I don’t even art or nothin and I still find all this interesting as hell. 10/10 breakdowns on all the topics I’ve seen so far dude keep up the hard work 👌🏻
When I see good pixel art like this, I also can’t help but think about the painted style of ‘ Fear & Hunger ‘ I’ve never seen any tutorials or any other game do that style.
Adam, it's honestly amazing how characters come to life when you put your hands on them! Recently started getting into pixel art and your work is an inspiration!
A cool way to practice this is by starting with a random silhouette. I like to scribble some random shape and then fill it in. Then I basically play that "What's that Pokemon?" game on my random shape and start making it into something by blocking out some shapes with a few shades of grey. The way your initial scribble looks will also often inspire you to use a distinctive artstyle. Would recommend giving it a try, if you are new to blocking and unsure how to create silhouettes on the screen from ideas in your head :)
Can you later show how you would animate this character please? sprite animation is the area I have most difficulty with, and usually is where I give up
yeah im late to the party but ive been going through your tutorials and literally just doing what you are and it has taught me so much. this is the best way for me to learn. thanks for these videos.
I'm a programmer, not an artist. I mess about with Pico-8 sometimes so I do some very rudimentary pixel art for that but that's my limit. Really enjoyed watching this video just for the sake of watching it. Great content, awesome character!
I think I could learn a lot by your point about playing around with an idea whilst it's still in the early conception stage. I usually just go right ahead with whatever thing works first and tweak it from there.
I really appreciate this video. People should learn pixel art and not think it’s better to stay at 16x16 or 32x32 to start. Better to have space and better to have a comparison instead of deleting what you have
I have zero artistic ability, I have no idea why this was recommended to me but I watched it all and was amazed at how easy you made it look. I know that's due to your own abilities but it really made me want to give it a shot
Dang I totally lost track of time watching you and didn't even realize 30 minutes had passed until the video ended Also, your elephant looks really fantastic
I had the brilliant idea of speedrunning the design process of a game - sketching on paper, coloring that, then redrawing it digitally in Krita, then making pixel art, then exporting and making the game in RPG Maker VX Ace... basically becomes a meme at that point
I actually started with pixel art! I found it easier to learn becausr of the constraints. I also have a 11 tone grayscale pallet I use to do the preliminary work, I find it freeing to work in those limits.
After watching your Pixel Art Class sharing, I think I should be able to start drawing my characters again. Thank you, man. 看了你的课程分享，我想我应该可以重新开始画我的角色了。谢谢你，伙计。
Hey Adam, very nice videos, I've been learning quite a lot about pixel art and hopefully all this will inspire me to create my own things!! Keep it up - Martin from France
Adam, could you make a series creating characters like this from different themes, without necessarily being characters in your game? Well, it's a nice type of video to watch and be inspired by. It would be interesting to see you take one or more random themes and explore that.
Hi Adam! Thank you for making these -- i do want to know how you were able to have it so that your brush was only able to paint on the silhouette you created and not on the transparent background. This would make it much easier for me to play around with colors and not have to worry about going in an erasing colors that bled over the silhouette i created. I just subbed, because after comparing your videos to the others out there, yours seem to be the more informative and have the highest quality. Keep it up! I know you're helping inspire a lot of other beginners out there. Also, your Insignia game looks great!
I'm not sure what program you're using, but there are two options depending on the program! (I don't have the program he's using, so I don't know what the features on it are.) There is a setting called Protect Alpha on certain programs, which paints on the silhouette you have created. You could also use a Clipping Layer to draw on the silhouette you created as well. Hope this helped! Looking up the program you're using can help as well :)
I can see an entire game for your elephant. It's called saving Nellie. After leaving the circus Nellie settles down and starts a family, only to be stollen back by the circus(paraphrasing). Nellies husband(your character) must fight his way through poachers and circus clowns e.t.c. in order to free his wife and children. GREAT CONTENT(i like anything which makes me think).
