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Pixel Art Process

Today's tutorial is a little different than the ones I usually make. Since I'm talking about a process, I decided to go with a more traditional sequential tutorial.

Reading text with a timer is a bi...

Animation Easing

This tutorial is both for programmers and artists. Changing the speed of moving things gives the animation a lot of personality, impact and makes it interesting.

For programming, when using tweens, ...

Render Tricks

Jeremy Mitchell, (@floatvoid on twitter) sent me a shader version of my previous tutorial about rendering tricks!

These are more...

Render Tricks

Here's another programming/art tutorial!

This one is heavier on the programming side, but should still be useful to artists that wanna know how to do some simple rendering tricks I use a lot.

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Parallax and Depth

Parallax is one of my favorite techiniques in game art and programming. It's a very easy thing to add and it's a good way to convey depth in 2D games.

Don't forget I included a .love example file in...

Machines and Weird Tech Tutorial

Sorry everyone! I was suposed to post the tutorial yesterday, but I had a really bad flu or something. I'm getting better already, though :)

Ok! About machines, I decided to make something like a "r...

Explosions, part 1

Explosions are one of my favorite things to animate! It has a lot of particles, so I always try to animate everything individually. For example, I will draw one piece of shrapnel from start to finish,...

<1 Pixel Movement Tutorial

First tutorial of the year and I'm already late :3

But here it is! The theme is <1 pixel movement, or how some people call it subpixel animation. Well, since moving less than one pixel i...

Animation Planning

Hey :D

This tutorial is about how I usually approach complicated animations that require planning. I'm really not sure if this is the "official" way of animating since I never had formal training, b...

Voting Thread! Christmas Special

This week's voting thread I'm making public to everyone because, well, it's almost christmas :D I hope that's all right with everyone.

So, just comment with the topic you want me to work on for the ...

Character Design 1

This week's tutorial is about character silhouette!

For me the silhouette is probably the most important aspect of the character design, even more so in pixel art.

Working with pixel art most ...

Skulls and Bones Tutorial

Here's some thoughs about what I think when drawing skulls and bones. 

Most of the time I feel like I'm struggling with the low resolution, so it feels more like solving a puzzle than drawing, ...

Vegetation Tutorial Part 1

Posting a little later than usual, but here it is!

This is not exactly a tutorial but more of a collection of tips and details to note when drawing vegetation. But my main advice is to avoid noise a...

Seamless Animation Tutorial

This one is very abstract, but I tried to explain my though process while making loops. I think practice is very important when learning how to make seamless loops, so, I recommend exercising this, a ...

Fire Tutorial

With the vast majority of votes, here's the fire tutorial!

For me it was very hard to explain how to draw fire, I think that's why this one has a lot of text. I draw a lot from observation and I oft...

Water Tutorial

This is probably the most complex tutorial I've made so far, but I hope it can be useful! Water is definitely not my specialty, so I had to do a lot of research for this one.

As alw...

Level Design: Progression

Level design is not really my specialty, and it's a very personal subject, so these are just some thoughts I usually have when designing levels, not rules.

The core of fun for me is the Learning. Th...

Glitch Effect Tutorial

I always try to get references from real glitches I see around. Like bad monitors at the shopping mall, weird glitches in those animated signs on shops or when my video card decides to get crazy.

I ...

Another Goal Reached!

I'm happy to announce that I just reached another Patreon goal! I'll start streaming every week on a fixed day and time, which I'm still trying to decide.

What would be a good day for you? Weekdays?...

Electricity Tutorial

My main "rule" for animating electric stuff is to make everything flicker, like a lot. I also try to make it with 24 fps, so it's more fluid.

Electricity bolts are very fast, so in the first frame i...

Ben Prunty Album Cover

This is the cover I made for Ben Prunty's latest album "ElectroCrypt", that you should check out now. It's ama...

Top Down Run Cycle

This is one of many ways of making a top down run cycle. I chose this specific way because it's usually how I work and because it's the simplest way I could think of.

I usually focus on the 3 jump f...

Pixel Art Fundamentals 1

Noise reduction was the most voted topic! I expanded on the topic, and it ended up pretty complex and since I also explained other stuff I called this one pixel art Fundamentals 1.

S...

Simple Run Tutorial

Hello again!

People seem to really want a walk/run tutorial, so here's one! Walk/run are very complicated animations so I did my best to come up with the simplest run I could. My plan is to make mor...

Quick Tip

Here's a quick tip on attack animations, answering a question made by Cam

"How would you approach ...