English is not my first language, Made a few spelling and pronunciations mistakes, my fingers are a bit fast on the keyboard, and I hope you understand everything. EDIT: why I don't flip the slopes, is because I would have to redraw the whole grass bit and it woundt look nice when tiling because the pattern would be mirrored, if you are not picky you can do that, but it will leave a obvious mirror pattern, and I don't like those. You can had used a transform tool if you are in a different software like Photoshop, that would have made it take less time, there are always different ways and workflows, this is mine. :)
Holy cow, this tutorial changed my whole outlook on how realistic it would be for me to make my own game assets, I cannot thank you enough for making such an approachable tutorial. I went from thinking I could never make a tileset to being able to make enough tilesets for an entire level in one video. Thank you for this.
thats the trick with pixel art. make changes for its use case, not zoomed in super far. i try to get the preview to be the actual size it will be in game. also make sure you mix th epieces like you would in a game. for when your making more complicated tiles its super useful. like cobblestone for example
Just yesterday I was so lost to making my tileset, because of my self-taught method on Photoshop, so I bought Asprite and planing to watch all of your tutorials about it, when I just finished to watch, here's come this new video, good timing for me! Thank you very much for all of your tutorials, you are a good teacher, good quality of video making, it really help me
Dude... I think I love you I wanna make a game with my friend, he knows how to epogram, I know how to draw, but digital art is something new to me, but MAN did you just make things easier, thank you a lot
Also, I wanna know your opinion, how do you know how big stuff is supposed to be? Like, I don't understand how much will be seen on screen when you finish, so I don't really know how much to put, like, you have games like kingdom enter the gungeon and shovel knight, and I don't really know how many pixels are there on screen at the time
I was gonna complain about pixel art videos constantly being in my recommendations, but this video was pretty good. I don't do pixel art myself, but I'm sure this video would be super useful if I did!
Doing a NES ROM Hack, my first project and i really want to challenge myself with a huge scope, but this means lots of work and time investment. You're showing me ways to improve and speed up things. Thanks a lot!
Software development tips for you guys: If you make your tileset symmetrical you don't even need to add the tiles for say both right and left. You can rotate them in code instead. Just keep one copy and you have more tilespace to work with. :)
This is absolutely incredible. Everyone talks about how difficult and time consuming it is to make your own tilesets but after following along with this I made the perfect tileset for my game and only had to buy Aesprite (which was totally worth it). THANK YOU!
If you wanna see better, go to: View > Grid > Grid Settings. For width and height put 8 It segments the tiles out into finer chunks for easier selecting. Double click in any of the tiles to quickly select anything within that tile... Also, to toggle grid view: Ctrl + ' One more thing... Ctrl + A to select all in the 16 x 16 project. You can easily see your bounds when drawing.
This is the first Tileset tutorial I have come across that actually answers all my questions. Thank you so much! Cant wait to build my first game with my own tileset! subbed
Just stumbled across this. This is the best workflow I've found so far. It starts at the beginning unlike others. Unbelievable. At the beginning! If you combine it with the current version of Aseprite it becomes a hit. Thank you!
Hey, been watching your videos a lot lately and started my own game!! I just finished my own Tileset using this tutorial and it went by so fast and the finished product is something I'm proud of!!!
I always thought I would never be able to create my own game because I just can't draw my characters or animated them I can make the music for the game Program it but the models? oof. but this is giveing me some hope that i will be able to do something good who knows? maybe one day I will manage to start a project!
As somebody who's struggled in the industry for a long time, just do it. Get out there, as early as you can, maybe even right now today, and just make something. Start making a tileset, start getting shit done. Even if it's bad, you'll be learning how to use the tools effectively so when you actually have an idea for a good project, you'll know the skills required to actually get it off the ground. I cannot stress this enough, avoid procrastination as much as possible. Don't say you will do something, go and actually do something.
ayy man i'm living that right now, a few weeks ago i just thought to myself "you know what, i'm gonna make a game and not give up on it this time" and, although it can feel hopeless sometimes, keeping a good mindset is what matters, so go for it! i personally am pretty happy with the results right now, but even if it doesn't turn out exactly how you wanted it to, at least you got the experience to make something better afterwards
@@TempestKrimps Exactly. I'd rather produce endless shit for the rest of my life with a chance to apply it to something amazing, cause then I at least feel like I'm being productive. Much better than doing nothing and binging CZcams all week.
