Create Stunning Pixel Art Tilesets for Games (Udemy.com)

Step by step instructions for both platformer and RPG pixel art tilesets

Created by: Benjamin Anderson

Produced in 2018

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What you will learn

  • Create stunning pixel art tilesets for a platform game

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Overall Score : 92 / 100

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Course Description

This course teaches you to create simple tilesets for both platform games and RPGs. You will learn how to make tiles loop well, organize your tilesets, and set up tilesheets for autotiling.
If you have a basic understanding of pixel art but struggle with tilesets this course is for you.
It will take roughly 5 hours to complete.
There are both step by step video lectures and some discussion video lectures in this course.
This course will strengthen your foundations in art and pixel art. It will build your confidence in your art and give you the information you need to continue improving your pixel art even after completing the course.
Who this course is for:
Beginner pixel art creators who get frustrated trying to create tilesets

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Instructor Details

Benjamin Anderson

Welcome to my bio. I'm a top instructor here on Udemy. I've published 8 successful courses and Ilove teaching.

I'm dedicated to turning my students into game developers. Teaching game development is my passion and my full time job.
My courses are positive, relaxing, and jam-packed with information. If you are a young, aspiring,indie developer, you are in the right place!

I hope to see you in a course.

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By Jacob Brach on 10/4/2020

I really like how the instructordescribes his rationale for making changes on the fly as he's making them. He also points out common beginner mistakes. The content of this course will be very useful for me in my next game project.

By zbyszekKielbasa on 9/13/2020

After completing this course you will have a pretty good understanding of basics needed to make a pretty sweet tile set. And when is another course?

By Wachdan Zhevan on 8/5/2020

look amazing, but can you make mori variant tileset, i need more

By Karim Dion on 8/3/2020

very fun and genuinely useful

By Wes Arbles on 7/20/2020

I enjoyed the course overall. The instructor is a skilled pixel artist, and it was wonderful watching him work and learning how to make tilesets and how the individual pieces link together. There are some neat shortcuts and valuable lessons to be pulled from these lectures!
If I had to offer criticism, it's that it can be difficult (and occasionally maddening) to follow along with the lessons, since there is a lot of on-the-fly corrections and undoing, and oftentimes a draft you've tried to recreate gets scrapped later in the lecture. And if you're not trying to reconstruct the artist's samples, there simply isn't enough insight into why the instructor is doing what they're doing, so it can be difficult to adjust your own work and improve upon it if you're doing something that varies slightly from what you see on screen. Mostly, the instructor just intuits what would make something look better and does it, but doesn't always explain the logic behind the decisions. So ultimately I'm glad I took the course but feel like it could be improved if more time was spent on the theory that went into the incredible sprite art.

By Ira Miller on 6/18/2020

Very little amount of material, learned a little bit, but in my opinion not enough. Although I do love all the free teaching on the his YouTube channel HeartBeast.

By Nathan Henry on 6/17/2020

He was straight forward and to the point. Made really great pixel art with enough explanation. It was an overall great experience and I feel more comfortable creating pixel art.

By Robert Woodson on 6/17/2020

Will definitely be able to take this information into my future works.

By Jono Lines on 5/22/2020

Yeah this is my second course from him and I am finding it great to follow. My only recommendation would be to remember that with programs that are still in beat like Pyxel Edit some of the hot keys are changing so his instructions sometimes dont match the key bindings. This isnt enough for me to grade it down as the course is really enoyable and easy to follow but worth noting

By Hongyang Wang on 5/19/2020

very good

By David Weyrick on 5/8/2020

Have never done pixel art before. Good clear instructions and excellent "learn by doing" course!

By David Maroto Piedrola on 4/27/2020

Benjamin never disappoints, always concise and clear. This course was what I was looking for. The only downside is that it is not more extensive and teaches us even more.