That looks awesome. I tryna get into pixelart too, since I do create games. What I wonder is, doesn't it make sense if you'd put each bodypart on different layers to animate? I think it's much easier to move each body part around. What's difficultier though is to paint over different layers while connecting the parts seamless. Don't know which method is better to work with.
When you were making the elephants, were you worrying about jaggies, or just doing whatever looked right to you? My question is, how do you know when to have jaggies, or pixel perfect shapes?
Greetings. I am new here; and I would like to know, what is this interesting&cute interface, that surrounds you (at the borders, or the canvas)... Is this a remade window-manager (like blackbox/fluxbox), or did you put this afterwards (on an upper-layer), when you made the video-montage? The intro is also very well made. Beautiful.
Check my other videos on polishing animations (the female running animation with the pistol is a good example). It's an iterative process that isn't any more difficult for detailed sprites, it just takes longer.
I was a 13:54 and my 2 year old daughter came by and pointed at the screen and yelled ”ELEPHANTIE”.
Great silluette work!!
those 2 eye reflection pixels are crazy
Yeah they are
Those dots make all the difference
Dafuq you doing here Broccoli man?
this is our Pixel art Bob Ross. starts from nothing, ends with amazing art. Great tutorials. gave me a new perspective as a beginner
Man, I've learned a lot with your tutorials, thank you master 🙏
Been having a blast on this channel and I haven't even watched for an hour yet. Hopefully i'll be able to catch your stream soon!
Thanks so much, See you there :)
@@AdamCYounis th-cam.com/video/b3qDrfW_AvQ/w-d-xo.html is it possible to use a snippet of this video into a character transformation?
@@AdamCYounis In Mugen you can in that character story board
This one was amazing, you could literally start a series out of doing just this and I would watch every single episode. A new character every episode.
I don’t even art or nothin and I still find all this interesting as hell. 10/10 breakdowns on all the topics I’ve seen so far dude keep up the hard work 👌🏻
It's completely admirable how you go from nothing to some amazing sprites almost like you're working with clay, man. Hats off.
When I see good pixel art like this, I also can’t help but think about the painted style of ‘ Fear & Hunger ‘ I’ve never seen any tutorials or any other game do that style.
Adam, it's honestly amazing how characters come to life when you put your hands on them!
Recently started getting into pixel art and your work is an inspiration!
"This look is wholly owned by FF characters"
Me, who thought they were Terraria characters: Uh, yeah, totally.
A cool way to practice this is by starting with a random silhouette. I like to scribble some random shape and then fill it in.
Then I basically play that "What's that Pokemon?" game on my random shape and start making it into something by blocking out some shapes with a few shades of grey.
The way your initial scribble looks will also often inspire you to use a distinctive artstyle.
Would recommend giving it a try, if you are new to blocking and unsure how to create silhouettes on the screen from ideas in your head :)
This is really freaking good. I love watching the design process. It also make me realize just how much there is to learn.
wow I learned more about character sprite design from this 30 min video than I have since i started getting into pixel art
thanks so much!
Really enjoyed watching you create the Elephant Character ! thanks for a great video :)
Two years ago and still mindblowing... Well played sir.
Can you later show how you would animate this character please? sprite animation is the area I have most difficulty with, and usually is where I give up
Yeah I find this to be extremely hard, as soon as you move beyond 16x16px sprites, especially if your character has long legs.
Me three 😅 maybe you could link it if you've made one
yeah im late to the party but ive been going through your tutorials and literally just doing what you are and it has taught me so much. this is the best way for me to learn. thanks for these videos.
Found this channel yesterday, already one of my favorites, great stuff 👌
Doesn't matter how long am gone for anytime I come back I learn so many new things, thank you
you make it looks soooooo easy to do, damn... absolutely great work, i would never imagine a elephant like this.
“If he’s got huge pecks, it makes him being shirtless less funny.”
