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Pixel art tutorial: Animationby =medli20

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Digital Art / Pixel Art / Photoshop

Since I've been getting asked a lot about how I animate my pixel arts, I figured I'd make a tutorial about how I do it. This tutorial only covers Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Imageready, but if you have any similar programs, you may be able to tweak this a bit to fit your program a little better.

I may end up making another animation tutorial later, using a freeware program since I realize that Adobe programs are not exactly cheap to acquire (unless you pirate it, which I really don't recommend doing). Anyway, have this for now.

Basic pixel art tutorial:

(I may have to revise this later; it's a bit old)

Finished animation:

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~~love 0 0~~

joy 2 2

wow 1 1

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~Super-Hedgehog May 10, 2013 Digital Artist

Thanks for this! These aren't as amazing as yours, but I tried xD [link]

~SydneyitsSydneyYo May 2, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

Interesting...

~DJ-Catsume Mar 10, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

[link] I used your tutorial here~

~DJ-Catsume Mar 10, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

do you have any advice on animating the flippy hair and stuff to make the bounce look better?

=kay-la-la Feb 24, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you for the thorough instruction ^ ^ I was curious, if the character I'm drawing has longer hair in the back, and some hair over her shoulders as well, what would you recommend I do with the layers? ;u;

=medli20 Feb 24, 2013 Student Digital Artist

Have a layer for the hair in the front and a layer for the hair in the back-- maybe even a separate layer for the head. If you use Photoshop, you can link all the layers together so that they move as a single unit while still maintaining that layered look.

Good luck!