How does one make animated pixel art? I've never worked

I just came here to say that gif is as hot as fuck. What is it from?

Like any other animation.

>>2435056
Yeah what the fuck? Most sprite porn is really shitty

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>usually hate animated sprites
>see this image

Jesus fuck my dick. What is this from?

>>2435083
It's Tharja and Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening

>>2435041
>Sketch
>Draw in pixels
>etc

>>2435085
Who's artist

>>2435085
What's going on in the image magic? Also what's the name of the girl holding book? I love her design and I kinda wanna draw her. Is she a lesbian?

>>2435091
Mind control, probably. And her past reincarnation can be in a lesbian relationship in FE14 (Birthright route, and only with your character), but not in her debut in FE13.

>>2435061
./thread
learn to pixel
learn to animate
and there you go

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>>2435091
>I kinda wanna draw her.

Please do.

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>>2435041
>make pixel art
>sketch keyframes
>clean up key frames
>draw inbetweens
>clean up inbetweens
>polish everything that doesn't look right

That's how I do it. I highly recommend Aseprite, it's my preferred program to animate in.

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>>2435121
Thanks a lot for the tips and program.
>>2435092
Rhaja isn't a reincarnation, but she's basically a love letter to Tharja. Her name is an anagramm she looks like her, sounds like her etc.
>>2435083
Tharja is obsessed with the avatar (character you're suppose to be) and I mean she's OBSESSED, she watches you sleep every night.

>>2435136
Spoilers but
Doesn't the game outright imply the three Awakening 'clones' are predecessors to those in FE13? And that Robin is a reincarnation to Kamui?

>>2435083
>>2435089
>>2435056
I'm really surprised no one knows who's the artist...
http://www.kyrieru.com/

>>2435157
The original Japanese one does, but the localization doesn't (if I'm not mistaken, I may be wrong). At least Rhajat's implied reincarnation as Tharja is edited out or some shit.

>>2435157
Nah, they aren't the same characters. They are just love letters. Like they are very similar because they were so popular. IIRC Tharja is recruit able in some of the upcoming DLC.

so what can i use Photoshop for animated pixel art or is there another program you guys recommend

>>2435277
MSPaint for spriting.
Photoshop for animating.

>>2435289
Fuck off, photoshop is better for spriting too. You just have to tweak the settings a bit

>>2435746
Didn't say PS sucked for spriting, jeez. MSPaint is just another choice, just saying.

>>2435750
Why would you use MSP for anything if you have PS

What

>>2435764
It keeps things simple for making sprite sheets. It's easier setting up the sprites for a sheet as you sprite to animate them, if you take advantage of page scrolling, it makes for a quick frame by frame spacing and set up for the sheet. I've done it for years and it's just as convenient and efficient as using anything else like PS and Paint.net, just on "one layer" so to speak. It's really all about preference.

Can you even make the canvases translucent in ms paint

>>2435776
Not exactly, no. That's why if you need more for layers/transparent backgrounds, you use PS to remove it if there's BG colors/ for layers for animating your sprite frames.

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>you will never be a girl
>you will never be female Robin
>you will never have Tharja stalk you
>you will never have you mind control her into eating her out

>>2435746
this. mspaint is shit all-around, photoshop is a superior program for pixel art if it's set up for it. I'd still tend toward a program specifically designed for pixel art, but if the choice is between mspaint and photoshop, photoshop is the better option. It's like driving motorized vehicle vs. a fred flinstone car.