Tips Corner - April

[Lal Sekercioglu]

Hey everyone! We're going to start doing monthly Tips Corners where you can share and read each other's tips and tricks related to a certain topic.
April's topic is: Custom Graphics! Use this thread to share tips, tricks and everything in-between related to creating and using your custom graphics for your projects with the rest of the community!

[RobinsonX]

For making vector art and icons, I can recommend this app! It is free to download and easy to use. However, to export anything, it costs money. 😬 There are workarounds so it isn't very bad.

[TutorialDoctor]

Theses are the tools I use. I’ll post a few tips and tricks soon. The main challenge I have is creating a workflow for animation. I’ll describe some workflows I have so far.

The apps I use

• Animation Pro - Rigged character animation. I export to a PNG sequence with transparent background to the Documents By Readdle app.
• Nomad Sculpt - 3d model sculpting for 3d rotation view
• MagicPoser - for 3d figure reference
• Flipaclip - for 2D traditional animation. Has a good PNG sequence exporter. I also use it for rotoscoping video
• Procreate - Has a great animation system now. For high fidelity raster art work and animation (you can use tools like liquify to modify keyframes.
• Pixel Studio - useful for pixel art animation. It can export PNG sequences to Google drive (the workflow isn't that great thought)
• Art Set - For a realistic art medium effect, you can't get better than this.
• Xpression - Animate a photo with only my face. Uses artificial intellgience.
• Pinterest - Inspiration!
• Artbreeder.com - For AI generated character designs
• Waifu2x - great app for resizing low res images (uses AI)
• Bot3D Editor - 3d character animation. I can save animations and import into FlipAclip or Procreate for rotoscoping.
• MugLife - I don't really use this much, but it is useful for facial animations. I don't like the content in the app though.
• Affinity Designer - I use this for all of my vector art. I also have Affinity Photo but I haven't used it much yet.

Workflow tips (coming soon):

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Here is some stuff I’ve produced