Pixel Art Character Animation for Video Games

You will start by knowing Daniel, who will tell you about his career in the world of video game design and specifically in the pixel art . He will then highlight some of the animators pixel art that have influenced him most these years, as well as animators and animation studios not related to pixel art that have also marked him.

If you have not already done so, you will download Pyxel Edit and then Daniel will take you through its interface, with special emphasis on the most important tools the program has for developing animations.

You will create a project using tilesets in Pyxel Edit. You will discover what tiles and what they are used for in animation.

The first action you will cheer on your character will be the waiting or waiting animation, starting with the basic shapes and silhouettes. Daniel will explain through examples what is timing in animation, keyframes and motion interpolations.

Then you will create a cyclic walking animation. You will discover what it is and what its function is in a video game before animating your character, reviewing animation concepts from the previous lesson.

The third and final character animation you will create will be the attack. In this lesson Daniel will introduce you to concepts and techniques such as the anticipation of motion blur and easy in / out , which are essential to give quality and smoothness to the animations.

Finally, you will animate your character's environment using techniques such as modular animation and pixel-to-pixel animation.

When you have all your animations, you will learn to export them separately or together in GIF format using Pyxel Edit. You will also learn to export your animations so that they can be used in video games, through the so-called sprite sheets . Daniel will mention programs that will be useful for this development process of sprite sheets .