Rotating while holding shift used to not give perfect 90-degree rotations a few years ago so I asked the dev to make the 90-degree angles the same as when you click to have those specific rotations in the menus and he fixed it within a day. Great program and great dev.
I've been trying to break into Aseprite for awhile, but other tutorials dive extremely deep and are quite daunting. This was a great mix of useful content while being very digestible and not hours long. Thank you for the great content!
Excellent. I love how the developer of this tool was a sensible person that did not try to reinvent most of the hotkeys and straight up used PS's. I think that alone warrants a buy
i cant believe anyone would want to stick with the default hotkeys all over the computer, in asperite or photoshop. I way prefer to just rest my hand in one spot and be able to hit all the useful keys. i get that its useful to think "ahh b for brush", but after you've pressed "index finger for brush" 10 times you'll never go back to relying on mnemonics
when I first saw aseprite I literally just wanted it because the style of it is sooooo freaking cute it's an adorable program and the fact that it's so nice to use just makes it all the more tempting to get
This is a perfect example of a walkthrough video for me. Super concise and to the point. Talking quickly with not a lot of pauses. Everything was really clear and you gave great examples for every step. Thanks for putting this out!
I'm a beginner at pixel art, used to draw 11 years ago and recently picked it back up. It's been amazing, I made a big project over the course of 2 1/2 weeks and I wish I watched this video earlier, the preview & symmetry tool would've come really handy. I'll 100% use it moving forward. Amazing video! very easy to understand. I also thank you for putting examples put into it on how and when to use the tools :P
You have by far the best tutorial videos out there. I hope you do more! You relay information clearly, concisely, and with humour which makes it re-watchable! I have shared this and watched it many times. Keep up the good work!
I finally got around to compiling my own copy of aseprite today and your tutorial videos have been absolutely invaluable. They are PERFECT- no excess commentary, no dilly-dallying, just tips and jokes. Liked subscribed and bell'd. If you ever make more tutorials for aseprite (or anything else honestly, i can't stress enough how refreshing it is to just sit down, watch something, and get the exact information I needed!), I can guarantee that half the watch data will just be from my actually ADHD ass gratefully replaying over and over again as I forget things and need quick refreshers
As someone with a complete and utter lack of any artistic experience and background, thank you. From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU. The brevity with which you've relayed information makes repeating sections of the video that much easier, subsequently making it easier to follow your instructions. Keep up the good work my guy!
Thankyou very much for making a great easy to follow tutorial video. I got Aseprite about 2 days ago an have been feeling somewhat overwhelmed, when it came to all the tools an what they do. So again thankyou it has helped me start my pixel art journey 😀 long road ahead but it's going to be fun!
I was trying my hand at pixel art using Ps , but it lacks specific tools for this style. Your video convinced me to buy Aseprite. It really answered all my questions about the software. Thank you!
I have a suspicion that Q is the lasso because it looks like a rope loop, and G is paint bucket because in Photoshop it's the gradient tool (and gradient is grouped with the paint bucket). That's just my guess.
Wow! A picture a day for 500 days? Now that's a commitment! Would love to see some of your favorites! I really like your art style. Thanks for sharing your journey :)
Dang, this is a great tutorial and I was real excited to dig into all your pixel-art focused tutorials and then saw you only had one other...ah well, Thanks for the great rundown!
I like the tempo un your video. I was expecting a slog or for it to be way too fast but you explained everything enough without making me feel like I missed something. It also helps a LOT that you demonstrate each thing you show! Subscribing already.
Currently working in Aseprite and thought I'd raw dog it but this video really goes into depth of everything you need to know! Thank you so much for the clear and concise information! Subbed!
I've been doing pixel art for a little while now but i suck at learning the shortcuts and tend to do things the slow and stupid way, and a lot of videos dive into what the program can do without explaining the shortcuts and efficiency stuff, so great video as well as great art.
Thank you for putting this together. Just hopped on the pixel art train and I’m learning from scratch as a non-artist. Would definitely appreciate some sort of learning plan or pathway to follow.
Thanks so much. This video is exactly what I need to get back into pixel art on aesprite. Good information with entertaining commentary, liked and subbed.
such a good video, was looking for pixel art software to help with my game and this has all the tools to make it efficient and easier to grasp for a non designer mofo like myself, props to you man.
Trying to do pixel art with PS for years and seeing a perfect pixel and outline option and being sold immediately. 😭 Having other PS standards just makes it a no-brainer. Thanks for the video!