You are doing great at teaching your craft and art. I've doubled my knowledge on pixel art every day just from watching your videos! I look forward to the rest of your sessions. Thank you, Mort.
Thank you. Its my first time making a tileset. It turned out to be fairly easy, I just had to wrap my head around the fact that most of this used that one middle block and the patterns can repeat. That repeating pattern is quite charming to see in old videogames, now I see why they did it this way.
fun fact! for the slopes or mirror images you can just copy, then SHIFT-H or SHIFT-V to flip Horizontal and Vertical so you dont have to do the same again! Loved the video!
Another thing I really like about Aseprite when I make tilesets, is double-clicking on a part of a grid (to select it), then move it on the grid with shift+arrow keys. It makes it easy to just move stuff around :p Also Mort transforms into Bob Ross for a bit at 3:30
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I learned so much. When it comes to long slopes: you can make one, copy and paste, select the second one: go to Edit/ Flip Horizontally.. Laziness...
Used this and turned a very frustrating process before into a rewarding one with actual results! Created my first tileset with this video! Definite sub now!
Didn't know how powerful Aseprite is, really fancy features shown on this video. Also, it really shows that you need to know your software well to make things like this.
You make it look so easy but when I made the tilesets for my game about a year ago I had sooo much trouble with it 😭 And it still doesnt even look as good as yours lmao I'm gonna have to work on it again now that I have your tutorial to help me 👊 thank you mort!
Very nice. A few little things though, you forgot the ceiling slopes and you technically don't need the center tiles below the top shallow slope tiles, so you can either delete those or make them variants of the center tile in order to break things up a bit with larger expanses of filler areas in your level designs. A lot of tile map editors can let you automatically specify alternative tiles and the frequency with which to add them in randomly in place of the default.
Keep losing focus doing this on my own creating multiple tile sets, so just keep coming back to this video to walk me through it, finding I'm a lot more productive and less distracted by kitten memes etc. when watching this, so thanks a lot for the great tutorial 👍
It's nice to see more uploads from you, also you are the god of beautiful vibrant colors that aren't too vibrant and shading that contrasts just the right amount so the colors pop but not too much IT'S JUST SO PERFECT
I followed through and created a lab/electric cirquit tileset for my first game!! Awesome! (No slopes for now though, I don't know how to handle movement on slopes anyway, lol.) Thanks for the neat video, it was a LOT of help!!! :)
This video really gives me hope, i am programmer and i want to create my own games, but i know i can't make good games if i don't know how to draw. I am good at making sfx and music, but not in art. Thanks man, this video is so helpfull
So for steep slopes you can actually do a trick that's a little faster. You can use your existing regular slopes, deselect the first column of pixels and shift down. However, now you can skip by two like you did for the original slope, and the math checks out. If you've already polished your first slope before doing this, then you'll barely have to polish your new steep slope.
BRUH. Why you so amazing? Your style of "just do" works so well and those slopes... Oh boy, dem slopes. They're so smooth... If I could hire you to teach me, I 100% would
Tilesets are one of my favorite things to create. Thanks for showing so much more than the creative process but the practical game aspect from 11:08 on.
I was thinking the grass texture looked pretty bad then looked at the thumbnail at that point of the video. Good example on why you need to zoom out frequently
14:12 You know, there is a slightly easier way to handle the sloped sections. I kept running into trouble because my pixel dimensions are a bit bigger than ones shown in the video. But there is a fix. 1, Create a new layer (The new layer automatically lays itself above the first) 2, While in the new layer, use the line tool and draw a line connecting the platforms at the higher elevation to the ones at the bottom elevation 3, Select the bottom layer again. From there, select the pixel platform sections you want to drag and drop. Select everything above the line and drop it below the line. So long as the bottom layer is the ONLY one selected, you can move the platforms without moving the line. 4, Once that's done, delete the line in the above layer and presto! you're done.
