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Graphics Gale just became free, I suggest you to check it out. I've been fiddling a bit since then, and I have to say I like it, particularly the workflow with animation frames.

this was done with Graphics Gale, (I highly suggest it for pixel animation, and it got free in the last months, link here

for the glowing effects, photoshop is used o7

Download Coilsnake. They have a nice tutorial written out on how to use it, I'd suggest reading that to learn the basics of how the program works.

After you decompile the game's ROM, you'll want to edit the sprites for the roaches in the "BattleSprites" folder. I'd recommend using GraphicsGale. Then you'll want to edit "enemy_configuration_table.yml" with a text editor in order to change the names of the enemies.

Hope this helps!

> done in MS Paint

Well, there's your problem. Anything like this must be a bitch and a half if you can't use layers, for starters...

GraphicsGale is free nowadays and is a widely used piece of modern pixel art making software. Why not give that a try?
I use Aseprite myself, which is also good (but not free).

Both are great for the purpose that they serve but the answer will be very biased as different artists has different preferences. I'd suggest trying them both, Aseprite offers older version of their program for free, you can also get the source code of the latest version and compile it on your own to get a free latest build.

On the other hand, a behemoth has just been released for free as in free beer, GraphicsGale

I'm the artist, and I might make more stuff like this in the future. I used GraphicsGale for Sapphire and it's a lot of fun to work in.

Here's my tumblr if you're interested.

http://i-am-3zekiel.tumblr.com/

A long time ago I used to mimic it in PhotoShop by scaling an image down, then back up without re-sampling, it can lead to some nice effects but it's often a bit messy.

Anyway, I've been messing with GraphicsGale since it recently became freeware and it's been pretty nice so far! Other than that just some tidying up, cropping and scaling up in post using PS.

I've always used graphics gale in the past. It might look a bit outdated nowadays with so many tools around, but it has always worked great for me. I also know of other devs who still use it.

I'm experimenting with using GraphicsGale at the minute! Using the scene from the episode as a reference for colours and motion, so the process is more like lo-fi rotoscoping. By hand on a tiny scale basically, the advantage of the pixel style is you can work with a tiny canvas since it's going to get pixellated anyway which cuts down the work a little! As does dropping the detail on Mamimi's clothes and making that area solid black. I also cheated a little bit by reversing the forward animation to make the (attempted) loop, so the actual animaton is only about 3 seconds long.

I also did some work in post on it too, I was in AfterEffects anyway to reverse the image sequence and check if it looped ok, so I put a little analogue texture on it and pushed the RGB channels slightly out of alignment to get that subtle Chromatic Abberation effect.

I'd suggest making a game within your scope, maybe utilise pixel art with software such as Gale or just use simple geometric shapes. Of course you can always use free art & characters such as from https://opengameart.org/ but you do lose the quality of having your character fit your needs and the game style. Hope that helps anyway.

Neither minecraft or paper pixel art does very well here. Use the programs others have suggested, or my personal favorite Graphics Gale. You don't need fancy materials or hardware. Most of us draw everything with a plain old mouse and keyboard.

this one is complex, but it was used for some games... here is the link for GraphicsGale. As I said, this one is fairly complex, but there are various videos tutorials for you to use.

If you want a good, easy use program, I would recommend Aseprite, though it costs $14.99 USD.

Good luck, future artist.

Graphicsgale is free. Aseprite can be free if compiled yourself, else $15 on steam. Pyxel Edit is another at $9.00

If you're using Windows, Paint.NET is my all-time favorite image editor (and it's free!), and it handles pixel art really well compared to most general-purpose image editors out there. The only drawback is that you can't make animations with it very easily.

You can also try GraphicsGale, which is pretty great for a free pixel art editor. It has an intuitive interface, and has animation support.

Well to start off, r/pixelart is a great place to find assistance and guides. You can also view other people's work and use the techniques and colours they used for your own pieces.