I started out making games in 1988 using Advanced OCP Art Studio on the Atari ST. It allowed sprite creation and animation of those sprites, as well as painting backgrounds and exported to all the trendy file formats of the day. Notably it had all of the tools that Aseprite has, with the shift to be square option, and the line drag tool. It's always seemed weird to me that PhotoShop doesn't have a decent line drag tool (no, no the vector line doesn't count and neither does shift-click). I'm a little surprised to find myself working on pixel art again, albeit it with massively higher resolution and color palettes. One thing missing - the free fuzziness and magic extra (random) colors you get on a cheap CRT.
I've been making videos games using the paint software on pc for 25 years! this defiantly looks like the program I needed to make my art go a lot faster and easy! And I super enjoyed your video! Very funny and fun and super simple to understand! =)
As someone who wasted many hours making sprite art on microsoft paint with a mouse my mind is blown. Also your pixel art style is delightful "cleanup on isle goblin" added to my steam wishlist
Thanks for your video! I made some pixel art on procreate a while back and would love to go back to it but with a more dedicated software that allows resizing. A lot of great infos here :)
I learned a lot from this tutorial. Thanks! I just want to ask fi it is possible if you can make a tutorial about sizing of canvas. I’m confused which size is good for pixel art. Like if i make a house or a whole store. Thanks
Omg man! Very clear, to the point and highly informative, i wrote everything down, i feel already like a pro and i can't draw if my life depends on it 😅 This is great thank you :) I'll be watching the other Tutorial as well.
i've already got about 30-ish hours into aseprite, and DAMN how did i miss out on saving palletes, the colour editor, and you can just CHANGE THE COLOUR OF A SINGLE PIXEL TO CHANGE FOR ALL OF THEM?? i'd say my 30 hours would be about 15 if i knew all of this. so massive thanks for all the tips, this'll definitely help me out
Compiling it by yourself if more of a annoying/complicated task than hard. It may be a little bit confusing and harder to people that doesn't have anything with programming, but just following a tutorial, specially if it's a video tutorial, I think anyone can get it working. As you said, it's great for testing it if anyone wants and actually, you can get the most up to date version compiling, it just won't update by itself, so if you want the newest version always, you'll need to be recompiling the base code whenever a update is launched.
Hi there, great video! Question; at 9:28 you use the color modifier to darken part of your character. It looks like you use the Lasso to select the portions you want, and then you modify the values. When I replicate this, it not only modifies the outline color, (which doesn't happen in your clip) but also fills in and then modifies any index 0 background space in the lasso. Any workarounds? Thanks!
Rotating while holding shift used to not give perfect 90-degree rotations a few years ago so I asked the dev to make the 90-degree angles the same as when you click to have those specific rotations in the menus and he fixed it within a day. Great program and great dev.
a capital Q looks like a lasso. in my mythology this is why Q is the hotkey for lasso.
mind blown
You have a good mythology 👍
@6:24
This magic wand does reminds me of something
A potato masher?
I've been trying to break into Aseprite for awhile, but other tutorials dive extremely deep and are quite daunting. This was a great mix of useful content while being very digestible and not hours long. Thank you for the great content!
Excellent. I love how the developer of this tool was a sensible person that did not try to reinvent most of the hotkeys and straight up used PS's. I think that alone warrants a buy
exactly! I was so happy when I tried to use what I'm used to and bam, it worked. wonderful
i cant believe anyone would want to stick with the default hotkeys all over the computer, in asperite or photoshop. I way prefer to just rest my hand in one spot and be able to hit all the useful keys. i get that its useful to think "ahh b for brush", but after you've pressed "index finger for brush" 10 times you'll never go back to relying on mnemonics
when I first saw aseprite I literally just wanted it because the style of it is sooooo freaking cute it's an adorable program
and the fact that it's so nice to use just makes it all the more tempting to get
This is a perfect example of a walkthrough video for me.
Super concise and to the point. Talking quickly with not a lot of pauses. Everything was really clear and you gave great examples for every step.
Thanks for putting this out!
i needed a tutorial to find these icons on the right. truly a tutorial for all kinds of dummies.
thank you!
really been enjoying your journey through your devlogs and coincidentally picked up Aseprite a few months back! awesome stuff, keep it up!
Hi stardew fam
I'm a beginner at pixel art, used to draw 11 years ago and recently picked it back up. It's been amazing, I made a big project over the course of 2 1/2 weeks and I wish I watched this video earlier, the preview & symmetry tool would've come really handy. I'll 100% use it moving forward.
Amazing video! very easy to understand. I also thank you for putting examples put into it on how and when to use the tools :P
Best video on Asesprite fundamentals and efficient use. Will be eagerly waiting for the colour and animation videos!
