Pixel Art in Illustrator | Illustrator Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Jumping jiminy jesus. Pixel art in Illustrator.
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This was an amazing, straightforward, understandable video. Keep up the good work!
Glad you liked it!
@30 Sec. Not entirely true, You can scale Pixel art in Raster based applications like PS. If you tell Photoshop to scale using Nearest Neighbor (Preserve Hard Edges) it will not be anti-aliased, and you will get crisp edged Pixel art even if you scale it up exponentially.
This is true! Thanks for sharing.
Also, in game, you can tell to the graphics engine (opengl, directx) to use nearest pixel algorithm for magnification. And you get perfect result at any resolution
what do you think , what is better to make pixel art, for some short animations illustaotor or Photoshop ?
thank you! You just saved my life!
@Ragnarok thanks :) yeah it's better just to use PS , I also tried some free program for making pixel art and it also was quite nice :)
Thanks!! Having a weird issue where within illustrator they look great, but when i export there are still some (and seemingly random) faint lines that mean the pixels haven't blended properly and it looks bad... Can anyone help?
getting this issue too
@@jellyfishjuice47 I found that exporting for web (legacy) as a PNG seemed to get rid of the lines.
@@Con2105 ^^^
After "expand live paint" part, right click and select "make pixel perfect" then continue following the video instructions. I found that out by accident and it seemed to work for me.
For anyone else having this problem, you can also try setting your anti-aliasing to Supersampling in your export settings.
actually you can resize in photoshop and not loose quality with 'Nearest Neighbour'
jackson campbell you can, I found this out too recently :) thanks for the info!
This illustrator method is still good for final designs. I found working in photoshop first (with the preserved hard edges turned on) really allows for one to experiment with early initial concept designs as it is a faster work flow. In the end, I loaded that PS document into illustrator get the final vectors. Thank you very much for the tutorial.
No problem, everyone's got their own workflow :)
beautiful tutorial, followed everything but im still getting the grey pixel grid lines on my finished art even after doing what you said :(
You need to expand it I think. Some times there are those tiny lines that show up still in vector artwork. Making sure its expanded should help.
did you right click and ungroup?
ungroup artwork than Select colour in grid than go the select menu>same>fill color than go to pathfinder menu than click unite.
@@abealih92 YES! You rock! I don't know why I didn't think about doing this. I have an 8-bit based board game I'm creating and I was trying to figure out how to get rid of those the microscopic lines between the pixels because they show up when printed. I think you may have saved me a ton of work.
Hey, nice tutorial! I have one problem though. When I try to export the pixel art as svg or something, and then import it in photoshop, it looks messed up. It seems that the grid is still there for some reason. How can I fix this?
Having a similar issue. You ever solve your problem?
Thank you, I've been looking for a good tutorials on Pixel art, and your's seems to be very easy and understandable
After clicking Expand my art always have weird lines beetween some pixels, but if i color some boxes - they(lines) seem to dissapear again. However, if i try to import my pixel art in photoshop or after effects to animate - all my pixels are suddenly separated by lines again.
Any ideas why?
I've come across this, I think it's something to do with conversion from vector to raster. When you're done with your design, expand everything by 1px (think you can do this from one of the menus). Should take care of it!
Well, i didn't find this option, but in my search i found another thing what fixed it. After finishing my art i just pressed allign with pixel grid, and now it doesnt seem to have weird lines after importing in photoshop! Hope this helps other people.
Anyway, thx for your video and response!
Do everything like in video BUT, after you relese live paint go to "object" and find "rasterize" option, window will pop up and you will have some settings, in the down left corner is "Add" type 1 and select "Backgrpund" transparent. Hope that can help you, i did it that way and it worked (sorry about my bad english by the way) peace :D
THANK YOU Drumnbass995! i already tabbed into my appilcation and nearly forget to say thanks and upvote :)
@@Drumnbass995 Thank you so much!, I was stuck in this part, and now the pixel art finally looks great when I export it.
after im done with my character when i export it to photoshop theres gaps between each pixel. any solution?
The horizontal and vertical dividers need to be 1 less than what you have in width and height.
Example:
width and height: 10x10 pixeles
dividers: 9x9
If you introduce 10x10 dividers you will get 11x11 squares.
Hope that helps.
After creating my pixel art I'm having trouble separating from the grid, I ungrouped it first, then expanded it, then went to pathfinder and divided it and nothing happened! if I move the grid the pixel drawin comes dragged with it :( any tips? anyone?
Same:(
Hi! The vid was really helpful, thanks! But I found a problem: When I scale the art that I made, the pixels mess up, it doesn't keep its solid form.
Dude, I didn't knew I had to do pixel art until this morning and your video saved me a day of searching, you went straight to the point thank you so much!
Straight to the point or straight to the pixel? ;P
*slow clap*
@@KellySaya1 Well said, I nod and clap at you 👏
Useful video.Thankyou. I want to know if there is an option to draw with Pen tool in order to bring perfect shape and convert that to pixels which exactly matches with the grid box. Since drawing with mouse makes it difficult to bring the perfect shape with hand drawing for Textile motifs (being a textile designer) with more intricate curves, if there is an alternative option to draw with guidance of grid box, it will be helpful. Plz explain me if there is such an option.
