Pixel Art Tileset Tutorial (Top Down Pixel Art)

[@aleiocus]

I absolutely love how your winter world turned out! The colors were stunning and it looked like a game I would play. :D Everyone did a great job with their entries, as well!

[@saultoons]

Just needs the cute little fire guy animations from yours!!!!! It was a fun challenge for sure 😃 thanks for taking part Aleiocus 😁

[@chuckyn100]

@@saultoons eewwreetettewttte e

[@saultoons]

@@chuckyn100 yes

[@Chris_t0]

I've been a game dev for 5 years and only just discovered pixel art, I have basically no art experience but I've fallen in love!

[@saultoons]

Yes!!!! Pixel art is one of the most accessible art forms it’s great :D

[@DaydreamStudios_Official]

4:28 Here Is A Quick Tip For Adding Snow. Step 1 : Add Snow

[@saultoons]

hahaha glad someone picked up on this 'quick tip' ;)

[@Edgejuice]

this video came out at the perfect time lol, i'm trying to make a top down game and your videos are a huge help! thanks!

[@saultoons]

Awesome! I hope your game goes well! Feel free to share progress on discord or whatever :D

[@ImusNoxa]

This was actually a really nice breakdown of how to make overworld map tiles. I also just really love the reminder that it's okay to not get things the first time. Thanks for putting this together and sharing with us!

[@saultoons]

No worries at all Imus! I tend to get it after a couple of tries 😂 it’s part of the fun sometimes. Thanks for the kind words

[@m.c.4785]

As someone trying to design their first game for GB Studio I super appreciate this video. I was trying to jump straight to finished tiles and was getting frustrated so the idea to start with simple mock up tiles helped me out tremendously.

[@saultoons]

Glad I could help MC! I love game boy games I hope your development goes well :)

[@cloudythb]

As a Gameboy developer, this is really helpful. Thanks for making this, subscribed

[@saultoons]

No worries at all, glad it could help, good luck with your game!

[@cloudythb]

@@saultoons Thanks!

[@AryanShahGamingMusic]

This was the most helpful top down art tutorial I’ve seen in a while

[@saultoons]

Thanks I hope it can help you!!! :D good luck with your art

[@DavidNwokoye]

Not only is your tileset on point but also your humour is on point too. I had a good laugh while learning. +1 sub 👌

[@saultoons]

Thanks for the kind words David glad you liked the video :)

[@nemimoo487]

This is amazing :D I'm just getting started in top-down pixel art for games, and this video was both hilarious and SUPER informative :D

[@saultoons]

I’m glad it was entertaining and helpful 🤣 thanks for watching :)

[@Atebitbacon]

THIS VIDEO IS CRIMINALLY UNDERATED!

[@saultoons]

Your support for the video is criminally underrated!!!! Thanks so much :)

[@thebrotherhood1930]

I wanna do Pixel Art stuff in my future... so watching you YT channel tutorials are a MAJOR help

[@saultoons]

Glad I could help! Keep up the work and make sure you join the discord to share your work :D

[@plague_doctor0237]

The quality of your videos is astounding, so here's a new subscriber!

[@saultoons]

Thanks a lot Plague doctor :D

[@phoenixshell3772]

I am trying to get into pixel art since I am a programmer not an artist, I have to say WOW! Your iterative approach with basic shades to start seems really friendly to beginners, will have to try this

[@neennaps2144]

I pressed a like button for every video I watched from your channel! I have to send a portfolio for my college workshop in a very short time. Your tutorial is REALLY helped me, Thank you so much♥♥

[@saultoons]

Thanks for the love ❤️

[@gamedevel22]

And I just started working on a new tileset. That's awesome thank you.

[@saultoons]

I released it right now for this purpose 😂 hope it can help

[@AlindaeliaGamez]

I watched this video about a month ago. It was awesome. I was super impressed. Fast forward a bit...since then, I have created some maps with default tile sets including some of my own pixel characters with walking animations (thanks to Lumbah!) Now I decided I wanted to have some of my own tile sets. So, here I am again. Hi. *wave* Anyhoo, I just stopped to say your video is so informative. You did such a great job explaining your tile set building process. Thanks so much! Great content never gets old.