6:21 SIR?! I was just calmly looky at new programs while sipping my morning coffee no need to kill me like that
you killed this tutorial. concise, well thought out. its a beautiful cheat sheet for beginners. thanks man
This was one of the best instruction videos I’ve seen. Informative, concise, and funny. Thank you
You have by far the best tutorial videos out there. I hope you do more! You relay information clearly, concisely, and with humour which makes it re-watchable! I have shared this and watched it many times. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for the quick intro to a lot of the useful tools. It's exactly what I was looking for
I finally got around to compiling my own copy of aseprite today and your tutorial videos have been absolutely invaluable. They are PERFECT- no excess commentary, no dilly-dallying, just tips and jokes. Liked subscribed and bell'd. If you ever make more tutorials for aseprite (or anything else honestly, i can't stress enough how refreshing it is to just sit down, watch something, and get the exact information I needed!), I can guarantee that half the watch data will just be from my actually ADHD ass gratefully replaying over and over again as I forget things and need quick refreshers
As someone with a complete and utter lack of any artistic experience and background, thank you. From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU. The brevity with which you've relayed information makes repeating sections of the video that much easier, subsequently making it easier to follow your instructions. Keep up the good work my guy!
I have been using aseprite for a while and I have no idea for some of the tips in the video, this is just perfect for me XD
Thankyou very much for making a great easy to follow tutorial video. I got Aseprite about 2 days ago an have been feeling somewhat overwhelmed, when it came to all the tools an what they do. So again thankyou it has helped me start my pixel art journey 😀 long road ahead but it's going to be fun!
I was trying my hand at pixel art using Ps , but it lacks specific tools for this style. Your video convinced me to buy Aseprite. It really answered all my questions about the software. Thank you!
I have a suspicion that Q is the lasso because it looks like a rope loop, and G is paint bucket because in Photoshop it's the gradient tool (and gradient is grouped with the paint bucket). That's just my guess.
Wow! A picture a day for 500 days? Now that's a commitment! Would love to see some of your favorites! I really like your art style. Thanks for sharing your journey :)
Good video we want more of this video between devlogs please
I’ll try my best!
Very good and concise, just like the software you're teaching. Thank you!
Dang, this is a great tutorial and I was real excited to dig into all your pixel-art focused tutorials and then saw you only had one other...ah well, Thanks for the great rundown!
I like the tempo un your video. I was expecting a slog or for it to be way too fast but you explained everything enough without making me feel like I missed something. It also helps a LOT that you demonstrate each thing you show! Subscribing already.
Currently working in Aseprite and thought I'd raw dog it but this video really goes into depth of everything you need to know! Thank you so much for the clear and concise information! Subbed!
Woah that animation looks cool! I'm looking forward to seeing some animation-tutos! :D
I know this is a somewhat old video but bro, THANK YOU, I'll watch this on repeat for the next year.
I've been doing pixel art for a little while now but i suck at learning the shortcuts and tend to do things the slow and stupid way, and a lot of videos dive into what the program can do without explaining the shortcuts and efficiency stuff, so great video as well as great art.
I've learned much more from half of this video than from few courses.
But seriously. This App was the best investment in my life! Thanks for great tutorials!
I want some of that Jigglybuff bro!
Hot air balloon of love.
Thank you for putting this together. Just hopped on the pixel art train and I’m learning from scratch as a non-artist. Would definitely appreciate some sort of learning plan or pathway to follow.
Same here m8
Man that was amazing, well done. This is the first tutorial that has felt like I am actually learning
This is incredible and you are epic! You deserve way more subscribers!! Keep up the good work
bro doesnt need aseprite fundamental, bro need a dark theme 😭
He has 1.2.3, so unless they removed it, it should be there.
@user-zn4sr1ll1cYeah, some people love migraines, lol
Read comment before watching. Blinded by first frame lol
Nah, it looks fine
Thank you! Very helpful. Just started using Aseprite and I LOVE IT! Pixel art rules.
I compiled it, fantastic software. I will support them once I have used it for creating my assets.
Excellent!!!
Thank you for sharing!!!!!!!!
This is the best video on Aseprite that I have seen.
I am curious what helped you the most in learning pixel art.
The magic wand appearing made me lose it, a very real lol. A+
Thanks so much. This video is exactly what I need to get back into pixel art on aesprite.
Good information with entertaining commentary, liked and subbed.
Great video so much interesting functions in just one Video. Thanks 👍
Holy smokes what a fantastic video. Informative, hilarious, easy going. Kudos sir!
such a good video, was looking for pixel art software to help with my game and this has all the tools to make it efficient and easier to grasp for a non designer mofo like myself, props to you man.
Pixel art may not be what I like to do, but this seems like a really good software
Concise, efficient, I love your videosConcise, efficient, I love your videos
Love the hotkeys, just speeds up the workflows!
So well made, thanks for sharing!
Just started messing around with this, thanks for the guide:) Very helpful!
