An Aseprite Crash Course In 30 Minutes

[@edlodude]

If you're watching this in or after 2024, the change brush size hotkey got added: hold ctrl+alt and drag your brush

[@McMoobii]

omg thank god I literally just started using it and I was so bummed there wasn't a hotkey. I kept going to the brackets out of habit.

[@Black2Ninja1]

why dont you just hold Ctr + mouse wheel for the desired size

[@astroboy3849]

Awesome 🔥🤩

[@14_tranngocgiahuy42]

@@Black2Ninja1 thats in case u paint with ur tablet bro, not with ur mouse

[@liuping999]

damn. I'm still watching this before your comment. Oh well

[@ehad1753]

I have more than 280 hours on aseprite and I didn't knew about the shading tool I watched you using on another video and I knew I had to see if you had a video on how to use aseprite propperly and you posted it today!, such a coincidence, I'll try to use a lot more of the tool aseprite has to offer, thanks a lot!

[@tippitytop]

didn't know

[@tomyyoung2624]

Yes.. End of discussion.

[@deepfriedpaper]

@@tomyyoung2624 ???

[@tomyyoung2624]

@@deepfriedpaper Yes I wanna see 'Richard as the PRINCIPAL!

[@raymondmercado3507]

Time stamp where he explains it plz

[@xelmenguyzxlt5571]

I didn't even feel the 30 minutes pass by. Great video !

[@Galaxy_World]

Yep

[@ArawnFR]

But I really did

[@satanm8c40]

Really? It's been 2 minutes and it feels really slow for me

[@pxlwiz4u]

I’ve been using Aseprite for a few years now. This channel has helped me so that I can make my own animations

[@ConclusiveConfusion]

It's always fun watching right handed people enjoy tech and devices laid out in convenience. I get to imagine for a moment what it must be like to not have to constantly switch things around/reach across something awkwardly/ put what ever was in my left hand down so I can reach over for the keyboard shortcuts before picking it back up again. Yes I will die mad on this hill, why do you ask? Unrelated complaining aside. Thanks for the tips and videos, tremendously useful stuff across this whole channel.

[@AlcreedFlores]

Always appreciate this types of content creator that gives their free time for free learning course for beginners. If it wasn't for them I would've no clue where to search for. Thanks bro. Love your contents.

[@nonstandard5492]

don't get me wrong the video is very helpful and homie seems like a chill cool dude but pretty weird to frame making a tutorial to put on youtube and make a bunch of money off of it as "giving free time"

[@msnerdytoastx8412]

I have loved pixel art my whole life and finally bought Aseprite and this video helped me not feel so overwhelmed, thank you so much!!

[@kzltilki6716]

This is a perfect start to Aseprite. Everything is clearer than before now. Thanks. I mean it. Thank you. We need teachers like you, man. I'm all tears.

[@metashrew]

What i like to do is use the shading mode with the spray tool. Combine that with the tiled mode and you've got pixel art textures/tiles in no time.

[@libiroli]

HOLY SH*T!!! I just created the most beautiful cloud in 30 seconds that would normally take me 30 minutes. Thank you kind internet stranger

[@nwut]

yeah but it's really random and doesn't work for a lot of materials

[@gdog8170]

spray tool?

[@gdog8170]

OOH YOU FIND THE SPRAY TOOL BY CLICKING ON THE PENCIL TOOL IN THE TOOLBAR

[@nwut]

@@gdog8170 bruh

[@ToffeeBun]

You've been a great help in helping me get started. I know it can be hard to process it with the amount of comments you get, but you really are making people's lives an easier and smoother time. Thanks!

[@JhonatanMorais]

This was Amazing! I'm a Web Developer and this was my first time watching how a pixel artist work. Thank you for share it. You did Great!.

[@lordsergio]

Man, your tutorials on pixel art are the BEST on youtube by far, (and I have watched a lot of them). The clarity of your explanations put them on a different league! thanks a lot.

[@capsey_]

"And as you can see you easily can reach all important key on your keyboard" Me, lefty: Oh no, not again

[@zedmanul7472]

you can always change the keybinds to be on the right side of the keyboard! :)

[@pixelup-art]

Hello! I'll help ya! You only need to change 2 buttons and you'll be alright! The brush can still being on B. Change the eraser to J key. And the Zoom to O key.

