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Pixel Art Mastery - for Video games - PART 1 (Beginner)

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This course teaches everything about pixel art for video games. From the very basics to the advanced techniques. You will learn about lines, shapes, colour theory and harmony, colour palettes, designing characters, backgrounds, items, making animation and so much more!

And best of all, learn at your own pace!

This is the ONLY course you need to learn ALL about pixel art!

The curriculum has been carefully designed to guide you from the very start (picking a software) to drawing entire games (game mock ups).

This course (part 1) covers all the basics of pixel art and is PERFECT for beginners to jumpstart your pixel art journey (yes, even if you haven't touched any art until now)! 

The Pixel Art Master course consists of these parts:

This Part 1 - Beginner sections - covers all around basics to get you started

After you finish this beginner friendly course, choose your own journey! Part 2 & 3 can be done in any order! (the naming is here simply because of release dates).

Part 2 - Game perspective basics - covers perspectives in games (e.g. platformer, isometric, RPG...)

Part 3 - Intermediate shading and material study - expands upon part 1 in topics of drawing materials (like foliage, rocks, metal, glass, gems etc.) and shading (like creation of dithering patterns, manual anti-aliasing etc).

This course is divided into sections. Each section has an intro and a small, practical challenge at the end to solidify the knowledge you've gained!

By starting here you also gain - entry to Discord server with 3000+ members where you can connect with other pixel artists, game devs and even music composers!

Personally, I am here on Skillshare every day to help you in your journey, so if you have any questions, I am always available!

Syllabus

  • Lesson introduction
  • 0.1 - Getting started - Which software to use for pixel art
  • 0.2 - Photoshop basics
  • 0.3 - Pyxel Edit
  • 0.4 - Aseprite
  • 0.5 - Piskel
  • 1.0 - Intro - Lines and shapes
  • 1.1 - Lines
  • 1.2 - Exercise - Lines
  • 1.3 - Shapes
  • 1.4 - Exercise - Shapes
  • 2.0 - Intro - Shading and lighting
  • 2.1 - Value and contrast basics
  • 2.2 - Positive and negative space
  • 2.3 - Basic geometric shapes
  • 2.4 - Shading a cube
  • 2.5 - Shading a sphere
  • 2.6 - Shading a cilinder
  • 2.7 - Shading a cone
  • 2.8 - Shading a pyramid
  • 2.9 - Dithering
  • 2.10 - Exercise - Shading
  • 3.0 - Intro - Colors and textures
  • 3.1 - Hue
  • 3.2 - Saturation
  • 3.3 - Value
  • 3.4 - Color theory
  • 3.5 - Color Harmony
  • 3.6 - Color palette
  • 3.7 - Wood texture
  • 3.8 - Metal texture
  • 3.9 - How to apply textures to shapes
  • 3.10 - Exercise - Color, textures and shapes
  • 4.0 - Intro - Creating objects
  • 4.1 - Principle of creating objects from simple geometric shapes
  • 4.2 - Orange
  • 4.3 - Potion
  • 4.4 - Book
  • 4.5 - Arrow
  • 4.6 - Sword
  • 4.7 - Gun
  • 4.8 - Exercise - Objects
  • 5.0 - Intro - Tiles
  • 5.1 - What are tiles
  • 5.2 - Tiling basics
  • 5.3 - Grass tile
  • 5.4 - Dirt tile
  • 5.5 - Water tile
  • 5.6 - Tileset
  • 5.7 - Exercise - Tiles
  • 6.0 - Intro - Backgrounds
  • 6.1 - Making a simple image
  • 6.2 - Examples of using colors and shapes to create depth
  • 6.3 - How to add reflection on water surface
  • 6.4 - Exercise - Backgrounds
  • 7.0 - Intro - Characters
  • 7.1 - Creating 8x8 pixel art character
  • 7.2 - Creating 16x16 pixel art character
  • 7.3 - Creating 32x32 pixel art character
  • 7.4 - Exercise - Character design
  • 8.0 - Intro - Animation
  • 8.1 - What is animation
  • 8.2 - Simple grass animation
  • 8.3 - Exercise - Simple animation
  • 8.4 - 8x8 character walk and run animation
  • 8.5 - 8x8 character attack animation
  • 8.6 - 16x16 character walk and run animation
  • 8.7 - 16x16 character attack animation
  • 8.8 - 32x32 character walk and run animation
  • 8.9 - 32x32 character attack animation
  • 8.10 Exercise - Walk, run, attack animations

Taught by

Mislav Majdandžić

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