Pixel art animation can be tricky, but it's also so cool to see characters made from tiny squares come to life with very little effort. In this video, I walk you through my workflow from start to finish in creating a dynamic attack animation for Cyborg Superman, discussing all of my tips, tricks, challenges, and tiny nuances along the way!

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0:00 Introduction
0:06 Sprite design
1:44 Cleaning up pixel clusters
3:23 Simple silhouette for animation
6:02 Refining your body language
8:25 Rendering the poses
11:39 Particle effects
13:18 Recoil and recovery
13:55 Bringing it all together
15:01 FINAL ANIMATION
15:34 HIGHLIGHT: Cloth animation
16:17 CRT time
16:49 VIDEO OVER

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Software used: Adobe Photoshop 2022
Need help choosing a pixel art program? Check this out: https://youtu.be/90BghUX7SD0
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