My Tileset Workflow (Pixel Art & Gamedev Tutorial)

[@MortMort]

English is not my first language, Made a few spelling and pronunciations mistakes, my fingers are a bit fast on the keyboard, and I hope you understand everything. EDIT: why I don't flip the slopes, is because I would have to redraw the whole grass bit and it woundt look nice when tiling because the pattern would be mirrored, if you are not picky you can do that, but it will leave a obvious mirror pattern, and I don't like those. You can had used a transform tool if you are in a different software like Photoshop, that would have made it take less time, there are always different ways and workflows, this is mine. :)

[@TechBlade9000]

Hey, even people who only know English make mistakes

[@Ethan-ss8lb]

Nathaniel Grizzle, Yeah, that's right

[@vhworks3428]

I wouldn't even imagine that English is not your first language.

[@elemedhai]

Great Tutoral, Thank you!

[@palegelewapelepaw6503]

MortMort you know MortMort in French means DeadDead

[@ekkogaming5461]

"random colors" : makes a masterpiece

[@uhitsethan]

beat me to it lol

[@Allplussomeminus]

@@uhitsethan random colors AND random clicking... makes eye candy.

[@safir2241]

oh come on it's a passable tileset

[@junkeyz]

@@safir2241 As a person who makes pixel art for a living, I have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

[@safir2241]

@@junkeyz i'm saying that it's okay but definitely not a masterpiece, mr pixel art pro

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

The quality of this video and the final results are just overwhelming me. I can't handle it... Thanks!

[@MortMort]

means a lot cheers mate!

[@debornchannel]

MortMort What program did you use for this? (I'm a noob) xD

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

It's Aseprite :)

[@debornchannel]

Thanks!

[@luxyzke-331]

@@debornchannel you're welcome

[@boletarianbread7349]

Holy cow, this tutorial changed my whole outlook on how realistic it would be for me to make my own game assets, I cannot thank you enough for making such an approachable tutorial. I went from thinking I could never make a tileset to being able to make enough tilesets for an entire level in one video. Thank you for this.

[@MissVirak]

Just yesterday I was so lost to making my tileset, because of my self-taught method on Photoshop, so I bought Asprite and planing to watch all of your tutorials about it, when I just finished to watch, here's come this new video, good timing for me! Thank you very much for all of your tutorials, you are a good teacher, good quality of video making, it really help me

[@Sharkhead123456]

So i learned way more here than 2 paid online courses about pixel art... hm....

[@diegoteixeira2003]

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[@bea_db2656]

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[@diegoteixeira2003]

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[@Ah-dz5rf]

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[@baconsalad9743]

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[@medmondsr]

This is absolutely incredible. Everyone talks about how difficult and time consuming it is to make your own tilesets but after following along with this I made the perfect tileset for my game and only had to buy Aesprite (which was totally worth it). THANK YOU!

[@sleepnaught]

can't believe within 20 minutes I had a pretty decent basic tile set to work with. Such a fantastic tutorial; very glad to have found your channel

[@Hugouuz]

This is easily one of the best tutorials I have ever seen on pixel art!

[@Allplussomeminus]

If you wanna see better, go to: View > Grid > Grid Settings. For width and height put 8 It segments the tiles out into finer chunks for easier selecting. Double click in any of the tiles to quickly select anything within that tile... Also, to toggle grid view: Ctrl + ' One more thing... Ctrl + A to select all in the 16 x 16 project. You can easily see your bounds when drawing.

[@kyyay-yt]

honestly i didnt think that grass looked good but then you turned on the 1x view in the top right and i was blown away

[@popanda3652]

thats the trick with pixel art. make changes for its use case, not zoomed in super far. i try to get the preview to be the actual size it will be in game. also make sure you mix th epieces like you would in a game. for when your making more complicated tiles its super useful. like cobblestone for example

[@spacecomplex7180]

Doing a NES ROM Hack, my first project and i really want to challenge myself with a huge scope, but this means lots of work and time investment. You're showing me ways to improve and speed up things. Thanks a lot!

[@shiahshishis8323]

what game are you making the Rom off of?

[@IcyCaeli]

This is one of the first videos I've watched when I got into pixel art around 3-ish years ago, now I find out you work at Mojang, godspeed my guy.

[@MTreatVO]

This is the first Tileset tutorial I have come across that actually answers all my questions. Thank you so much! Cant wait to build my first game with my own tileset! subbed

[@benh6379]

Hey, been watching your videos a lot lately and started my own game!! I just finished my own Tileset using this tutorial and it went by so fast and the finished product is something I'm proud of!!!

