Spryke - hardcore new-school platformer

I know! Pity everything's going to be obsolete once Fusion 3 comes out!

4874 at the moment. Though probably around a third of that is comments

I made a video showing my workflow process while making a platform.

I basically use 100% non-destructive techniques: vectors, layer styles, smart filters, CC library assets. This is a good fit for my creative method, which typically involves a lot of trial and error and iteration. It also means that everything's very reusable: I can save frequently used shapes as custom shapes, filter settings as actions (macros) , and textures and effects as layer styles.

The end result in the video probably isn't the best looking platform I've made - I got a bit sloppy with perspective and I probably crammed in a few too many elements for the sake of the video.

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Yeah, I used to believe - even back in the CS1 days - that Photoshop couldn't change much because it was such a mature product already, and the core functionality was all already there. But each year they make really great improvements. Almost every part of the workflow you can see in that video is significantly affected by some feature that wasn't around 5 years ago.

Artboards let me efficiently work on dozens of assets in one PSD. Generator automatically saves PNGs for every asset every time I make a new one or alter an existing one. Layer Styles now let you stack multiple effects (eg. 8 Color overlays and 7 Inner Shadows), and Strokes with less than 100% opacity don't behave stupidly now. The vector tools are 10 times better now: they overhauled them several years ago to be more like Illustrator's, vectors can now be feathered, and last year they brought in a very time-saving tool called the Curved Pen tool, which is all I use now (you can see in the video that there are no Bezier handles when I draw vector shapes - this tool doesn't need them). And CC libraries let me seamlessly update assets across various documents and multiple computers. And that's just the stuff that affects me; there are also loads of improvements on the web design, photography, and 3D-rendering sides of Photoshop that I don't really use.

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Thanks, man

Haven't used it yet. I'll try and use it a few times.

I've been doing more work on Spryke's foregrounds. As well as adding more detail and interest, I'm also starting to apply what I've recently been learning about color theory (more on that in a later post)

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