Post by Strife in Game Art - @the artists, what did you use, what did you learn, what inspired you?

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Wow, those are all lovely in terms of art as well as design! Kudos! <3

@Rismosh That's some catchy music, love it ! :)

@LordMysterio Gotta love those black & white shapes, you managed to give them character :)

For this project I made everything myself. Tiles, sprites & animations with Clip Studio Paint (note: pixel art for a jam game = never again D: ) , music and sound effects were me humming in my mic in Windows Recorder.

You can test my entry here and have a laugh: https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461861 ;)

Aprilkind5 years ago(+1)

I looooove pixel art and wanted to make some, but oh my! I think it is waaaay more difficult than regular vector graphics or just painting something nice. I have the feeling that every pixel counts and every pixel needs to sit perfectly.

sleeper_games5 years ago(+1)

Yeah, proper pixel art isn't as trivial to make as it might seem. Pedro Medeiros made like a bazillion free guides on specific techniques and objects, maybe check that out if you want to give it another shot: https://www.patreon.com/saint11 <3 <3 <3

Strife5 years ago

Hey thanks for the resources, always good to learn from the talented <3

Strife5 years ago

What took me the most time was actually the animations. You can usually save time with selection and transformation tools to modify the moving parts between frames. With pixel art, you have to redraw those, pixel by pixel. And I used flat color, I gave up doing pretty pixel art with shadowing and tones XD