Overview
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Learn to create animated pixel visualizers, music videos, and animations in a Pokemon-inspired style using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. Follow along with this comprehensive tutorial to master techniques for hand-drawn pixelated animations with an old-school Pokemon aesthetic. Explore the process of setting up in Photoshop, using sprite templates, adding clothes and base colors, creating hair, and incorporating shadows and highlights for detail. Discover how to develop a walk animation by creating multiple frames, set up the animation, and bring it into After Effects for compositing. Finally, learn to create background elements to complete your pixel art animation project.
Syllabus
- Intro
- Breakdown
- Setting up in Photoshop
- Sprite templates for beginners
- Adding clothes and base colors
- Adding hair
- Adding shadows and highlights for detail
- Creating 2nd frame for walk animation
- Creating 3rd frame for walk animation
- Setting up animation
- Creating easy walk animation
- Bringing animation into After Effects to composite
- Creating background elements
Taught by
Max Novak