Piskel is an online editor for creating Pixel Art.
You can use Piskel to design animations which you can use in web pages, email, games etc.
Simple animation made with Piskel
What is Pixel Art? Here are some examples:
We won't be using photoshop for making Pixel Art, but this video gives a good understanding of what Pixel Art is, and the general process of creating it.
Piskel is a very good online Pixel Art editor. The key skills we will learn are:
to use the drawing tools
to use the animation tools
to use layers to help both drawing and animation
to export animations and embed in a Google Site or Slides
What can you make?
Shading
NO SHADING
PILLOW SHADING
DIRECTIONAL SHADING
3 COLOUR BOX
ISOMETRIC VIEW
SHADOW
Scratch
We will play this game and then create our own Pixel Art for it.