This whole video is just me being like: "oh yeah that looks good", and them you make it 3x better

@Penusbmic

5 ай бұрын

hehe thanks for the kind words!

I love the advice of counting pixels to track volume, that's actually really helpful!

@silphv

5 ай бұрын

I don't get it. The character, like almost every other 2D character, is moving like a 3D character projected onto 2D. Sometimes the sword is behind him, sometimes in front, etc. Conserving "volume" is just not how that works. Just look at any reference that inspires you where you like the pose, see how things like clothing, limbs and weapons become foreshortened in space, and do what looks good to your eye. Don't be constrained by conserving pixel count unless you're trying to stylize the thing as a literally flat (a shadow, or like paper mario) creature that for some stylistic reason can't change proportion at all. Penusbmic doesn't always follow this rule in the video itself, it doesn't always look good to do. (The general rule of "the end of the cloak has to go somewhere" does make sense but it's not about counting pixels. "somewhere" might mean behind another pixel, like how approximately half the cloak is in theory behind the character's body.)

@silphv

5 ай бұрын

I want to add though the result looks good in this video, there's a lot that he's doing right here to give it a good feel.

@ruslansmirnov9006

4 ай бұрын

has been known since forever, since 70's

@jontay4199

4 ай бұрын

@@silphv if you watch the video, it’s not like he follows it like a law. He even mentions when the movements are more subtle, he deletes them and says no need to move these as they went behind him.

@styxrakash4639

4 ай бұрын

@@silphv I see what you are saying but you could still track volume during certain movements that are 2D with respect to the viewer

I really like the note about keeping the volume of an object the same when talking about the cloak. But at the same time, your perspective will change what you can see, so for some things it makes sense to just sort of remove pixels.

@Penusbmic

5 ай бұрын

Yes! That's a solid point as well 😃

Yours and Hyper light drifters artstyle is always a huge inspiration for some of my art, and I'm so excited to see some animation tutorials here on KZread to help watch and listen to while I work on my own animations. Excited to see more in the future and thank you.

@Penusbmic

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words and the support! Means a lot to me 🙂

@DanielSoeMusic

7 ай бұрын

@misfitmadman are you the bird man?

@deadsharpie1

6 ай бұрын

whats the song in your video

@norman8737

6 ай бұрын

worm 45

I'm a 3D animator and I love how pixel art animation can really help you think out of the box, thanks for the videos (Might test it out someday)

@FallisLife

6 ай бұрын

I think that’s the coolest thing about the human mind. Learning something almost completely different can actually help so much thinking better when doing the main thing you are learning. I started learning pixel art by thinking about it as 2D sculpting, this helped me understand the form and how to block in the art without difficult lines :)

@ruslansmirnov9006

4 ай бұрын

in comparison to level of animation in the Ori series, this is complete trash and you can't say it can be like that just bc it is low-res (so called pixel graphics)

@fastlearner292

3 ай бұрын

​@@ruslansmirnov9006if you are incapable of understanding an art form maybe don't share your worthless opinion on it

@ast3077

Ай бұрын

Well said

insane timing for me to find you literally yesterday searching for pixel art tutorials keep up the good work and a big thank you!

Is it just me or is the video sped up?

@Almondiah

Ай бұрын

Not just you lol

@snazzydaddy1

Ай бұрын

def not just you

@dannyotw95

Ай бұрын

Yeah I had to set playback speed to 0.75 for normal sound

@Web.BufosRegularis

25 күн бұрын

I was gonna mention that

@COW879

10 күн бұрын

as a professional video watcher (1.75x only), yep

Thank you for this! I recently started pixel art for a game, and was struggling to make my animations feel impactful. Seeing your entire process was really nice! The video length was perfect too, long enough that it's easy to follow, but short enough that it isn't daunting.

I stumbled across this but it blew my mind how well you explain things and why you do them!

This entire process was amazing to watch and your approach to explaining it is perfect.

@Penusbmic

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much 😊

Ive bought a bunc of your sprites in the past but had no idea you made videos! KZread just decided to suggest your channel. Love seeing your workflow.

@Penusbmic

7 ай бұрын

Weooo thanks for the support here as well 😀

Holy shit. I'm in the middle of a game jam trying out making stuff for the first time and my friend, I can tell you with authority that uh... well let's just say baby's first animation is looking preeeetty gnarly. And this video taught me SO much about the tool, the workflow, and like... just how to think about the process in a way that let's you iterate through from a static image to a finished animation. I seriously can't thank you enough. I feel like I went from knowing nothing to being actually confident that I can do this. First I'm sharing this with my team, and then I'm gonna go binge the rest of your content. Thank you. ❤

Incredible - fascinating to watch!

