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. You will be able to better work with artists, or create your own prototype or final artwork. If you are a game designer or programmer, you will find this course helps give you a glimpse into the world of game art. This course is aimed at art novices who are interested in creating art for their own games or contributing to game projects. 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. 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 course is broken into 4 main modules, props, environments, characters, and animation. 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. 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.

Digital art blender