[@EmberGlow_H]

dude your pixel art tutorials are really helpful, im glad i found this channel tbh

[@Murphskipper]

I was gonna complain about pixel art videos constantly being in my recommendations, but this video was pretty good. I don't do pixel art myself, but I'm sure this video would be super useful if I did!

[@estbroc9860]

You are doing great at teaching your craft and art. I've doubled my knowledge on pixel art every day just from watching your videos! I look forward to the rest of your sessions. Thank you, Mort.

[@Tjoldar]

Just stumbled across this. This is the best workflow I've found so far. It starts at the beginning unlike others. Unbelievable. At the beginning! If you combine it with the current version of Aseprite it becomes a hit. Thank you!

[@mk-ul5tv]

Dude... I think I love you I wanna make a game with my friend, he knows how to epogram, I know how to draw, but digital art is something new to me, but MAN did you just make things easier, thank you a lot

[@mk-ul5tv]

Oh I've been noticed by senpai~

[@mk-ul5tv]

Also, I wanna know your opinion, how do you know how big stuff is supposed to be? Like, I don't understand how much will be seen on screen when you finish, so I don't really know how much to put, like, you have games like kingdom enter the gungeon and shovel knight, and I don't really know how many pixels are there on screen at the time

[@lustree_]

@@mk-ul5tv I'm pretty positive he has a tutorial on that topic in one of his playlists.

[@neonkkn3881]

Say no homo

[@mk-ul5tv]

@@neonkkn3881 damn you're right, I forgot, now I'm the big gay

[@SorceressGamelab]

Whoo! I love your pixel art videos, please continue making these!!

[@legrandmasmas5727]

easily the best channel about pixelart on youtube

[@Lionyxs]

I've been struggling a lot with diagonals and slopes and this video just blew my mind! Amazing!!!

[@wizzlez9615]

I just bought Aseprite and I'm so excited to start using it :D

[@MortMort]

Hope you'll enjoy it and have a lot of fun with it!

[@ZenoDovahkiin]

Damn, this is actually awesome. Props! Not many of these tutorials tend to actually help.

[@daedreaming6267]

Software development tips for you guys: If you make your tileset symmetrical you don't even need to add the tiles for say both right and left. You can rotate them in code instead. Just keep one copy and you have more tilespace to work with. :)

[@nottechytutorials]

Thank you. Its my first time making a tileset. It turned out to be fairly easy, I just had to wrap my head around the fact that most of this used that one middle block and the patterns can repeat. That repeating pattern is quite charming to see in old videogames, now I see why they did it this way.

[@colinbowden4663]

Used this and turned a very frustrating process before into a rewarding one with actual results! Created my first tileset with this video! Definite sub now!

[@DavidsUternal]

It's nice to see more uploads from you, also you are the god of beautiful vibrant colors that aren't too vibrant and shading that contrasts just the right amount so the colors pop but not too much IT'S JUST SO PERFECT

[@SALEH3994]

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[@DavidsUternal]

@@SALEH3994 I made this comment 4 years ago. I hope your day is going well

[@sanetrayy]

I'm so glad im finding the right people on pixel art! i love ur channel

[@ranska2506]

You're definitly so strong at explaining thing. Thank's bro you're awesome !

[@rustyforge]

Tilesets are one of my favorite things to create. Thanks for showing so much more than the creative process but the practical game aspect from 11:08 on.

[@fidgety48]

I really want to thank you, im working on a 16 bit game and this tutorial REALLY helped, 😀

[@thenopill]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I learned so much. When it comes to long slopes: you can make one, copy and paste, select the second one: go to Edit/ Flip Horizontally.. Laziness...

[@GadzyThePixelator]

BRUH. Why you so amazing? Your style of "just do" works so well and those slopes... Oh boy, dem slopes. They're so smooth... If I could hire you to teach me, I 100% would

[@K0BRAKID]

fun fact! for the slopes or mirror images you can just copy, then SHIFT-H or SHIFT-V to flip Horizontal and Vertical so you dont have to do the same again! Loved the video!

[@maxwellaiello]

Great video! If you want to save some work, you can do shift+h after selecting a slope to horizontally flip it.

[@RedMageGaming]

i Think I just learned more in this one video than I have in about 300 other videos ive watched combined. Good show..

[@luziferkupfer]

This video came exactly to the right time. I just wanted to start making a tile set when you released your video. Thanks :-)

[@mowsie2k492]

this video is so good man I swear I've watched it a hundred times

[@trixelized912]

Another thing I really like about Aseprite when I make tilesets, is double-clicking on a part of a grid (to select it), then move it on the grid with shift+arrow keys. It makes it easy to just move stuff around :p Also Mort transforms into Bob Ross for a bit at 3:30

[@MikhaelHld]

I love you! Thank you so much for all the tutorials, they're so helpful and you're a great teacher!

