Embedded Files
A surprisingly robust pixel art editor that runs in your browser! Can export to PNG or animated GIF, as well as saving locally to your browser. This seems like a great starting option.
Choosing a palette
Choosing a palette
What do I do?
Choose a palette from Lospec
This is a great of making your game look professional and taking advantage of someone else doing the colour theory for you!
Piskel tutorials
Piskel tutorials
Using layers
Using layers
What do I do? Watch the tutorial and learn how to use layers. They're very useful!
Exporting
Exporting
This covers exporting for display, we'll do sprite sheets shortly.
Piskel Shortcuts:
Animating:
Sidescroller:
Exporting Sprite Sheets
Exporting Sprite Sheets
You'll need a sprite sheet for the game designers to use. This is how we do that.
Tip! Think about the labelling of your files, this can help your devs. Naming the files consistent with information can be really handy for your time. For example:
BillyEyelash_32x32_Walk_6Frames.png
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