This was fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I just started doing pixel animation as a bit of a hobby and this gave me so many cool and fun ideas.

Thanks for this tutorial! I managed to understand things better, especially about keeping track of the volume of pixels!

thank you youtube for suggesting this video to me! I wasn't even looking at anything sprite-related (but some game-dev stuff). great video, really liked your workflow from creating the character to adding the 'vfx'. subscribed!

This was so good, just downloaded Aseprite to start playing around. Love how well you explained this, can't wait to get my first character going! Thanks.

This has got to be one of the easiest to understand breakdowns of an animation I've ever seen. Awesome work!

This is so relaxing to watch. Beautiful.

@Penusbmic

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

This just became my most favorite video :) Love it! Thanks for sharing your workflow. I've learned a lot by just watching your videos.

@Penusbmic

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Z! appreciate the support :)

such a simple character, but what an animation, so cleaaan. Really got that umph!

my god this looks incredible

This looks amazing! many tips to take to heart!

you helped me draw my first pixel anim work! thanks!

Insanely good! This is a big inspiration for me, thanks for sharing.

I’m a huge fan, I bought many assets from you… That inspired me so much !! Many thanks

I think I saw your art on reddit ! Being a noob artist at 23 years old this is so inspiring ! I hope I'll be able to do such smooth animations one day !

thanks for tutorial, i really love your channel, its easy to understand with a newbie

Fantastic work!

its so cool, bro, good job!

Thanks for this Video, im completly new to pixel animnation, but to watch a video like this helped me a lot to understand the process

wow this actually smoothed my eyes

Very good tutorial !! Thank you!!

Dome Keeper art was awesome! Glad youtube recommended your channel

Liked and subscribed! Thanks!

Phenomenal tutorial! Subscribed 😁

@Penusbmic

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! ❤️❤️

This pixel animation tutorial is very good thank youu

i played bullet bunny a few months ago, blown away by the art (and use of gdev, my favorite). crazy how as soon as i download aseprite i get you in my rec. thanks for the great tutorial!

@Penusbmic

7 күн бұрын

Weooo! Well thanks for the support in many different ways 😀

Appreciate the upload good work

i really enjoyed this, keep it up. I've learnt so much even from just this one video

@Penusbmic

7 ай бұрын

Ty 😊❤️

I saw one of your posts on instagram for a progress check and I thought it was so cool

this reminds me of the animations from the old browser game armed with wings, looks awesome!

This has give me an idea to make a game of my own, I was struggling with choosing a style but this right here open my mind, love the art man❤

@microdavid7098

5 ай бұрын

You can create a game that looks like any style. From painterly to minimalist to a silhouette type game. Depends with the mood you're going for

its almost midnight and i had the urge to learn pixelart. man i love this video so much u made me love the process of making it not just the result. its so cool and i learned quite a lot. Im currently copying what ur doing to see if i can replicate it, imma do my own sprite after hehe

You make it look so easy.

Simply Incredible

Dude i absolutley love what you're doing. I want to make animations like this. Sometimes i want to make them so bad i forget that i accually want to code as well. Maybe i'm just a visual guy ya know. But its sooooo cool what you'we done. Congrats 🤩

i already learned a lot just from this video wow

This was mind blowing

bro! you're the best one, I learned a lot just with this video, greetings

Love the animation!

this is not the massive pain in the ass I imagined it to be. Thanks for the video. This answered a lot of questions for me.

How have I not seen your channel before?. I'm looking forward to getting into Indie Game Dev and this tutorial really helps to understand some basic animation fundamentals for animating game sprites, You've got a sub from me.

man this looks sick

i would play a game just for that character design he looks so fucking awesome, right up my alley.

The pixel art reminds me of Hiperlight drifter. The animations and the designs are really cool!

That was indeed very cool.

Great vid! ! !

super good tutorial, thank you very much

@Penusbmic

7 ай бұрын

thank you!

This is great man, love my cloaked dudes . A good hearty cloak adds so much weight and flavor to a character. I’m currently online searching for inspiration. Achieved!

cool! gotta save this for my project later 💃🏻💃🏻

Super helpful tutorial, really helped me add that little extra something to my sword attacks

Its looks so cool

YOURE SO AWESOME

Hello bro, I'm from Brazil and I really liked the video tutorial, well explained, Nice

love is animation pixel

Ay I played your Shougun game recently when randomly browsing itch. I really loved the gameplay and art!