😂 I probably shouldn’t have found that as funny as I did.
Same tbh xD
@@DaFlashlightClay It's all fun and games until you see a huge Wrestler elephant with giant muscles shirtless in front of you
same lmao
The final result is great. I love your loose approach to creating this stuff. I'm complete beginner, so still drawing stuff pixel by pixel.
This is a great video, thank you so much for sharing! Please keep making more :D
I'm a programmer, not an artist. I mess about with Pico-8 sometimes so I do some very rudimentary pixel art for that but that's my limit. Really enjoyed watching this video just for the sake of watching it. Great content, awesome character!
You're amazing at what you do, and a wonderful teacher and explainer of things. 10/10 tutorial!
Wooooooooooow, simply you being this good at it makes me motivated to do this every day until I get this good as well. Also, so informative!! Thanks!
I think I could learn a lot by your point about playing around with an idea whilst it's still in the early conception stage. I usually just go right ahead with whatever thing works first and tweak it from there.
Man... you are amazing, I am a programmer and don't have any art skills, but I just can't stop watching your videos :)
Thats sooo good! I've been getting into pixel art again the last days and this is such a huge inspiration
man i really appreciate all your videos, you have teached me a lot, and you explain so nice and clearly, thank you man
I really appreciate this video. People should learn pixel art and not think it’s better to stay at 16x16 or 32x32 to start. Better to have space and better to have a comparison instead of deleting what you have
You are so talented. It is such an inspiration to watch talented people creating something.
I want a whole game about this elephant character.
that's a god in hindu mythology btw, named ganesha
I know im kinda late to the party but Id love to see your process of animating such characters after designing them!
th-cam.com/video/LPBvrdJ_1a8/w-d-xo.html
There you go.
I have zero artistic ability, I have no idea why this was recommended to me but I watched it all and was amazed at how easy you made it look. I know that's due to your own abilities but it really made me want to give it a shot
Pixel art is a lot about your imaginations. You don't need to draw well to convey your ideas. Definitely try it out! You'll get better over time
Dang I totally lost track of time watching you and didn't even realize 30 minutes had passed until the video ended
Also, your elephant looks really fantastic
Really nice tutorial! This really helped me out!
Recently found your videos and I've been binging them man. Really great stuff!
Dude tbh ur vids are up there with mortmort, like ur concise ansd easy to understand, thanks for the tutorial
I had the brilliant idea of speedrunning the design process of a game
- sketching on paper, coloring that, then redrawing it digitally in Krita, then making pixel art, then exporting and making the game in RPG Maker VX Ace... basically becomes a meme at that point
Subscribed to you because the quality of the content is insane!
This was amazing to watch. This was a fantastic tutorial. Thank you!
My favourite d and d character was a Loxodon. Watching this I might be able to bring him to life in sprite form thanks.
I actually started with pixel art! I found it easier to learn becausr of the constraints. I also have a 11 tone grayscale pallet I use to do the preliminary work, I find it freeing to work in those limits.
Great stuff. I thought this character looked awesome from the thumbnail and it was great to see your process for creating something like this
Brilliant! I learned so much, and I laughed while doing it, too. Great stuff.
After watching your Pixel Art Class sharing, I think I should be able to start drawing my characters again. Thank you, man.
看了你的课程分享，我想我应该可以重新开始画我的角色了。谢谢你，伙计。
cant even count the amount of times ive watched this video because its soo informative
This guy is a great orator.
This is fascinating to watch. Thanks for giving the tutorial!
First time viewer. That was an outstanding video. Will watch more.
Hey Adam, very nice videos, I've been learning quite a lot about pixel art and hopefully all this will inspire me to create my own things!!
Keep it up -
Martin from France
This was actually SO helpful thankyou! A great tutorial and a wonderful character!
Adam, could you make a series creating characters like this from different themes, without necessarily being characters in your game? Well, it's a nice type of video to watch and be inspired by. It would be interesting to see you take one or more random themes and explore that.
