oliv's dithering tutorial

Posted by oliv on March 10, 2007, 1:47 p.m.

OLIV'S DITHERING TUTORIAL

Dithering is a technique spriting technique used to transition colors, give the appearance of multiple colors, and to give texture. I have compiled 7 basic dithering styles here. I ahve also broken down the traditional dither into 4 parts, and show a technique you can use to …

[oliv] RHOMBUS

Posted by oliv on Feb. 28, 2007, 8:12 p.m.

Downlaoded gm7, yet to pay for it though. I want everyone to recompile their games in gm7 and re-release them so I can play them! Please! I'm sorry I got Vista, but pleaaaase

I started a game wioth thernody and cocpuffs. Right now we got some characters, a very detailed …

[oliv] Team OG

Posted by oliv on Feb. 21, 2007, 7:27 p.m.

Well, I got accepted as a spriter into TeamOG. They're teh awesome clan that made Ivan. Oh, and that screenie I showed you was bogus xP. It was actually the trialwork for the OGs. But, maybe you'll be happy to know that Seven Scientists is in the same style? …

[oliv] Screenie

Posted by oliv on Feb. 18, 2007, 2:14 a.m.

Some of the tiles that tie the image together are missing, like the little niche-corner ones. The backgrounds and foregrounds are also not shown here. you got to wait for the game xP

[oliv] More Sketching

Posted by oliv on Feb. 17, 2007, 9:33 p.m.

I'm really kind of getting offed by drawing people… it's more of a chore than drawing animals, not as fun

Argh the second dogs back foot is a little short…

The fox is missing it's front left leg. Oh well. THis one's for you, desertfox.

Cats are really long…

I …

More Sketches

Posted by oliv on Feb. 14, 2007, 8:07 p.m.

Elk.. or soemthign liek that

Hairy old man

Man parts

Wolf.

That's all.

[oliv] Not Much

Posted by oliv on Feb. 13, 2007, 12:18 a.m.

I have coem back from a 3 day trip to Disneyland. Not fun, it's like the world of fake-spontaneity. Gawd. The nice people at Adesso sent me a new tablet driver, so I've been drawing again, right now I only want to share a couple of profiles I did to …

My Spriting Tutorial

Posted by oliv on Jan. 7, 2007, 1:47 p.m.

I've already submitted this tutorial to a few other places, and i figure since I don't have a site I should submit it here for you guys as well.

oliv's basic platform sprtiting tutorial

Part1

Use greys to sketch a concept of what the sprite will be. Darker greys for …

Meet Ringo, the Hungry Ronin!

Posted by oliv on Jan. 4, 2007, 5:58 p.m.

Ronins, I think, are samurais who have abandoned their masters. I think. I am not japonese.

this is ringo, in-game. unanimated, for now. Ringo is a ronin who wanders around beating the crap out of people and taking their food.

normal.

happy. Ringo is never happy, this is as close …

I am in a GMing battle

Posted by oliv on Dec. 27, 2006, 7:59 p.m.

well, I'm not in a gming battle just yet. But I will be, very, very soon.

And i'll be in it with my new clan,

Our clan consists of me, teknogames, and nobody.

YES, NOBODY AND TEkNOGAMES!! w00t.

we also have this sexy lil' thang

To put in our signatures. …