Very well explained! Thank you so much!!! 🤗👍
Well done, sir. You've got it all figured out. This technique is oh-so-satisfying. 👏 Thanks for saving me I-don't-know-how-much-time.
Dear TipTut, I was following the tutorial and it worked perfectly.
Everything came to a crawl, when I started having a lot of element, like grass tiles, wall tiles etc, stacked to build a scene.
can you please share how would you take the elements and combine them (in a different tool perhaps) into a game enviroment mockup,
without slowing down the computer so much?
Thank you!
Hey, this was really nice.
I thought it'd be more complicated.
Good video!
No problem, glad you found it useful!
When I follow these steps and try to bring my exported file into godot, my file comes in at 4x the size it was saved.. scaling it down to size loses a lot of quality somehow. Any tips? Maybe I’m missing something, or my document preferences are off. I have no idea what is going on.
how can I unlock the tool? I can click until swatch libraries but userdefined swatches are locked?
i can't take off the grid! and the panel that says "pathfinder" :(
Thank you! I had to recreate a logo that was all pixel art and this was perfect!
You should describe what you are doing in the beginning of the video when you select the witch and put the boxes around her. Also how to set up your canvas. These things had me lost and I stopped watching because I couldn't follow along
Great Video! BUT...What was the music?? that tune is awesome, please share!
Thank you so much for this amazing video !
Teaching Pixel Art before it was even trending! 🔥
thank you so much, i wa struggling with removing the grid and I was just about to give up
thank you
I can't hear the british accent i understand only the american accent. Too complicated for me sorry.
Hello. Does anyone here ever had the this problem? When you save the picture in png or jpg there are white lines all over the place?
When I try to color, it says “select the collection of paths that make up the artwork you want to color. Then click with the live paint bucket to make a live paint group.” ????
EDIT: nvm
hey how do you fix that?
great! Thank you so much. After magic wand I have some white lines in my picture. In your picture the colour is solid and there're not white lines between some colours. What's my problem?
Same..i have some white lines changing if i zoom in and out..have you found what is the problem, and solution perhaps?
Wow! Awesome channel! You're were straight to point.
How or where I can get those colors pallets? They're really nice colors
thanks! try flatuicolors.com
Thanks!!
i always thought pixel art would be difficult. i just never looked into it i guess 😂 thank you so much!
No problem!!
Awesome, thank you!! Had to convert a bunch of assets to 8-bit style for a marketing event. Made it so easy!
Thank you very much, I am a graphic designer. Definitely helped me with a job. :)
Awesome!
我正在找如何製作Pixel Art的影片 想不到可以用AI製作 比起PSｅ更不會有轉換大小問題！教得很詳細！太棒了很感謝您提供如此優質的影片！
This was really useful 🎉🎉 thanks
With resolution of 1280x720 what parameters can I use?
Which key need to click on keyboard?
Awesome tutorial! Thanks so much! (Love your accent :) ) The grid didnt make the squares even (some are bigger some smaller) and divide didn't work on all squares.. got any ideas why? :(
Can someone help me.. What would i do if i want to keep the black square inside my drawing? Thankss
Thank you for this video
Within the swatches panel you've selected, you can cycle through colors in the Live Paint tool with the left and right arrow keys. You're welcome.
This is super handy for other stuff as well like I wanted to use pixel art with regular non-pixelated lineart and this actually makes that possible
Hello,
I would like to know if there is a particular setting to make pixel arts in 8bits / 16 bits / 32 bits ?
Thank you
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I can now finish my pixel cat :D "jumping jiminy jesus" XD
Happy to help!
Hi, i'm having a really annoying issue with this. I did every step and everything looked fine, until i exported the file to jpeg. When i do it, i can see a white grid full of squares. Is there a solution for that?
i cant find the rectangle grid tool
Can i like box select and copy part of the grid that i've coloured and paste it somewhere else in the grid ? If I can, could you explain to me to ? I'm a complete beginner btw
I've found using this method there is a very subtle clear line of space inbetween each pixel square. Do you know how to eliminate that please?
Did you find a solution? I am having the same problem...
Thank you so much!
This is useful if you want to use .svg pixel art in web development.
great very simple video nice work thank you
Youre a life saver
Thank you so muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Do you have any tips for if you have done the steps to save your pixel art, but you come back to it later and want to continue working on it? How do you get it back into the grid?
Also, how can I copy and paste things from my pixel art?
If you're going to be working with individual pixels, I can't really see the advantage of choosing Illustrator over Photoshop.
Was hoping for some insight on how to use the full power of vector art (e.g. curves, objects), whilst keeping everything neat and tidy on the pixel level, automagically. Anyone got pointers on this?
I have a question. When I’m creating my character or whatever, what if I accidentally don’t put enough squares for the pixels midway through making the character? This just happened to me now and I only made half of my character and I can’t add anymore cuz I didn’t make the grid big enough. Please please answer. This took me 20 minutes and I don’t want to restart. Plz
that voice effect sounds an awful lot like the welsh translate listening option on google translate
great video :) concise and very helpful
Great tutorial so far i have found in UA-cam.........
