Pixel Art Class - Create More Engaging Character Sprites
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- It's good to be back! This week I'm going into a lot more depth about character sprites, specifically on how to generate clear and readable images that will help your work pop off the screen.
I tried my best to upload my brain on this one and just explain how I think about these topics, so feel free to work alongside me through the video. I'd love to see what you come up with so don't be shy, link me your stuff on Twitter or join us on Discord below.
Thanks for watching, see you soon for the followup!
00:00 Introduction
1:06 The importance of Silhouettes
1:55 Proportions
3:32 Poses
4:42 Interior Details
6:19 Props & References
7:12 Consistency Across Characters
9:10 Notes on Design Process
11:03 Silhouette
14:35 Internal Shapes
17:36 Poses & Proportions
21:12 Details & Referencing
24:53 Colouring & Shading
26:18 Final Detail & Cleanup
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I was a 13:54 and my 2 year old daughter came by and pointed at the screen and yelled ”ELEPHANTIE”.
Great silluette work!!
those 2 eye reflection pixels are crazy
Yeah they are
Those dots make all the difference
Dafuq you doing here Broccoli man?
this is our Pixel art Bob Ross. starts from nothing, ends with amazing art. Great tutorials. gave me a new perspective as a beginner
"This look is wholly owned by FF characters"
Me, who thought they were Terraria characters: Uh, yeah, totally.
“If he’s got huge pecks, it makes him being shirtless less funny.”
😂 I probably shouldn’t have found that as funny as I did.
Same tbh xD
@@DaFlashlightClay It's all fun and games until you see a huge Wrestler elephant with giant muscles shirtless in front of you
same lmao
Man, I've learned a lot with your tutorials, thank you master 🙏
This one was amazing, you could literally start a series out of doing just this and I would watch every single episode. A new character every episode.
Can you later show how you would animate this character please? sprite animation is the area I have most difficulty with, and usually is where I give up
Yeah I find this to be extremely hard, as soon as you move beyond 16x16px sprites, especially if your character has long legs.
Been having a blast on this channel and I haven't even watched for an hour yet. Hopefully i'll be able to catch your stream soon!
Thanks so much, See you there :)
@@AdamCYounis ua-cam.com/video/b3qDrfW_AvQ/v-deo.html is it possible to use a snippet of this video into a character transformation?
@@AdamCYounis In Mugen you can in that character story board
A cool way to practice this is by starting with a random silhouette. I like to scribble some random shape and then fill it in.
Then I basically play that "What's that Pokemon?" game on my random shape and start making it into something by blocking out some shapes with a few shades of grey.
The way your initial scribble looks will also often inspire you to use a distinctive artstyle.
Would recommend giving it a try, if you are new to blocking and unsure how to create silhouettes on the screen from ideas in your head :)
Found this channel yesterday, already one of my favorites, great stuff 👌
Really enjoyed watching you create the Elephant Character ! thanks for a great video :)
This is really freaking good. I love watching the design process. It also make me realize just how much there is to learn.
I don’t even art or nothin and I still find all this interesting as hell. 10/10 breakdowns on all the topics I’ve seen so far dude keep up the hard work 👌🏻
Adam, it's honestly amazing how characters come to life when you put your hands on them!
Recently started getting into pixel art and your work is an inspiration!
This is a great video, thank you so much for sharing! Please keep making more :D
man i really appreciate all your videos, you have teached me a lot, and you explain so nice and clearly, thank you man
wow I learned more about character sprite design from this 30 min video than I have since i started getting into pixel art
thanks so much!
You're amazing at what you do, and a wonderful teacher and explainer of things. 10/10 tutorial!
yeah im late to the party but ive been going through your tutorials and literally just doing what you are and it has taught me so much. this is the best way for me to learn. thanks for these videos.
Wooooooooooow, simply you being this good at it makes me motivated to do this every day until I get this good as well. Also, so informative!! Thanks!
Doesn't matter how long am gone for anytime I come back I learn so many new things, thank you
Really nice tutorial! This really helped me out!
Recently found your videos and I've been binging them man. Really great stuff!
This is fascinating to watch. Thanks for giving the tutorial!
You are so talented. It is such an inspiration to watch talented people creating something.
Brilliant! I learned so much, and I laughed while doing it, too. Great stuff.
This was actually SO helpful thankyou! A great tutorial and a wonderful character!
Subscribed to you because the quality of the content is insane!
This was amazing to watch. This was a fantastic tutorial. Thank you!
Great stuff. I thought this character looked awesome from the thumbnail and it was great to see your process for creating something like this
Two years ago and still mindblowing... Well played sir.
you make it looks soooooo easy to do, damn... absolutely great work, i would never imagine a elephant like this.
Great tutorial, and love this character design so much
Amazing tutorial! It helped me a lot. Thank you!
thanks man, this was really wonderful.
The final result is great. I love your loose approach to creating this stuff. I'm complete beginner, so still drawing stuff pixel by pixel.
all your videos have been amazing
Hey Adam, very nice videos, I've been learning quite a lot about pixel art and hopefully all this will inspire me to create my own things!!
