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Course Introduction
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Introduction, Welcome to the course!
01:33
How to get a guaranteed win out of this course
02:39
What is Pixel art?
02:41
What will you need for this course?
03:22
Getting started
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Learning the basics of Photoshop for creating pixel art
06:41
Making your workflow faster with hotkeys!
02:01
A simplified way to look at layers and what you can do with them
06:08
Shapes in your artwork
09:57
Value and contrast
08:15
Learning colour theory
07:58
Finding inspiration and reference for your pixel art game
02:22
Creating props and animating them
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Building a wood crate from scratch!
07:08
Adding texture and outline to your crate
05:05
Creating a diamond asset
06:37
Animating your diamond
07:08
Setting up your animation
04:36
Putting your animation into a sprite sheet
08:22
Section 3 conclusion
01:06
Character design and animation
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Designing and creating your character
10:25
Animating your characters run cycle
14:42
Setting up your animation in Photoshop for playback
03:03
Animating your characters jump cycle
07:40
Animating your characters hover cycle
04:00
Adding a glow effect to your flame
01:25
Putting your character animation frames into a sprite sheet
07:24
Section 4 conclusion
01:02
Background design and animation
When creating pixel art game backgrounds you will have to duplicate patterns such as bricks and grass. In this lecture you will learn how to create a brick pattern that will automatically duplicate your pattern for you. This can save you hours of work.
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Creating a brick pattern for your game background
12:13
Learn how to make your foreground, mid-ground, and background look amazing!
02:59
Adding your sky and mountain range
02:24
Creating a grass pattern for your game background
09:18
Building mid-ground mountains
11:47
Learn how to create pixel art trees!
06:55
Animation waterfalls
10:20
Saving your background out as different documents for parallaxing effects
04:29
Section 5 conclusion
01:03
Pixel art game map
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Building your map tiles
08:06
Adding grass texture to your land tiles
07:35
Creating rock text and adding shorelines to your map tiles
07:35
Placing your map tiles
08:01
Building a rock in the water asset
04:26
Building a bridge asset
06:06
Building a mini island asset
04:10
Building a brick house asset
06:10
Building a tree asset
09:15
Section 6 conclusion
01:18
Pixel Art for Games

Welcome to the course! In this lecture I’m going to give you a brief over view of what we will be learning and accomplishing in the course. I also want to share with you a little bit about my background and who I am so you know you’re being taught by someone who is qualified.

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