Glad it was helpful!
I can not use the bucket to color the squares ... what did I do wrong?
Gotta say, starting pixel art out on illustrator has not been a great experience. I'm just using this because it's a class requirement, but I'm enjoying using Piskel or MS Paint more.
My main problem has been that it seems I can only paint pixels free hand; no line tool, no select tool, no fill tool, those are all designed for regular illustrating. Is there something I'm not seeing or am I better off using Piskel long term?
You would be better off using a dedicated pixel art program, yes.
@@TipTut *Whew* I was thinking "Surely Illustrator isn't THIS bad!?" Thanks.
Amazing tutorial! Anyone else having trouble with switching colors? When I switch a color it recolors the pixels I have already put down. Thank you!
i was looking for this!!! thanks you earn a new viewer
Welcome!
Thanks for making such a clear tutorial! Really helps out
do you know if theres a way to get illustrator to use more memory or cpu/gpu power? every time i divide in the pathfinder the program crashes. is this method only good for tiny pixel art files?
Heya, cool tutorial - I have a question tho. So I have created several artboards to create several pixelarts and whenever i use the magic wand, all grids disappear from all artboards. Is there a way to prevent that since I want to keep some artboards with grids to keep working on those...
So o made land scape and tried exploring it as a JPEG out of illustrator and there is a thin white hashgrid through my picture (not like the grid I drew in but it has intersects of 6) I don't really know how to explain it I followed the directions and have exported it like 4 different time changing the settings can someone help me if they know what is happening
I'm dumb I didn't have my use art board on I'm new to illustrator if you can't tell
Well done for figuring it out!
Does Illustrator have the nearest neighbour feature to make transforms better for animations?
These are great! Subscribed ;)
short and full of value! great video.
Can we use shapes with this method or just brush?
I just needed to align the image with the center of the artboard so thank you for teaching it at the start
the amount of times I come back to this video - live saver.
the magic wand tool does not take the grid out
Thanks, it was super helpful 👍
Glad it helped!
How come there are tiny gaps in the picture where the grid was when I export it
This tutorial was just what I needed
Nais
rasta
I did exactly the same process, but my image is with squares with white borders, as if it were several squares with a space between them :(
Are you aligned to the pixel grid?
@@TipTut Hello, I have read the commentary about "aligning to the pixel grid" but I don't understand what they mean by that, can you give me some light?
Very good tutorial. Do you have deviantArt profile to share?
I'm not on DeviantArt, but I am on Facebook as LinkTCOne and TipTut and Newgrounds and UA-cam as LinkTCOne!
Glad you enjoyed the tutorial :)
I wanted to get rid of that stubborn grid after finishing the pixel art, but didn't find any site that deals with this issue. Thanks a lot, you saved my design (although I had to set the speed to 0.5 to be able to follow your speech)! :)
Happy to help!
Hey TipTut. I appreciate the vid but I am a little stuck.
I am following the tutorial exactly, but I can no longer control the small stroke I set originally. After I ungroup > expand from live paint > Divide, when I try to select with the magic wand and delete, it's deleting sections of square colored pixels instead of the stroke lines themselves. Please help! 🙏 Thank you
I figured out how to get the white lines separated playing around with ungrouping and direct select (white mouse). But now I have a blank gap where the white strokes used to be. Any suggestions besides painting under a background layer all the colors to make them match? (My painting is extremely complex, and copy/pasting it at every phase so I can always revert back to another step)
The blank gap due to the stroke still being active when I expanded and divided, there was no way to select them to change them to opaque as they became boxes instead of strokes after converting to live paint.
Ya know what? Nevermind! When I exported for web to png, it looked gorgeous, no matter the dimension size I made it. Can't even see the white lines. THANK YOU!
What a rollercoaster! 🤣
Yes, in Photoshop is possible, but if you like work with vector for your design it's perfect! Thank you
Really good tutorial :D! made my first 8 bit art piece! Thanks a lot :D
how to select user define from swatch libraries
Is there a way to easily paint a big chunk of pixels with the same color?
Select multiple with SHIFT.
Super tutorial, thank you!! I am drawing all day meheh
Have fun!
How do you reduce it to exact pixel art size afterwards? rescale it to 0.1? (since we used 50 instead of 500)
Can I please ask a beginner question? At 0.53 how do you add that particular swatch? When I go to Swatch Libraries the option to 'user define' is not able to be selected. Thank you for your help!
Joy Argow you have you add a whole bunch of swatches to the palette (delete any you don't want) and save it as a color palette. then when you go to user defined your palette will be there
thank you!! ive been looking for a good video to make pixel art and all of them have been super unhelpful but yours really really helps!!!
vary helpful thanks .
Glad it was helpful!
whats your app?
i really want to know
this was so helpfull and to the point! thank you very much!!!!
Thank you! Super useful. I managed to make a pixel portrait of myself.
Awesome!
short. precise. to the point. clear. simple. easy.
need i say more :)
Thanks!