[@saultoons]

Hello! Welcome back :D I'm glad you find the video useful, good job creating all that work that's awesome, keep it up!!! :D

[@FinnMeals]

perfect for my needs along with all the rest of your videos

[@saultoons]

Glad it could help BlobFish :D

[@andrewandroulidakis5578]

I don't know how I found your channel, but hands-down my personal favorite tutorial/tips guy. P.S. one day, I'll make a game and have to give you a shoutout. I'll have to share some of my work on the Discord.

[@saultoons]

Thanks for the love Andrew! To to TOP together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yess, join the discord!!! :D

[@ayjay5157]

This... This does put a smile on my face Very inspiring

[@saultoons]

Glad it could help!!!

[@Ali_533]

FINALLYYY I'M WAITING FOR YOUR VIDEOS

[@saultoons]

Me too Ali! Me too 😄 thanks for watching

[@Padonio]

I knew you recently and I love your content! Keep it up!

[@saultoons]

Thanks for the kind words Padonio! 😄

[@ScarlettJett34]

Aside of RPGs, I assure that it could be useful for other pixel art games.

[@saultoons]

Yah I think so :)

[@austinmurphy9074]

underrated channel. im new to this stuff

[@saultoons]

Thanks Austin! Best of luck with your learning journey :D

[@pixelsbykris5494]

I wish I had been part of this. The Gameboy Screen resolution is my usual pixel art illustration size, haha

[@saultoons]

No reason you can't try the challenge anyway :D We'd love to see your work on the Discord so feel free to share anytime :D

[@skullcommandolabs]

Great video ! The monkey at 4:44 :D

[@saultoons]

Thanks Skull! Yes that’s my constant mind state 😂

[@kroos0208]

As a top down pixel artist,this video is so helpful to me.And you have a sense of humour.Keep it up

[@saultoons]

Glad it helped! Thanks for watching :D

[@alesnaumovich2509]

Amazing video, informative, but not boring! I'm subscribing without doubt

[@saultoons]

Thanks Ales I’m glad you enjoyed 😁

[@mk-999]

this man make it look so easy

[@saultoons]

haha it's never easy :'D

[@mk-999]

@@saultoons Either way, you are pretty good at it, keep up the good work I'm waiting for your next videos

[@blacknoisyblue]

Just found your channel, love your stuff man!

[@saultoons]

Thanks I'm glad you enjoy it :D

[@KillerGameDev]

This was pretty helpful watching your process. I want to get more familiar with pixel art as its kinda outside my medium. I liked watching your work evolve. I was not a major fan of the light blue outlight - because since youre over snow, I felt like it blended a little too easy for an outline - but im probably alone in that thought as its a common thing for pixel art to use both well contrasting colors and colors that blend easily. Overall, really impressed watching this. :)

[@asdcaa3]

F*ck yes. If as you know what I need haha! Great tutorials Saultoons!

[@saultoons]

Glad i could help :D

[@OmenemoO]

Noice ! i wonder why i haven't done this challenge because it looks like a lot of fun xD

[@saultoons]

You would kill this Billnemo! 😁

[@enkheechuluun6724]

Hi, thanks! I love your humor!

[@saultoons]

Thank you too! :D

[@yoonsunaa]

Great video! Can you do a video on Color Theory? (If it hasn’t been done already)

[@saultoons]

I might do, there are a lot of colour theory videos out there already but there may be something I can do on it :D

[@alvaro2983]

"work smart not hard" ~Bald Einstein~

[@saultoons]

Baldstein 🤣

[@alvaro2983]

@@saultoons jajaja

[@marilu597]

Very helpful video! Thank you

[@saultoons]

Glad it was helpful! thanks for watching :D

[@CanalDojogames]

Honestly i didn't knew about color mode on aseprite. That's something new for me. If you think on the whole enviroment i think about all the city. Man i get crazy because i can't plan all in a single day... and i want to build all but them i come to think if its the good choice like normal planed vision (up,down,left,right) or isometric or swap for 3d with 2d planes that will be all the stuff. I can't decide for sure yet... still thinking...