GraphicsGale is my go-to pixel graphics editor. It's lightweight, simple, great for beginners, and free - to a limited degree. You can't export animations directly, although you can still draw them and use another program to make them into a gif.

Freebies are, indeed, a good way of practice. Take your time with them, you're not on a deadline!

Finally, here are a few simple techniques you can use to make your pieces look really nice.

-Keep your colour count low. You can do pixel art with as few as 2 or 3 colours! Pixel art with a low colour count is aesthetically pleasing to look at, while going over-the-top with colour count looks chaotic.

Don't take "2 or 3 colours" as a definitive maximum. It's up to you to decide if you have too many colours in one piece or not.

-Hue shifting. It's basically slightly altering the hue of a colour towards another, "deeper" colour as it gets darker. Think of the grass during sunset/rise, in real life. You'll see that the parts of the grass that get light from the sun appears yellow, the parts that remain in the dark appear green, while the shadows appear blue. That's hue shifting.

-If you add outlines to your piece, don't use pure black! Unless if you know what you're doing, a black outline is going to clash hard with the other colours you used. Try softer colours like dark blue!

-Distant objects look more bleached in an atmosphere. Simulate this in pixel art by hue shifting your colours towards light blue, and decreasing their saturation.

Hey man, check out this program called GrapicsGale. It's free for use but if you want to create gifs you'll have to pay for it sadly... but if you're into pixel art it's very very nice to have. However, you can still create the seperate frames in the free version and export them as PNG's and then paste them together else where as a gif.

I also made stuff like this. Which is a much more fluent animation. You can also upscale the pixels to be quite small and make things like this.

Anyhow, I wish you luck. (:

Graphics Gale is a VERY VERY good free pixel art animation graphic editor. I used it before Asesprite and it honestly did so many things right I customized my Asesprite experience to be very alike Graphics Gale.

I don't know how good/bad your laptop is but Unity and Visual Studio both run surprisingly well on my computer for the things I do with it. I would suggest giving them a try since I am pretty sure when most people look at something like Unity they are imaging it requires far more power to run than it actually does.

Graphics Gale is phenomenal, at least in my humble opinion.

You can even set up a eraser/transparency color. Instead of using a rubber to delete stuff like with any other tool, here you just paint over with the color you've set up. Makes things super easy to make, at least for me.

You can basically do everything with it easily, from large scale 1000 x 1000 pixel art canvas up do 16x16 or lower. The only thing that requires using a search engine is when you want to make custom tiles, brushsizes and a custom color palettes through files but those aren't usually needed since the base colors are already set up for you and you can change those manually without doing much. You can even change the hue from any color through sliders.

Its also free. [link to site]

Krita is free and has pixel brushes: https://krita.org/en/

GraphicsGale is specifically for pixel art and I’ve enjoyed learning it: https://graphicsgale.com/us/

There’s plenty out there, don’t be afraid to run down the Google rabbit hole.

GraphicsGale went freeware a few years back. I've been using it for sprite art for close to 20 years, and it's a fine piece of software. Never used Aseprite, so can't really compare the two, but I never found myself suffering with any of Gale's features.

As for the non-mechanical parts, there's also some work to do there, but it's not so onerous.

Each CO has the following audiovisual components in AW2:

Graphics:

• 128x160 3/4 Body Sprite (16 colours, colour 0 is transparent, colour 1 is white)
• 48x48 Dialogue faces - Neutral, Happy and Sad
• 32x16 Face for status bars/status screens
• 48x16 Face for status bars/status screens
• 48x16 Name graphic

Text:

• CO Dossier for profile
• Description of CO abilities
• Description of CO Power
• Description of Super CO Power
• CO Power Name
• Super CO Power Name
• Victory quote
• 6x CO Power activation quotes

Music:

• CO Theme

For graphics, they need to be manipulated and chopped up in certain ways for the game to read and use them correctly. I'd suggest learning how to use a spriter-friendly graphics editor, I personally use GraphicsGale for this purpose.

