Icon Tutorial

[Vember]

What kind?

 

[Balian]

Hmm....How about a RC Missile Launcher? Or sniper...

 

[Tepear]

I could use a staff tut :P Im like nooby at icons >

 

[Vember]

Staves are actually easier than swords. So I put a bit more effort into this one. Enjoy

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/5834/tut1bn1.png[/img]

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/3522/tut2uf0.png[/img]

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/7392/tut3bg7.png[/img]

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/746/tut4fv4.png[/img]

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1233/tut5jh8.png[/img]

I'll do the gun one later.

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2592/staff01vg0.png[/img]

 

[Me(tm)]

Really sexy :D

 

[DJ Jack]

Wow, Vember. This is a very good Tutorial. I'm very impressed, my boy. Perhaps you should do one on Potions afterwards.

 

[Prefix]

Nice

 

[Anonymous]

This is a very good tutorial. I'm making some icons right now, thanks to you fire sword is up next! Great work!

P.S. I think you should make your next entry about crystals!

 

[Balore]

I approve of this thread. You're a very talented artist! Nice!

 

[Vember]

Thanks.. I'll probably do crystals next then. But finding a decent angle may be tough.

Also, does anyone wanna share any icons they've made with this tut? It would be interesting to see, lol.

 

[Yeyinde]

I have a broken sword make from the tut. However the blur doesn't look right with Paint.NET, so I didn't add it on.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a229/ ... onTest.png[/IMG]

 

[Balian]

This is a edit i made of the gun on KNight_Blade that i made it into a sniper... Im getting a script edited so that i can use these sized icons instead of 18x18im going to be able to use 120x80 or somthing like that.
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g261/ ... erEdit.png[/IMG]

 

[Vember]

Cool not bad. I've actually never made a broken sword...

...

and now I have. lol

I'm not trying to show you up or anything. Just thought I'd take a whack at it. Can't believe I've never done it:

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2357/brknswdfj1.png[/img]

 

[Mujklob]

Ah.. I find the way the broken sword is made a little odd, gravity wouldn't keep the two pieces together, I say just split in somewhere near the middle, and lose the top piece.

 

[Wings]

Ah.. I find the way the broken sword is made a little odd, gravity wouldn't keep the two pieces together, I say just split in somewhere near the middle, and lose the top piece.

I believe the reasoning is symbolic, not realistic. If that makes any sense to you. :-/

@Vember : Good job mate.

EDIT: Man, I always think of something else to say after I post. Going with what I said previously Mujklob, suppose a sword wasn't the issue. Instead for instance the staff Vember sprited was broken and shown the shame way. Now take the top piece off of the staff...it would look a bit strange wouldn't it? Sometimes eye candy is necessary as descriptions don't really take.

 

[Vember]

It's more to be symbolic than to actually depict a broken sword. It's just an icon :P

But I do get what he was saying about splitting it in the middle and trashing the top piece.

 

[shadowfox]

Since I've read this tutorial, I've been making some Icons for my game.
thanks for the tutorial mate.

 

[Dashrender]

@Vember: In one word, damn man this tutorial owns you have no idea how much this helps me, thank you matey. :D

P.S. There's just a few things I have no idea about but what does .jpgs .png .gif mean and what are the differences?
And I feel pretty noob asking what tut means :lol:

Bump!
This needs to be sticky

 

[shadowfox]

.jpg saves the file as a full picture not transparent background.
.png saves the file with the transparent background. (high quality)
.gif is the same as .png but usually decreases the file quality. (low-med quality).

Tuts is short for tutorial/s.

 

[verballydecapitating]

.jpg saves the file as a full picture not transparent background.
.png saves the file with the transparent background. (high quality)
.gif is the same as .png but usually decreases the file quality. (low-med quality).

Tuts is short for tutorial/s.

.jpg does a sort of anti-aliasing which just basically blurs the hell out colour edges, works fine for photos and so on, but horrible for spriting.