In just a few years of its existence, Minecraft has managed to acquire a multi-million dollar army of fans. All these gamers can appear in their favorite game in various skins - from the standard "miner" Steve to some unusual robot. Tens of thousands of options for the game look are posted on specialized sites. However, what about those who are not satisfied with even such a variety, since they would like to look different from other players?
"Skin Artist" in Minecraft
Those who are eager to change the game's appearance have a lot of opportunities for this, in addition to downloading its standard options. Currently, there is a fair amount of software products, thanks to which, even directly on the Internet, you can create a unique look of your character in Minecraft.
This can be done even by those who are not a professional designer or artist. Basic drawing skills in ordinary graphics editors Paint or Photoshop are quite enough here. If a gamer is confident in his own abilities in this regard, it is not a sin for him to try those applications that allow you to create skins from scratch. Otherwise, you can download a file with any ready-made game appearance and just start editing it.
Online programs like Nova Skin are quite simple in this sense. Here, players wishing to create skins are invited to choose any other appearance as a template and work already on reworking it. There are different options for shades, tools for work (pencils and brushes), including those that draw symmetrical lines on both sides of the workpiece. Do not be afraid of mistakes - you can always erase an extra touch with an eraser.
Paint.net works in a similar way. It will be very convenient to create your own game appearance in it, since here the skin appears in a section and all its parts are visible. To draw details of various sizes, it is worth adjusting the scale of the tool accordingly. For example, a one pixel brush is useful for creating very small elements.
Otherwise, it all depends solely on the fantasy of the gamer himself. He can repaint various parts of his character's body in any crazy shades, paint him any clothes and hats.
Programs for quickly creating the desired look option
One of the most convenient applications for this kind of project is Minecraft Skin 3D. This program in the installed form will take only about one and a half dozen megabytes on a computer, its interface is very clear and easy to learn, and the offered possibilities are extensive. It is possible to make any skin from scratch in just half an hour.
To get started, here you need to go to the program, click New Skin Here. A white three-dimensional blank will appear on the screen, which the player can view in any approximation and any angle. To create an appearance, it is enough to choose a suitable color and start drawing the necessary details for them, first deciding on the type and size of the brush that will be used for all this. If you need to paint a large surface with any shade, you can use a fill.
For those who do not want to bother with installing unnecessary programs, a very convenient flash application Minecraft Skin Creator is suitable for creating a skin. It has suitable tools both for those who want to draw a completely individual skin, and for those for whom editing any ready-made one will do. You need to select the appropriate mode already in the menu.
However, even in the first case, the gamer will not have to do everything completely from scratch. Here, too, he is given templates as a basis: Steve, a robot and characters with bare skin - a white person, an African or a representative of the Mongoloid race. Having selected such a blank, on it you will need to start drawing your own skin by clicking New Layer.
The rest of the principle of operation is not much different from other similar graphics editors. The only characteristic feature of Minecraft Skin Creator is that here you have to select individual parts of the character's figure and either use templates to create them (there are a lot of them), or draw the necessary features yourself. The second will certainly take more time.
The finished skin will certainly need to be saved in a suitable place on the computer, and then installed to your character. This is extremely easy to do if the gamer is the owner of a licensed copy of Minecraft. Then this is done in one click - by clicking on the inscription offering to add a skin to minecraft.net. So the player will acquire a unique look, unlike other users.