Text is incredibly easy to modify, if you've got a hex editor you can literally just find and replace text that is the same length or shorter. I personally use HxD but there's a billion hex editors out there.

Music editing is a whole world unto itself for romhacking and a fairly specialised skill. I find it to be a gigantic pain in the arse. You can sometimes just transplant songs directly from one game to another, but it's hard work no matter what.

I use Photoshop (pencil tool) along with a pixel art specific program called Aseprite. Sometimes I also do some rough mockup stuff in Illustrator beforehand.

If you're interested in making pixel art I recommend Aseprite (which isn't free but is cheap) and GraphicsGale which is also awesome and totally free: https://graphicsgale.com/us/

Aww, thank you! :D I practice a lot and am still learning. I draw using an old version of Photoshop and a program called Aseprite and also use Illustrator sometimes to rough out shapes and silhouettes.

If you're interested, also check out GraphicsGale which is totally free https://graphicsgale.com/us/

I don't do commissions yet but I might try and set up a kofi or something for some in the future. (⌒_⌒;)

This will be a short list: Graphics Gale.

That's it really. Some shots I have posted have been from the game engine, but in terms of what was used to make the tiles then Graphics Gale is it. People these days seem to swear by Asperite. Personally I have never actually tried it so it may be that it is superior, but I'm not a big fan of the way the interface looks (it looks like a video game interface).

Gale has a simple Windows 95 look. It probably isn't for everyone just because of that, and to be honest it's not super intuitive - I've used it for years and every now and then I realize that the program can do something I've been wishing it could do for years. It may be old but I couldn't use anything else at this point.

Ultimately it doesn't really matter what you make it in, the only important point is how comfortable you are within the program. The more comfortable you are with it the more time and energy goes directly towards the project itself rather than towards fiddling with interfaces. Though for pixel art it is usually pretty important to have good control over your colors, but if you've got that in whatever program you're the most comfortable with, and you don't feel like it's limiting you in any way, then like I said, it doesn't really matter what you use.

I’ve played around with a few different ones and wound up going with GraphicsGale. It works pretty well, there is room for improvement with it, but over all I really liked it and it’s Free.

https://graphicsgale.com/us/

I made them using an 8x8 canvas then merging them together. Still new to making pixel and I really enjoy making minimal pixel art like this.

Made using GraphicsGale (it's free).

Most graphics programs can be used for pixel art if you make sure to turn off antialiasing on your brushes. My personal favorite is GIMP; you'll generally want to use the pencil tool on size 1 to draw. I've also heard good things about GraphicsGale and Paint.net.

I use GraphicsGale (it's free), zoom in and turn on pixel grid. I then use the windows Snipping tool to capture and save that image in a grid as a PNG and print. This way I can make the sprite away from the computer.

I used to use this Bead It app on iOS, which is great as it would even downgrade the palette to match the limits of your bead brand and tell you how many boards you'll need.

GraphicsGale has a free version for download that you can play around with. I really like the onion skin feature, where it will underlay a faded image of the previous or next frame in the animation. Biggest thing you can't do with the free version is save gifs.

There's also a program called PyxelEdit which is part of the current Humble Bundle here for only $1. I've just barely started playing with it, but it seems a little unwieldy and not quite as animation-focused as GraphicsGale. Still, their site has tutorials so I'm slowly going through those to see which one I like better.

A friend does some online role plays and has no image editing skills. I'll likely play around with other game sprites afterward. I'd like to get back to animations and I do have a nice simple program for that (GraphicsGale).

Oh, definitely! You can use pretty much any program for pixel art, GIMP works and so does Photoshop and MS Paint.

Anyway, the program I use is GraphicsGale. It's a bit finicky, but it's pretty good and is free. There's a full version for $20, but I'd only recommend buying the full version if you plan on animating, as you can't save .gifs in the free one. It's Windows only, though.

There's also Aesprite, which you can find on Steam for $15 which looks pretty nice. It's got a cute interface and some cool features. I've been meaning to pick it up to give it a whirl.