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Chris Hildenbrand's Blog   Expert Blogs

Hi, I am Chris... pixelpusher, vectorbender and quadturner for a long, long time... I have been working as a freelance artist, art lead and creative director for various indie developers and on more games than I can remember... The most recent release is "The adventures of Shuggy" for Xbox Live Arcade with Smudge Cat games and bunch of iphone/ ipad games with Utopian Games.

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Quick and dirty - a menu text effect  Featured Blogs
Posted by Chris Hildenbrand on Sun, 09 Jun 2013 06:32:00 EDT in Art
A quick way to add outline and highlights to texts / objects
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2D Game Art for Programmers - Rings of Saturn
Posted by Chris Hildenbrand on Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:40:00 EST in Art
Just a quick tutorial request by one of the blog readers on how to create a Saturn like planet with vectors (in this case inkscape).
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2D Game Art For Programmers - let's make a splatter
Posted by Chris Hildenbrand on Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:14:00 EST in Art
A quick tutorial on how to make a cartoon splatter by deforming a simple circle shape in inkscape.
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2D Game Art for Programmers - a cute animal and the use of the align tool  Featured Blogs
Posted by Chris Hildenbrand on Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:56:00 EST in Art
2D Game Art for Programmers latest post is showing a step-by-step creation of a cartoon style lion using mainly circles and making good use of the align tool.
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2D Game Art for Programmers - Apache-style helicopter modifications
Posted by Chris Hildenbrand on Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:57:00 EDT in Indie, Art
I got some requests to show how to modify the basic shape of the Apache-style helicopter from the last post to make variations.
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2D Game Art for Programmers - Apache-style helicopter  Featured Blogs
Posted by Chris Hildenbrand on Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:45:00 EDT in Art, Indie
2D Game Art for Programmers latest post is a breaking down of an apache style helicopter into simple shapes to create a slightly cartoony game assets.
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Comment In: 2D Game Art for Programmers - a cute animal and the use of the align tool [Blog - 12/09/2012 - 08:56]

Thanks, I fixed it... ...

Thanks, I fixed it...

Comment In: 2D Game Art for Programmers - Apache-style helicopter modifications [Blog - 09/19/2012 - 05:57]

Yes... It 's done with ...

Yes... It 's done with inkscape - I added the tool bar on the side - and the colour codes match the panels in the step by step to show you the tools used in this panel 's changes.

Comment In: 2D Game Art for Programmers - Apache-style helicopter [Blog - 09/17/2012 - 01:45]

You are most welcome ...

You are most welcome

Comment In: 2D Game Art For Programmers - Part 1 [updated] [Blog - 10/15/2011 - 09:20]

My spriteattack.com server was/ is ...

My spriteattack.com server was/ is down. I am changing the images over to Picasa at the moment.

Comment In: 2D Game Art For Programmers - Part 3 [Blog - 10/27/2011 - 05:16]

My spriteattack.com server was/ is ...

My spriteattack.com server was/ is down. I am changing the images over to Picasa at the moment.

Comment In: 2D Game Art For Programmers - Part 2 [Blog - 10/19/2011 - 02:02]

My spriteattack.com server was/ is ...

My spriteattack.com server was/ is down. I am changing the images over to Picasa at the moment.

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