Wow. 50k views you guys are CRAZY! If you’re just now seeing this video and are interested in farming, simulation, and adventure games like Stardew Valley, Slime Rancher, and even Pokémon you should definitely check out what I’m doing now it would mean the world to me❤️

Real devs: *How aseprite saved my game* Me: *How MS Paint saved my game*

*"Asperite with dark theme makes me better at art"* that's a true developer right there! Dark theme makes it easier for our eyes when we are hacking away in our basement dwelling caves :p

I hope you are all having an awesome day today! I felt like I might get a cold yesterday(which I do have one now) so I spent just about all day editing this so you guys have a video to watch! This is pretty different from my normal devlogs but I want to give you more varied content! What did you think? And do you have any other ideas for videos I should do?

You really have to find out how to hue shift to seriously bring your art to the next level. It looks good now but with proper colors it'd look great.

I love how your game evolved so much

Cool video! I like the character animations. The jump and fall animation and the idle. Good attention to detail.

I enjoyed hearing your journey in art! Keep it up! 👍

I’ve wanted to get into pixel art for a while now, I’m glad I saw this!

I found out about aseprite right after I finished my first game. Never actually got to use it much but it looks like a great tool. Your video production is getting really good. I'm super jealous!

awesome content

"whoaaa" I imagined post Malone's face when you said that lmao

Thanks for this video I was looking for a sprite maker too but thanks to you I found one keep up the great work.

Thank you so much for the shoutout man!

I found u through Jake McNeal if I remember name correctly lol I instantly subscribed cause of your awesome work on Luna. Im also a indie dev(just starting back tbh) and I believe in supporting each other

Noww I get why Aseprite is such a great tool for creators! :D Also glad that it saved your game ;)

*Ignores Steam Profile Picture* :D This is great Fairlii! It's great to hear that Aseprite made your games and art better! I don't use Asperite, but still the tips are nice.

I literally have never done this so this was v encouraging and I'm gonna do it!

That aseprite logo cured my depression uwu

1,349 hours at this moment and I listen to your video while drawing in Aseprite :D

Bro, your way better than me with aseprite and you with piskel. You were and are really good.

I use SAI2 for my pixelart at the moment, and when I'm bored I use MS Paint - But this makes me consider getting Aseprite even if I do pixelart for non-game development purposes! You've improved a lot, you should thank yourself a bit more for that :D

Eh no, Aseprite wasn't who saved your game It was you. You could have chosen another another pixel art program, but you chose your art-style (and got some help lol), something that a program like Aseprite couldn't have done for you. Edit: 30 likes wth

4:26 My guy be turning into a salesman

This video really makes me want to pick up aesprite. I’ve had it for almost a year now but I haven’t made the time to learn it. Hopefully in the future I can use it effectively. 1:57 that is some dope flipnote art

Yeesss new video!

Damn, this is weird. I've watched a few different vids on pixel art and aseprite and talked to a few people in different forums and none really convinced me to invest on Aseprite just yet. But watching this video... I now realize why I should definitely buy it. The same reason why, when buying my electric guitar, I bought an Ibanez instead of another beginner's Stratocaster or Les Paul. One inspired me to play, the other ones didn't as much. Looking at the UI of Aseprite, I can see why it can do the same to others. That beautiful UI begs you to go ahead and do some 8 bit fuckery on it. Everything is set up right to get you in the mood. That's exactly what keeps Aseprite ahead of Marmoset Hexels, Pro Motion and Pixelorama. I'm sold. Thank you for this. Otherwise idk how long it would've taken me to realize

I read the title as "How aseprite saved my life" thought this would be emotional :p

I mean, as basic as piskel may be, it's admirable that nearly every single pixel artist started there, and how it's a free, ad free, online, and relatively good pixel art editor that's good for beginners.

Wow thanks for making this dude! Great content. Love to see my tool decisions validated lmao. I JUST WISH THEY MADE AN ANDROID VERSION of Aseprite :(

awesome story.

I was expecting you to talk about the fact that aseprite has a feature that keeps a saved file of your art even if you dont save, BUT GOOOOD SHITT BROOOOO!

Art is very simple yet so hard. If the Artist doesn't enjoy creating it then it won't come out well. Comfortable tools are just as important as the will to create something.

YO LOL I CAN RELATE TO EVERYTHING IN THIS VIDEO! I USED PISKEL BEFORE TOO AND NOW I USE ASEPRITE LOL

good job mate

Ah yes aseprite got to love it

I’ve been using pistol for a while and I’ve been feeling unmotivated just the same as you so I’m most likely gonna get aseptite

Nice,hello from Brazil.

Aseprite just feels friendly. everything looks nice, and it's absurdly easy to use

i'm 100% getting Aseprite when i got the MANEY (early LL looks like a horror game) xD

His would be a perfect sponsored video

I’ve been thinking about using aesprite but I’ve been using gamemaker studio 1.x’s and gamemaker 8 sprite editor since I started. I think it’s perfect and doesn’t have any extra buttons in the way from me and the pixel art. Same reason photoshop felt weird to you is the same way I feel about it aswell. I’m going to try aesprite.

I've used both Aesprite and Piskel and whilst Aesprite is really good, I generally only use it when I need to use the tag feature to organize animations. I still use Piskel when I need to make something small or I will use Pyxel Edit (which is amazing) when I need to make a tileset.

Him: How aseprite saved my game Me: How pirated phtoshop saved my game

i experienced the same thing, but actually tried to learn piskel and when I bought Aseprite, I was pretty confused with the hotkeys, because I was used to the ones from piskel.

