Background Art

[ASSHOLELA]

I am the creator of newground's game called Tank Wars RTS. The game is a real-time startegy game which has alot of features and everything about that is cool except the ART!

Reviewers are always complaining that the art sux and that if the art was better it could be the #1 game in Newgrounds.However, I'm more of a programmer than an artist so I need people to help me with the art.

Please, tell me how to make the background look better especially how to blend together background textures like sand and water so that it looks smooth.

Also, if you have any nice images can you post it in a reply?If I use those pictures I'll give you credit for sure. Thx

[proflashsional]

At 1/13/08 02:21 AM, ASSHOLELA wrote: I am the creator of newground's game called Tank Wars RTS. The game is a real-time startegy game which has alot of features and everything about that is cool except the ART!

Reviewers are always complaining that the art sux and that if the art was better it could be the #1 game in Newgrounds.However, I'm more of a programmer than an artist so I need people to help me with the art.

Please, tell me how to make the background look better especially how to blend together background textures like sand and water so that it looks smooth.

Also, if you have any nice images can you post it in a reply?If I use those pictures I'll give you credit for sure. Thx

wow i like the grass! i suck at grass. it always ends up plain green... do you think you could copy/paste that grass into a fla and let me download that? cause thats awesome. or... you could just tell me how you done it. but i dont have photoshop...

[raveninskyprime]

I think the grass texture needs to be more suggestive than it is literal... as in, you don't need the texture int he background to suggest every blade of grass.. instead have something that suggests blades of grass without necessarily distracting the viewer away from the unit sprites.

That said, the unit sprites could stand a bit of improvement. Perhaps take the time into the unit drawings as you spent on the grass... essentially flip your priorities around and use the property of value to tell the viewer what is important... as it is, I'm distracted by the grass.

[q13qew]

lokks bad 6/10

[Coverop1]

Good 6+/10
BTW: where i can put my PIXEL ART ? witch topic cuz i like A COPY MAN

P.s This Is FROM SOLDIER FRONT

[Ynek]

The easiest way for you to improve the background is to hop on into Google, whack "grass texture" into the image search, and see what you get.
That way, you can see what a good grass texture looks like, and attempt to recreate it in your game.

[iLott]

At 1/13/08 02:21 AM, ASSHOLELA wrote: I am the creator of newground's game called Tank Wars RTS. The game is a real-time startegy game which has alot of features and everything about that is cool except the ART!

Reviewers are always complaining that the art sux and that if the art was better it could be the #1 game in Newgrounds.However, I'm more of a programmer than an artist so I need people to help me with the art.

Please, tell me how to make the background look better especially how to blend together background textures like sand and water so that it looks smooth.

Also, if you have any nice images can you post it in a reply?If I use those pictures I'll give you credit for sure. Thx

I would love to help you with your games, i am good at backgrounds and stuff.

I've seen your work before and I think acutally i could realy be helpfull if you want so...