Pixel Art Class - Animating Fire!

Hey, Pals. It's been a hot minute since the last video, so here's another one before the new year. Animating Pixel Fire! Apologies if the editing is a little off on this one, I used this video to test out my new overlay, and there are still a few little kinks I need to work through before we're moving ahead at full steam.

Thanks for watching, as always :)
See you in 2021!

Chapters

00:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Anatomy of Fire
2:54 - Particle Systems
5:13 - Animating a Fire Particle
14:37 - Filling out the Layers
25:10 - Colouring The Flames
30:06 - Adding Smoke
34:38 - Shading Smoke
38:16 - Adding Sparks

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This video features clips from my stream. Catch it live: Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fri 1-6pm AEST.

Later, pals!

[zaftnotameni]

it's so unbelievable how even his "rough" initial sketches look already so full of life and communicate so much

[garrettharney]

so many tutorials just tell you to do certain things but they dont tell you why, or what considerations to make when doing so, or which elements of the thing you're doing are more important than others, and how they are represented in reality. this is an example of how to teach people things 👏

[TheGalacticGamers]

I have to be honest in admitting that as of late, life has been hard. I’ve lost someone close to me in my family recently and discovered someone else in the family had a terminal illness. With all that going on, Adam, your videos have been such an outlet for me! I’m working on a game with some friends but your content let’s me escape from everything for awhile and just absorb and learn everything you teach! Thank you so much for all you do. You’re amazing at it! Best wishes going into 2021 and thank you!

[programmer]

I like how the process of animating is driven by a story - helps a lot. Love the end result

[cassandra]

When your pixel work is so good, you watch on stream and then you watch again on YT... lol. I seriously enjoyed this one! I understood some fundamental fire mechanics but it was more on an intuitive level than truly understanding. You explained the process in a cognitive way to the point I understand it better now! I would really appreciate seeing how you'd tackle animating dynamic wind in trees or complex water (e.g., branches/leaves swaying independently, fountain ripples interacting with each other, etc). Your streams and videos are now a staple of my evenings - Thank you for making such great content! :D

[Yuhara_rev]

At first, I'm really not sure if this 40 minute video is worth watching completely, but damn, you're really thorough with all the tips and information, great stuff.
Subbed

[juanyoga]

@AdamCYounis your tutorials are incredibly helpful and valuable, thank you for providing them for free!

[drawnfromflames]

You made it fun!
Best kinda teacher

I haven't learned somthing so easilly in a while so thank you, time to watch my worlds be filled with diffrent coloured fire =>

[runratchetrun]

using this to create a website animation for my job :) thank you so much for the hours and hours of educational content. I haven't been this excited to learn a skill in too long.

[vassilisa.n.]

I was just thinking that a need to start making the campfire for my game and BAAM you release this video
Thank you very much

[Shrooblord]

That shading trick around 27:00 is amazing. So, so simple. All totally genius tricks always appear so simple once you know them.

[ThePixelExpedition]

I appreciate your technique of building animations in small bits rather than building an entire complete image and then animating that. Makes it far less intimidating. Thank you for an awesome tutorial!

[GoldenEvolution]

Another great quality tutorial explaining completely the reasoning behind the decisions that you make. You truly are the Bob Ross of pixel art!

[LordMobias]

I love these videos, keep them coming.

If I could make a request, I would love a video on backgrounds, backdrops and foreground elements in pixel art games. I noticed that you have some amazing designs for towns and such on Insignia and I would love to achieve something similar.

Best wishes for 2021

[stefanolassandro]

I've never found tutorials this good on the platform, and I'm fairly sure there aren't better ones. The method you used for explaining particles, you gave the viewer exactly everything they needed, not too much, but neither too little.
Thank you so much, keep up the great work, and the great method!

[danieneit]

This was so incredibly helpful. When I create the credits for the game I'm working on, I'll have to include a special thanks to you because I know I'd have spent an extra 5 hours staring at the fire and reading the fundamentals of animation over and over without this guide.

[AlicenRowdy]

These principles work even for those of us working not in pixel art! I have found your explanations to be really clear and thoughtful, and have helped me a ton with my own animation. Thanks for this resource!

[garrettharney]

i haven't found a better teacher on youtube in any discipline, ever. Keep it up !! thanks for so much amazing content

[znJakobnz]

I've only been getting into pixel art recently but I'm absolutely loving your vids. Was so hyped when I saw this one in my subscriptions!

[garon]

this is INCREDIBLE !!! thanks ! really it was one of the only thing were I was not satisfied of myself and now it’s better i’m happy of myself