Name: Pixel Art for Video Games
Brand: Michigan State University
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.5 (86 reviews)

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About the Course

This course is aimed to give you the tools and knowledge you need to start creating simple art for video games made in the Unity game engine. Through the aesthetic of pixel art we will explore artistic principals like shape language, color theory, and composition as well as show you a step by step workflow for creating assets that you can use to make your own games. The course is broken into 4 main modules, props, environments, characters, and animation. Each of these courses will have a series of video lessons alternating between artistic and technical skills culminating in a peer-reviewed project based assignment. The last module will challenge you to take the knowledge learned in the previous 4 and use it to create your own pixel art asset pack. This course is aimed at art novices who are interested in creating art for their own games or contributing to game projects. If you are a game designer or programmer, you will find this course helps give you a glimpse into the world of game art. You will be able to better work with artists, or create your own prototype or final artwork. If you are an artist or visual designer who is interested in bringing your style to the world of video game development, this course will give you the workflow to properly interface with a game engine and help contextualize how your artistic sensibilities can enable gameplay. If you have ever wanted to start making art for video games but have no idea how to start, this course is the perfect for giving you a solid foundation while teaching you usable practical skills. Our goal is to give you a sense of the whole pipeline from creation to setting up in a game engine....

Top reviews

Nov 6, 2020

I really loved this course, I learned how to create pixel art (assets = characters, tiles and backgrounds), how to sketch a character before working on it and create animation.

Oct 16, 2020

If you're a beginner trying out pixel art for games for the first time, this would be a great place to start. It will help you get started and would help you in the long run.

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By Ratheesh K

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Jan 31, 2024

such a wonderful course! i learned a lot about pixel art and pixel art animation!

By J-Man

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Apr 21, 2020

A solid course for learning pixel art with a heavy basis on use within Unity.

By JHONATAN D M B

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Jul 4, 2020

this course is perfect for the beginning of the desigment of a video game

By Arunabha T

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Mar 30, 2020

great and fun course to do

By Janet M

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Aug 4, 2020

Very challenging for a Beginner's class at times. Peer grading isn't the best and there could be more input from the Instructors. The arts foundation classes were very well taught and had great content, however the Unity part could use more content with clearer instructions.I learned many new skills in this class and I am inspired to continue creating pixel art

By Iman A

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Aug 13, 2020

The training was very good and useful, but it was very fast and superficial to go through the tips and tools and needed more guidance.

By Will Y

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Aug 30, 2022

This course is okay, the main thing it does is give you an opportunity to practise but it is not clear now much value it adds.

By Deleted A

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Jul 14, 2025

Requires to have Unity for pixel art, yet fails to mention it anywhere before actually accessing the course. Installing 7+GB game engine just to import art into is unreasonable, and Unity itself has seen a lot of controversy in recent years. Can't tell much about couse itself though, since I didn't get past (extremely basic and somewhat outdated) Module 1.