[@jonteguy]

@@pixelup-art The distance from B and O is pretty big in comparison to the right-side he was talking about, it's also angled which makes it more annoying. It's definitely doable but for me I'd rather change most of the keybinds to the numpad.

[@pixelup-art]

@@jonteguy Do you have baby hands or something?

[@pixelup-art]

@@jonteguy It's B for brush and J for eraser. Zoom on O.. c'mon.

[@anthonycarro5294]

After painfully figuring out how to compile the code for Aseprite, I'm finally ready to learn how to use it. This is a great video btw.

[@dookcurruff9047]

lol i gave up and just bought it

[@karakaz]

Bought Aseprite yesterday! This is perfect! Thanks a bunch 😊

[@fadelrahmadhan5737]

i bought it 2020 when the price is good

[@anthonycarro5294]

I compiled the code, almost made me wish I bought it

[@penguinlim]

@@anthonycarro5294 same. it was *such* a pain to get it compiled.

[@UltiemeHack]

Your videos have inspired me to make my own art for my game. Long way to go but I look forward to practicing drawing and such. Keep doing what you do. Really appreciate it!

[@brianzhamilton]

I was literally just thinking the other day about how nice it would be if you released a video like this! Thanks!

[@NomichReal]

I didn't even know that I wanted to get into Pixel Art...

[@MythicBeanProductions]

I didn't either until I bought aseprite on steam because I thought it was a game.

[@Nemesis0529]

​@@MythicBeanProductions😂 loved this

[@Narwhal12]

@@MythicBeanProductionsLMAO How’s it going?

[@mmmMindo]

@@MythicBeanProductions If Mario Paint is a game so is aseprite :D

[@E_Proxy]

I've bought aseprite on sale and i cannot even use paint 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@sunenglish8732]

I am so happy to start this pixel art journey with your videos! I'm only 20 minutes in and I feel like you've skyrocketed my skill level in minutes. I'm coming from an art/sculpture/technical drawing background and your process makes sooo much sense to me.

[@gerpixelflash]

I found your videos a few days ago and they are very helpful. I am training pixelart for many years now and i am always struggling with some technics/aspects of pixelart. Your tutorials are the perfect help to improve my work. Love your art style. Keep up the good work!

[@IlTuboDiLowen]

found this channel during GMTK Game Jam and it made me buy aseprite for my project, I'm super happy of my result, thank you very very much!!

[@russellpenn375]

This was brilliant, bought Aesprite and a tablet after watching! Thanks for the video

[@Inconnue760]

which one did you get?

[@Nori_Plays]

thank the heavens i watched this, i was about to start exporting each sprite into photoshop and making my own sprite sheet from there. again THANK YOU.

[@GrizzliusMaximus]

I'm weird. I read the title as "How to crash Aseprite in 30 minutes". But regardless, this is the tutorial I need! I've been using aseprite for a while but seeing how efficiently you use it blows my mind! Great tutorial!

[@ManEaterBrainBug]

I have watched a bunch of pixel art learning channels and i have to say, your channel is the best. Thanks for sharing that knowledge!

[@Feelou]

after two years of aseprite utilisation, i discover just now the outline tool ... i put outline everywhere in my 'art', i'm a outline lover, and i do this manualy everytime, every frrames hahaha this is crazy ... sometimes i wonder why am i so dumb, thanks for your vids, i discovered you few days ago, very great content.

[@felipebdc4316]

almost 1.500 hours on aseprite and you just showed me some stuff i didn't even know about! tysm!

[@sevendeadlysins6430]

Bro's skills are so fire he legit just said "maybe I'm making a cool question mark" and then proceeded to do just that.

[@Aesthetic.__.Senpai]

Great crash course Adam

[@estevaoyt]

Best Crash Course I 've seen in my life, thank you!

[@miguellavariel1348]

You do some of the most professional Pixel art tutorials on youtube, imo.

[@rcookie5128]

Love all the resources you provide! Already used Aseprite for about 100h, but still there's always something small I learn (love the Ctrl+F shortcut!). Thanks!

[@jonathancossette6252]

I would really love if you could talk about Isometric pixel art either in relation to Aseprite or just your own opinions and knowledge about it. I find that it is a style/perspective that isn’t often used in games or talked about these days and I’m extremely interested in it, thank you I absolutely love your channel, it’s fantastic!

[@AdamCYounis]

I actually have a video in the works about isometric. It's one of my favourite looks, and there are interesting reasons for using it that I'll be talking about in the video.

