Want to make your games stand out? Pixel art is quick and easy, when you know how!
Learn how to create your own unique, stylised characters in just a few hours. You’ll develop the skills to quickly make unique and professional characters, making your game stand out (ideal for game jams, portfolios and more)!
Modern graphic resolution is better than ever before, but Pixel Art games continue to be firm favourites. Learn to recreate the nostalgic feel of early computer games with pixel art!
From designing characters, creating character portraits, crafting enemies & monsters, to customising and animating your sprites. This course has it all!
And, the character design process can be applied to all types of 2D character design, not just Pixel Art.
Learn how to create proper silhouettes to build out sprites. Detailing, shading and highlighting your pixel art. And explore animation for video game assets.
Whether you’re a beginner looking to learn pixel art from the ground up, or you’re more intermediate and want to improve your skills, this course will help you become a better pixel artist.
Pixel art is cool, fun, quick and accessible. No previous experience or drawing tablet required, an interest in learning pixel art, a mouse and a keyboard is all you need.
All students have access to the Q&A where our Instructors, Teaching Assistants and Community are ready to help answer your questions and cheer on your success.
Jump in and start creating your awesome characters now!
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Reece welcomes you to the course and shares some of the things that you will be learning.
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You can use any pixel art software you'd like in this course. We'll be using LibreSprite which is very similar to Asprite, but open source and free!
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Lucy invites you to join us in our various community support forums in order to ask questions, connect with other students and share your progress.
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Reece takes you through a step by step guide to creating pixel art in Libresprite and getting your workspace ready for future lectures.
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Start designing basic 1 color top-down based silhouettes for forming characters in varied proportions.
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This lecture familiarizes students with lighting and shading techniques for more detailed silhouette drawings.
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Understand the importance of outlining your pixel art and how you can achieve a proper result in your own work.
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Start designing basic 1 color platformer based silhouettes for understanding multiple perspectives.
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Grasp the fundamentals of shading and highlighting platformer based silhouettes.
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Reece wraps up our first section of the course, explaining what we have learnt and what’s to come in the following section!
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Reece explains a brief summary of what we will be achieving throughout the Designing Characters section of this course.
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Start prototyping basic top-down character models in this in-depth lecture on pixel art characters.
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Build on your skills from the previous lecture by detailing your basic character model.
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Start designing fantasy themed characters with this lecture’s wizard creation guide.
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Create medieval knight characters in a top down perspective to build more knowledge of character customization.
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Start prototyping basic platformer character models in this in-depth lecture on pixel art characters.
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Let’s design your very own mascot fighter character in a platformer perspective!
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For your final 16 bit character design, you will take on the challenge of creating the most advanced character in this course… the Archer!
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Design your very own detailed character portraits through this basic template setup lecture.
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Customize your portraits with new clothing options, details, and accessories to get you started in characterizing your drawings.
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Congratulations on completing the Designing Characters course section! Let’s take a moment to refresh our brains on what we have learnt and discuss what our next section has in store for us.
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Reece explains a brief summary of what we will be achieving throughout the Character Animation section of this course!
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Let’s take a look at how animation tabs in software like “Libresprite” operate!
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Start your basic animation techniques with this in-depth lecture on creating an idle animation cycle for characters.
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Let’s cover how to create a running animation for your platformer characters in 4 frames of animation.
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Let’s cover how to create a jumping animation for your platformer characters in 5 frames of animation.
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Let’s cover how to create a few attack animations for your platformer characters!
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Let’s cover how to create a hit and death animation for your platformer characters in _ frames of animation.
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Congratulations on completing the Character Animation course section! Let’s take a moment to refresh our brains on what we have learnt and discuss what our next section has in store for us.
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Reece explains the final section of our course where we will be designing and animating unique enemy monsters you would find in video games!
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Let’s design a slime monster!
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Let’s design flying enemies!
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Let’s design some demon creatures!
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Let’s design a mimic chest for some dangerous dungeons!
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Let’s animate our slime monster with a jumping animation!
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Let’s animate our flying enemies with a flapping animation!
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Let’s animate our demon creatures with a run cycle!
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Let’s animate our mimic chests with a chomping animation!
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Congratulations on completing the final section of the Pixel Art Characters Course! Take your skills to the next level by practicing the skills and techniques taught throughout this course!
