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2D All the way! / Could I draw a picture, put it into a scanner, and use it as a character?

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Clone boy
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Also, how would I be able to animate it?
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Kevin Picone
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Yes, you could that do it like that. It would not doubt give your game a unique look.

As for animation, perhaps you could hand draw each characters animation frames in outline form (like cartoon animations are done). Then scan the outlines, then either colour them, or colour over them in your favourite paint package.

I guess another option would be convert the outlines to vector art. So you can scale/rotate them without destorying the image quality.

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Pincho Paxton
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You could even make a flat 3D model of the scan using it as a reference image. So long as the character never turns around, nobody would know it was flat. (Flat meaning box-like. Putting lots of horizontal vectors near the bending joints) Then you could animate it with bones, and mesh deform. Should work for a side view style game.(I think)

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cloneboy
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Very cool. (Yes, I'm the person who posted, different account)
Also, I'm a little confused about the animating. I've never done any real 2D work on DarkBASIC, I do mostly 3D modelling. In 3D modelling, there's a key frame animating option. Is that the kind of thing you're talking about?
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Pincho Paxton
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Yeah. 2D games are made from 3D models quite often. Just use your 3D modelling skills to make a 3D animation, and then render it. Rendered images are 2D. Most modelling packages have a render option.

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cloneboy
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How do I render an animation?
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Pincho Paxton
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Anim8or lets you render an animation, so long as you use anim8or to make the original animation. Other modelling packages let you render X, and 3DS animations.

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Shadowed Lightning
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Hey I never though of using rendered 3D art for my sprite games, I'm so silly....

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Thats why your here to learn like the rest of use

It makes sense tho yah got to admit.
You could render some with 3ds Max.
Or manual do it using PhotoShop

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Joh
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You can also use software like Promotion to animate your characters.

The process is very much like cel animation.
1. Draw key poses.
2. Scan,scale,cleanup lineart
3. Draw in-between frames, Color.

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