Pixel Art & Animation Course for Games

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• The course starts with the basics. For those of you that have never used Photoshop I’ll walk you through the basic tools we’ll be using and show you how to set up the program for pixel art creation.
• Next, you’ll learn the basics of pixel art, shape, value and color

• Once you’ve learned the basics of pixel art you will build your first two pixel art assets. A wooden crate and a red ruby that you will then animate to rotate and sparkle
• At this point you’ll be ready to design your first pixel art character and animate them. You’ll animate three animation cycles. The hovercycle, run cycle, and jump cycle.
• Next you’ll design and build a background for your character The background will have multiple levels and also some animated waterfalls
• Lastly you will learn how to build a game map with reusable sprite tiles and assets. These tiles and assets can be used to create a map you want

Over the 6 chapters you will learn:

• Photoshop basics
• The pixel art design process
• Value and color theory
• how to build game props from scratch and animate them
• Sprite sheet creation
• Pixel character design
• Animation Cycles
• Background design, creation, and animation
• Game map design and creation