[@saultoons]

I think just round up all your ideas into a reference board or mood board, get inspiration from sources and put it all together and just pick one. It will never be perfect, but finished is always better than perfect. Just get started :D

[@melkerhallstrom9339]

Great video!! Was very enjoyable to watch! :> Though I have a question, do you do all of these steps in one aseprite file or multiple? Thanks!

[@saultoons]

I do all of this in one file on multiple layers :)

[@classichungamatv7012]

Which software u prefer for beginners 😅😅 I am your new subscriber

[@saultoons]

Thanks for subbing! Any software that is available to you! I’ve heard piskel and pixel studio are good and free! Or dotpict if you’re on mobile :)

[@classichungamatv7012]

@@saultoons thanks you are awesome

[@ralseidreemurrrd6199]

Exactly what I need

[@saultoons]

Hope it can help!

[@peyajays]

Thanks love these videos!!!

[@saultoons]

Thanks for watching Primo!

[@peyajays]

@@saultoons no problem! You helped me with so much of my art

[@saultoons]

Remember me when you’re rich 🤣

[@peyajays]

@@saultoons haha, for now I only have 51 subs, but in the future, if I get a lot I’ll definitely do a shoutout 😅

[@saultoons]

Appreciate it 😂 keep up the hard work you got this!

[@PixelArtGamergirl]

Fire ball ! 🔥 .. stay warm!

[@Hyrule452]

5:14 i love this style

[@saultoons]

Woohoo glad you like it :D

[@Sound_of_the_trees]

Looks cool

[@saultoons]

Thanks :D

[@alvenkaiser4549]

Thanks it really helped me

[@saultoons]

Glad to hear it!

[@furkany1181]

You are so good.

[@saultoons]

Thank you!

[@randydrew3743]

I am just getting into game development. Using pixel studio for my art having a bit of trouble getting the flow of pixel art. But I think I'm going to give your first try a go or something similar at least. Think I'm just trying to take too big of a bite. I may put it into the awesome phone app game engine I've found called max2d. Thank you for the break down of how you go about it.

[@saultoons]

Yeah try and keep it simple and achievable to begin with I reckon! Best of luck if you need help plenty people in the discord who would be happy to give feedback :D

[@randydrew3743]

I recently joined your discord. StarFury. I just want to know if I've been banned. If not I think there is a bug. It keeps telling me to verify my email that is already verified. It also says it won't accept any changes when I try to accept. If this is a bug do you know of a way around it by chance?

[@dickyarisyarizaldiramadand1774]

changing the background to blue is a good idea,...

[@saultoons]

yes

[@Ali_533]

Hi I got an idea for your videos, Can you show us how to make a glow effect in pixel art? I see some games with objects that glow so brightly like lanterns and the character's animation like sword slashing they make the smear frames glow so they make the sword look so shiny . I saw some tutorials on photo shop and other apps but can show us how to do it in Aseprite??

[@saultoons]

Glow effect. Interesting! I’ll check this out and see if it’s something I can make a video on, thanks for the suggestion :)

[@PeterMilko]

pretty cool, I need to step editing lol

[@saultoons]

I don’t think it’s worth it honestly 🤣 nearly 2 month per video 🙃🙃🙃

[@PeterMilko]

@@saultoons damn bro lol I feel better now

[@saultoons]

@@PeterMilko Quality and consistency bro I think you got it nailed tbh :'D

[@jacktheperson3664]

this is so helpful for this years gbjam

[@saultoons]

Sounds fun, best of luck with that Jack!

[@jerrygreenest]

There are youtubers that add so much water to the vid that I have to skip parts and watch at x1.5 or x2.0 speed. But in your case I sometimes have to pause to process things. I like your approach much more.

