One cool trick for making complex animations in pixel art, specially when it involves rotating or complex perspective is to use blender or other simple 3d tool to mock it up first.
Let's start with a use case, I wanted to create a simple café sign that rotates, this was my initial sketch:
First ...
2023-07-18 19:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Some art that I made for my next game with EXOK Games, Earthblade!
Let me know what you all think :)
Super happy with how it turned out!
Heavily based on https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdlXz8
It uses a mask texture generates a noise for distortion, not the fastest, but I like the effect so far!
You can see the actual shader code here: https://gist.github.com/saint11/8174e076c83e1f4b460b0b70d7644e9e...
My game is slowly becoming more and more a cursed farming sim/town builder and honestly we're okay with that.
Do you like the art style direction so far?
1st place for Theme
1st place for Graphics
5th place for Innovation
7th place for Audio
7th place for Humor
9th place Fun
Play it here: https://ldj.am/$357819
Isa, Davey, Ryan, and I created a game for Ludum Dare!
You can play it here:
https://saint11.itch.io/neo-city-express.
The s...
2023-05-10 20:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I wrote an article about this! Check it out here: https://saint11.org/blog/consistency/
Edit: Fixed the link!
2023-04-20 19:57:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Little chest animation I won't use anymore. It's a simple animation but uses a lot of classic animation principles like easing, anticipation and "squash and stretch".
You can also use that in a game or however you want, it's released under public domain.
This work is free of known copyright restrictions.
Quick tip on a pixel art technique that I really like.
This is usually one of the first things that I notice when looking at beginners pixel art, since it's not very intuitive.
Having everything aligned can be bad because it creates a secondary resolution on top of your main one. For example, 2x2 or 2x1 pixel chunks merge into bigger "pixels". Breaking that alignment makes the most out of the resolution you currently have.
2022-03-31 23:34:36 +0000 UTC View Post
All right, finally my tabletop RPG is "done"! There's still a lot of room for growth, but I'll let it sit for a while for no. You can get the whole rulebook for free here: https://saint11.org/dead_weight/
It also includes a online dice roller/chat room: https://deaddice.page/
Let me know if you have any feedback on it :)
Now that ...
2021-06-08 16:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostLong story short, I couldn't make Roll20 do the things I wanted so I made my own dice roller for my RPG system! (I'm still using Rol20 for the map stuff)
Basically is just an online dice roller and chat room where you can re-roll specific dice.
Feel free to use it and please let me know if anything breaks or can be improved :)
I'm going to add the other dice types next.
I'm honestly a bit worried about server ...
2021-05-05 23:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there!
I've been working for a couple weeks on a new tabletop RPG project. The idea is to make a OSR inspired system, but with a modern ruleset. It includes both a rule system and a world.
It will be free and released under Creative Commons and supported by Patreon, like most things I do. All the assets will also be free to use in whatever people want.
It'...
2021-05-02 05:14:28 +0000 UTC View PostAfter working on my current project, Scars for a bit too long I think I need a couple weeks break, so I decided to continue my series of articles "Pixel Art for Beginners". First I decided to port them from Medium to my website. That's way more work than I was anticipating, but it will pay off in the long run. I'm currently porting the 4th article (there are 7 right now).
My next step is to start a 2021-02-22 19:44:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been using Procreate to explore some ideas and try new styles. These can also be considered concept art for my side project (the medic game), they are all about trying to visualize how the game world would work.
As always thank you for the support!
2020-06-28 02:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Now you can watch my last year's talk at Full Indie Summit about the postmortem art of Celeste!
I talk a bit more about my process for making and implementing pixel art for the game and also answer some questions the public had.
Feel free to ask me anything in the comment session below!
I'll reply as much as I can.
Stay safe and see you for this
2020-06-03 15:00:34 +0000 UTC
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Here's some screenshots of my latest prototype. I've been working on it while streaming too, feel free to join and ask questions in my Twitch channel
I'm streaming every Saturday at 11:30 am (GMT-8) and some Wednesdays after 6pm too!