Very good introduction. Best one i've seen yet.
Trying to do pixel art with PS for years and seeing a perfect pixel and outline option and being sold immediately. 😭
Having other PS standards just makes it a no-brainer. Thanks for the video!
Perfect !! Thanks for your sharing
Thanks man! I didn't know where to even start.
Thank you Bro, The Video has been Really helpfull.
really appreciate this! just bought the program and was a little overwhelmed coming from photoshop.
Thanks very much, your artwork spanning over 500 days looked wicked pausing to see each
I started out making games in 1988 using Advanced OCP Art Studio on the Atari ST. It allowed sprite creation and animation of those sprites, as well as painting backgrounds and exported to all the trendy file formats of the day. Notably it had all of the tools that Aseprite has, with the shift to be square option, and the line drag tool. It's always seemed weird to me that PhotoShop doesn't have a decent line drag tool (no, no the vector line doesn't count and neither does shift-click). I'm a little surprised to find myself working on pixel art again, albeit it with massively higher resolution and color palettes. One thing missing - the free fuzziness and magic extra (random) colors you get on a cheap CRT.
Compiled it myself, surprisingly easy (when following a video).
This is so useful, I have to stop every 10 seconds to take notes
the best aseprite tutorial to me
I've been making videos games using the paint software on pc for 25 years! this defiantly looks like the program I needed to make my art go a lot faster and easy! And I super enjoyed your video! Very funny and fun and super simple to understand! =)
Perfect intro, keep up the good work.
As someone who wasted many hours making sprite art on microsoft paint with a mouse my mind is blown. Also your pixel art style is delightful "cleanup on isle goblin" added to my steam wishlist
Thank you, super helpful video - Can't wait to get started
great tutorial. just miss seeing a little about the dithering tools. :)
I'm new to this, but I thank you very much for sharing your wisdom!
Amazing video, even two years later
Thanks for your video! I made some pixel art on procreate a while back and would love to go back to it but with a more dedicated software that allows resizing. A lot of great infos here :)
Straightforward and very useful ty
I guess that the hotkey for lasso is Q, is because it looks like the icon for lasso.😂
Very useful. Thanks for the information mate!
Great video and convinced me i need aseprite :)
I learned a lot from this tutorial. Thanks! I just want to ask fi it is possible if you can make a tutorial about sizing of canvas. I’m confused which size is good for pixel art. Like if i make a house or a whole store. Thanks
looks like the program for me. Thanks for the pointers boss
Nice, clear and useful
As someone with years of aseprite experience this video was still helpful. I learned a couple small things. Great video!
Man, this is extremely helpful, thanks!
A lot of useful information - thanks Watt!
I would love to see a video about tile maps!!!
Brilliant run down of the app, thank you.
Whats up Watt! Watching your videos made me want to do pixel art. AND YOU HAVE A TUTORIAL
Just got aseprite non Long ago and was trying to figure out how to select multiple stuff, this help a lot 😅
Omg man!
Very clear, to the point and highly informative, i wrote everything down, i feel already like a pro and i can't draw if my life depends on it 😅
This is great thank you :)
I'll be watching the other Tutorial as well.
very very helpful! watched a few videos i love your channel
Great tutorial. Thank you
Nice video. Thanks for the explanations.
Great video thanks needed this
Is it possible to watch the full timelapse of the Avata pixel art? Great vid btw
i've already got about 30-ish hours into aseprite, and DAMN how did i miss out on saving palletes, the colour editor, and you can just CHANGE THE COLOUR OF A SINGLE PIXEL TO CHANGE FOR ALL OF THEM?? i'd say my 30 hours would be about 15 if i knew all of this. so massive thanks for all the tips, this'll definitely help me out
Compiling it by yourself if more of a annoying/complicated task than hard. It may be a little bit confusing and harder to people that doesn't have anything with programming, but just following a tutorial, specially if it's a video tutorial, I think anyone can get it working.
As you said, it's great for testing it if anyone wants and actually, you can get the most up to date version compiling, it just won't update by itself, so if you want the newest version always, you'll need to be recompiling the base code whenever a update is launched.
Nice guide! thx
This is amazing . Thank you So much dude
Great video! Thank you!
ur a life savior.
what a great tutorial!
Hi there, great video! Question; at 9:28 you use the color modifier to darken part of your character. It looks like you use the Lasso to select the portions you want, and then you modify the values. When I replicate this, it not only modifies the outline color, (which doesn't happen in your clip) but also fills in and then modifies any index 0 background space in the lasso. Any workarounds? Thanks!
That was so educational. Is it still revelant in 2024?
Yes! All the same :)
I'm just practicing, watching the videos and doing them. you first videó :)