26 Aseprite Tips for Beginners

I recently did a thread over on Twitter where I posted a bunch of small things I've picked up over the years.
Original thread here: / 1435600476666482689
Since people seemed to like it, I've combined them all into a single 8-minute video to put here, hope they help!
I elaborate a lot more on these techniques in the thread I linked above: when I use them, why I prefer them over others, etc. So, if there's some confusion surrounding a few of the clips, I'd recommend checking the original posts out.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Quick Reflection
00:27 - Multiple Windows
0:39 Animating position with Custom Brush
1:11 Custom Brush Eraser
1:25 Cheap Impact Frames
1:52 Creating Tags
2:13 Exporting Tags
2:27 Ignoring Tags
2:41 Outlines
2:59 Outline when working with multiple layers
3:32 Adjusting Onion Skins
3:50 Replacing Colours across an animation
4:10 Link Cells
4:28 Quickly Delete section across an animation
4:43 Freeze Frames / Adjusting Frame Speed
5:00 Moving Selection with Arrow Keys
5:13 Simple Squash and Stretch Frames
5:37 Simple Squash and Stretch Frames Pt.2
5:57 Pop-out Text
6:07 Studying GIFs
6:27 Scaling down downloaded work
6:46 Setting up brush size shortcut
7:12 Duplicate frame cell across a timeline
7:26 Create Palette from Sprite
7:36 Duplicating a group of frames
8:00 Exporting your work
Music by insaneintherainmusic :
/ @insaneintherainmusic
Ramblings: nicknuttall.com/

[@SadTown99]

Not only are these the best tips for Aesprite, but this dude has some of the most fluent pixel art animation I’ve seen 😮

[@nootall]

Ay thank you 🙏

[@nemecsek5082]

This is the best Aseprite tutorial. No blablablablabla babbling...just simple and quick text based video. I love it!

[@nootall]

Glad you liked it!

[@Hellock_222]

Voiced tutorials are great too when they get to the point.

[@Antigel0a9]

i hope a lot of people will say the same months after months : it's such an underrated video, and your art style is so good thank you a lot

[@nootall]

Thanks!

[@ASTAROTH_L4M]

Still underrated

[@lrgogo1517]

So, you hope it will remain underrated?

[@Antigel0a9]

@@lrgogo1517 you didn’t understand my sentence sir

[@user-tc7zl8et2o]

agree

[@alejmc]

That punching bag bird animation is beyond amazing. With the hit flash highlights and all that… loved it.

[@TimConceivable]

6:36 you can also just type "/4" after the width or height and it will divide it by 4 for you so you don't have to do any math. tons of great tips in this video though! i didn't know about several of these.

[@blackjam2683]

when someone looking for tips for Aesprite, this should be on the top of the list. Not showing me how to change my theme. This is helpful!

[@Giulion]

Thanks for your video and your advice, I'm getting into pixel art and the tips you are sharing are making my life so much easier

[@nootall]

Hey I'm glad to hear that!

[@mwah7737]

One of the best tutorial videos ever made, across all topics. You should be proud

[@veni_art5689]

With 20K views, this video is soo underrated. Probably one of the best videos for Aseprite out there. Also awesome music choice, luv it!🔥

[@PDD555]

I think this is one of the most helpful tutorials out there. Also the animations are so good

[@SoulSync16]

Damn when I drew my first pixel art character at some point I wanted to change a main color and I wasted sooo much time doing that, can't believe I could've just clicked like twice :D this video is really helpful, thank you!

[@nootall]

Ahah, glad to hear it!

[@filipjovanovic8138]

Came for the art tips, stayed for the awesome music (and also the art tips)

[@stepankondaurov5615]

Thanks dude, you explain everything methodically, it really helps. Best tutorial on Asperite I've watched so far

[@nootall]

Awesome to hear - glad it was helpful :)

[@Just-A-Soul]

I love this channel. One of the Best ☁✨

[@mhin7424]

Great Video Nootall I just got started doing pixelart and I love this it helps a lot Thank you.

[@Samuel_3000]

I wasn't sure how good the tips be but right off the start with good tips, thanks

[@Zafiro_Regio]

OH MY GOD IM ONLY AT NUMBER 2 AND I AM ALREADY BAFFLED AT WHAT YOU CAN DO!!! THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY BROKE ARTIST SELF WITH ONLY ONE MONITOR

[@nootall]

YOU'RE VERY WELCOME - I'M HAPPY TO HEAR THAT!! 👍👍

[@SheerSniper7]

I've got like 900+ hours in aseprite and this made me go "*That's* how you do that?" more than a handful of times

[@nootall]

Ahaha, hope it helped

[@thatboyzulu1592]

This is probably the most useful Aseprite video that I've seen

[@nootall]

I'm glad you think so :)

[@licriss]

This is aggressively practical, thanks!

[@crennips5669]

that jazz music was a banger...

[@FranciscoGomez-wo2it]

Amazing tips! I also love your animations!