See you there! <3
2020-05-26 06:05:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's my second illustration inspired by Clark Ashton Smith's work. This one is from the short story "The Weaver in the Vault", hope you like it!
By the way, this illustration is under creative commons, so feel free to use it anywhere you want, as long as credit is given. There's a version without the background attached in this post.
This work is licensed under a 2020-03-07 01:43:58 +0000 UTC
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Illustration I made inspired by "Isle of the Torturers" by Clark Ashton Smith. It's a very dark and eerie story that I read recently and sparked my interested in the author.
I'm working on another illustration on this same style now, based on the story called "The Weaver in the Vault". Here's a sneak peek of that one:
By the way, this illustration is under creative commons, so ...
2020-02-27 23:01:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick 1-page adventure that I did on my iPad for fun. If you try it, let me know!
There's a PDF attached with all rooms and monster descriptions using The Black Hack system, but it's probably very easy to convert it to D&D or anything else. I didn't playtested it, though, so it's probably very unbalanced.
Edit: Updated some typos
2020-02-10 05:58:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I really like drawing resources. I don't know why, but I think imagining random things that games can use is extremely fun, so I decided to use my free time on the iPad to draw some random resources on Procreate!
The icons here are all under the CC0 licence, which means you can do whatever you want with it, you can use it commercially, remix, share, use exactly as it is, doesn't matter :)
No...
2019-06-26 21:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Another article on my getting started series! This one has a lot of very basic and very advanced things, so, I hope it's useful!
Read it here:
https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-8-eb218a4637dd
As always, thank you for the continuous support!
2019-06-05 21:13:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Took me a while but here's the 7th article about how to start making pixel art! This one is all about with lines. Read it here:
https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-7-e504bfa4ddf2
As always thank you for the continuous support!
2019-05-06 18:51:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been ages since the last tutorial, but now I'm finally settled in and hopefully I'll be able to keep making my tutorials again :)
Thanks everyone so much for all the support and patience!
Here's some other tutorials related to the topic:
- Impact: https://www.patreon.com/posts/impact-23417521
- Wall Jump/Slide: 2019-04-01 23:48:02 +0000 UTC View Post
For those who didn't know, I've just moved to Vancouver last week! Moving with 3 cats is being very intense and exhausting, so that's why I wasn't able to make any tutorials for this past month. Moving to a different country is even more work than I was expecting.
The good news is that I'm almost settled in! I hope to be able to continue with the usual schedule soon.
Thanks everyone for the support and sorry for the lack of news.
See you soon!
2019-02-21 19:21:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there!
Today I want to announce a little tool that I'm making to help me (and anyone else) with something I struggle with a lot: color palettes. For now it only generates simple randomized 16-color palettes optimized for pixel art, but in the future I want it to become a much bigger and a multi-purpose tool.
Feel free to use it here: http://saint11.org/tools/cchimera/index.html and please, share ...
Here's my first post of the week, another article in my series. Read it on Medium:
https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-6-a74f562a4056
2019-01-08 20:43:34 +0000 UTC View Post
After a very busy month I'm back :)
This tutorial works well with some other tutorials I made, check them out:
And here's the number 4 again :D
Well, I just upgraded the previous article to #5 and now shading is the new #4. I think I'll actually do this a lot, so the whole series have a better flow to it. I'm also planning, in the future, to review the whole thing and switch them around even more for more consistency.
I hope this article is useful, and as always thank you for the continuous support! If I can keep working on these articles maybe I can pack them all into a book about pixel art for ...
2018-11-21 17:48:39 +0000 UTC View Post
And again, here's another pixel art article! I went with some more advanced topics with this one, so maybe I'll make some extra articles about simpler topics and order them before this #4 article.
Here's the link:
https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-4-ff4bfcd2d085
As always, thank you for your support ♥ this series is ...
2018-11-06 16:57:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's some simple tips and tricks for making top-down 2D games. Always take extra care with the colliders and break down objects to individual pieces.
Here's some other top down tutorials that might be helpful too: