The making of the little stick people!

[AtVaR]

What program do yall use to make your fancy little people? I want to make my own! :D

[Samiam303]

You'll prolly get more responses if you put this in the 'Arts and crafts' section. However, I think there might already be a thread on this there...

Many people use Adobe Illustrator, and there's also some that use a program called Inkscape. I've never used Inkscape, but I can reccomend Illustrator if you can get a cheap copy/trial version. :)

[Flabbicus]

I think that the Arts and Crafts section is more appropriate for this.


And in the F.A.Q. it says Adobe Illustrator.

[Sneak]

I use Adobe Illustrator, but other people use different things. Inkscape, Sodipodi...

There's a guide here. (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=news;action=display;num=1115586717) Later in the thread it has tutorials for different programs.

[AtVaR]

Thanks for the move. :)
I'll see if I can get Illustrator. Paintshop Pro might work... I'll check it out.

[AtVaR]

Hows this? lol. A little squashed.

[LostInBrittany]

You should try to do the avatar with vectorial drawing.
PaintShop Pro 8 allows you to use vectorial forms, and In kscape or Sodiprodi (both of them free, open source) do all in vectorial forms.

If you have a vectorial avatar, you can resize it without looking pixelated (blocky).

[Appolo]

i have a mac, and was wondering if there's anything free on apple.com that i could use...i know appleworks is a good program, but it doesn't come as default with their new computers.

my question is: do i have to buy something for this, or can i download the software via apple.com or some other legit site?

[TheTick]

Inkscape.org has a Mac OS X compatible version of Inkscape.

[Ego Slayer]

I've used to use Inkscape but if you don't have the money, or a way to get Illustrator I would suggest the Ink/GIMP method. If you choose to try Inkscape this (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=news;action=display;num=1115586717;s tart=90#98) is very helpful.

[Appolo]

inkscape doesn't work. it says it need os x 11, which isn't out yet

[LostInBrittany]

You were quick :)

I will add that Gimp also has a OS X version : http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

So you can have the winner couple : Inkscape + Gimp,
all free, as usual :)

Edit : Inkscape says that it works with OS X. It says Mac OS X (Universal) , so I guess it works in all OS X. Look here : http://www.inkscape.org/download.php

[TheTick]

What you might be seeing is a prompt for X11, the X Windows System. It's on 10.4's install disk, or available on the web.

Inkscape Wiki (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MacOSX)

[Valox]

I have a mac too, and it didn't work at first but then i tried to download inkscape again, and boom it worked, my new drawings are made in inkscape. And the X11 thingie is somewhere on the osx disc.
Hope it helped.

[AtVaR]

I know how to fix all your problems!

get rid of the macs. lol

[Flabbicus]

...



Which installation disk would you use to put X11 on the computer?

[Appolo]

oh god, i went to download and run inkscape, but i got these two error messages:

one when i tried to run inkscape:
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m148/tlabresh/Picture2.png

and one when i downloaded and tried to install x11
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m148/tlabresh/Picture1.png

what do i do?

[Flabbicus]

A similar thing happened to me too...

Guess we're all in the same boat. :(