[@ThermalSnakeMerc]

You have the best pixel art channel. You're the Brackeys of Aseprite.

[@gargaduk]

Brackeys?

[@ThermalSnakeMerc]

@@gargaduk Great KZbin channel that taught Unity game design. I believe it has been discontinued, but it has a wealth of knowledge.

[@randomrandom450]

Awesome ! Thank you ! I watched the tileset and paralax video in which you use the shading tool and I was like "I want that power !!!" I'm glad you covered it here + a couple of cool tips. Thank you.

[@WallysaurRex]

Great videos, this channel has helped me understand aesprite and pixel art so much. Keep up the good work!

[@mefcalols4446]

This is some masterclass level tutorial and its just... Free on KZbin. Cheers mate. My friends and i are doing a game jam and im trying to learn pixel art as we go. This is goong to help a ton.

[@Chironyx]

21:30 - 21:40 , Gods, I've been waiting for an option to do that for years, from what I understood Aseprite needed some sort of rehaul in order to support that, if that's really coming in the next update then I'm hyped, finally I'll be able to preview my work on another screen! Really good job on this video by the way, aside from selection modifiers I think you've covered pretty much everything a beginner should know!

[@skyibis]

Great news, the beta supports that feature now!

[@lerdherlix6657]

coming from gimp i wasn't sure how i felt about learning a new tool, but your video was very educational and i feel comfortable using aseprite now!

[@JasonValentineFL]

Thanks! It's been several years since I've used Aseprite and this was a great re-introduction.

[@StoryTeller796]

I'm watching this because I don't really know 1000% how to move my character's arms. Maybe I should look at something else, like an Idle Animation tutorial or something but meh, I'll watch this first and then get over there if this doesn't help. So, first things first. New Sprite window is basically the setting for how the entire Aseprite model will be set out as. Canvas, Toolbar, two things that I constantly make good use of. I don't really use the context bar that much, maybe it'll help make the Arm editing easier. Oh nvm, it's basically something that works with the Toolbar, yeah, I use it to size up and down my toolbrush. And of course I use my palette a ton, I constantly have to swap between colors, I like to think that everyone who ever took an art class knows how to swap colors and has swapped colors before. Oh, maybe RGB would be much more helpful for my character than the stock option. Then again, yeah, the palette helping to keep a pre-selected color in your toolkit there is honestly pretty nice. Oh, so that's how Layers work. Maybe it'll be helpful if I want to layer over gLiTcH expressions and if I want to create a subtle effect where one emotion is hiding anoother emotion and I want to reference it or something like that. Meh, I think I can scrap shading altogether and do the job myself, but it is an interesting option to keep in the backpocket.

[@merendine1452]

there's something therapeutic about seeing you work!

[@Sandpiper_04]

That's my favorite programm now, thanks a lot!

[@johnwright5126]

Best intro to Aseprite ever! THANK YOU!!!

[@idrawpictures9140]

ASEPRITE IS AMAZING Edit: I saw your video on color palettes and now I'm using your Apollo palette for my game which I plan to release on steam. I'm finally happy with my pixel art now

[@xentox5016]

Hey, can u tell me how u got the palette?

[@Neqator]

@@xentox5016 Late reply, but you can find the palette if you google "palette apollo"... Then the obvious steps: Options -> Load palette. (And also “Save palette as default” :))

[@rhymewave6777]

Nice, simple, effective presentation. I'm going down the rabbithole and as Bill Withers sang ' Before you put your plan into operation, you gotta take it all in and check it all out'. Your videos are a large part of that :)

[@alekseyklimets6589]

This is crazy useful, thank you so much! Best 30 min course ever!

[@AstraAnime]

I'd definately love to see a more indepth tutorial how you created that rotating background. I can't even begin to imagine how'd i'd do it even with your workflow. Supercool!

[@MartinPurathur]

Though I don't watch every video day by day, it's super useful when I want to learn a new topic

[@ethoatom668]

Watching this video was informative and stressful; I picked up Aseprite today to see if it'd be better/faster than my old art software. The only issue is I'm left-handed, and none of these shortcuts are in convenient locations for how I draw. I usually use those shortcut buttons he discussed, but my tablet program doesn't notice that Aseprite exists. I recognize that I could change every shortcut to accommodate my situation, but A) that would take a lot of time and troubleshooting, and B) there are fewer keys on the right-hand side (the hand I'd be using for shortcuts) of the keyboard than on the left. Excellent video, though; I'm glad I found it, regardless of my issues.