[@SALEH3994]

[@joshb.9380]

Wow, just a fantastic video. Learned so much about making tilesets, and the Aseprite tricks were equally helpful. Thanks for this, MortMort. Looking forward to watching more of your tutorials.

[@StellariaEclipse]

Am an aspiring tileset artist. I knew most of this stuff already, but your guide on making slopes is really helpful. Thank you!

[@zaccreatives]

niceee man i love the way you made the videos! so clean and the characters who appears on the corners talking to me like an rpg videogame! i love it!

[@Playwallace]

Dude, that was yhe best video I ever seen about tileset. Congratulations, keep the nice work.

[@connorjones1992]

MortMort is the Bob Ross of pixel art

[@Thong-D-Nguyen]

This is the best tileset tutorial I have seen on KZbin. Thank you very much!

[@ProperDev]

Singlehandedly made me wanna get Aseprite. Great stuff man, those tools look sooooo helpful.

[@bumpleGrumpGames]

Thank you for making an easy-to-understand tutorial on this subject! Much appreciated!

[@Uradamus]

Very nice. A few little things though, you forgot the ceiling slopes and you technically don't need the center tiles below the top shallow slope tiles, so you can either delete those or make them variants of the center tile in order to break things up a bit with larger expanses of filler areas in your level designs. A lot of tile map editors can let you automatically specify alternative tiles and the frequency with which to add them in randomly in place of the default.

[@xeviusUsagi]

I always thought I would never be able to create my own game because I just can't draw my characters or animated them I can make the music for the game Program it but the models? oof. but this is giveing me some hope that i will be able to do something good who knows? maybe one day I will manage to start a project!

[@Kaiwala]

As somebody who's struggled in the industry for a long time, just do it. Get out there, as early as you can, maybe even right now today, and just make something. Start making a tileset, start getting shit done. Even if it's bad, you'll be learning how to use the tools effectively so when you actually have an idea for a good project, you'll know the skills required to actually get it off the ground. I cannot stress this enough, avoid procrastination as much as possible. Don't say you will do something, go and actually do something.

[@TempestKrimps]

ayy man i'm living that right now, a few weeks ago i just thought to myself "you know what, i'm gonna make a game and not give up on it this time" and, although it can feel hopeless sometimes, keeping a good mindset is what matters, so go for it! i personally am pretty happy with the results right now, but even if it doesn't turn out exactly how you wanted it to, at least you got the experience to make something better afterwards

[@Kaiwala]

​@@TempestKrimps Exactly. I'd rather produce endless shit for the rest of my life with a chance to apply it to something amazing, cause then I at least feel like I'm being productive. Much better than doing nothing and binging KZbin all week.

[@popespalace823]

Undertale has terrible sprites and it's pretty successful. Just like make game bro.

[@xeviusUsagi]

@@popespalace823 aight, thanks I needed that

[@ColinEmerald]

I had a LOT of fun following along with this and learning what you had to share, thank you so, so much~

[@Kpackama]

I followed through and created a lab/electric cirquit tileset for my first game!! Awesome! (No slopes for now though, I don't know how to handle movement on slopes anyway, lol.) Thanks for the neat video, it was a LOT of help!!! :)

[@jordanbeaux306]

I really like your job, the way of you show things simply is really interesting. It's funny because I have a Pixel Art Playlist but basically, 80% of it came from your channel so it's a bit counter productive but anyway, very cool work again :)

[@Lhamaramachannel]

Hi Mort, thank you for sharing! But @ 8:03, how did you turn on that grid? Your screen has more divisions than mine

[@devenwen4368]

Thanks for your video. It help me a lot. It taught me about what platform tileset is and how to build a tileset.Good job and keep up!

[@derbybro]

Thanks man really helped me on my pixel art skills and definitely saved me days of working because Im not too good at this pixel art stuff instantly subbed

[@daniellking3898]

I love this, first time doing a Tile set and omg bro this is amazing!

[@cyb_]

I cant believe what i saw... ITS AMAZING !!!!

[@yusephmontages1243]

Now i understand how fun it is doing tilesets!

[@Spookyn.]

MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCHH!! never thought my tile sets would look that epic lol

[@aseemlalfakawma5084]

Didn't know how powerful Aseprite is, really fancy features shown on this video. Also, it really shows that you need to know your software well to make things like this.

