the anananas blog

Can you barely draw stick figures? Do you want to change that, and are you ready to put in the work? Well, if you want to and you are, then read on.  I believe that anyone who has the motivation, focus, and determination to do the work, can learn how to draw. It will take time to get good though — as it is with most stuff. Learning to draw is no different than learning any other skill. If you don’t believe me, then please go ahead and check out Jonathan Hardesty’s “Journey of an Absolute Rookie” . Warning, it might blow your mind! Remember, you don’t have to become the most amazing illustrator that ever lived who can paint magical landscapes with her eyes closed…in the dark…with her feet. Jonathan Hardesty’s “Journey of an Absolute Rookie”. Listed below are a bunch of tips, exercises, and resources that I have tried out and used (for the most part), which I recommend you also check out. The most important advice though, is DON’T GIVE UP! Always the Fundamentals Ten years from now when

We recently finished our first VR experience called DunDun VR and published it on Steam. Here are some tips that I think really helped us bring our project to completion and hopefully these tips can help you out if you are struggling to finish yours.  A little background for context: We’re a three-man team consisting of me (art), my brother (code), and our close friend (SFX and music). We decided quite early on to go for a casual and weird type of experience, give it away for free, and try to finish it within a year or so. We were also learning game dev while developing our VR experience. Tips for getting it done (in no particular order of importance) Know your strengths. The fact that we could all focus on our respective areas of expertise helped a ton, no doubt about it. This is also about keeping it simple. For example, if character animation is not what you are best at (I certainly am not), then keep that to a minimum. Perhaps consider no characters at all if possible, or pay someo