[@nootall]

Glad you like them!

[@fluury]

Awesome video! Short and to the point! Thanks!

[@polacha4x4]

best tips ever for aseprite , thank you

[@jeanmichel870]

Bro... so beautiful animations

[@eerice704]

Best animation I’ve seen!

[@CobraCode]

Thanks for the great video. I didn't know about most of these features!

[@TheRealKwisty]

FINALLY, so many of these tips are super useful to my workflow with this program ;A;

[@x_way4539]

We are waiting for another 👍🏽

[@quanghuynguyen3499]

Oh god this video is too helpful. Deserve more views and subs

[@Alpha_beef]

This is amazing. Im definitely going to study your animation style so I can emulate it

[@jeroenskii]

Great video that got me started with Pixelart!

[@2m.a]

Underrated asf

[@shisuiuchiha1168]

very cool! some things I didn't even think about

[@nootall]

Thanks, hope it was helpful 👍

[@IHAVEMAINBOARD]

i just want you to know. this video help me a lot i mean a LOT for starting Aseprite. thank you for good video thank you to make it look easy for me and it very fun to use thank you ♥

[@devseb]

This is fantastic. Thank you.

[@nootall]

No problem, glad to hear it!

[@ninsebas3676]

Awesome tips, sprites and animations!

[@nootall]

Thank you, I appreciate it!

[@Fefs-yi1gf]

wow amazing tips man!

[@marrrukisa]

this is actually super helpful, thank you

[@nootall]

No problem, I'm glad to hear you think so!

[@Lorriar]

This video is criminally underrated!

[@nootall]

I appreciate it! although those that have seen it seem to have found it useful, so all is fine with me :)

[@tlilmiztli]

Extremely helpful video! Thank you!

[@nootall]

Awesome, glad to hear it!

[@HNniner]

omg there was so much stuff i thought aseprite didnt have that i needed and it was there all along

[@user-sw8zy4yr5r]

You sir, just won a new suscriptor with this video. :)

[@stviz87]

Didn't read, just vibed to the music and the cute animations

[@ledu4614]

Thank you so much! This video is very helpful! I already follow you on twitter and would love to see more content here in youtube too!

[@VincentDerChecker]

I'm rly glad i found ur Video, it helped a lot. Ur the best man, thank u ^--^

[@nootall]

Glad to hear that!

[@jesseleodoro5471]

BRO, greetings from brazil. u have an AWESOME channel! that's great! keep with your good job.

[@nootall]

Ei, obrigado meu amigo - the kind words are much appreciated 😎👍

[@petterde]

WTF I've been using this program for really long, but I didn't know about most of these features!!?? THANKS!! 😭

[@hhcdghjjgsdrt235]

So smooth animation bro

[@bean6780]

whys this more helpful than a 30 minute videos

[@generalsub7]

Underrated 😢 You should have a million subs.

[@nootall]

Ahah, thank you 😁 But I have no idea how I'd handle such a big following at this stage. One step at a time!

[@izabela3g]

Wooow that's really cools advices!! Thank you very much

[@ninjagraphics1]

very helpful, thanks!

[@nootall]

Glad it was helpful!

[@leroypietz5310]

This is soooo helpful, thanks a lot!!!

[@leroypietz5310]

For changing size of the brush I use strg+alt and than move my pen left for smaller and to the right for bigger brush which ist really handy.

[@nootall]

No problem, glad to hear it :)

[@jamstarx]

These are great tips!

[@nootall]

Glad you think so!

[@GakeGameplay]

thank u soo much it helped a lot

[@Dooz6]

very helpful,ty

[@hejhejhej952]

Very good!

[@SusilVignesh]

Dude this is helpful.. Thanks for the video :)

[@nootall]

Glad to hear it!

[@Islamitisch]

Amazing Video 💯

[@nootall]

Thanks!

[@fitler126]

Thank you so much! ♥

[@nootall]

My pleasure, hope it helped!

[@nutszzz5831]

Its really help me, thx u so much 😄

[@nootall]

Glad to hear that!

[@ruthh9173]

i have no idea about this but your art is so nice

[@nootall]

Thanks 😅

[@quaternion1718]

Perfect !

[@eleanor...8282]

who else is more distracted by the animations than the words of wisdom😅

[@bamcount]

very useful! Thx!

[@nootall]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Spirhack]

wow. that's a lot! Ty!

[@denavamok]

This tips video is just Fabolous . too underrated . It was so useful thank you

[@nootall]

You're very welcome, glad to be of help!

[@ymotle]

This shit is wild, amazing video

[@raulsilva216]

Awesome! Thanks man ;)

[@Newt-mo3oe]

love your animation, please do more tutorial !!!

[@broccolover666]

we need more videos please

[@wyjebundatak2265]

jesus you are a goat thank you!

[@nootall]

Hope it helped :)

[@PythonicIe]

damn I didnt even know onion skins existed, I was going back to the previous frame constantly to know what to do for the next frame which made me take really long on a single frame.

