​Neko’s back to doing her tutorials and today she’s showing her technique for creating dynamic pixel animation as seen in Doggo’s Special Attack. 

These techniques actually work for any kind of hand-drawn animation: traditional animation, pixel animation, anime, you name it! Although Neko’s using Clip Studio Paint Ex for this tutorial, the process will work with almost any 2d animation software, or no software at all! Most of this will work just as well with pencil and paper (you might miss having an undo button though). ^_^ Whether you’re an animator looking to learn a new trick or two, or you’re just curious about what went into making the Retro RPG Sequence for episode 1, you may wanna check out Neko’s video.

​We've been keeping plenty busy around here! Josh and Tommy have been cranking out animation for episode 1, Chelsea's been tearing through the backgrounds about as fast as we can give them to her and Taylor's working on the second PlotQuest webcomic. Meanwhile, Neko has been hard at work creating the surprisingly time-consuming Retro RPG sequence. If you'd like to see how that's going she's produced two videos on the subject: This one shows her illustration process in creating the background for the battle screen: https://youtu.be/dhjw2z6TQ-c  And this one is the first in her tutorial series on animating pixel art: https://youtu.be/CKYR_EWRyGM
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Hope you enjoy and stay tuned for more inside info as our quest for animation glory continues!

Neko’s back with another in her pixel art tutorial series. This time she teaches some techniques for drawing pixel art as she works on a retro RPG-style overworld map for episode 1 of PlotQuest. Although she uses Photoshop to create this particular map the techniques will work in any software you may be using. Neko’s looking to start teaching some other styles of animation and illustration as well. If there’s a particular style or technique you’ve really been wanting to learn please leave a comment and let her know.

As you may have noticed, we’ve gone to updating ever-other week. We’re at a point in production where we really need to just focus on cranking out animation, plus we don’t want to give too much away before the series is even out. ; ) The plan is to update every-other week until Episode 1 comes out, then we’ll go back to weekly updates.​

Neko shows you where the key settings and tools are for creating pixel art in Photoshop (1:03), Clip Studio Paint (6:28), and Gimp (9:13). If you've been wanting to try out a new art program but aren't sure where to start this may be for you!

Topics covered:
1. How to resize an image.
2. How to find the layers panel.
3. Getting the Pencil tool to just create a 1 pixel line without anti-aliasing the heck out of it.
4. How to do the same thing with the eraser (which you'd think would be the same process but it never is).

Hope you enjoy and if you have any questions just leave a comment!

As part of her work on episode 1 Neko's been creating a retro RPG-style sequence. She's been recording her process and will be turning that into a series of tutorials on creating and animating pixel art. 

This first video goes over some tricks for creating a very quick pixel art look in Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint. Hope you enjoy!