I reeeeeealy miss the time when mort used to make these pixel art videos on youtube. I don't know if he does stream pixel art related content on twitch and doesn't have time to cut the streams to put on youtube or if he just became uninterested in pixel art. But I would surely watch any pixel art content he did put on youtube, even if it where just speed paints or something like that.
Wow, just a fantastic video. Learned so much about making tilesets, and the Aseprite tricks were equally helpful. Thanks for this, MortMort. Looking forward to watching more of your tutorials.
Thanks man really helped me on my pixel art skills and definitely saved me days of working because Im not too good at this pixel art stuff instantly subbed
Hey Mort, no one teaches creating art in a lighter and similar playful way like you. Have you ever thought about creating content (e.g. full Tile Sets) for Patreons on a regular base? I have the feeling, it generates more support for the guys who do so. And I want more Zen-like Cat/ Cow/ Dog-Shirts to further impress my Yoga-Teacher :-D
This video is amazing, and youre entire channel is really awesome! Thank you for creating suck a good content. PS : there is a video of vinesauce in the playlist "Pixel Art Tutorials"
I really like your job, the way of you show things simply is really interesting. It's funny because I have a Pixel Art Playlist but basically, 80% of it came from your channel so it's a bit counter productive but anyway, very cool work again :)
"random colors" : makes a masterpiece
beat me to it lol
@@uhitsethan random colors AND random clicking... makes eye candy.
oh come on it's a passable tileset
@@safir2241 As a person who makes pixel art for a living, I have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
@@junkeyz i'm saying that it's okay but definitely not a masterpiece, mr pixel art pro
So i learned way more here than 2 paid online courses about pixel art...
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The quality of this video and the final results are just overwhelming me. I can't handle it... Thanks!
means a lot cheers mate!
MortMort What program did you use for this? (I'm a noob) xD
It's Aseprite :)
Thanks!
@@designplus5622 you're welcome
English is not my first language, Made a few spelling and pronunciations mistakes, my fingers are a bit fast on the keyboard, and I hope you understand everything.
EDIT:
why I don't flip the slopes, is because I would have to redraw the whole grass bit and it woundt look nice when tiling because the pattern would be mirrored, if you are not picky you can do that, but it will leave a obvious mirror pattern, and I don't like those.
You can had used a transform tool if you are in a different software like Photoshop, that would have made it take less time, there are always different ways and workflows, this is mine. :)
Hey, even people who only know English make mistakes
Nathaniel Grizzle, Yeah, that's right
I wouldn't even imagine that English is not your first language.
Great Tutoral, Thank you!
MortMort you know MortMort in French means DeadDead
Holy cow, this tutorial changed my whole outlook on how realistic it would be for me to make my own game assets, I cannot thank you enough for making such an approachable tutorial. I went from thinking I could never make a tileset to being able to make enough tilesets for an entire level in one video. Thank you for this.
honestly i didnt think that grass looked good but then you turned on the 1x view in the top right and i was blown away
thats the trick with pixel art. make changes for its use case, not zoomed in super far. i try to get the preview to be the actual size it will be in game. also make sure you mix th epieces like you would in a game. for when your making more complicated tiles its super useful. like cobblestone for example
Just yesterday I was so lost to making my tileset, because of my self-taught method on Photoshop, so I bought Asprite and planing to watch all of your tutorials about it, when I just finished to watch, here's come this new video, good timing for me! Thank you very much for all of your tutorials, you are a good teacher, good quality of video making, it really help me
Dude... I think I love you
I wanna make a game with my friend, he knows how to epogram, I know how to draw, but digital art is something new to me, but MAN did you just make things easier, thank you a lot
Oh I've been noticed by senpai~
Also, I wanna know your opinion, how do you know how big stuff is supposed to be? Like, I don't understand how much will be seen on screen when you finish, so I don't really know how much to put, like, you have games like kingdom enter the gungeon and shovel knight, and I don't really know how many pixels are there on screen at the time
@@mk-ul5tv I'm pretty positive he has a tutorial on that topic in one of his playlists.
Say no homo
@@neonkkn3881 damn you're right, I forgot, now I'm the big gay
I was gonna complain about pixel art videos constantly being in my recommendations, but this video was pretty good. I don't do pixel art myself, but I'm sure this video would be super useful if I did!
