The only thing is that, for example, having a frames timeline with onion skin in Aseprite makes it tons better for sprite animation than using just layers in an illustration or photo retouch software, and an anim previewer external tool (or a tiles background checker, for tiles), which is what you'd have probably to do to create animated sprites of some complexity with A. Also, kind of find strange IMO to be using Affinity for this, although yep, is perfectly capable already for some of us more.er. Sorry if you knew all these, is just that in one part, I doubt there's UI room, space to add all what a specialized tile and sprite editor needs in AD or AP, and besides, that I've found many artists not knowing several of these tools, to my very huge surprise. (I'm a pixel pusher, tho, anything with a 1 px tool works for me, be it Photo AD's pixel persona or PS ). ![]() ![]() would rather use all of these, indeed, have them all installed, is helpful to do so, and would probably work mostly with a combination of Aseprite and a map editor. (of course, only a few can run in a Mac). My doubt is what of all these do run in Window 10. Many years ago, Tiled was not yet a thing, I believe. The latter two, I've used them at some companies. Like Tiled (most recently maintained, might have longer life), TileStudio and Mappy. Then there's map editors for actually building tiles based game levels and better exporting tilesets, and if so, the needed code. Piskel is for animated sprites and also tiles, has the dithering paint tool you want (a simplistic one, tho), is VERY good though very simple, is an online, browser based editor, but you can download a native version, and should if plan on working in bigger files, for performance. GraphicsGale has gone fully free since some time ago, and is quite a nice tool to have, too. As a plus, is still requested to get a job at some mobile games studios, so there u have it, you learn a skill that can make u even more employable (if that's to consider). ).Ĭosmigo Pro Motion, tho not my preference by any chance, is the most professional and more featured. But it's freakin' resilient, the darn thing, haha.since the 80s, kicking. Indy scene has gone WAY beyond the tech limits that hardware had in the day, it is being used it now as a form of art by its own right, and as indies have been clever, and discovered pixel art makes production affordable for tiny indy teams vs expensive 3D production (heck, I jumped into 3D to get better jobs, the dinosaurs were on earth yet, and I thought the indy scene would ALSO be taken by 3D, and pixel art would finally disappear, fully vanish for ever, and all that skill, for nothing. Although always depends on your projects technical requirements. And way more advanced than it seems for tiles. And its timeline and skin onion (to see previous and next frames character pose while you draw current, as u have it in gale and Pro Motion), THE tool for me for making animated characters, and other types of sprites. ![]() The flexibility for pure pixel pushing is crazy. For specially animation, but also for tiles. That said, I used Photoshop for all, back in the day, lol. But in any case, I'd recommend to use specialized tools for certain specialized tasks, instead of a general tool, today. People think every CEO is gonna be a pixel art old skool purist. I was never too "rules compliant" in pixel art, anyway (but bosses and the distro loved it, so. I've worked as a pixel artist (making several entire games on my own as we were a small startup, worked at other game studios too, but those were all 3D based), and is surely a bad habit of mine, but I always did my dithering pixel by pixel. However, beyond the features such as the cracks, the texture I'm looking for is actually more similar to the below.At the risk of you knowing every single bit of the following. So far what I've cooked up is pretty cool, I think! Hey guys! I'm messing around and trying to make pixel art environments similar to some of my favorite PS1 games, in this case, I'm using Xenogears as a reference to make a 'stony' texture.
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