Pixel Art Characters: Design & Animate a 2D Character!
Learn to create your own top-down and platformer-based character sprites for video games.
What you’ll learn
Craft unique top-down and platformer sprites like a pro.
Level up your pixel stacking skills for character crafting.
Create epic close-ups and character portraits for your game’s MVPs.
Animate your sprites to make them walk, run, and battle.
Add boss-level details with shading, highlights, and pixel polishing.
Master LibreSprite and Aseprite tools to speedrun your art creation.
Nab insider tricks to pixel craft faster and smarter.
Apply your pixel wizardry across all genres of 2D character design.
About the course
Want to make your games stand out? Pixel art is quick and easy, when you know how!
In this course you’ll learn how to create your own unique, stylised characters in just a few hours. You’ll develop the skills to quickly make unique and professional characters, making your game stand out (ideal for game jams, portfolios and more)!
Modern graphic resolution is better than ever before, but Pixel Art games continue to be firm favourites. Learn to recreate the nostalgic feel of early computer games with pixel art!
From designing characters, creating character portraits, crafting enemies & monsters, to customising and animating your sprites. This course has it all!
And, the character design process can be applied to all types of 2D character design, not just Pixel Art.
Learn how to create proper silhouettes to build out sprites. Detailing, shading and highlighting your pixel art. And explore animation for video game assets.
Whether you’re a beginner looking to learn pixel art from the ground up, or you’re more intermediate and want to improve your skills, this course will help you become a better pixel artist.
Using the highly popular LibreSprite / Aseprite, your instructor, Reece, will provide you with many tips and tricks to improve quickly and be efficient with your asset creation process.
Pixel art is cool, fun, quick and accessible. No previous experience or drawing tablet required, an interest in learning pixel art, a mouse and a keyboard is all you need.
Jump in and start creating your awesome characters now!
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Instructors
Reece Geofroy
Hi, I’m Reece!
I have been tinkering with pixel art and game development since I was 16.
Growing up in a large family; video games were a huge part of my childhood. Inspired by my older siblings trying to create my own games, I eventually made it my goal to one day start my own game studio and develop video games for a living. Fast forward to the present day, I am the CEO of Boundless Games, creating modernized-pixelated games influenced from the games I grew up with.
I have also garnered a fanbase for myself online through my game development YouTube channel, where I discusses the realities of full-time game development, help beginner pixel artists find their way, and teaches valuable lessons that I’ve learned from my own past mistakes and current obstacles.