Doing a NES ROM Hack, my first project and i really want to challenge myself with a huge scope, but this means lots of work and time investment. You're showing me ways to improve and speed up things. Thanks a lot!
what game are you making the Rom off of?
Software development tips for you guys:
If you make your tileset symmetrical you don't even need to add the tiles for say both right and left. You can rotate them in code instead. Just keep one copy and you have more tilespace to work with. :)
This is one of the first videos I've watched when I got into pixel art around 3-ish years ago, now I find out you work at Mojang, godspeed my guy.
This is absolutely incredible. Everyone talks about how difficult and time consuming it is to make your own tilesets but after following along with this I made the perfect tileset for my game and only had to buy Aesprite (which was totally worth it).
THANK YOU!
If you wanna see better, go to: View > Grid > Grid Settings. For width and height put 8
It segments the tiles out into finer chunks for easier selecting. Double click in any of the tiles to quickly select anything within that tile... Also, to toggle grid view: Ctrl + '
One more thing... Ctrl + A to select all in the 16 x 16 project. You can easily see your bounds when drawing.
This is easily one of the best tutorials I have ever seen on pixel art!
can't believe within 20 minutes I had a pretty decent basic tile set to work with. Such a fantastic tutorial; very glad to have found your channel
This is the first Tileset tutorial I have come across that actually answers all my questions. Thank you so much! Cant wait to build my first game with my own tileset!
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Just stumbled across this. This is the best workflow I've found so far. It starts at the beginning unlike others. Unbelievable. At the beginning! If you combine it with the current version of Aseprite it becomes a hit. Thank you!
Hey, been watching your videos a lot lately and started my own game!! I just finished my own Tileset using this tutorial and it went by so fast and the finished product is something I'm proud of!!!
I just bought Aseprite and I'm so excited to start using it :D
Hope you'll enjoy it and have a lot of fun with it!
dude your pixel art tutorials are really helpful, im glad i found this channel tbh
Whoo! I love your pixel art videos, please continue making these!!
I always thought I would never be able to create my own game because I just can't draw my characters or animated them
I can make the music for the game
Program it
but the models?
oof.
but this is giveing me some hope that i will be able to do something good who knows?
maybe one day I will manage to start a project!
As somebody who's struggled in the industry for a long time, just do it. Get out there, as early as you can, maybe even right now today, and just make something. Start making a tileset, start getting shit done. Even if it's bad, you'll be learning how to use the tools effectively so when you actually have an idea for a good project, you'll know the skills required to actually get it off the ground.
I cannot stress this enough, avoid procrastination as much as possible. Don't say you will do something, go and actually do something.
ayy man i'm living that right now, a few weeks ago i just thought to myself "you know what, i'm gonna make a game and not give up on it this time" and, although it can feel hopeless sometimes, keeping a good mindset is what matters, so go for it!
i personally am pretty happy with the results right now, but even if it doesn't turn out exactly how you wanted it to, at least you got the experience to make something better afterwards
@@TempestKrimps Exactly. I'd rather produce endless shit for the rest of my life with a chance to apply it to something amazing, cause then I at least feel like I'm being productive. Much better than doing nothing and binging CZcams all week.
Undertale has terrible sprites and it's pretty successful. Just like make game bro.
@@popespalace823 aight, thanks I needed that
easily the best channel about pixelart on youtube
You are doing great at teaching your craft and art. I've doubled my knowledge on pixel art every day just from watching your videos!
I look forward to the rest of your sessions.
Thank you, Mort.
Thank you. Its my first time making a tileset. It turned out to be fairly easy, I just had to wrap my head around the fact that most of this used that one middle block and the patterns can repeat. That repeating pattern is quite charming to see in old videogames, now I see why they did it this way.
i do tilesets but for animations, and this video helps a lot
Idk which is more beautiful, the tile set or him
Kappa
Homosexual
@@popespalace823 *Saying a man is beautiful doesn't make someone gay, you degenerate. What are you, 8?*
@@Rickinho3
It's gay.
Pope's Palace it’s not.. and how are you sure if the person you are calling gay is a guy
fun fact! for the slopes or mirror images you can just copy, then SHIFT-H or SHIFT-V to flip Horizontal and Vertical so you dont have to do the same again! Loved the video!
