2D Game Artist: Design Pixel Art From Scratch
What you'll learn
- Master GIMP's powerful interface
- Convey meaning through shape and colour
- Use GIMPs fundamental drawing tools
- Work with layers for complex images
- Create gradients, drop shadows and reflections
- Organise and professionally export your work.
- Work to a specification like a pro
- Create pixel art assets for your games
- Create your own character
- Becoming a digital artist
Course content
11 lectures • 1hr 35minEmotion Icons - Get Creative At 8x8 Pixels
- Preview02:03
- 03:19Getting GIMP Installed
- 16:50Getting Comfortable In GIMP
- 13:45Black And White Outlines
- 11:24An Outline Story
- 12:54Exporting Your Work
- 11:26Introduction To Value
- Preview13:11
- 6 questionsQuiz 1
- 02:19How To Share & Ask Questions
- 06:36Using GIMP At High Resolutions
- 01:17Section 1 Wrap Up - Congratulations!
23 lectures • 4hr 11minGame Icons - Creating 32x32 Pixel Art
29 lectures • 5hr 13minAnimated Sprites
30 lectures • 6hr 1minCharacter Sketch
7 lectures • 1hr 23minBonus: Tiling Textures
3 lectures • 2minContinuing Your GameDev Journey
Requirements
- You need a Mac or PC capable of running GIMP (most are!)
- You only need a mouse or trackpad to get started!
- Optional: Wacom stylus or similar for later sections
- You can organise, move and rename files
Description
GIMP is a super powerful, free, 2D art package. It's also 'open source' which means it's owned by the community, and constantly updated. Most of the features of the much more expensive Photoshop are available, giving you the power to create industry strength 2D art.
The challenge with this package is it can be intimidating for beginners, especially those who don't have much confidence in art or drawing. We make learning from scratch easy with our simple step-by-step process.
Even if you have no prior experience in drawing, or computer art, we'll take you from the very basics. By investing in a structured course like this you'll learn faster and more effectively than on your own, just check-out our latest reviews.
We provide challenges in every video to cement your knowledge, an active community of students and instructors to help you if you get stuck, and continuous updates to the course to improve the learning journey.
How is the course structured?
We start by helping you master GIMP's interface
Then we constrain you to just 8x8 pixels, to get you started
Moving on we add colour, contrast and more to bring your images alive
In section 2 we increase our canvas to 32x2 and beyond
By the end of the course you'll be able to create great looking 2D icons.
Looking for 3D art, Blender, Unity or more? Check out our other courses, let the green leaf logo be your guide :-)
Also included with the course...
Get plugged into our communities of amazing developers on Facebook (nearly 20k), in our own TA-curated Community (17k views/day), and our student chat group (10k live at any one time).
Use of our custom built texture sharing service
Daily responses to your Q&A.
2D artwork is in demand, and now's a great time to get into GIMP.
Ben & Michael
Who this course is for:
- You want to learn GIMP specifically
- You want to create 2D art from scratch
- You have little or no experience with GIMP or Photoshop
- You want to make 2D assets for computer games
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Instructors
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Hi, I'm Ben. I have a degree in computing from Imperial College London, and a physics diploma from the Open University.
I started working for myself at the age of 15, and never looked back. I explored careers as varied as being a commercial pilot, stunt-man, rock climbing instructor, and more. None of these provided a continued challenge, and stable income in the same way technology does.
After building and selling a home computer support business, I became an angel investor and business mentor here in Cambridge UK. I fell in love with teaching game development through one of my investments, and I now spend all of my time sharing my passion with people like you.
I can't wait to help you experience the fulfilment, and financial freedom, that having a deep understanding of technology brings.
So why not start learning to make games with me and my team now?
See you soon!
Ben
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GameDev tv was created to help anyone learn how to develop, design and sell indie games. We have some of the best-selling and highest rating game development courses on Udemy.
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