First 5mins took me 1:30h to do, great video thanks for the tips.

@Penusbmic

Ай бұрын

You're welcome!

I've been following you for a long time and never realized you had a YT. You make me want to get back into Pixel art and spritework. Maybe motivate myself to find a studio or project to join.

Awesome!!

Woah, I really like your process! I’ve tried using rotation and lasso tools on Aseprite before but always end up needing unnecessary amounts of cleanup work. I think this is because of how I don’t utilize layers the way you do. I’d be interested in knowing how you choose to split your character’s components into different layers, hearing your thought process out loud. Great video, thank you!

This was amazing and your commentary alongside it made it even better. How long have you been creating pixel art?

great insight! :)

I work in Revit and am a Revit instructor at our school. Your speed in aesprite is like me in Revit. But i’m soo slow in aesprite haha. I had no idea aesprite could do all that and so fast. Very cool

bro when I make animations it takes me 10 times longer than it takes you. You obviously became very proficient at this hahaha. I think I have been doing it wrong the whole time, because when I animate, I animate each part of the body separated and then smash it all together and hoping it works, then a I refine the details, but I like your process much more than mine

this is soo good

Sick work man. This video really making me consider buying aseprite.. lol. Such a clean, no-BS workflow and UI for sprite work.

@Penusbmic

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! And it's honestly the best pixel program. Top notch

@wallacekgames2266

6 ай бұрын

I'd reccomend buying it if you can, but if you can't afford it for whatever reason, you can compile it from the source code for free

This is a great character.. God I have ideas but never sure if I'll ever get to realize them until I'm more financially stable

Finally found you! I've seen your art once on Insta but I can't find it since then, I'm glad your video got recommend.

jesus this is so good

You make great videos and amazing tutorials. As already mentioned in other comments. Would be perfect if you keep it at normal speed. There definitely are a lot of people who will appreciate long videos about pixel art and seeing you go through your process. Greetings from Germany, and stay healthy Marcel

@Penusbmic

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!! And lesson learnt, a new video coming tomorrow, at normal speed😂😂 ❤️❤️

Very useful thank for video i now can make soem thing funni

i saw someone on twitter ripping this off ages ago. really cool to see the original creator

love domekeeper!!!!

more of these please

I dono why I never used this, pretty smooth animation

I can't believe you drew something so good in only 18 minutes, it would take me several hours to make something half as good as this.

@07forgot2

6 ай бұрын

He sped up the playback

@OmniCroissant

6 ай бұрын

@@07forgot2 still impressive

I recognised your style from Shogun Showdown from the thumbnail. Awesome game!

I like your pixel!

this is excellent advice. bro wth I didnt realize acesprite even had onion skin and ive got at least 100 hours in it lmao, I guess this means I need to watch your other stuff too

so cool

This is sick man! The sped up voice is driving me crazy though

@Penusbmic

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! And definitely thought the same after posting lmao lesson learnt

zajebiście się słucha ludzi którzy się czymś pasjonują i potrafią to pokazać lub wyjaśnić, tak powinna wyglądać edukacja

damn that's cool

I loveeeee it!!!!!!!

5:01 on frame 4 it would be super cool if the tip of the sword was still on the ground when he lifts it to show that it is heavy, rather than him picking it straight up, in line

@Penusbmic

6 ай бұрын

Honestly, that's a wicked little detail that would make things even better!

@ForTheForsaken

6 ай бұрын

@Penusbmic yeah man! Such a fun, experimental hobby! Your animations look silky smooth

I found the youtube channel of my favorite pixel artist

@Penusbmic

6 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

Absolutely astonishing. Could you please give some tips for guys, who suck at art, how could we create something similar? Maybe there are some tools, which could compensate our lack of art skills?

Great Video. 0,75x Video speed is highly recommended.

I've been really enjoying your pixel art tutorials, and I find your explanations and techniques incredibly helpful. I was wondering if you could possibly consider incorporating keycap visualizations in your videos? It would be immensely beneficial for a beginner like me who are looking to follow your tutorials step by step.

@Penusbmic

7 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for the kind words! Just adding the timestamps :) hope that helps!

@KeremLBJ

7 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot, but I think you misunderstood me ^^ What I meant was, if you could display the keyboard hotkeys you're using on the screen when you press them (I believe there are softwares for that), it would be really nice. I'm really bad with shortcuts and they are overwhelming me lol :( @@Penusbmic

@Penusbmic

7 ай бұрын

Ahhhh that's a cool idea! I'll def look into that for the next video 😀 thanks for the suggestion!