[@saultoons]

Thanks Jerry, I definitely prefer to be more concise with information too. Unfortunately for me, it's not such a great approach for KZbin videos because there seems to be a preference with KZbin's algorithm for video length, watch time, and upload frequency. These videos have a long production time in terms of writing, too. I'm learning more every video I release, but one thing for sure is that pacing is incredibly important, it's something I'll always try to improve on and understand more, so I appreciate your comments :)

[@jerrygreenest]

@@saultoons I think it's a fate of all great content-makers: great content doesn't always take the attention it deserves. We've all seen channels with just some cats or something, yet so much views and subscribers. In cinema industry, too, some movies for older audience is commonly less profitable for example, so movie producers prefer to make more childish-friendly movies like Marvel, «for all the family». One thing you have other may not have though, is a very loyal audience, so for example if/when you release some game, this will give you a good boost in promoting your game (guaranteed sells, best possible initial ratings etc)... All this may lead to skyrocketing, which wouldn't have led there if you had the same game but didn't have your loyal audience. I guess. On the other hand... Game-making... Try complete a good polished game, lol. Even more hard stuff.

[@nicooolai]

"I made sure the palette was shared between assets" How do I actually do this, in aseprite? Would I have to re-draw colours, on each asset or can I just create the palette and simply "apply" it to the whole spitesheet?

[@saultoons]

There are multiple ways to do this… 1) Do it manually per asset 2) Use index colour mode when you first set up your file in Aseprite and change the correct index colour 3) Apply to the final spritesheet afterwards, like you said

[@ethanwasme4307]

this is the first video I've seen on these subjects... which tools are you using in the earlier stages to prototype? 😊😊

[@rashidfarhan6223]

WHY DID NOT I FIND YOU EARLIER!

[@saultoons]

Welcome :D Thanks for finding me now ;D

[@Amieee]

*I almost joined the challenge but I didn’t have enough faith in myself haha.*

[@saultoons]

YOU CAN DO IT!!!!! join the discord and people will help 😄

[@jamesbeighton3899]

This is amazing. How long did it take you to create it?

[@codybriangalacticraft69]

Heyyy ur vids had been of great help to my Game Dev Journey so TYSM!, It's been a few years and Aseprite actually has a 1.3 with Tilesets/Tilemaps in it and was wondering if you're familiar with it? and if ever, an Aseprite 1.3 tutorial that also covers up the tilesets/tilemaps would be really great too! and prolly how to like also incorporate it to possibly game engines like Godot?

[@Syeno]

Drawing dungeon tiles tutorial?

[@saultoons]

That's a good idea :o

[@lory3743]

To make a full worldmap, you merge the 160 x 144 px tiles together?

[@saultoons]

Yeah pretty much, to expand the world just keep adding more :)

[@GabrielCastro-cw5tj]

I really would like a tutorial on colour theory!

[@saultoons]

Check out ultimate pixel art tutorial there’s a short section in there about colours :)

[@fierorecensione5828]

nice video!! How this it work when you make organic HD graphic like The Swords Of Ditto?

[@atalamcom]

lol you remind me of that doug walker meme ngl, Nice video though :)

[@saultoons]

haha I've no idea who that is but I watched the video and is bald so can confirm :'D Thanks

[@owlyoz4233]

Yooooo!!! Mate...nice video!! 4:40 was funny lol (≧▽≦)

[@saultoons]

Yoooooooo!!! Thanks Owly 😄

[@itz__yami]

2:31 i dont have a gun XD

[@saultoons]

hahaha NOT LITERALLY :||

[@itz__yami]

@@saultoons lol. Greetings from North Africa

[@saultoons]

Greetings! :D Nice to have you here

[@Stiffeno]

Easy Peasy, Stylin' Treesies

[@saultoons]

Oh yeah!!! That was actually a difficult part for me :'D But fun nonetheless

[@walnut9526]

Nice.

[@saultoons]

Thanks Walnut! :)

[@playerhk8649]

thnx man...

[@saultoons]

No, thank you!

[@amiraboumerah4645]

Hello , amazing tips , thou what software r u using ? and can I use PS ? & thanx .

[@saultoons]

Hi thanks Amira, I'm using Aseprite and Clip Studio Paint mainly, but you can use whatever software you like :)

[@amiraboumerah4645]

@@saultoons Thanks keep tha amaz work , all love and support .

