10 steps to a pixel art masterpiece
by Christopher Grant 
{ Feb 7th 2006 at 11:00AM }
Derek Yu, one of the members of the soon-to-be award winning Thompsonsoft, has made a "10-step tutorial, [which will] teach you how to create a "sprite", which is a stand-alone two-dimensional character or object."
Covering everything from lines to anti-aliasing, watch Derek create "the Lucha Lawyer, the ass-kickin'est wrestling attorney around, as [his] model! He could be in a fighting game, or something, with moves like the 'Habeus Corpse Blaster.'" The amount of labor necessary is amazing, for only one frame!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
JodyAnthony @ Feb 7th 2006 11:14AM
Here's a much better one
http://www.zoggles.co.uk/asp/tutorials.asp?tut=17
The original is down possibly forever since Tsugumo dissapeared off the face of the earth, but here's a mirror.
Exo @ Feb 7th 2006 11:28AM
@ jodyanthony, those tuts sucked ass. Dereks are much better.
Vagabond Artist @ Feb 7th 2006 11:35AM
I miss tsugono... His tutorials taught me spriting essentials.
:(
Shane @ Feb 7th 2006 12:03PM
I miss tsugono, even though I still suck at sprite art. WE are ALWAYS looking for a sprite artist...
robotplague @ Feb 7th 2006 1:12PM
I was a Lucha Lawyer for Halloween.
Chris Maguire @ Feb 7th 2006 1:16PM
That's a pretty good write-up -- I'll have to try some of it out on my comic.
Pixel art takes forever, but it's tons of fun for those with OCD!
Vagabond Artist @ Feb 7th 2006 1:19PM
you guys should have linked to his AWESOME miyamoto comic instead:
http://www.derekyu.com/art/miyamon-full.html
Andi Smith @ Feb 7th 2006 1:58PM
Sigh, I remember when Derek was just a wee quibbler.. things have moved on since then.
Visit his site and download the awesome Eternal Daughter! :) www.derekyu.com
Ross @ Feb 7th 2006 2:53PM
Why am I getting linked to some foreign mp3 site....mp3-bg.com....did his bandwidth run out or something?
Hayato @ Feb 7th 2006 4:00PM
Where's the tutorial? It's just some dumb MP3 site
Gareth @ Feb 7th 2006 4:04PM
Yeah wtf there's a Russian mp3 site there.
Mike @ Feb 7th 2006 4:45PM
I miss the old "sprite" days in games (before the flood of 3D). Starcraft, I love you.
lostzenfound @ Feb 7th 2006 5:10PM
Hey, I'm really intersted in this. Any chance someone can get a proper link ??
Mark D. @ Feb 7th 2006 5:38PM
A cheap work-around:
1) Search Google for each page in succession(http://www.derekyu.com/extras/pixel01.html), changing the 01 to 02, etc.
2) Get the cached version of the page.
There's no images though.
Dr. Rotwang @ Feb 8th 2006 1:07PM
The site is back.
Pixel Master D explains it all:
http://www.derekyu.com/?p=78