Hi Adam! Thank you for making these -- i do want to know how you were able to have it so that your brush was only able to paint on the silhouette you created and not on the transparent background. This would make it much easier for me to play around with colors and not have to worry about going in an erasing colors that bled over the silhouette i created.
I just subbed, because after comparing your videos to the others out there, yours seem to be the more informative and have the highest quality. Keep it up! I know you're helping inspire a lot of other beginners out there. Also, your Insignia game looks great!
I'm not sure what program you're using, but there are two options depending on the program! (I don't have the program he's using, so I don't know what the features on it are.)
There is a setting called Protect Alpha on certain programs, which paints on the silhouette you have created.
You could also use a Clipping Layer to draw on the silhouette you created as well.
Hope this helped! Looking up the program you're using can help as well :)
@@jarvis5552 In Aseprite, theres also a shading tool, which I think is what he is using. You select two or more colors and they get swapped.
That elephant looks awesome man :D
Thanks to your helpful videos I was able to create character designs. :)
Wooww ! Its so cool! Thank you!
You are the best ive been learning from you from time to time U deserve a sub :D
all your videos have been amazing
Nice organized palette. Is it already in ASEPRITE? Would love to have it.
Mate, this is really, really good content.
thanks man, this was really wonderful.
every word u speak is wisdom my friend
Dudeee i need you as my spritist for my upcoming game lol. Amazing stuff man!!
Literally dark maigc, i love it
That elephant guy looks like a hardened war machine!
I was looking, a lot, for a video like this, thanks a lot.
1. draw a square
2. draw the rest of the damn elephant
Amazing tutorial! It helped me a lot. Thank you!
This is like a review paper. You should publish it!
holy crap that elephant looks good af
looks amazing. good job
Great tutorial, and love this character design so much
I love your work! Just found your channel today. :)
This channel is so severely underrated its not even funny
You make this look so easy!
You are a true artist.
I can see an entire game for your elephant.
It's called saving Nellie.
After leaving the circus Nellie settles down and starts a family, only to be stollen back by the circus(paraphrasing).
Nellies husband(your character) must fight his way through poachers and circus clowns e.t.c. in order to free his wife and children.
GREAT CONTENT(i like anything which makes me think).
Hey, super nice work! Do you share your pallets anywhere?
That looks awesome. I tryna get into pixelart too, since I do create games. What I wonder is, doesn't it make sense if you'd put each bodypart on different layers to animate? I think it's much easier to move each body part around. What's difficultier though is to paint over different layers while connecting the parts seamless. Don't know which method is better to work with.
Lmao as of writing nickwoz is live on twitch....thanks for the recommendation. I did not know he streamed.
Love this, great watch and cool character
When you were making the elephants, were you worrying about jaggies, or just doing whatever looked right to you? My question is, how do you know when to have jaggies, or pixel perfect shapes?
this is really good
Wow your superb pixel artist
That was phenomenal.
Greetings. I am new here; and I would like to know, what is this interesting&cute interface, that surrounds you
(at the borders, or the canvas)... Is this a remade window-manager (like blackbox/fluxbox), or did you put this
afterwards (on an upper-layer), when you made the video-montage? The intro is also very well made. Beautiful.
Your content is priceless, thank you.
POG,
just POG, and nothing more.
woaw, your work is crazy
awesome! this definetly helps me alot!
so now, how can you animate the character with high detail ?
Check my other videos on polishing animations (the female running animation with the pistol is a good example). It's an iterative process that isn't any more difficult for detailed sprites, it just takes longer.
@@AdamCYounis thanks for the quick answer i will go to see the video
“Elephant warlord grappler tank guy”... I like him
incredible tutorial, learning a lot!!
Hi. Loving your uploaded vids.
But how to know where to put highlights , or from which direction light is coming ?
OMG It's awesome!!!! 😱😱😱😱
Really interesting!! Thank you!