Learn to Create Pixel Art for your Games (Udemy.com)
Improve your pixel art with these simple techniques and principles.
Created by: Benjamin Anderson
Last updated April 2021
What you will learn
- Use shapes, values, and edges to create form
- Create a basic palette using color theory
- Animate their art using key frames, big motions, little motions, and motion blurs
How it compares
Against the other 281 rated Udemy courses in Game Development Fundamentals on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 43% of them
- Reviews4,528#4 of 282 by number of reviews
- Length5.4 hoursshorter than 64% of them
- Last updatedApril 2021earlier than 71% of them
Course Description
Hey! My name is Benjamin Anderson (aka Heartbeast) and I’ve been teaching people to make games and create pixel art for over a decade. Your gamedev journey starts today!
This course teaches the basics for creating video game pixel art. Students will learn about shapes, values, edges, color theory, creating a basic palette, and animation.
If you are new to art or pixel art and want to create better art for your indie games then this course is for you.
It will take roughly 8 hours to complete this course.
This course contains step by step video lectures, quizzes for important section information, and challenges to help students improve their pixel art outside of the video lectures. Practice is key in art and you will get a good amount of practice as you complete 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.
Pixel art is appealing and useful for indie games because of its clarity, nostalgia, and efficiency. Its minimal forms are instantly recognizable, evoking early gaming while offering a distinct style. The resolution and color constraints drive creativity, making it a lasting and versatile art form. Just like 2D art in animation, well-made pixel art will always be a viable art style in videogames, no matter how realistic and lifelike other video game art styles get.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
4,528 Reviews
Benjamin Anderson
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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Reviews
By Danny Bowes on 1/17/2023
I had a great time with this course. Ben is straightforward and to the point, and if you want to get up and running creating sprites with some good foundations then this is a great purchase. I highly recommend it. I do have a few gripes however, namely I do wish there was a bit more theory as to why things work well, although I think the course offered some decent baseline knowledge here. Also, the later lessons involve a lot of freehand drawing making it hard to follow along with precisely. If you're considering buying this course in the first place you probably aren't too confident in your abilities to draw like this, so it can be a little frustrating at times. These are minor issues though, and they don't change the fact that this course is great overall.
By Adam Doty on 11/7/2020
From 0 to 60. Ben's crash course on pixel art is extremely thorough! I've come from knowing basically nothing to being able to create amateur art for my 2d games in only 5 days. Highly recommend!
By Oxana Kozar on 11/1/2020
The course is really good and effective, you are able to get the basic from the minimal time on the good examples made by yourself
By Michael Duong on 10/12/2020
I was mesmerized by your work.
By ngel Jimnez Valverde on 10/8/2020
Okay, so I'm going to be honest, I have a problem as a color blind person, and that always made me have troubles at drawing, but specially at picking colors and choosing lights and shadows for the drawings, also, I'm not experienced in Pixel art, but I love it, and I found it interesting, so I decided to start with this course, I feel like I have learned a lot in this course, it helped me with my basic problems as making better shapes, as understanding more the tecniques in pixel art, and finally, I feel more prepared, even if I'm just learning, I keep practicing and learning new things thanks to this course, so, I would recommend this course for everyone that it's new in the topic of pixel art, so you can learn more about the techniques.
By Jmhyrum on 9/19/2020
Love this course. Learning the basics and create an accurate foundation for pixel art is really helping me. Thank you!
By zbyszekKielbasa on 9/5/2020
A little bit pricey, but when it's on a discount be sure to buy it, really good course for beginners, good explanations and shows how to make pixel art in smart way, especially animations
By Rishab Arora on 9/3/2020
Honestly the course could get better, especially for people with some art experience. Although I learnt a few new things, but not much yet.
By Traci Howland on 9/2/2020
yes it was a good course.
By James J on 9/1/2020
Excellent course!
I already completed the instructor's GMS course and knew he was a great teacher. This course is a great intro to pixel art and sprite animation for beginners. Benjamin does a great job of explaining the basics, terminology, and walks you through examples that really help you pick things up quickly. The course also includes breaks in the content to practice your own "challenges" of each technique, which you post in the discussion and Benjamin gives feedback on. I'm now able to do character animations and game idea mock ups!
By Christopher Pritchard on 8/25/2020
Quite a brief course but taught some very useful foundational concepts, which I found valuable.
By Nathan Waterman on 8/16/2020
As a beginner with zero artistic talent this course was perfect!
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