[@prodriguez9430]

Hello, thank you very much for this tutorial! I found new things thanks to your help :) However, I have a doubt, how to make the pencil despite the fact that the canvas is very large, still be made 1 pixel? Every time I enlarge the brush, the lines made are increased, and I only want the drawing to be made by 1 pixel, I hope you understand it and I await your response, thanks!

[@ManodayPatilmi]

Custom brushhh...DAMN bruh they sold me aseprite with that.!!

[@Arko_3]

this video is so helpful, question bro what does the scaling down downloaded work do? appreciate for the answer

[@nootall]

Awesome, I'm glad to hear it 👍 The clip you reference is something I do when I want to create animations with somebody else's pixel art. Most people increase the size when they upload their animations, and so this is how I bring it back down to normal size. hope that makes sense!

[@korzen4183]

Opening then hearing Patrick Bartley shred was not expected.... lol

[@MrJumpingj]

thanks

[@happylika]

Thank you, everything I saw was spectacular. Great job

[@nootall]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@neutraljump]

dude the art here is awesome. Do you make assets for marketplaces, companies or do you make your own games? It'll take years before I'll be able to make anything that comes even close to this.

[@neutraljump]

inspired to make coffee at 04:00 and restart Aseprite.

[@nootall]

Hey thanks man 😎 I have done some game animation work for a few people here and there, and I've done a couple hobby projects myself, but I gave it a rest a couple years back. They were some nice experiences, but man is there a lot involved.

[@killy-rayy7927]

are you on twitch? i love learning from these vids

[@nootall]

I'm glad to hear it! I've done a bit of streaming on Twitch in the past but that was a looong time ago

[@ViktorPotemkin]

Большое спасибо

[@nootall]

Пожалуйста )

[@PixDoom-PixelArt]

Que hermoso Pixel Art :)

[@nootall]

Gracias hombre 😎

[@cilthepen]

i like your art..

[@nootall]

Thanks :)

[@iMakeDecentEditss]

YOU GOTTA TELL ME WHAT COLOR PALLETE UR USING . Oh and btw ur talented keep it up

[@nootall]

No particular palette! I have a default one set on the side but I don't really use it. I'm mostly just picking colours as I go, so nothing I can share unfortunately :( And thank you, I appreciate the kind words 😎

[@playbehnder]

fukin awesome animations you do with that chicken

[@nootall]

Ahahaha, thanks man

[@playbehnder]

​@@nootall thanks for the video, i'm starting with this and this is very handful.

[@nootall]

@playbehnder I'm glad to hear it 👍

[@unggulwidiatmodjo2861]

pls make a specific video about how to animating for beginners

[@IronJhon788]

Does anybody know how to switch back to the legacy color picker?, all i can use is the color spectrum and color wheel. I am used to photoshop, so it would be easier to use the single color picker, but I haven't been able to change it

[@pikcelalien7793]

how do you make that kind of smoth animations?

[@draymations]

whats your recommended canvas sizes? I want to make pixel animations for yt.

[@nootall]

I usually go for around 170px x 120px - somewhere in that ballpark, but it all depends on the style you want to go for. For many people, 50px x 30px is enough space, for me, it's not.

[@Brickstic]

hi. do you know how you can change the size af individual pixels? like the nft projuct weird whales the hats have smaller pixels. any help would be appreciated!

[@tech6hutch]

Double the size of the drawing

[@dragontalker]

me: oh, cool so now i can split them but how do i export just a that bit. video: *shows how to do it* me: *shocked pikachu face* how'd it know

[@nootall]

🤫

[@zacharylarson6866]

replace color is huge for me, I thought I had to work in Indexed all the time

[@shirakage_]

I decreased duration time of my few frames but When I export the animation, they turn into the normal speed frames, how can I avoid it? thanks.

[@nootall]

Not sure about this one! I usually try to use the same duration for each frame. If you're trying to make a few frames last longer, then your best bet is to duplicate the frames. If you're trying to make a few frames shorter, you may need to make all the frames quicker, and then duplicate the frames you want to last longer. Although, I did just experiment with exporting an animation with different frame speeds and it worked fine, not sure what's causing your issue

[@Akira-nc6vi]

What's the song title please ? Great video btw !

[@glossonema]

Team Galactic HQ theme from Pokemon Diamond/Pearl

[@Akira-nc6vi]

@@glossonema Thank you bro !

[@ngomding3014]

What name of font you use for this video?

[@teyo2123]

cool, which program ?

[@nootall]

Check the title brother

[@martinjacobsen5974]

Super great video but when I pause and play it to read the text bar below. YT kindly covers over your text ^^;

[@Kirunoch]

I'm sorry, I need to shrink the entire layer on all frames.. could you tell me how I can do this?

[@nootall]

Sorry for being 2 week late, but if it helps: Selection Tool -> Highlight the bit you want to shrink -> Highlight the Entire timeline -> Shrink the selection. That should hopefully work

[@Kirunoch]

@@nootall thank you a lot!