The retro and the pixelated has returned with us with great force Due to the need for video games for mobile devices on both Android and iOS, where there is a need to offer great visual quality, but without this entailing high battery consumption.
In that need for know the best tools To create this type of pixelated art, sometimes we can get confused to understand that it is not necessary to go through Photoshop to produce a retro visual style with great results, but that it can be easier to do, as Mark Ferrari explains in this video.
Ferrari explains some of its techniques for drawing 8-bit graphics to which called as «8 bitish». In this demo he even shows some of his more popular methods of using color cycling and palette shifting to create complex and realistic background animation effects without going through frame-by-frame animation.
It is also when he takes the floor to comment on one of his latest works in the game of retro adventure Thimbleweed Park by Ron Gilbert. Use Photoshop to show other techniques and as there are a number of tools that can define one's own style when it comes to this retro pixelated art.
The link to the video is this same and you can go to any of the most important topics of the same from the options on the left such as the beginning of the process from what are some first sketches to the "templates". Ferrari does a good review in the video to qualify for take part of our work retro which is now in vogue on mobile devices.
A special visual treatment in which Ferrari is an expert and no one better than him to delve into the subject.