Pixel Art Environments: 2D Environment Design & Animation
Learn to create your own top-down and platformer based environments, backgrounds and assets for video games
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Create your own top-down and platformer based Pixel Art Environments in just a few hours.
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Want to make your games stand out? Pixel art is quick and easy, when you know how! 👾
Learn how to create your own top-down and platformer based Pixel Art Environments in just a few hours.
Using the highly popular LibreSprite / Aseprite, you'll create dozens of pixel art assets throughout this course, including nature environments and interior environments such as brick walls, castle decorations and more.
You’ll develop the skills to quickly create Pixel Art backgrounds and landscapes, and be crafting Pixel Art objects and environmental assets for decoration in no time!
All of this helps make your game stand out, which is ideal for game jams, packed game stores, portfolios and much more!
From creating Environment Pixel Art, to understanding colours, to creating animations and designing game backgrounds. This course has it all!
By the end of the course you'll know how to create tile sets for top-down and platformer games, have designed game backgrounds, and built basic animations for assets and landscapes.
And, the environment design process can be applied to all types of 2D environment design, not just Pixel Art.
Whether you’re new to pixel art, have experience and want to improve your skills, or you're a game developer working with 2D Engines, this course will help you.
Your instructor, Reece, will provide you with many tips and tricks to improve quickly and be efficient with your asset creation process.
All students have access to the Q&A where our Instructors, Teaching Assistants and Community are ready to help answer your questions and cheer on your success.
Jump in and start creating your awesome environments now!
What you'll learn:
- Create your own top-down and platformer based Pixel Art Environments in just a few hours.
- Develop the skills to quickly create Pixel Art backgrounds and landscapes.
- Craft Pixel Art objects and environmental assets for decoration.
- Design game backgrounds.
- Create nature environments and assets.
- Make interior environments such as brick walls and castle decorations.
- Understand how to create tile sets for top-down and platformer games.
- Build basic animations for assets and landscapes.
Your Instructor
Reece has been tinkering with pixel art and game development since he was 16. Growing up in a large family; video games were a huge part of Reece's childhood, inspired by his older siblings trying to create their own games eventually he made it his goal to one day start his own game studio and develop video games for a living. Fast forward to the present day,
Reece is the CEO of Boundless Games, creating modernized-pixelated games influenced from the games he grew up with.
Reece has also garnered a fanbase for himself online through his game development YouTube channel, where he discusses the realities of full-time game development, helps beginner pixel artists find their way, and teaches valuable lessons he learns from his own past mistakes and current obstacles.
Course Curriculum (3+ hours)
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StartWelcome To The Course (0:27)
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StartDownload Software (3:23)
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StartCommunity & Support (1:33)
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StartGetting Started with Libresprite (8:11)
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StartLighting & Colors (8:43)
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StartExporting Sprite Sheets (7:17)
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StartImporting Sprite Sheets (2:06)
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StartTop-down vs Platformer Sprites (6:26)
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StartSection Wrap-up - Introduction & Setup (0:27)
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StartSection Intro - Creating Tilesets & Assets (0:20)
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StartWhat’s A Tileset? (8:24)
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StartTop-down Grass Tilesets (13:04)
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StartTop-down Nature Assets (6:38)
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StartPlatformer Grass Tilesets (12:23)
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StartPlatformer Nature Assets (4:30)
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StartCreate A Dungeon Tileset (9:43)
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StartDesign Assets For Dungeons (4:27)
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StartSection Wrap-up - Creating Tilesets & Assets (0:22)