Another thing I really like about Aseprite when I make tilesets, is double-clicking on a part of a grid (to select it), then move it on the grid with shift+arrow keys. It makes it easy to just move stuff around :p
Also Mort transforms into Bob Ross for a bit at 3:30
This video came exactly to the right time. I just wanted to start making a tile set when you released your video. Thanks :-)
i Think I just learned more in this one video than I have in about 300 other videos ive watched combined. Good show..
MortMort is the Bob Ross of pixel art
Damn, this is actually awesome. Props!
Not many of these tutorials tend to actually help.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I learned so much.
When it comes to long slopes: you can make one, copy and paste, select the second one: go to Edit/ Flip Horizontally..
Laziness...
this is the best tutorial i ever seen and im not even kidding
I'm so glad im finding the right people on pixel art! i love ur channel
Great video! If you want to save some work, you can do shift+h after selecting a slope to horizontally flip it.
Used this and turned a very frustrating process before into a rewarding one with actual results! Created my first tileset with this video! Definite sub now!
Didn't know how powerful Aseprite is, really fancy features shown on this video. Also, it really shows that you need to know your software well to make things like this.
I love you! Thank you so much for all the tutorials, they're so helpful and you're a great teacher!
this video is so good man I swear I've watched it a hundred times
MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCHH!! never thought my tile sets would look that epic lol
You also at 1:28 clicked view -> symmetry options and that made the trick of drawing things easier.
Anyway great tutorial. Thank You.
You make it look so easy but when I made the tilesets for my game about a year ago I had sooo much trouble with it 😭 And it still doesnt even look as good as yours lmao I'm gonna have to work on it again now that I have your tutorial to help me 👊 thank you mort!
I'm using this a as a guide to make tilesets for my first tileset for a real game.so thanks a bunch Mort.
The slopes are cool unsure why you didn't just duplicate and flip though lol thank you so much for the awesome video!
Very nice. A few little things though, you forgot the ceiling slopes and you technically don't need the center tiles below the top shallow slope tiles, so you can either delete those or make them variants of the center tile in order to break things up a bit with larger expanses of filler areas in your level designs. A lot of tile map editors can let you automatically specify alternative tiles and the frequency with which to add them in randomly in place of the default.
Bob Ross of pixel art!
Happy little sprite trees. :P
Am an aspiring tileset artist. I knew most of this stuff already, but your guide on making slopes is really helpful. Thank you!
This is still so valid until this day! The magic wand to make your tile into a brush was GAME CHANGING damn
Keep losing focus doing this on my own creating multiple tile sets, so just keep coming back to this video to walk me through it, finding I'm a lot more productive and less distracted by kitten memes etc. when watching this, so thanks a lot for the great tutorial 👍
It's nice to see more uploads from you, also you are the god of beautiful vibrant colors that aren't too vibrant and shading that contrasts just the right amount so the colors pop but not too much IT'S JUST SO PERFECT
🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷
@@SALEH3994 I made this comment 4 years ago. I hope your day is going well
I followed through and created a lab/electric cirquit tileset for my first game!! Awesome! (No slopes for now though, I don't know how to handle movement on slopes anyway, lol.) Thanks for the neat video, it was a LOT of help!!! :)
Now i understand how fun it is doing tilesets!
Still, after 4 years, It is a very helpful video. Thank You
Wow, I've gotta get me some of that Aseprite. I've been trying to fat finger through a tileset with my iPad and a free pixel editor.
You're definitly so strong at explaining thing. Thank's bro you're awesome !
That brush moment was INSANE
This video really gives me hope, i am programmer and i want to create my own games, but i know i can't make good games if i don't know how to draw. I am good at making sfx and music, but not in art. Thanks man, this video is so helpfull
So for steep slopes you can actually do a trick that's a little faster. You can use your existing regular slopes, deselect the first column of pixels and shift down. However, now you can skip by two like you did for the original slope, and the math checks out. If you've already polished your first slope before doing this, then you'll barely have to polish your new steep slope.