[@ethanwinters2509]

6:00 Song?

[@saultoons]

Wild Pogo - Francis Peve ... All available on KZbin Audio Library :)

[@ethanwinters2509]

@@saultoons thanks!

[@kassandraescoe6456]

is their a website where i can get the tile/screen size specs for other gaming consoles (sorta like how you said gameboy was 160x144 and 16px tiles)?

[@saultoons]

After a quick google I found dimensions.com which seems to have dimensions for a lot of things, including consoles

[@isukwithnames1811]

@@saultoons I'm gonna check it out. Thanks man!

[@sanstheelumbu]

Is there a 2d tutorial???

[@saultoons]

Would most likely be a similar process to this, just in a different software made for 2D art

[@pigman2250]

Work Smart AND Hard! 😅

[@fresco4988]

Go next videos!

[@saultoons]

Hopefully not too long away 😅

[@MR-RUBIX9119]

It's like undertale tile view

[@saultoons]

Yah orthographic :D

[@abelperez1827]

Bald guy uploaded lets goooo

[@saultoons]

Shiny head = shiny future let’s go bald crew!

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

cool , cool

[@saultoons]

ur coool

[@NeroTheAngel]

with which program do you work?

[@saultoons]

Clip studio paint or aseprite, usually aseprite if I'm animating!

[@alpagkrati]

Gameboy tiles are 8x8

[@saultoons]

Cool 😎

[@snakestaffmagic4499]

I cant find anything that simply explains how to export a tile set properly so it can be used to draw a level on other software :)

[@saultoons]

You’re probably going to want to look at specific game engine tutorials for that, for example, in Godot and Unity I just need an image of the tiles that I can set up there so I would export each individual tile as one big png sheet and set up in engine

[@snakestaffmagic4499]

@@saultoons I've progressed since I sent that message. Thanks for the feedback ^^ also I learned from your pixel art tutorials and within 4 days of watching it, made a big alien. Would love to share 😁

[@TobiasSample]

Fee fi fo fan, I hear the voice of a Northern Man Lol

[@bit427]

I did this challenge but forgot it needed to be tiles...

[@saultoons]

Bit it’s ok we still love you 😄

[@bit427]

@@saultoons U still featured it at 7:24 haha

[@Haypen]

Красиво

[@saultoons]

Спасибо за просмотр

[@Haypen]

Пожалуйста)

[@awol_b]

someone made warriors iceland

[@awol_b]

warios

[@saultoons]

Wario stinky oh yeh

[@satsubatsu347]

You know you can flip tiles as well as rotate them... right? You needn't draw that many tiles if you remember that detail.

[@saultoons]

I did flip em and rotate em

[@kitayskiykabachek8244]

Looks like stardew valley

[@saultoons]

Nice, I love stardew valley

[@themelancholyofgay3543]

🤝

[@saultoons]

:D

[@martinpris5357]

The pa‘n

[@saultoons]

The paaaaan? 🤣

[@il_vero_saspacifico6141]

The video Is very cool, but the palette Is too light imo, It hurts my eyes

[@saultoons]

Yeah I agree tbh, I could've made the palette a bit easier on the eyes :D

[@_B_E]

you showed how to make a pixel art scene, but where's the tileset? This is like 90% useless for people needing actual tips for making a tileset.

[@ayoungartistakajack6799]

Fr I was looking for an actual guide on tilesets

[@pdrohls]

boa mitinho

[@lilados3640]

eggman

[@saultoons]

Thats me

[@jojoonlychannel2123]

ty for the tutorial but how the fuck do you make a fucking tile set

[@thefrogmagician9866]

Frog

[@saultoons]

Frog

[@WhiteSpears]

Haha, pretty bear..

[@saultoons]

A personal favourite of mine

[@chuckyn100]

Jag e

[@saultoons]

😄

[@cansado2287]

:)

[@saultoons]

:D Thanks for leaving comments Cansado :)

[@benwarped7272]

will you marry me?

[@saultoons]

Sorry Ben, you have not taken me out to dinner even

[@JosiahJames-h1c]

Your awesome