Poll of the Day > Any tips for Pixel Art?

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I'm having a hard time with it. I tend to overanalyze everything so that's a problem too.

I have been looking at tutorials and what not but still having a bit of trouble.

For example. I drew a human character but it looks very off when I try to animate it.

edit: And animating is stressing me out. lol. I'm just going to use some of the techniques I learned from doing 3D animation (which is easier than 2d animation imo since you already have all the assets and you just have to manipulate them).

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I've never done pixel art, but I've done lots of other art.

Most of the YouTube tutorials I've seen, there are tons of little tricks.

One guy would draw his characters in a very traditional style....and then put them in Photoshop or something and intentionally pixelate them with filters. That would give him a good idea of what aspects of the model need to be less pixelated than others to have it still look faithful to his vision, but also be pixelated.

I LOVE pixel art games. Backgrounds, character models, animations.

The biggest tip would just to be patient.....and not overthink your creations. Just play around and have fun.

There was a game a few years back called Songbringer. It was probably one of the funnest games I've played in a loooooong time and the pixel art was so simplistic...it was almost "bad". But it was done so well, and everything moved just right.....it was beautiful in a strange way. I highly recommend looking into it for inspiration.

Then you could level up into stuff like Hyper Light Drifter and Dead Cells.


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NachoVarga posted...

(which is easier than 2d animation imo since you already have all the assets and you just have to manipulate them).

If this is how you feel... just rotoscope!

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Remember you can always use black as accent. If you look at old like 8-bit and even a lot of 16-bit games, there's a LOT of black.

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