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Design Game Design Animation

Learn Professional Pixel Art & Animation for Games

Become an exquisite pixel artist and animator.
Rating: 4.6 out of 54.6 (2,290 ratings)
68,995 students
Created by Jaysen Batchelor
Last updated 11/2016
English
English [Auto], Indonesian [Auto], 
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Design and build professional pixel art
  • Animate your art for games
  • Understand shape, color, and value in pixel art
Curated for the Udemy for Business collection

Requirements

  • Photoshop ( you can get the free trial version)
  • Computer and mouse

Description

This course was last updated on 11/10/16

Join the course and begin designing pixel art games and animation today!

Do you want to learn how to create pixel art and animations? Or maybe you’re on a quest to start making money as a game graphic designer? In any case you’ve come to the right place.

The Learn Professional Pixel Art & Animation for Games course will show you how to create high quality stylized pixel art and animation that will stand up as professional work. The techniques taught in this course can be translated into just about any asset creation for games. This course will enhance or give you skills in the world of digital art creation - or your money back!

The course is your track to building amazing attractive pixel art games! Whether for your own games or for other peoples projects.

This course will take you from having little knowledge in Photoshop to creating professional pixel characters, animations, backgrounds, and maps in as little as 1 week.

So what else is in it for you?

You’ll create five different projects in this course that will take you from beginner to expert!

You’ll gain instant access to all six sections of the course. You’ll also gain access to all of my Photoshop files and sprite sheets that I create though out the course for you to use how ever you like. These assets can be used in your own games or just to study and trace over.

The course is setup to quickly take you through step by step, the process of creating pixel art and animating it in Photoshop. It will equip you with the knowledge to create stunning designs and animations for pixel games!

Don’t believe me? I offer you a full money back guarantee within the first 30 days of purchasing the course.

Here’s what you get with the course:

You’ll get access to the six sections of the course that will show you how to design, create, and animate pixel art from the ground up. The course is supported with over 4.5 hours of clear content that I walk you through each step of the way.

All at your fingers tips instantly.

  • The course starts with the basics. For those of you that have never used Photoshop I’ll walk you through the basic tools we’ll be using and show you how to set up the program for pixel art creation.

  • Next you’ll learn the basics of pixel art, shape, value, and color.

  • Once you’ve learned the basics of pixel art you will build your first two pixel art assets. A wooden crate and a red ruby that you will then animate to rotate and sparkle.

  • At this point you’ll be ready to design your first pixel art character and animate them. You’ll animate three animation cycles. The hover cycle, run cycle, and jump cycle.

  • Next you’ll design and build a background for your character. The background will have multiple levels and also some animated water falls.

  • Lastly you will learn how to build a game map with reusable sprite tiles and assets. These tiles and assets can be used to create an map you want.

Over the 6 chapters you will learn:

  • Photoshop basics

  • The pixel art design process

  • Value and color theory

  • how to build game props from scratch and animate them

  • Sprite sheet creation

  • Pixel character design

  • Animation Cycles

  • Background design, creation, and animation

  • Game map design and creation

What else will you get?

- Personal contact with me, the course tutor

- Lifetime access to course materials

- Understanding of how professional pixel artwork is designed, created, and organized layer by layer to create a master piece

- All project files created for the course

This all comes under one convenient easy to use platform. Plus you will get fast, friendly, responsive support on the Udemy Q&A section of the course or direct message.

I will be here for you every step of the way!

So what are you waiting for? Sign up now to start building your pixel world!

Who this course is for:

  • Students looking to learn how to create amazing pixel art and animation
  • Students ready to put in a couple of hours learning how to do this
  • Students willing to take action and start creating pixel art
  • Students wanting to add a new skill to their tool belt

Featured review

Dylan Davies
Dylan Davies
9 courses
6 reviews
Rating: 4.5 out of 56 months ago
Great introduction to pixel art! Concise and fluent explanations saying and teaching you about saving time when animating and drawing. Only slight issue was having to buy photoshop, as I wish he could show you examples or lectures using software such as Gimp which is free. Overall, impressed!

Course content

6 sections • 48 lectures • 4h 36m total length

  • Preview01:33
  • How to get a guaranteed win out of this course
    02:39
  • What is Pixel art?
    Preview02:41
  • Anti-aliasing examples
    00:04
  • What will you need for this course?
    03:22
  • Preview00:08

  • Preview06:41
  • Preview02:01
  • A simplified way to look at layers and what you can do with them
    06:08
  • Shapes in your artwork
    09:57
  • Value and contrast
    08:15
  • Learning color theory
    07:58
  • Finding inspiration and reference for your pixel art game
    02:22
  • Pixel game art creation quiz
    5 questions

  • Preview07:08
  • Adding texture and outline to your crate
    05:05
  • Creating a diamond asset
    06:37
  • Animating your diamond
    07:08
  • Preview04:36
  • Putting your animation into a sprite sheet
    08:22
  • Pixel art prop creation quiz
    5 questions
  • Section 3 conclusion
    01:06

  • Preview10:25
  • Animating your characters run cycle
    14:42
  • Setting up your animation in Photoshop for playback
    03:03
  • Animating your characters jump cycle.
    07:40
  • Animating your characters hover cycle
    04:00
  • Preview01:25
  • Putting your character animation frames into a sprite sheet
    07:24
  • Section 4 conclusion
    01:02

  • Creating a brick pattern for your game background
    12:13
  • Learn how to make your foreground, mid-ground, and background look amazing!
    02:59
  • Adding your sky and mountain range
    02:24
  • Creating a grass pattern for your game background
    09:18
  • Building mid-ground mountains
    11:47
  • Learn how to create pixel art trees!
    06:55
  • Preview10:20
  • Saving your background out as different documents for parallaxing effecst
    04:29
  • Pixel art background quiz
    4 questions
  • Section 5 conclusion
    01:03

  • Building your map tiles
    08:06
  • Preview07:35
  • Creating rock text and adding shorelines to your map tiles
    05:28
  • Preview08:01
  • Building a rock in the water asset
    04:26
  • Building a bridge asset
    06:06
  • Building a mini island asset
    06:10
  • Building a brick house asset
    Preview14:44
  • Building a tree asset
    09:15
  • Section 6 conclusion
    01:17
  • Course conclusion
    00:20

Instructor

Jaysen Batchelor
Illustrator & Designer
Jaysen Batchelor
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 130,510 Reviews
  • 644,489 Students
  • 13 Courses

At the age of 17 I began a 6th month internship with an animation studio out of Utah. After my internship was up, I was hired on to build backgrounds and to design props and characters for animation projects. I then began to do my own freelance work on the side through networking and using online freelancing sites. Now I work as a freelance Illustrator and designer working on my own time from where ever I want.

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