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This doubt bugs me and thanks to this I don't know which app to buy for my game art asset learning journey. Why people do game art assets on A. Designer rather than A.Photo if A.Photo is the alternative for Photoshop and people use Photoshop to do game art assets. Am I missing something? can somebody explain to me, or please correct me if I am wrong. 

 

I am asking this question because I have seen many game art assets tutorials using A.Designer rather A. Photo.

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Affinity Designer is vector biased with raster capabilities.

Affinity Photo is raster biased with vector capabilities.

There are things each app can do that the other cannot such as, Affinity Photo can perspective and mesh warp, Affinity Designer has transparency gradients etc.

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32 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Affinity Designer is vector biased with raster capabilities.

Affinity Photo is raster biased with vector capabilities.

There are things each app can do that the other cannot such as, Affinity Photo can perspective and mesh warp, Affinity Designer has transparency gradients etc.

And what does everything means? which one is better? which application will help me create a 2d character easier?

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13 minutes ago, BrewNCode said:

And what does everything means? which one is better? which application will help me create a 2d character easier?

Neither is better. Each is more appropriate for some things than for others. Which will make it easier for you depends on the details of your specific projects and the workflow that you intend to use, and (probably) the requirements of the gaming platform you plan to design for.

But in general, I would say if you're going to be working with photographs and photography, use Photo. If you're going to be doing something else, use Designer. But you may also find some tools that are only part of Photo will be useful to you, so you may find that you'll need both to accomplish some tasks.

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On 9/21/2019 at 11:51 AM, BrewNCode said:

This doubt bugs me and thanks to this I don't know which app to buy for my game art asset learning journey. Why people do game art assets on A. Designer rather than A.Photo if A.Photo is the alternative for Photoshop and people use Photoshop to do game art assets. Am I missing something? can somebody explain to me, or please correct me if I am wrong. 

 

I am asking this question because I have seen many game art assets tutorials using A.Designer rather A. Photo.

where did you find tutorials on making game art with affinity designer? I am yet to find good tutorials on that topic. Any character animation which are human? Or any tile set making tutorial with it? I did not find it on google or YouTube. Correct if I am wrong.

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