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