INSANELY Smooth pixel ATTACK Animation Tutorial

A smooth animation tutorial. Condensed version to give viewers a peak at what my full tutorials provide! I make monthly pixel art/animation tutorials that I release on itch/for my patreons.

00:00 Intro
00:32 Designing Character
01:48 Setting Up Keyframes
05:49 Adding In-between frames (idle to battle stance)
08:50 Adding In-between frames (first Slash)
10:45 Adding In-between frames (anticipation of heavy slam)
11:35 Adding In-between frames (final heavy slam)
14:38 adding In-between frames (return to idle stance)
17:22 Adding VFX (Electricity)

[NoomStuff]

This whole video is just me being like: "oh yeah that looks good", and them you make it 3x better

[animatrix]

I love the advice of counting pixels to track volume, that's actually really helpful!

[lorissirol]

I'm a 3D animator and I love how pixel art animation can really help you think out of the box, thanks for the videos (Might test it out someday)

[jojodelacroix]

I really like the note about keeping the volume of an object the same when talking about the cloak. But at the same time, your perspective will change what you can see, so for some things it makes sense to just sort of remove pixels.

[misfitmadman]

Yours and Hyper light drifters artstyle is always a huge inspiration for some of my art, and I'm so excited to see some animation tutorials here on YouTube to help watch and listen to while I work on my own animations. Excited to see more in the future and thank you.

[Vc._.]

Is it just me or is the video sped up?

[Shug]

This entire process was amazing to watch and your approach to explaining it is perfect.

[Daszkal]

Holy shit. I'm in the middle of a game jam trying out making stuff for the first time and my friend, I can tell you with authority that uh... well let's just say baby's first animation is looking preeeetty gnarly.

And this video taught me SO much about the tool, the workflow, and like... just how to think about the process in a way that let's you iterate through from a static image to a finished animation. I seriously can't thank you enough. I feel like I went from knowing nothing to being actually confident that I can do this. First I'm sharing this with my team, and then I'm gonna go binge the rest of your content. Thank you. ❤

[cescimes]

insane timing for me to find you literally yesterday searching for pixel art tutorials
keep up the good work and a big thank you!

[gearjacky]

This has got to be one of the easiest to understand breakdowns of an animation I've ever seen. Awesome work!

[paulroberto]

Thank you for this! I recently started pixel art for a game, and was struggling to make my animations feel impactful. Seeing your entire process was really nice! The video length was perfect too, long enough that it's easy to follow, but short enough that it isn't daunting.

[zneeke]

This just became my most favorite video :)
Love it! Thanks for sharing your workflow. I've learned a lot by just watching your videos.

[andrewmartin]

Ive bought a bunc of your sprites in the past but had no idea you made videos! Youtube just decided to suggest your channel. Love seeing your workflow.

[robertnoall]

I stumbled across this but it blew my mind how well you explain things and why you do them!

[Pat.Man.]

This was so good, just downloaded Aseprite to start playing around. Love how well you explained this, can't wait to get my first character going! Thanks.

[JesseBrohinsky]

This is so relaxing to watch. Beautiful.

[cripz]

Oh you worked on that dome keeper game I've been watching no wonder how I found this channel, everything is coming full circle now😮

[kindacruise]

i played bullet bunny a few months ago, blown away by the art (and use of gdev, my favorite). crazy how as soon as i download aseprite i get you in my rec. thanks for the great tutorial!

[OmniCroissant]

I can't believe you drew something so good in only 18 minutes, it would take me several hours to make something half as good as this.

[ctw-gkjg]

you helped me draw my first pixel anim work! thanks!