5 years later and not outdated! :D
BRUH. Why you so amazing? Your style of "just do" works so well and those slopes... Oh boy, dem slopes. They're so smooth... If I could hire you to teach me, I 100% would
I cant believe what i saw...
ITS AMAZING !!!!
Tilesets are one of my favorite things to create. Thanks for showing so much more than the creative process but the practical game aspect from 11:08 on.
Thanks for your video. It help me a lot. It taught me about what platform tileset is and how to build a tileset.Good job and keep up!
we now know how to make platformer tileset! :D
and the favourite bed roll of that white little thing down there...
I was thinking the grass texture looked pretty bad then looked at the thumbnail at that point of the video. Good example on why you need to zoom out frequently
Thanks a lot I feel like my tile improved a lot with just a few changes
this video is saving my life in 2020... thanks dude!
14:12 You know, there is a slightly easier way to handle the sloped sections. I kept running into trouble because my pixel dimensions are a bit bigger than ones shown in the video. But there is a fix.
1, Create a new layer (The new layer automatically lays itself above the first)
2, While in the new layer, use the line tool and draw a line connecting the platforms at the higher elevation to the ones at the bottom elevation
3, Select the bottom layer again. From there, select the pixel platform sections you want to drag and drop. Select everything above the line and drop it below the line. So long as the bottom layer is the ONLY one selected, you can move the platforms without moving the line.
4, Once that's done, delete the line in the above layer and presto! you're done.
Man, how you come up with such a cool workflow?! It's fantastic!
One my way to making a 2D video Game. Thanks for the support!
Thank you for making an easy-to-understand tutorial on this subject! Much appreciated!
I really want to thank you, im working on a 16 bit game and this tutorial REALLY helped, 😀
I reeeeeealy miss the time when mort used to make these pixel art videos on youtube. I don't know if he does stream pixel art related content on twitch and doesn't have time to cut the streams to put on youtube or if he just became uninterested in pixel art. But I would surely watch any pixel art content he did put on youtube, even if it where just speed paints or something like that.
Wow, just a fantastic video. Learned so much about making tilesets, and the Aseprite tricks were equally helpful. Thanks for this, MortMort. Looking forward to watching more of your tutorials.
This is the best tileset tutorial I have seen on CZcams. Thank you very much!
Singlehandedly made me wanna get Aseprite. Great stuff man, those tools look sooooo helpful.
Thanks man really helped me on my pixel art skills and definitely saved me days of working because Im not too good at this pixel art stuff instantly subbed
I had a LOT of fun following along with this and learning what you had to share, thank you so, so much~
I am forever grateful for this video. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
niceee man i love the way you made the videos! so clean and the characters who appears on the corners talking to me like an rpg videogame! i love it!
If only there was a app with this much detail
Hey Mort, no one teaches creating art in a lighter and similar playful way like you.
Have you ever thought about creating content (e.g. full Tile Sets) for Patreons on a regular base?
I have the feeling, it generates more support for the guys who do so.
And I want more Zen-like Cat/ Cow/ Dog-Shirts to further impress my Yoga-Teacher :-D
extremely useful for a novice like me, very detailed explanations with charming outcome, yet easy to follow, thanks.
This is legit fucking incredible holy shit.
Dude, that was yhe best video I ever seen about tileset. Congratulations, keep the nice work.
Wow, this is some concentrated knowledge
This video is amazing, and youre entire channel is really awesome! Thank you for creating suck a good content.
PS : there is a video of vinesauce in the playlist "Pixel Art Tutorials"
10/10 tutorial. Thank you for your service.
This video is so useful! Double click, tiled mode, tricks how to optimize your workflow. Thanks! 💛
amazing tutorial best tiles ever seen
I just bought this app because of this video - awesome tutorial!
I know this video is a little older, but thanks so much, this is super helpful :)
I really like your job, the way of you show things simply is really interesting. It's funny because I have a Pixel Art Playlist but basically, 80% of it came from your channel so it's a bit counter productive but anyway, very cool work again :)
Alright, now this guy is like the Bob Ross of pixel art.
Thank you, this helped me so much and I'm happy with my results even though this is my first time making a tile set!
I just wanted to say thank you because I learned so much with this video and following along.
This is just too good. TOO GOOD.