Keep it up -
Martin from France
Thats sooo good! I've been getting into pixel art again the last days and this is such a huge inspiration
First time viewer. That was an outstanding video. Will watch more.
I was looking, a lot, for a video like this, thanks a lot.
I'm a programmer, not an artist. I mess about with Pico-8 sometimes so I do some very rudimentary pixel art for that but that's my limit. Really enjoyed watching this video just for the sake of watching it. Great content, awesome character!
Really good tutorial that really helps me alot! Thanks so much!
Love this, great watch and cool character
Man... you are amazing, I am a programmer and don't have any art skills, but I just can't stop watching your videos :)
I think I could learn a lot by your point about playing around with an idea whilst it's still in the early conception stage. I usually just go right ahead with whatever thing works first and tweak it from there.
You are the best ive been learning from you from time to time U deserve a sub :D
Dude tbh ur vids are up there with mortmort, like ur concise ansd easy to understand, thanks for the tutorial
This video is so helpful! Thank you so much :)
Thanks to your helpful videos I was able to create character designs. :)
Mate, this is really, really good content.
Wonderful content again!
Wooww ! Its so cool! Thank you!
I love your work! Just found your channel today. :)
incredible tutorial, learning a lot!!
i learn a lot with you, thank you so much
this video was so helpful!! :) thank you
Your content is priceless, thank you.
You make this look so easy!
Dudeee i need you as my spritist for my upcoming game lol. Amazing stuff man!!
awesome! this definetly helps me alot!
Amazing work!!
that was great to watch!
Dang I totally lost track of time watching you and didn't even realize 30 minutes had passed until the video ended
Also, your elephant looks really fantastic
Really interesting!! Thank you!
That was phenomenal.
After watching your Pixel Art Class sharing, I think I should be able to start drawing my characters again. Thank you, man.
看了你的课程分享，我想我应该可以重新开始画我的角色了。谢谢你，伙计。
When I see good pixel art like this, I also can’t help but think about the painted style of ‘ Fear & Hunger ‘ I’ve never seen any tutorials or any other game do that style.
Thankyou! This i was looking for
this was amazing! thanks!
That elephant looks awesome man :D
cant even count the amount of times ive watched this video because its soo informative
this is really good
You are a true artist.
Hi. Loving your uploaded vids.
wow your videos are very nice !, Great teachning
beautiful man
woaw, your work is crazy
every word u speak is wisdom my friend
Great vid bro
dude you are amazing
OMG It's awesome!!!! 😱😱😱😱
dude great work
I actually started with pixel art! I found it easier to learn becausr of the constraints. I also have a 11 tone grayscale pallet I use to do the preliminary work, I find it freeing to work in those limits.
POG,
just POG, and nothing more.
superawesome ! Thx !
I have zero artistic ability, I have no idea why this was recommended to me but I watched it all and was amazed at how easy you made it look. I know that's due to your own abilities but it really made me want to give it a shot
Pixel art is a lot about your imaginations. You don't need to draw well to convey your ideas. Definitely try it out! You'll get better over time
so great! Thanks
I know im kinda late to the party but Id love to see your process of animating such characters after designing them!
ua-cam.com/video/LPBvrdJ_1a8/v-deo.html
There you go.
Literally dark maigc, i love it
I'm learning a lot in all of your videos man! Keep up the good work! I have a noobie question tho. I'm currently making a character sprite for a main character of my game. Should I limit myself to 16 colors?
if you're working on a single sprite, I'd say you could probably get it done in usually less than 16, for sure. Each colour can have four or so shades, and you might use three colours, so 12-16 colours for a single sprite seems really reasonable to me, that's about what I end up with for a character like this..
Wonderful... Thanks
amazing stuff
Adam, could you make a series creating characters like this from different themes, without necessarily being characters in your game? Well, it's a nice type of video to watch and be inspired by. It would be interesting to see you take one or more random themes and explore that.
Hi Adam! Thank you for making these -- i do want to know how you were able to have it so that your brush was only able to paint on the silhouette you created and not on the transparent background. This would make it much easier for me to play around with colors and not have to worry about going in an erasing colors that bled over the silhouette i created.
I just subbed, because after comparing your videos to the others out there, yours seem to be the more informative and have the highest quality. Keep it up! I know you're helping inspire a lot of other beginners out there. Also, your Insignia game looks great!
I'm not sure what program you're using, but there are two options depending on the program! (I don't have the program he's using, so I don't know what the features on it are.)
There is a setting called Protect Alpha on certain programs, which paints on the silhouette you have created.
You could also use a Clipping Layer to draw on the silhouette you created as well.
Hope this helped! Looking up the program you're using can help as well :)
@@jarvis5552 In Aseprite, theres also a shading tool, which I think is what he is using. You select two or more colors and they get swapped.
Hey, super nice work! Do you share your pallets anywhere?
My favourite d and d character was a Loxodon. Watching this I might be able to bring him to life in sprite form thanks.
That looks awesome. I tryna get into pixelart too, since I do create games. What I wonder is, doesn't it make sense if you'd put each bodypart on different layers to animate? I think it's much easier to move each body part around. What's difficultier though is to paint over different layers while connecting the parts seamless. Don't know which method is better to work with.
Coooooool stuffffffffff🔥