Pixel Art Mastery: The #1 course on retro video game art (Udemy.com)

The most comprehensive, all-in-1 course to help you become a talented & efficient pixel artist for games and animation!

Created by: Jacob Giordano

Produced in 2021

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What you will learn

  • Quickly create professional quality pixel art by harnessing the full power of Photoshop
  • Go beyond basic Photoshop animation techniques for pixel art
  • Demystify more advanced techniques like anti-aliasing and dithering
  • Master techniques to create stunning color palettes with ease and speed
  • Create custom tools while building a library of killer reusable assets

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Overall Score : 94 / 100

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Course Description

Join the Pixel Art Revolution and start making efficient, professional quality pixel art today!
So what is the Pixel Art Revolution? Its an approach to making pixel art, based on the belief that creating it shouldnt have to be a long and difficult process. In fact, modern technology can help us do what used to be done one pixel at a time better and faster! Working smarter, not harder thats the Pixel Art Revolution.
Whether you want to make money as a game artist, make assets for your own projects, or create freelance illustrations, this is the course to help get you there. Armed with the knowledge packed into this course you'll sharpen your existing skills and learn the techniques needed to create professional quality pixel art and animations in less time!
Well start out by getting Photoshop set up for maximum speed and efficiency, and by the end of the course youll have made game-ready assets across the 3 most common styles of pixel art games by creating: An isometric building for an RTS gameAn animated side-scroller level mockupAnd a populated top-down/RPG mapPlus, youll gain the knowledge needed to build a killer library of custom, reusable resources you can pull from whenever you need!
Throughout the lessons youll create assets ranging fromcolor palettescustom brushesPhotoshop automationsDIY patternsmap tilesunique characterscustom propsmultiple animationsIn addition to the course lectures, youll also get digital copies of everything I make throughout the course plus a few bonuses! That means youll finish the material with new knowledge, all of the course files, AND a bunch of my personal custom brushes, templates, and other time-saving files Ive amassed over the years as a pixel artist.
The truth is, if you have the right tools for the job, you can get a high quality result in a fraction of the time. When youre making pixel art, don't decide to be just good or fast make the decision to be BOTH! Using the information in this course you can do that very thing.
Each section focuses on a specific project with a real-world premise to get you used to creating pixel art for real jobs and indie game development.
Every lesson builds upon the last to help get you to Pixel Pro status at a consistent pace. After each lecture youll walk away with a new skill, knowledge, or game asset which means you can go from never having made pixel art before to creating animated assets in as little as only a few days!
And! Because I only want students who are totally thrilled with what theyve learned, I offer a full, money-back guarantee within the first 30 days of purchasing the course no questions asked! The only request I make upon a refund is for input to help improve the course. :)Once you join the course youll get instant access to all of the course materials spanning 100+ knowledge-packed lectures, along with all of the resource files and bonuses! Within mere moments you could be on your way to Pixel Art Mastery in Photoshop and a proud member of the Pixel Art Revolution!
So what are you waiting for? With everything listed here plus my 30-day guarantee youve got nothing to lose and everything to gain! Join me, and others just like you, in the Pixel Art Revolution today!
Who this course is for:
Students who want to expand their pixel art and animation skillsStudents interested in building the skills needed to create professional-quality workStudents looking to find efficiencies for creating pixel art and animations in PhotoshopStudents interested in joining the Pixel Art Revolution

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Instructor Details

Jacob Giordano

After receiving a BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University I wenton to do freelance projects ranging from limited-run comic books tophoto retouching and manipulation,pixel art and animation for indie games, album covers, and evenpixel art animations featured in an episode of America's Greatest Makers. I currentlyget to pick and choose the projects I work on and I wouldlove to share what I've learned over the yearswith you!

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By Thiago Alves de Menezes on 11/21/2020

Excelent Course. I liked the way he make you use keyboard shortcuts to improve your speed working on Photoshop.
The clean arrange of the Layers and group is another positive point as well as the artstyle, with lots of shadows, midtones and highlights.
A little negative point was the construction of the buildings on animated scene mockup. Maybe with a less complex scene fast fowarding wont be necessary.

By Yeasin Arafat Ridoy on 9/11/2020

nice

By Tayeb Nemich Moussa on 8/9/2020

dope course!!

By Nikita Kryuchkov on 8/1/2020

What does this course really teach?
1) Automation of processes.
2) How not to create but outline images, art, fonts.
The course is artificially extended. Useful information for a few hours at most.
After purchasing this course, I strongly advise you to take a glimpse of the entire program to make sure that this is what you need.
After watching the course, I learned how to repeat the same actions for 17 hours and listen to what keyboard shortcuts the author presses to select the desired instrument.
But unfortunately this course does not teach at all how to draw pixel-art.

By Paul Schauer on 7/1/2020

Very good, accurate

By Alexander Gonzalez on 6/27/2020

Total beginner on pixel art and I very briefly dabbled in photoshop years ago. I was a little intimated about taking this course but Jacob is extremely thorough in how he explains everything and he is very repetitive in reminding you what key shortcut does what and repeats it again and again. I honestly thought as the lessons kept going that he would stop reminding us what keys he was pressing for the shortcuts. What this resulted in is having the shortcuts CEMENTED into memory now which has made me so much faster working in photoshop. At first I thought Jacob was a little fast, and I did have to pause a lot to catch up, but by the end of the course I was keeping up and moving fast. I enjoyed learning and I've already made a few of my own characters using what I've learned here and they came out great! Will continue to practice and improve. Highly recommend this course for anyone looking to use industry standard tools and efficient ways to create amazing pixel art without taking forever to do it! Thank you Jacob!!

By Tawni McCready on 6/15/2020

So far so good, he seems to be straight to the point and knowledgeable. which are very important to me. Good job! Excited to see the rest

By Yauheni on 6/12/2020

A tons of useless information, that I knew before

By Bryan Ariel Ortez Mejia on 6/2/2020

La verdad es de las mejores elecciones que pude hacer en esta PANDEMIA

By Gabriel on 5/11/2020

Es un curso demasiado bueno y para mi que no hablo mucho ingls no me ha costado aprender

By Ben Mack on 5/9/2020

Having a great time!

By Nathan B. on 5/9/2020

This instructor is really nice, easy to understand, and knows what He is teaching and you don't feel like your swimming to figure out how to do what He is trying to teach.