Now that we know what is real modular design you might have the question when to use modular design Is it for me? Well, it's up to you to decide. Because depending on your project on your schedule on the work and anemone you can push into your development. modular design may be or may not for you. The pros of using modular design are simple. It's an extremely useful design tool because it's reusable and variable.

You can create simple modules and assemble them in many many different ways. It is also very very efficient if you plan right you can build anything much faster and much cheaper if you would do with uniquely designed element. Okay, then why is this a thing? Why not everything modular because of course is everything it has its pros and cons. The cons of modular design are that it is sometimes limiting. You can see if a tie set is modular if a background is built from modular elements and of course, you can see if the characters are modular.

They are not like a uniquely designed animated character. And also it needs planning and thinking ahead because you have to build the modules. So you need to work ahead and after that it is much faster to work and assemble with these modules but you have to create your own modules. And that is of course not easy but hey, this is why you are watching this course because I will teach you that and you will see that modular design is quite good because I think it is the best middle ground where you can be efficient and very cheap and fast. And where you can create almost unique elements. As you see, it is much better to have modular elements for example, characters in a fighting game or NPCs.

Or spaceships what we will create or tile sets. It's much better to use modular elements than use identical elements. How boring is a game when all the enemies are looking the same? I tell you super boring. But unique elements are so hard to create. You need a lot of time designing and creating that element.

So if you think you want to create something better, but you don't want to spend so much money and time creating unique design, then think plan and use modular design. In this course, I will show you how I do it in Inkscape