heyya, i'm looking for any article/tutorial/book with a section on (etc...) about particles. i'm trying to create both anime-ish and metal slug-ish cartoonistic particle effects (explosions, fire etc). sofar a days worth of searching has found me one resource image from wikipedia, which only really shows that it is possible =] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pi-explosion.jpg on the way of creating/designing particle shapes, i've found nothing, yet there are so many options to play with that its hard to know where to start. thanks, D.R

Quote: i'm trying to create both anime-ish and metal slug-ish cartoonistic particle effects (explosions, fire etc).

I'll take this to mean you are looking to make 2D particle effects? Well i'd say you have 2 choices, you could try finding some Metal Slug/anime sprites or tilesets and try studying them to see how they did them (just remember that using them in your game would be an infringement of copyright).

Or you could try looking around various art communities for tutorials/examples or ask for help/critiquing to help you along, like Pixeljoint or Pixelation.