charliebink:

I’ve been getting a fair share of people asking me how I achieve the style of my samurai characters. I’ve finally gotten around to making a little tutorial for all you folks. Hope you enjoy it!

whaatnext:

• everything you need to know about pixel art and how to start (best one so far)
• pixel art, what is it? 
• an introduction to pixel art by richard janes
• 2D will never die’s tutorials page
• ultrashock’s pixel art tutorials: part i | part ii | part iii | part iv
• wikihow’s become a pixel artist
• great list of 30 tutorials
• create a 3D characters from pixel art

the big list of pixel art tutorials by pixelprospector

pixel art tutorials

• HUGE Collection of Pixel Art Tutorials (pixeljoint)
• Pixel Art Tutorials (Derek Yu)
• Pixel Art Tutorial (Natomic / Mark)
• Big Collection of Pixel Art Tutorials (Gas 13)
• Pixel Art (drbubu)
• Pixel Tutorial (Final Boss Blues)
• Pixel Art Tutorials (deviantART)
• More Pixel Art Tutorials (TIGSource Forums)
• Even More Pixel Art Tutorials (Pixel-Zone / Some dead links…)
• Learning Pixel Art (Black Golem)
• A Beginner’s Guide To Spriting (TIGSource Forums)
• 2D Tile Art Basics (Flash Game Dojo)

pixel art inspiration

• HUGE collection of Pixel Art, Mockups and more from TIGSource forums!!
• Tzigla (a place for collaborative pixelated drawings in 100×100 pixel squares)
• Pixel Art Guild (site that features Pixel Art)
• Pixel Art Mega Thread (Something Awful Forums)
• Pixel Art Rebirth In Digital Animations (Game Comments)
• Hall of Fame for Games Featuring Outstanding Pixel Art (TIGSource Forums)

pixel art forums

• Pixel Joint
• Pixelation – Way Of The Pixel
• Show Us Some Of Your Pixel Work (TIGSource Forums)

freelance guide

• Pixel Art Freelance Guide (Adam “Atomic” Saltsman)

graphic style analysis

• Graphic Style Analysis – Part I (Black Golem)
• Graphic Style Analysis – Part II (Black Golem)
• Graphic Style Analysis – Part III (Black Golem)

tutorials about glowy graphics

• We Love Glow (Rob Fearon)
• The Radiangames Style (Luke Schneider)

(Source: whaatnext)

helpyoudraw:

Color theory masterpost! click on the pics for HQ 

How I draw facial features: a tutorial.

(Source: onone-chan)

heffydoodle:

mbt1991:

mrcontro:

qinni:

The whole film took me altogether about 5 grueling months (usually 10-12hours a day) to do. I often felt my butt was going to grow into the chair I usually sat at. 

Please note that this was simply my way of doing my film to achieve the soft-shaded style I wanted; there are many other ways of doing this and some are a lot faster with different results~! :)

• My film on DeviantArt | My film on Vimeo
• My film gifs on Tumblr
• You can see my storyboard animatic here (although the original had music, but like I mentioned, my placeholder music was by Joe Hisaishi, you know, Miyazaki’s composer, so it’s not really legal to upload it). 

This tut differs a bit from my dA version, because tumblr lets me put the combination of gifs and jpegs :D. 

Here’s a book that will really help you start animating:

• The Animator’s Survival Kit 

here’s some books that are good for composition, storytelling and colours:

• Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation
• The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation
• Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts

I hope these helped

I ask that no one removes the credit or source for this tutorial/guide please. thanks :)

And this is a keeper!  No doubt about that!  :)

I’m just gonna put this one on standby

for when I start my senior film!

dommifox:

A couple people asked me how I vary my leaves and trees and honestly, it’s super easy! I’ve never made a tutorial/guide before so I kept this mega simple but I hope someone out there might find it useful at least!

Also, anyone can download the brushes I use for all my art on my tumblr page (: I only use around 5 so go nuts haha

ooorangy:

Just for u, anon. Just for u.