Learn Professional Pixel Art & Animation for Games

Become an exquisite pixel artist and animator.

4.80 (2489 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Game Design
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70,309
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4.5 hours
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Nov 2016
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$74.99
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What you will learn

Design and build professional pixel art

Animate your art for games

Understand shape, color, and value in pixel art

Description

This course was last updated on 11/10/16

Join the course and begin designing pixel art games and animation today!

Do you want to learn how to create pixel art and animations? Or maybe you’re on a quest to start making money as a game graphic designer? In any case you’ve come to the right place.

The Learn Professional Pixel Art & Animation for Games course will show you how to create high quality stylized pixel art and animation that will stand up as professional work. The techniques taught in this course can be translated into just about any asset creation for games. This course will enhance or give you skills in the world of digital art creation - or your money back!

The course is your track to building amazing attractive pixel art games! Whether for your own games or for other peoples projects.

This course will take you from having little knowledge in Photoshop to creating professional pixel characters, animations, backgrounds, and maps in as little as 1 week.

So what else is in it for you?

You’ll create five different projects in this course that will take you from beginner to expert!

You’ll gain instant access to all six sections of the course. You’ll also gain access to all of my Photoshop files and sprite sheets that I create though out the course for you to use how ever you like. These assets can be used in your own games or just to study and trace over.

The course is setup to quickly take you through step by step, the process of creating pixel art and animating it in Photoshop. It will equip you with the knowledge to create stunning designs and animations for pixel games!

Don’t believe me? I offer you a full money back guarantee within the first 30 days of purchasing the course.

Here’s what you get with the course:

You’ll get access to the six sections of the course that will show you how to design, create, and animate pixel art from the ground up. The course is supported with over 4.5 hours of clear content that I walk you through each step of the way.

All at your fingers tips instantly.

  • 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 hover cycle, 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 water falls.

  • 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 an 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

What else will you get?

- Personal contact with me, the course tutor

- Lifetime access to course materials

- Understanding of how professional pixel artwork is designed, created, and organized layer by layer to create a master piece

- All project files created for the course

This all comes under one convenient easy to use platform. Plus you will get fast, friendly, responsive support on the Udemy Q&A section of the course or direct message.

I will be here for you every step of the way!

So what are you waiting for? Sign up now to start building your pixel world!

Content

Course Introduction

Introduction, Welcome to the course!
How to get a guaranteed win out of this course
What is Pixel art?
Anti-aliasing examples
What will you need for this course?
Free Photoshop download page

Getting started

Learning the basics of Photoshop for creating pixel art
Making your workflow faster with hotkeys!
A simplified way to look at layers and what you can do with them
Shapes in your artwork
Value and contrast
Learning color theory
Finding inspiration and reference for your pixel art game
Pixel game art creation quiz

Creating props and animating them

Building a wood crate from scratch!
Adding texture and outline to your crate
Creating a diamond asset
Animating your diamond
Setting up your animation
Putting your animation into a sprite sheet
Pixel art prop creation quiz
Section 3 conclusion

Character design and animation

Designing and creating your character
Animating your characters run cycle
Setting up your animation in Photoshop for playback
Animating your characters jump cycle.
Animating your characters hover cycle
Adding a glow effect to your flame
Putting your character animation frames into a sprite sheet
Section 4 conclusion

Background design and animation

Creating a brick pattern for your game background
Learn how to make your foreground, mid-ground, and background look amazing!
Adding your sky and mountain range
Creating a grass pattern for your game background
Building mid-ground mountains
Learn how to create pixel art trees!
Animation waterfalls
Saving your background out as different documents for parallaxing effecst
Pixel art background quiz
Section 5 conclusion

Pixel art game map

Building your map tiles
Adding grass texture to your land tiles
Creating rock text and adding shorelines to your map tiles
Placing your map tiles
Building a rock in the water asset
Building a bridge asset
Building a mini island asset
Building a brick house asset
Building a tree asset
Section 6 conclusion
Course conclusion

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Reviews

Hecyna
August 14, 2022
This course is amazing! I learnt so much from Jaysen, all from the very basics of how to use Photoshop to creating 2D assets from a top down angle. He is very good with keeping your attention in a way where you learn useful things without all the clutter. The techniques I learned blew my mind on just how simple it could be to create stunning 2D textures and sprites. I learned about colors, foreground, midground and background. I will continue to take Jaysen's other courses and hope to become a good 2D sprite animator someday to create an amazing game! Strongly recommending this course whether you are new or seeking to learn new things. Thank you teacher!
Jose
May 8, 2022
Jayson has always delivered High quality content. It is clear and concise but more importantly, he makes it fun to learn.
Daniel
March 3, 2022
It was great! I am new to this whole thing and feel as though this course was extremely easy to grasp. I was shocked at how easy it really can be with the right kind of guidance. I know this course has set a strong foundation for the rest of my pixel-art-creating journey! I highly recommend this to anyone considering getting into 2d pixel-art game design!
Sam
October 6, 2021
Great course for learning some techniques. Although recommending only getting a single app for $20s to get photoshop when the photography $10 bundle has it right next to the single app option seemed silly. Would watch more of his courses.
Maria
June 4, 2021
I learned so much! He explained everything so well. I don't know a lot about photoshop, so I appreciated how he explained everything step-by-step. I was so surprised with the outcome as I followed along! Can't wait to start my own Pixel projects. Thank you so much for this amazing and thorough course on Pixel Art and animation! :)
Pelar
April 27, 2021
WOW! This class was exactly what I needed to make my pixel art much better! I already had some prior knowledge with pixel art, but the way the course is taught is very detailed so any student on any level can follow. I learned a lot from this course! I'm very excited to use these skills to make my game! Thanks for the awesome course!!!
Kyle
March 25, 2021
When I first started photoshop years ago there was a lot of information and a lot of other course making it hard to remember everything that had happened. This course so far has simplified the use of the program and would have been far more beneficial when I fist started Photoshop so I recommend this to any beginners.
Katja
December 24, 2020
I'm a game artist, but I've never done pixel art. I loved this course! You can take all the information this course gives and use it in so many wayst.
Patrick
August 23, 2020
I was very pleased with this course, when I thought I knew something I found out I didn't which made it more fun. Thanks..
Julio
April 8, 2019
Hello ! I was with a begginer problem, I not dow Silluete in my normal draws but in this course i see who this essential for pixelart
Krishna
April 1, 2019
This course is perfect starting point for someone interested in pixel art and graphic desing/illustration in general. I really enjoyed all the lessons and I found the course really, really, useful. The teacher rocks!!! :D
Cody
March 27, 2019
For someone who had the slightest idea on how to create sprites, this course gave me a push in the right way
Chris
February 2, 2019
Good intro / primer for beginners and intermediates out there who are contemplating trying out a pixel game/art project.
Anakin
January 11, 2019
This course is good to spark interest and fuel your journey into pixel art or even art in general. The course is not one of those that you watch and be finished with, it gives you many interesting assignments that doesn't force you the way the instructor said to, but gives you freedom and let's you experiment a lot. I recommend this course for beginners
HovvardLim
November 30, 2018
*shrug* i just wanna make assets, so here i am thanks for making this course to clear the learning blockages

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