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What program should I use to make UI sprite animations for unity3D
Unity 3D imports SVG quite nicely, so if you are developing your sprite UI element in a vector art program like Illustrator or Affinity Designer or Inkscape, you can output your elements as pure ...
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Is there a name for a style with black outlines and flat colors?
If you are starting with a 3d model, then the term would be cel shading. The style emulates cartoons or comic book illustrations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel_shading
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What format should animations be in for Spritekit / Swift?
SpriteKit is slightly unusual in 2D game engines in that it does all its own texture packing.
SpriteKit desires a .png sequence.
What this means, when creating sequenced image animations, is that ...
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Make a sprite 'destruction' effect in GIMP
Fill a layer above your artwork with any colour you want. Set the layer mode to Dissolve. Move the opacity slider from 0 towards 100 for more noise.
Example
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Is there a way to create this particular "Pixel Smoothing" Effect in Paint.NET or any other program/site?
There're several neural models for ESRGAN which provide upscaling for pixel art. One such model is NMKD's UltraYandere. This is the image it produces:
The first two images look pretty similar. The ...
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Is there a way to create this particular "Pixel Smoothing" Effect in Paint.NET or any other program/site?
Just for the sake of Q&A, I actually kinda dissected the original filter's creator's project and made my own
Located here, it explains in detail: https://github.com/skylerspark/Realistic-Pixels
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Is there a way to create this particular "Pixel Smoothing" Effect in Paint.NET or any other program/site?
There's a GIMP plugin called G'MIC. Once installed, you can do Filters > G'MIC > Repair > Anti-alias. Apparently there's also a version of the plugin available for Paint.NET but I've never tried it. ...
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How do is export a layer with icon from photoshop?
Command–click to select the layer. Then select the crop tool (hit "C"). If the crop tool isn't the current tool, then it should crop to the selection. If it is the current tool simply pick something ...
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How to Batch-export layers of Inkscape-generated SVG-file to Bitmap for sprites?
As of Inkscape 1.2+ there is now a native batch export functionality.
You still access it from the File > Export dialog with ⇧ Shift + Ctrl + E as usual, but now there is a Batch tab to export in ...
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