Sprites and Animation

As with any online resource, always verify the licensing requirements and make sure the material is not violating any copyright laws.

With a little practice, we can create our own game graphics. There are some great free tools available:

• https://blender.org/

• https://www.anim8or.com/

• https://www.gimp.org/

• https://www.makehuman.org/

• https://www.getpaint.net/index.html

• https://www.aseprite.org/

• https://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/

5.2 The Graphics Pipeline Often in graphics programming, we see references to the graphics pipeline. The Direct3D graphics pipeline can be diagrammed, as shown in Figure 5.1.