This course is aimed to give you the tools and knowledge you need to start creating simple art for video games made in the Unity game engine. Through the aesthetic of pixel art we will explore artistic principals like shape language, color theory, and composition as well as show you a step by step workflow for creating assets that you can use to make your own games. The course is broken into 4 main modules, props, environments, characters, and animation. Each of these courses will have a series of video lessons alternating between artistic and technical skills culminating in a peer-reviewed project based assignment. The last module will challenge you to take the knowledge learned in the previous 4 and use it to create your own pixel art asset pack.
This course is part of the Art for Games Specialization
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Some familiarity with Photoshop and unity will be helpful, but not necessary.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1: Introduction to Pixel Art
Week 2: Pixel Art Environments
Week 3: Pixel Art Characters
Week 4: Pixel Art Animation
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- 5 stars71.35%
- 4 stars17.96%
- 3 stars3.88%
- 2 stars2.91%
- 1 star3.88%
TOP REVIEWS FROM PIXEL ART FOR VIDEO GAMES
This course was very in depth and very useful. The course was also fun with assignments/projects being fun to create and present.
It was really fun to make it. The last work was a little bit too much, but overall nice.
Amazing course .. I learnt a lot of new techniques either in photoshop or unity
Plus the design and animation .. it was very helpful and easy
Really Enjoyed this course. I learned a lot about pixel art ,i.e., from making a concept art to making the actual sprite itself and a bit about 2d animations.
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