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Learn Game Animation With These Pixel Art GIFs

Game maker (and co-founder of game studio MiniBoss ) Pedro Medeiros knows pixel art, and he wants to teach you. Every Tuesday since September, he’s posted an animated GIF demonstrating an aspect of animation.

Some focus on pixel art, like cleaning up corners or simulating movement smaller than one pixel . Others explain more general artistic techniques like drawing ruins or animating fire . And others address aspects of game design, like level design and character design . Cryptography Ppt

Learn Game Animation With These Pixel Art GIFs

Each tip is so specific, yet so elegant and compact, that it’s fun to read whether or not you plan to try it yourself. It’s like flipping through a cookbook of animation. Medeiros’s GIFs belong in the animation tutorial canon with Khan Academy’s Pixar in a Box series or Disney’s 12 Principles of Animation .

Learn Game Animation With These Pixel Art GIFs

Ui Graphic Design Check out all the GIFs for free on Medeiros’s Patreon feed .