I will try aseprite when I have the time, it seems nice to work with

I mainly use Pyxel Edit, mainly because it was the one I got first and I work well with it. It shares some of the features, but outlining is definitely way harder in Pyxel than in Aseprite. I was actually astounded at how easy it was in aseprite.

this is literally me except with music instead of art

very nice

Hey! Nice video and very useful tips! Thanks, and idk if i’m stupid and missed you saying it or you haven’t say it but how much does it cost to buy and/or use aseprite

This is so weird, because I feel the same with aseprite, I started using it like 4 months ago and I wouldn't believe that the last things I've been drawing were actually mine, I started with very weird techniques, trying to figure out how to do different things and just... it happened and now I'm quite happy with the work I've done so far. Also I'm working on a videogame too, but I'm not the artist, I focus on programming, a friend I met on a pixel art discord server does the art, I just do pixel art as a hobby when I'm not programming.

Art tip: use a colour palette (or learn colour theory) and don’t forget to hue shift to blue, and decrease saturation for shading (for the ambient light) Your art looks great already but these two things will add instant improvement to why not try it out?

looking good fam, what software do you make games in?

I have been trying to making pixelart, but my characters are very basic and mostly front view. I struggle to do side veiw and I do mainly items. Any tips? I was using a small sprite it was like 20 by 20 so maybe that didn't help.

What engine you using for your game? I'm making my first platformer and was wondering what a good engine was to use as a starting ground

I literally just compiled Aseprite and started using it under a week ago, and before that I was using Piskel...

Oof tiled mode ☺this is great

Does you video contain a promotion?..... for Aseprite? lol Nice Video.

I use Piskel for my pixel art... what a coincidence... I guess piskel is more well known than I thought

GraphicsGale is also good but quite complicated with it's transparency options, there are even more options that nobody uses in GraphicsGale like creating tiles and pens.

What's the canvas size to make the tiled mode ?😁

I actually found this video because piskel has a size limit to its files and I have to change software lol

Btw, for people who don't have any money and want to do some pixel art, try graphics Gale, as it's free and is one of the oldest tools for pixel art

Safe search is important sometimes

How was i not subbed to you already.

aseprite is the best investment ive ver made

Little tip you can get aseprite for free and legally you just got to head over to the github page and compile it. Its a little difficult at first if this is your first time compiling but there are many youtube videos on how to do it

At first this sounded very stupid because I already knew that every tool is only as good as its user. But then I learnt that a good tool can actually help make the user much better.

I didnt know aseprite was on steam??? I only knew about the standalone exe. I grabbed it on sale cause of this vid lol. Finally sold it to me. I always preferred photoshop, but there are certain things only aseprite has so

Was hoping to hear why/how Aseprite in particular is so distinctly good compared to other programs, not just a feeling that it is so good followed up with some tips. Perhaps a feature that is unique to Aseprite, as surely it isn't just the name that appeals. I'd choose Pixelorama if based on name alone. I switched from Pixelorama from Aseprite because the Rotate tool was simpler and more straightforward with Aseprite, and now I'm having to weigh what is distinct about Pixelorama, such as instantly being able to keybind left and right click to different tools, with what is distinct about Aseprite.

there’s always videos of programmers who can’t make art but never videos for us artists who can’t program 😓

I hope this happens to me. At the moment I can barely draw a super simple coin 🤣

Well, piskel has tiled mode too

I actually made some pretty good looking art on piskel

If you come across pixel boo it's and you need to censor them, do you pixelate them even more?

I’ve been using piskel for just over a year and I have yet to switch to asprite... I wonder if I will someday (the reason is piskel has all I need right now and I don’t wanna use a paid program yet, I might though.)

Asesprite tip: no need to deliberately make animations in sprite sheets, make animation through the built-in animator, and export as a sprite sheet.

Yo which is better cracked aseprite or cracked adobe photopshop cc?

i have the opposite problem, i dont know how to code but i know how to draw

Try paint.net it has alot of effects and plugins. I am using it for Minecraft texturepacks and i am posting updates on reddit. Over 1000 people waiting for a release

I think the reason Aseprite motivated you was because of the UI (For me at least lol) The UI and design in Aseprite makes it look like your playing a video game instead of drawing/working, and yeah as you said it's more fun that way and seems less like a chore

Me: *is bad at pixel art* Me, after getting Aseprite: *is still bad at pixel art*

I always use piskel 👀

Question, I notice how at around 5:57 there's rotating pixel art, now how in the hell do you achieve that? Is it just a feature in Aseprite? Nowhere can I find the answer to this question :/

urghhhh the mixels are killing me

Aseprite can be legally downloaded for free from gihub if you want to go through the trouble of compiling it

Yes piskel good

Your handwriting is lovely ... If I had the same ...

Wait why does asprite have a steam page isnt steam for games????? (I have asprite and I didn’t know about it)

Quick question for Fairlii do you like asperite

You can get Asprite for free If you can compile and install their source code from their GitHub.

I try so hard to make decent pixel art but i just can't.. ;-;

I own and love aseprite, but it is just the "pixel" portion of PS tbh. PS has all of these features, plus is PhotoShop...

JAR JAR BINKS?

“I felt like the video was too short” video is 10:20 afterward 🤭

Him: uses asesprite Me: is still too poor to even get Ms paint

If you don't have any money, Graphics Gale is free and has the most features, when compared to all the other free software.

I just watched a 10 minutes ad for a pixel art program, what am I doing with my life.

Shoot! time to learn how to compile aesprite because I’m dirt poor.

I use Piskel