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Hey everyone, I’m here today with a new asset pack: Super Pixel Skill Icons Pack 2!
Like its predecessor, this pack includes 30 pixel art skill icon types with a resolution of 32×32.
Each icon type comes in three versions to represent leveled-up skills. That’s 90 icons in all!
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Hey everyone, I’m here today with a new asset pack: Super Pixel Projectiles Pack 2!
But first I want to thank you for your patience- Due to hurting my back in mid-January I lost some work time and couldn’t get this pack out by my original deadline. I think I was able to make the best of it though, by giving the asset pack all the time it needed to make one of my highest-quality works yet!
Let’s see some GIFs!
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Hey everyone, first asset pack of the year! Lots more on the way, too.
Say hello to Super Pixel Skill Icons Pack 1! This asset pack includes 30 pixel art skill icon types with a resolution of 32×32.
Each icon type comes in three versions to represent leveled up skills. That’s 90 icons in all!
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Hey everyone, thanks for waiting- The new asset pack is finally here! I have a couple more updates too, but asset pack details first.
Say hello to Super Pixel Effects Pack 2, an asset pack with TEN different flashy and smooth-as-butter animated pixel art effect types! Each one comes in two sizes, and has multiple color themes. They add up to 180 animations in all!
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WIP WednesdayWIP WednesdayWIP WednesdayNovember 23, 2022November 23, 2022November 23, 2022
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Hey everyone, I’m here for a Work-In-Progress Wednesday to show off what I’ve been working on!
…But first, a slight change of plans. I originally had the next asset pack scheduled for this Friday (Nov. 25). This is going to sound silly, but back in October when I made my schedule for November I completely forgot about Thanksgiving. I did work ahead on this pack but not quite enough to be able to get it out by Friday with a mid-week holiday, so I’m rescheduling it for a week from today. The next asset pack will arrive on November 30.
With that out of the way… Let’s take a look at the next asset pack!
This bubble above is unique and has more than one animation. It has an appear animation, a loop animation, and a pop animation. This kind of blurs the line between projectile and effect, so it could be used for either! (I haven’t decided yet if some of the other effects in this pack will follow a similar pattern, it depends on how they look.)
The bubble is also unique in that it has semitransparent pixels. If there’s time I might also export it without, because I know some folks might find it useful.
I just finished this explosion yesterday! It’s actually one of my favorite animations that I’ve ever done, and definitely my most “realistic” explosion yet. It’s still quite stylized, but the elements are all there, from the way the flames give way to smoke clouds to the streamers of fire that erupt and jet out. I used some reference videos of real-life explosions so I could slow it down and really understand how they work. I also repurposed the dust animation from Effects Pack 1 for the bottom of the explosion, because it was just what I needed!
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WIP WednesdayWIP WednesdayWIP WednesdayNovember 16, 2022November 16, 2022November 16, 2022
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Hey everyone, I’m here for a Work-In-Progress Wednesday to show off what I’ve been working on!
Today I’d like to continue sharing a little bit from behind the scenes about my workflow. You’ve all seen how I draw pixel art thanks to the time lapse videos, but what about the other things that make it all possible?
Last time we looked at the Sprite Demo Maker, which makes pretty pixel art GIFs. But what happens before that? Drawing the pixel art, of course! And… what happens before that? Planning!
Planning is a huge part of what I do. I have tons of ideas for new asset packs that I want to draw, plus there’s a lot of video footage of pixel art drawing that I want to edit and release as YouTube videos. I used to just jot things down in Notepad, but everything would always get disorganized and some things would just fall off my to-do list as the documents got older.
Enter: Schedule Generator!
The above image is my schedule for November 2022 (at the time of this writing… Otherwise it shows my current schedule!). This Fall is the first time I’ve had a public schedule, and honestly I think it’s a huge improvement. It helps me maintain my pace, and it’s clear to both fans and Patrons about what’s coming up. What you might not suspect is that behind this happy, colorful image is a workflow powered by a LOT of data.
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