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The list of channels/playlists about pixel-art (some of them contains only several videos about pixel art):

Books:

Pixel Logic. You can't download it legally for free so I DON'T RECOMMEND you to download it from pirate sites or aggregators such an anna's archive (that contain it).....

Sites:

https://saint11.org/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/ be aware that all the tutorials are on one page ( >100) and they can freeze your browser.

If you would like to know, I am going to start learning procedural/generative art in future (it is not about AI. it is about creating program that creates art from random seed)

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Peachy Pixels1 year ago

Hey dustdfg!

Thank you so much for the comprehensive list of youtube channels! Pure awesomeness! I am familiar with a just a few on the list in particular AdamCYounis- he is legendary haha! I love Pixel Overload too! SO grateful for your in depth and wonderful reply!

I actually have a PDF of pixel logic too !!! (It's so amazing right??!!!) and I am so glad you recommended paying for it and supporting the awesome pixelers that made it with love!~ I really wanted a physical copy of the book too since I refer to it so much but unfortunately I haven't seen it for sale in Australia and I was going to print it out but because it's so big it was going to cost a lot. I hope there is a physical book someday- there deserves to be.

I would like to learn more about procedural/generative art too! I think the process of making art is going through an evolution atm and excited to be on board with that!

I wanted to share with you a special website I found! (If you haven't found it already).
https://www.spriters-resource.com/

It is really useful for working out and learning how sprite sheets are presented/seeing beautiful pixels.

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dustdfg1 year ago

About Pixel Logic "recommendation". Yeah I recommended it but...
Did I recommend to buy it? No, more likely no than yes. I don't like to recommend to buy something (especially proprietary) but I can't just say where you can find some not program stuff illegally (🏴‍☠️ )...

About genart (I also include here procedural level generation). I know about it really not much but I will share the resource...

First of all, I recommend you to start from random level generation because it is an incredible base. Then... uhmm.. I have a poor list of topics but don't know the order....

The list:

Marching cubes
L-systems (allow to create flora such trees or leafs; as I heard also levels...)
Noises (make something more natural)
Shaders (Programs so it can do everything)
Wave function collapse / Model synthesis (The cheapest method to create something procedurally for those who can create something by hands. Just watch the following videos: 1 and 2)
I think math. Linear algebra is most common (3Blue1Brown: Linear Algebra)

As an additional link if you eventually know Russian language, you can watch it https://www.youtube.com/c/foo52ru

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