[@HeavnscapeRadio]

hello fellow new pixelers!! can't wait to see your awesome art!!

[@yami-does]

Hi and thank you. I got aseprite a few days ago, tried around a bit and then decided that learning it from the ground up would be beneficial in the long run. Looked for videos, got curious by your name (turns out Thor from piratesoftware mentioned you) and stuck around for your softspoken but concise explanations. Many thanks and I surely will be back for your other videos

[@florencecheung1201]

Very detailed tutorial for new beginner of Aseprite and pixel art, thanks for sharing!

[@kennethazor]

I love you, and I love the community that loves you. A gem!

[@derbiervampir3516]

Thanks for another great tutorial. I really like the way you are doing your tutorials. You are giving so much information presented in a compact but yet not to short way. And you are explaining all those things in a very calm fashion. Thank you! :)

[@bersi3306]

Bro this video will influence many future games. Thank you so much! Really useful!

[@megloton]

The tip about not scaling for game engines is gold, thanks

[@MarkKaterberg]

Appreciate this. It's so hard figuring out assets as an indie dev!

[@tobiasware]

Thank you, this tutorial was totally worth watching especially because you answered my exporting fuzzy problem in your last section.

[@Kaeresh]

2 years late, but I have an a4 wacom which is just a tad too big to really work with the keyboard comfortably and I eventually just gave up on it, sat down and learned how to program the control buttons on the tablet instead. Now I use my thumb to do most of the controls having my left hand next to it and it works really well. Mind you I'm using photoshop and doing mostly digital painting. I'm still learning pixel art using your channel and was looking into picking up Aseprite. Just in case the above helps /shrug Keep up the awesome work!

[@funkenmusique]

15:00 I personally prefer to let the "Auto Select Layer" always off, and then just press cmd+click on a visible zone to switch to its layer...! Anyway, great video as always Adam!

[@ucanhhuynh7183]

Thank you for this trick! It's much more convenient for me since I dislike the auto-select layer option. On Windows it should be Ctrl+click, hope this helps everyone else.

[@BloodBathFenix]

You should make an updated version your tutorials ROCK!

[@chourando]

Thanks for layer switching trick, definitely implement in my forkflow👍

[@markvador6667]

The best tool for pixel art by the best artist of pixel art 😊

[@Bossman207-g7x]

Wow man. Thank you so much for making this. I was surprised to see you using the keyboard over the tablet shortcuts. It makes total sense. I was hoping to see you show everything you did, including how you change brush size... I hope it becomes standard as well.

[@carlosbrito6396]

I hope you know the tremend value this video has!! Thanks for the great information.

[@bistrobmusic]

Great episode! And judging by the top of your screen, I was your most recent twitch follower!

[@SplashingGoldfish]

omg my twitch name was in the beginning

[@koes007]

Excellent video my dude, thank you for introducing me to the basics of how to navigate this marvelous software efficiently. Thanks!

[@Holdsworthands]

really helpful, ive been using aseprite every day for 2 years now, lots of hours but i still found somethings useful here, i will try to avoid the pixelperfect feature from now on. This is the best program ive ever used and i keep finding new things, for me it is almost perfect, i have just some really minor things but they told me they will improve them in the near future, like exporting animations in some video format, improving the text tool and adding the resize thing like you have (although when they introduced the pen pressure i didnt find myself resizing too much since i have a lot of sizes with just pen pressure but it would be nice to have)

[@polter5195]

Nice crash course! I always wondered how you managed to switch the brush size so quickly! Really hope that gets added to Aseprite as an official feature. Another option is to just hover the size box and use the scroll wheel on your mouse, but it'd still be nice to hold down a key and move your mouse.

[@philipsheard624]

Thank you for this video Adam very informative and easy to put into practice. I found your channel yesterday and looking forward to watching more videos and getting stuck into pixel art.

[@Sycpone]

really love this video. My daughter is trying to learn. Any plans to update this tutorial?

[@buggyandfroggysmommy]

I’d love one too

[@neennaps2144]

Love the shading mode and the outline tool!! thank you for your tutorial ❤❤

[@eytanguler2861]

this guy is the pixel art prophet

[@nokillnina]

I keep returning to this video of yours. If I should get into a new project, I will go for Asepirte!

