Aseprite Top Down Pixel Art Character Design and Animation Part 2 - Tutorial

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

*Hey everyone!* 👏 👏 I'm happy to announce our community *Discord server* , come and *join us* : discord.gg/dac7sr2 And also, you can get all the *Sprites* and *Project Files* by supporting me on *Patreon* : www.patreon.com/CouchFerret

[@swordierre9341]

Yo whats the music you use in your videos, would really appreciate it. Think it would help me consentrate.

[@toffsplace]

I love how in One month of checking pixel art youtubers (like you and Mortmort) i've got way better than in 2 years alone... Thanks a lot!

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

That's awesome! Do you have something to show? ;)

[@toffsplace]

@@CouchFerretmakesGames Welp, now im trying to get better at animating and poses( not just standing there looking at the screen lol), so im still kind of crap. I´ve done an running cycle this weekend tho, where can i send you, and can you tell me everything that im doing wrong pls? :D

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

@@toffsplace The best would be posting on Twitter and mentioning me, so others can learn from it too. But if you don't want it being public then email is perfectly fine too. :)

[@toffsplace]

@@CouchFerretmakesGames Can i email throwght here: ****************** Because on your channel page it says for comercial stuff, and if thats just for comercial stuff, where can i email you?

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

@@toffsplace Sure, you can! I'm not a corporation :D KZbin is just silly :). Could you do me a favor and edit your comment with * characters so my email address isn't visible? I don't want bots to find it and spam me. :)

[@stornn]

You monster, you're the best person!!! Our good teacher, great programmer and great animator... The only thing wrong here is my inglês😊👏👏👍👍👍 you can't stop how this pagasse!!!

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Thank you! 😄

[@mrcobbles4376]

Haha! brasileiros sofrem na mão do corretor automático

[@losscat5085]

Thanks you, I am learning more about Pixel Art

[@xenthemad9542]

I just discovered you. Please keep up the good work man. Your pixel art videos help me quite a bit with concepts and process. Thank you for your content!

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

I'm on it! Stay tuned! ;)

[@RSchenal]

Спасибо, очень подробно все объясняешь!

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

You're welcome! :)

[@michaelshollaj6428]

Very amazing tutorials , thanks a lot mate

[@MRzFIRE]

yes you are back

[@m4dara233]

Nice video 👍❤

[@Ochenter]

Please keep on doing game tutorials. Thanks.

[@jinthwang3745]

Wow!It is a real hard work.Cost much time.

[@Anwar-gl7fx]

are you using mouse to draw the character?

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Yep, a mouse. I have a drawing tablet though, but I've found it more cumbersome to use it for pixel art. Especially for the animation process.

[@ourteammate]

yaay, new content

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Yaay indeed! ^ - ^

[@kaancals6664]

Please next episode.. , thank you you're so helpful

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

You're welcome! :) I'm on it, I'll start to writing it tomorrow. :P

[@kaancals6664]

Can you share sprite folders with us? Please. @@CouchFerretmakesGames

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Hey, sure! Send me an email and I'll send them back to you! It's on the channel's About page. :)

[@nabodev]

yeah

[@MathiasBesil]

Hello, im new in unity, I have a question, if I want to equip an armor I have to create all animations of moving character with one item and then other etc?, or there is a better way?, thanks.

[@daveydark963]

Yeah and I guess that's why many RPGs Don't have visual armours

[@Scott...]

You might be able to layer it on top of the sprite, but it probably won’t save that much time.

[@kodo777]

Yay!

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Hurray!

[@게임개발흥미]

great!!

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Thanks! :)

[@user-em9su3dd9y]

Really nice!

[@kailastnam9793]

Just some constructive criticism: Make the walk animation a bit bouncier. The run looks great, but the walk feels dead. I love the work that you’re doing, and I hope the project gets even better from here on in. Congrats on what you’ce done!

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Thanks man! I appreciate the critics! :) Yeah, it does feel a bit dead indeed. :/ I'll try to fix it in a future Aseprite episode. In some directions, the legs look like moonwalking too. And I wanted to have the one pixel bounce exclusively for the run animation, cause if the walking animation has it too then it won't look different or slower than the running. But I'll try out a few things, to get around this. Cheers! :)

[@ddiuwa]

I am from Taiwan. Thank for the videos. They are really really helpful. By the way, will you teach us how to create the map using light effect ? Like the Ep.3 1:04,that map is amazing. I took that for reference and try to make a similar one but it did not go well. Anyway,thank you for making video!

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Hey, Thank you! ^ - ^ Yeah, I'll show it in the future in some way. Those pictures are from the game's proof of concept version. So they are functional, and at the end of that experiment I've decided to start it over and show it on KZbin. I don't know exactly when I'll be having episodes on that, but I'll give you a quick explanation until then. :) So for the shadows, I basically wrote a custom shader which makes a sprite full black, decreases the opacity, and fades nicely the top of it. I duplicated all the objects on the screen, changed sprites' shaders to this and rotated it to make them look like shadows. The next thing is the subtle color variations here and there. They are also a custom shaders, but a sprite can also be used. They are just a soft edged circle with color. I placed a lot of them over the map and decreased their opacity a lot. And the last thing is the incoming light at the bottom and top of the map. I used this asset: assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/sprite-management/light2d-48539 It's dynamic so it changes when the characters approach. Cheers!

