Creation of Pixel Art Scenes for Video Games

To begin, meet Daniel Benítez, who tells you about his career, from how he started creating games up until he officially joined the video game industry. He also talks about Mucho Pixels, his pixel art brand, and some of his most important influences. Then, learn a bit about what you will be doing throughout the course.

In the next unit, learn the key concepts to understanding what defines a 2D pixel art scene and how the creative process works. Discover what tilesets and tilemaps are, see the recommended software to start creating, and begin drawing your scenes using the blocking technique in Pyxel Edit.

Daniel explains how to pixelate your tileset step by step, creating elements like floors and textures to shape walls, ceilings, windows, doors, and accessories. Also, see how to create objects and obstacles to make your game more challenging and build the background of your scene.

Next, expand your tileset quickly and easily by adding new tiles and elements to make scenes more versatile and dynamic. Then, organize them and export them to apply them in a game. Discover how to create different scenes using the same tileset with the Tiled program.

Finally, Daniel gives you tips for evolving as a pixel art artist, as well as how to promote your projects online.