[@101touchapps]

i fainted after i saw the background. damn! i even clicked the subscribe button and then realised i was already subscribed lol

[@moiraRcrombie]

The UI aesthetic is so nostalgic, reminds me of ms paint art I did years ago

[@tonyg1296]

Thank you so much for this! It really helps man, I appreciate your work and I hope you have a beautiful day!

[@Its_just_me_again]

that hand in the bottom left hand corner technique is fire - now all i have to do is train myself to draw right-handedly :P

[@ghogu14]

Awesome videos all round, mate. Thanks so much :)

[@BobbyCharlz]

Thank you for this awesome tutorial. It served as a proper intro for me.

[@mikorabago]

Hi! I just got recommended your video! I find Asprite interesting and want to watch your video all the way to know more of it!

[@mikorabago]

Woah! For pixel art!? I have been waiting for this, really! 😁 I am so excited to try it!

[@nursegilbey]

Thanks. I've been messing around a bit, and now it's time to get serious. I will follow your example.

[@AppieBing]

amazing and clear video, didn't even feel like 30 mins. btw which tablet is that you are using in the video?

[@adiwijayakusuma2288]

That's really cool Aseprite introduction video, I can clearly see the potential and going to use it, Thought I'd watch your Pixel Art Class playlist, thanks

[@justaway_of_the_samurai]

Oh my gosh, it has built in support for pixel aspect ratio! That is perfect! I could never figure out a way to do that with Krita. Incidentally I don't know of any game engines that support it in displaying graphics. I am currently working on programming a game engine as a hobby, and one of the features I have built into it is control over pixel aspect ratio. If I can get the hang of Aseprite this will be so convenient when I am actually creating a game using my engine.

[@justaway_of_the_samurai]

Update: After compiling and using Aseprite, I am still really satisfied with this feature. But the feature is unfortunately not very customizable in a user-friendly way. It only supports 3 ratios out of the box: 1:1, 1:2, and 2:1. The SNES graphics on the other hand display all pixels in a 7:6 ratio, which obviously doesn't fall into any of those 3 defaults. In order to support the 7:6 ratio or any other custom ratio, you have to actually go into the "data" folder in your Aseprite installation and modify the "new_sprite.xml" and "sprite_properties.xml" files and manually create new pixel aspect ratios in each. This isn't too difficult, and I managed to find a guide on it online. But this is still probably a bit hard for a non-technical user to do. It might be helpful if there was just a "Custom Ratio" option in the UI so that the user can add custom aspect ratios directly. Although, this might not be a very high priority to implement because most users would be satisfied with a 1:1 ratio.

[@justaway_of_the_samurai]

I am really looking forward to learning more about this tool and using it for my game development. It looks like it has so many advantages over alternative software like Krita when it comes to pixel art.

[@noahruff3999]

just dabbling in pixel art and relieved to find out asperite has basically all the same shortcuts as photoshop xD

[@ozzie7034]

Thanks for captioning for Korean. Its really helpful!

[@Pixelator123]

tysm bro you taught me so many things to save time keep up the good work!

[@TrevorGomes]

Is that a total banger rendition of "Jolly Old King Wenceslaus" playing in the background? 🤔 Loving your videos, man. Thank you so much!

[@NFT2]

Very instructive Adam, super helpful as an Aseprite noob.

[@HissUUpRomo]

I don't use asprite and I don't intend to. I'm here for the workflow.

[@DimesterMaster]

you can also move frames between layers by holding it with right click button, moving it where you want it and than release the click and a small window will appear and you click move :) thats how i do it, its one more click but its easyer for me than going close to the monitor to find the yello border of the frame

[@kevinyee9550]

Great intro video! Excited to get into pixel art more

[@ACP_Nate]

Way Cool!! I'm new to pixel art. Very glad I found your video. Thank you for posting:)

[@Undead_0197]

This is a great resource for new people, thanks!

[@TheCryptoMasters]

You intro animation is epic!!! Hoping to start making indie games here really soon once I get better at the artistic aspect!

[@caoimhegg]

Been waiting for this for a while soo helpful 💖, don't think you mentioned it but I prefer to use ctrl to switch between layers, it shows a nice box around whatever pixels are in the layer which is

[@cprn.]

Just a tip - you can turn your tablet 90° in your driver settings if that's a more natural position for your hand to reach function buttons.