PIxeljam's Pixel Art in Photoshop Tutorial

Posted by Derek Yu Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:44:00 GMT

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Pixeljam’s Rich Grillotti, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at GDC this year, wrote me to let me know that Part 3 (the final part) of his “Creating Minimal Pixel Art with Photoshop” tutorials for Gamedev.net, is now up. The tutorial is a great introduction to both pixel art and Photoshop, for the non-artist. Plus it’s filled with all manner of fun little examples!

Their latest masterpiece-in-progress, Dino Jam, should be coming out soon.

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  1. Zaphos said about 2 hours later:

    Neat! Might also help to link to parts 2 and 3 :)

    part 2: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/art/features/pixelart2/

    part 3: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/art/features/pixelart3/

  2. sinoth said about 2 hours later:

    An entertaining read with pretty examples, but it feels like unnecessary expounding on a topic that should be simple. An alternate version of the tutorial:

    1) OPEN MSPAINT, 2) ZOOM, 3) PIXELS!!~!

  3. JJ said about 2 hours later:

    It took me quite some time to appreciate pixel art because of its very rough texture as opposed to smooth lines. But it all looks so raw which is beauty.

  4. Squidi said about 3 hours later:

    Pixel art is hardly simple - though I admit that I was somewhat underwhelmed by this tutorial.

  5. Cougarten said about 3 hours later:

    shorter, more simple and good: http://pixel.veflaxia.net/lesson1.html

  6. Cougarten said about 3 hours later:

    also nice for tiles and a bit animation: http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/tsugumo/default.htm

  7. Shih Tzu said about 4 hours later:

    You know, an entire generation grew up knowing pixel art simply due to technical limitations. But now that we have more powerful hardware, I wonder what would happen if we didn’t use squares. Has anyone tried hexagonal pixels?

  8. Joseph said about 7 hours later:

    Whoa Shih Tzu you just made my head A-splode!

  9. gnome said 1 day later:

    Actually useful! Thanks a ton!

  10. Vinícius said 5 days later:

    Really great, thanks.

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