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By Sorin | 2D Animation, Advertising, Animation, Animation for Dummies, Animation techniques, Animation tips, Animation Tools for Marketers, Characters, Create character, Features, How To, Marionette Studio, Marionette Studio Updates, Marketing, Skeletal animation, Tutorial | 1 comment | 26 February, 2018 | 6
The best way of expressing your message in the digital world is through animated videos. Animation gives you the freedom to target your audience in a compelling, powerful and exciting way! You can express your complex idea, show-reel your brand or transmit emotions to public through visuals. Why is it important for your audience toRead more
By Raluca | 2D Animation, 2D animation for games, Animation, Animation for Dummies, Animation techniques, Animation tips, Digital Art, Features, How To, Indie Games, Rigging, Skeletal animation, Tutorial | 0 comment | 27 November, 2017 | 4
Pixel art is a form of digital art, created with the help of software tools, where images are created on the pixel level. Most of graphics for computers (8-bit and 16-bit), video game consoles and graphing calculators are made as pixel art. [wiki page] The aim of this tutorial is to have a look at this typeRead more
By Raluca | 2D Animation, Animation, Animation for Dummies, Animation techniques, Animation tips, Marionette Studio, Rigging, Skeletal animation, Theoretical Concepts and Observables, Tutorial | 6 comments | 4 October, 2017 | 8
Whenever you are part of marketing, media, advertising, entertainment, gaming or any other industry that requires expressing a message, animated content has become essential in grabbing people's attention. Giving you an answer on how to create an animation in 3 minutes is my purpose for this post. Did you know that 90% of information transmittedRead more
By Raluca | Agile Game Development, Finding FUN in games, Game Development Team, Game Planning, Game Release Planning, Indie Games, Project Management for Games, Theoretical Concepts and Observables, Tutorial | 0 comment | 18 August, 2016 | 3
In this post I would like to share with you an overview of the Agile Game Development. I was wondering how agile processes would be applicable to game development and I was very happy to find cool stuff over the internet about this subject. In the last part of this post I shared a few linksRead more
By Raluca | 2D animation for games, Algorithms, Animation, Animation for Dummies, Theoretical Concepts and Observables, Tutorial, Uncategorized | 3 comments | 6 July, 2016 | 9
Complex animations are often difficult to make if there are no tools to help us. At some point we may want an object to realistically bounce or behave and this is pretty hard to acquire if there are not some algorithms that help us. For instance, if we have a 2D game character and we want to createRead more
By Raluca | 2D animation for games, Algorithms, Animation, Rigging, Skeletal animation, Theoretical Concepts and Observables, Tutorial | 8 comments | 30 May, 2016 | 5
In this post I would like to give you an overview of what skeletal animation means and what you need to know in order to properly take advantage of it in your 2D/3D animations. If you are an animator, a game developer, an artist or just a reader this theoretical concepts will be helpful for your future work at someRead more
By Raluca | 2D animation for games, Animation, Marionette Studio, Tutorial | 2 comments | 29 January, 2016 | 3
In this tutorial will present you a quick 2D animation demo of how to make a 2D animation using the opacity feature in Marionette Studio animation software. What is image opacity? First of all, I would like to explain you what image opacity is. It mainly refers to image transparency which means that part ofRead more
By Raluca | 2D animation for games, Animation, Marionette Studio, Rigging, Tutorial | 21 comments | 29 January, 2016 | 3
In this tutorial we will focus on the animating part and you will learn how to bring your rigged character to life with Marionette Studio. Firstly, we will take a look at animation timeline to explain you all the sections in this area. At the top is the Main Toolbar, where the user can manipulateRead more
Before learning how to create your new character with Marionette Studio, you should know about the app sections: Views – create, open, save, export your scenes Tools and actions – pan, select, translate, rotate, scale elements Defining a skeleton for your character (Rigging) – add images, create bones and create links between a bone andRead more
