Pixel Art Class - About Pixels For Games

Hey, this is E2 of my new series on everything pixel art! In this episode, we discuss differences between standalone pixel art and game-specific art, with notes on game art constraints.
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[@WyMustIGo]

In the early days (early 80s for example) we used a lot of palette animation for effects such as water. Palette animation meaning that instead of the pixels changing, the palette itself would rotate so that the pixel colors in the rotating range would change without having to render the screen again (only the palette registers changed on the video card). By the late 80s we were already working with 24 and 32 bit graphics on the Amiga for example. We had ray tracing, video editing, etc while the IBM CLONE (PC's) were still using 2, 4, 8 etc colors. The 80s were great and that is where most of the innovation began as the people from the 80s became more prevalent in the industry.

[@Leen-zt5lu]

You are officially my favorite person on earth now THANK YOU FOR THE TUTORIALS

[@MrEastgalaxy]

Damn i am a hardcore programmer and i came to make my pixel art better for my games. But man i could listen to you talk for hours, you bring and tie in Computer Science and Art how they are very relatable.

[@ataleofgamesandcats7672]

That outline shortcut in Aseprite was a hidden gem 😂 thank you!

[@richardnavas2610]

what tool do you use to make pixel art?

[@josefortyfive214]

what's the background music?

[@shytut]

It's refreshing to see in 2020s people are accepting modernized pixel art style. I've been using shaders and drop shadows etc. with pixel art since 2000s and people were so closed minded then. I would get hate comments from pixel purists 100% of the time.

[@vuminhdang5724]

Seeing the video at the beginning was a trip... I literally just watched 5 videos in a row from the creator of that little pixel art game at the start and that's what prompted me to find your tutorials in the first place

[@HalkerVeil]

Nintendo probably thinks they own this.

[@ogal]

These are high quality videos

[@THEspindoctor84]

wow, these are really high quality videos. Thank you for all the knowledge!

[@tommasomaruffi1306]

Thank you, I'm working on making a video game, so your tutorials are helping me a lot!

[@2thinkcritically]

A classic example of using a single colour to highlight points of interest can be found in 1984s The Touchstone.

[@NicotheMerchant]

Really appreciated the shortcut and of course, all of the information.

[@konstantinosgrammenos8492]

Excellent tutorials man! Way to go so educational

[@jonnymars2254]

Everytime you teach way more shift and o wow this whole time I was doing it manually thanks a lot buddy you saved me loads of time from now on.

[@linebyline7270]

To be fair, that highway scene at around

[@joshzafranco9648]

keep this going!! helps a lot!

[@erkindalkilic]

Wonderfull! Thanks for sharing... Great Share.