[@jimb1453]

Keep losing focus doing this on my own creating multiple tile sets, so just keep coming back to this video to walk me through it, finding I'm a lot more productive and less distracted by kitten memes etc. when watching this, so thanks a lot for the great tutorial 👍

[@poofu2631]

im so glad i found your channel! im learning a lot and you make it so easy to understand! keep up the good work

[@0DRONZER]

i do tilesets but for animations, and this video helps a lot

[@genjithesheikah1501]

16:56 You can copy, paste, then flip vertical instead

[@onemanplay]

You also at 1:28 clicked view -> symmetry options and that made the trick of drawing things easier. Anyway great tutorial. Thank You.

[@krubbington]

Thank you, this helped me so much and I'm happy with my results even though this is my first time making a tile set!

[@IvanIvan-nj2to]

I just wanted to say thank you because I learned so much with this video and following along.

[@TheEnixSquared]

this is such a great video, I actually managed to crank out a great looking tileset in about an hour!

[@MortMort]

Glad it helped!

[@andrewhamel1]

That brush moment was INSANE

[@travisalstrand4237]

I am forever grateful for this video. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[@pixelrabbit261]

Awesome tutorial again dude. Never knew Aseprite was so useful.

[@kristopherhokanson3796]

Bob Ross of pixel art!

[@travelsizedlions]

Happy little sprite trees. :P

[@TheTulzcha]

Man, how you come up with such a cool workflow?! It's fantastic!

[@BatteryProductions]

this video is saving my life in 2020... thanks dude!

[@johnrussell6971]

Base Tiles --------------- 0:54 - Center tile 2:18 - Top tile 5:14 - Bottom tile 6:26 - Left and right edges 7:49 - Four corners (TR, TL, BR, BL) 9:45 - Magic trick! Make single column and single row variations Intermediate tiles (slopes, joints, etc.) -------------------------------------------------- 11:07 - Introduction to advanced tiles 11:51 - Inside turns (for turning a tile inward) 13:45 - Long slopes 17:07 - Steep slopes 18:34 - Conclusion

[@w33db3qr3]

YASSS! Mort is back

[@benjaminrosa1418]

I'm using this a as a guide to make tilesets for my first tileset for a real game.so thanks a bunch Mort.

[@pawelbarszcz]

This video is so useful! Double click, tiled mode, tricks how to optimize your workflow. Thanks! 💛

[@CESTLEDU]

You make it look so easy but when I made the tilesets for my game about a year ago I had sooo much trouble with it 😭 And it still doesnt even look as good as yours lmao I'm gonna have to work on it again now that I have your tutorial to help me 👊 thank you mort!

[@mochamadgalihramdhani7813]

This video really gives me hope, i am programmer and i want to create my own games, but i know i can't make good games if i don't know how to draw. I am good at making sfx and music, but not in art. Thanks man, this video is so helpfull

[@lasdsfs1745]

extremely useful for a novice like me, very detailed explanations with charming outcome, yet easy to follow, thanks.

[@gastonveliz1769]

thanks man, cool video, i can't believe i can make things like this until a finish the tutorial, u are a great teacher :D

[@travelsizedlions]

Wow, I've gotta get me some of that Aseprite. I've been trying to fat finger through a tileset with my iPad and a free pixel editor.

[@flamekasai7211]

Amazing tutorial mort, cheers and keep doing such an amazing job.

[@markcws5359]

Thank you for making this kind of quality video, i needed it for my first actual game

[@Lee_Tia]

This is still so valid until this day! The magic wand to make your tile into a brush was GAME CHANGING damn

[@bhavneethscodinglab4136]

amazing tutorial best tiles ever seen

[@rock9203]

10/10 tutorial. Thank you for your service.

[@rikolicious3572]

16:46 I think you could flip it horizontal

[@Anu_was_here]

This is just too good. TOO GOOD.

[@BillehBawb]

Great video! Can you make one about how to make and animate a small 16x16 character? Or just any kind of small pixel art character. I would love that, thanks

[@ooutrocanaldooni]

Meu irmão, tu é o cara ! =D

[@lucaslacerda8007]

Man, this video helped me so SO MUCH! Thank you!!!

[@kiddhkane]

Very interesting and informative video. Also, it's very cool of you to make your own "slides" like at 0:56!

[@zeusdelolimpo2882]

que gran informacion y muy facil de aprender , muchas gracias, saludos desde Peru.

[@jameskhan5258]

I just bought this app because of this video - awesome tutorial!

[@-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-]

This video is amazing, and youre entire channel is really awesome! Thank you for creating suck a good content. PS : there is a video of vinesauce in the playlist "Pixel Art Tutorials"