Book Review: Make Your Own Pixel Art: Create Graphics for Games, Animations, and More!

Submitted by  Teoh Yi Chie on  May 2, 2020 - 2:54 pm

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Make Your Own Pixel Art is a beginners guide to creating your own pixel art.

This book is authored by Jennifer Dawe who's a self-taught animator, character designer and pixel artist with 15 years of experience, and professional game designer Matthew Humphries.

The main software used in this book is Aseprite. The other software recommended are Pro Motion and GraphicsGale.

This book covers the basics of creating pixel art. The step by step instructions are clear, concise and easy to follow. There are many pictures included so it's difficult to get lost. You'll learn how to use the software, how to create your own character, colour it and even animate it. There's quite a large section on colouring, like using different colour schemes to make your characters look good.

The content focuses on character design but there are some pages talking about creating background art and special effects, such as animating flames, fire, lasers.

This is a fun book that opens up many possibilities. Highly recommended to those who want to learn pixel art.

Make Your Own Pixel Art: Create Graphics for Games, Animations, and More! is available at Amazon (US | CA | UK | DE | FR | IT | ES | AU | JP | CN)

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