superb artist, but I've learned a little bit about color and light theory in my attempts to improve my artistic skills. What I'm seeing in a lot of games is a tendency to use pure green for grass, pure blue for water, etc. It's a natural assumption to make, but it's not quite the right one.
The picture on the right is a screenshot of Chrono Trigger. The odd-looking green square toward the center of the image is a region where I filtered out all of the red and blue components of the color. Notice how the rest of grass in the image looks a lot more natural than the bright green patch.
I encourage you to grab a screenshot from your favorite game (2D or 3D -- this applies to both), load it up in your pixel editor of choice (I'm using Gimp at the moment), and poke around with the eyedropper tool. If you examine the grass colors, you'll notice that they all have a red and a blue component, as opposed to just green.
Furthermore, you'll discover that brighter colors are more yellow and darker colors are more blue. This is because of the way that natural sunlight works. Sunlight is yellowish, and as such, anything in direct sunlight will pick up a bit of that yellow. On the other hand, the rest of the sky is blue. Anything in a shadow will be lit mostly by the sky, and will pick up a bluish tint.
When using this, remember that subtlety is the key. Don't make your brights too yellow or your darks too blue. Adjust them carefully until they look natural.
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Greets!
I'm in the process of expanding the site and I need to work on getting some new direction. To this end, I'd like to "adopt" an Open Source game project and provide my financial resources (roughly 100-150 US dollars a month) toward commissioning professional art and audio for your project. Just to be clear, I am *not* asking for any money, nor do I plan to.
You're probably wondering what either of us (my website or your project) would get out of this.
You would get:
* Publicity
* Professional art, music, and audio
I would get:
* Publicity
* A game project to showcase on my site
Mind you, this will cost me some money, so there are some things that I require in order to consider your project:
* Working code (it doesn't need to be complete, but it has to be past the concept stage)
* A good concept (something original or with a good plot)
* In need of art and/or music
* Licensed under the GPL
* If you agree, I'll need fairly prominent link from your project page to my website
* All art that I pay for will be archived on opengameart.org
If this sounds at all appealing, please reply to me here. If you have any thoughts or questions, feel free to post those too.
Also, one final note: given my relatively limited funds, I'd prefer to devote energy more toward graphics and less toward music for the time being, although this may change in the future.
Thanks,
Bart
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We had a bit of a database issue yesterday that knocked the site offline, and unfortunately I wasn't aware of it until several hours later. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Bart
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After some painful and tedious architectural changes, it's now possible to filter your art browsing by genre and license. Just browse the art as you normally would -- the filtering options will appear at the top of the screen. Please post a comment if you run into any difficulties.
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UPDATE: Apologies -- looks like I accidentally turned off commenting for this post. This has been fixed.
Greetings!
Now that things are starting to come together, I need to get a feel from the site's users about the direction you'd like to see things go. Specifically, I'd like to hear about:
* Improvements that I can make to the site's interface (search, etc) that would make things easier to use or allow you to do more.
* Directions you'd like the site to take as far as acquiring new art (genres, art types, etc).
* Any other ideas you might have.
Just drop a comment in reply to this post -- no need to register if you don't want to. Brief is fine, but please be specific. :)
- Bart
P.S. A search by license feature has been requested more than once, and it's taking more time than I'd expected due to some technical issues. I'm hoping to have it working within a week.
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