[@ddiuwa]

@@CouchFerretmakesGames Thanks! I will try it out and hope it goes well. Really really thank you for explaining everything in such detail. :D

[@ddiuwa]

@@CouchFerretmakesGames Sorry,me again... I bought Light2D,and it is amazing! I try to make the light and shadow softer but it doesnt work. The Asset includes Demo scenes,and I even copy the soft light in the scenes to my own scenes but still doesnt work. I hope you will excuse me for having asked all these questions.

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

@@ddiuwa Hey, no problem man. I'm happy to help. :) I'll try it out later today, and I'll get back to you. It was a long time ago when I played with that asset.

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Hey man, I’m sorry i have issues with my internet provider... I’m not sure when I can resolve it and get back to you. Can you do me a favor and send me a reminder email if I don’t get back to you in the next few days. Thanks, cheers!

[@mehmedcavas3069]

finally :D where were you :)

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

I was here editing all the time :D

[@m4dara233]

He was busy with his job 😂

[@abdullahimran2788]

amazing!

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Thank you! :)

[@ThomasChen-ur2gt]

For people who are beginner at pixel art but have some art background. Do you recommend start with more pixels or less. Which one is easier and more scalable.

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Definitely start with as few pixels as you can. I wouldn’t start with more than 16x16 for a character, for example. You’ll feel constrained by it, but you’ll be able to finish and iterate on your art way faster. So you’ll be learning faster. Especially if you want animations as well. With smaller resolution, it’s way easier to achieve a good looking art, because the viewers’ imagination fills the lack of details.

[@ThomasChen-ur2gt]

@@CouchFerretmakesGames thank you

[@SquidyGuitar]

Great !

[@jackkinsey]

If you don't split the top and bottom halves like in the previous version, does that mean you won't be able to move in one direction and aim in the opposite like before, or do you have another solution to address that?

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Yeah you are right. The character won't be able to move and aim at the same time and in different directions. I've tried splitting it but it would require a lot of changes in the new character's look, for example the cloak has to go because it would look odd. But the main reason I'm scraping this moving and aiming in different directions idea is that I eventually want to release this game to Nintendo Switch, and in a way to make it playable with only one joycon and not a pair of joycons. The main focus of this game is to create a good and fun local multiplayer game. If I make it work with only 1 joycon then it makes the game really accessible for multiplayer. So with only one joy-con I have an analog stick, 4 buttons, and 2 shoulder buttons. I'm working on a new moving mechanism so that will have most of the capabilities as the current one. But without 2 analog sticks, there's no way I can pull off the aiming and moving in different directions. My current idea is to make the character move by default based on the stick, and when you aim the character will move and aim at the same time, but in the same direction. And to be able to stand still while aiming, I plan to have the shoulder buttons as a lock button that switches off the movement temporarily, so players can be campers :D. But this idea might end up being bad. Who knows, I'm on it now to try it out. If it succeeds and I scrape the current one, I'm still glad I showed this splitting solution. :) I don't have other solutions to solve this issue. Maybe the brute force solution :D, to animate all the combinations for aiming and moving at the same time. It wouldn't be as time consuming as I thought though.

[@abdulfatahnafilatalkarim]

Umm,, sir would you like to make another video like this with different style like wizzard tanker, etc.... Hopefully you would make it.❤️

[@laserx2220]

in ur choice

[@gokhankaragoz2160]

Make videos more frequently, please.

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

I'm on it! :)

[@igorwilson1220]

Can you make a video about AI in top down games? For example, for the enemy to follow the player, bypassing the obstacles.

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

These are definitely in the plans. We'll cover more complex AI than that, and also my brother and I are working on an AI mini-series too. So stay tuned! ;)

[@sulwyn8003]

Why not just flip animations horizontally to have half the work? Will players notice the small shadow differences anyway?

[@tortle6082]

can u make some enemy chrecters

[@Im_Ezic]

how did you add the shadow so it's adapting to a background color?

[@Egerieg]

My guess is that it has something to do with opacity

[@al-han3804]

hi my name is a Borat :) i like very much

[@arcadan]

im making a new project that main character will be a samurai, how would u draw it please help meeee BTW >> im mobile Developer ! does your videos works for it as well ?

[@laserx2220]

maybe create a kid with a sword or magic powers

[@zsolttakacs1600]

jól gondolom, hogy magyar vagy? :)

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

Jól. :)

[@rickmonarch4552]

:O én is sejtettem és bakker tényleg..

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

@@rickmonarch4552 :DD

[@trapstack1106]

kevin samuels SoundTrack

[@kenycristoferrangel7359]

In Spanish Please, I am not Understand a lot😢

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

:(. Isn't there an auto-translate function which translates the English subtitles to Spanish?

[@losscat5085]

Thanks you, I am learning more about Pixel Art