Goldie BTS Stuff (Patreon)

Hey guys.  I've wanted to animate in a pixel-art style for a long time, but finally pushed to try it yesterday. It was as much fun as I always thought it'd be. I had a blast making this. It is NOT going to be a new consistent art style by any means, but definitely a nice thing to have when needed. I definitely foresee this style reappearing when I need to include a computer screen/cell phone, etc.

this video had nearly 400 frames, and they were all made in MS paint in 87 x 66 pixels. I hadn't thought about how this would make for a lot of issues in resizing, as most video editors will use different resizing elements for retaining soft edges like "bicubic smoother"

I hardhand my way through a lot of things, typically, and I ended up stuck when I couldn't animate all of these frames without them looking like this:

I went and learned how to use something in photoshop called "Batch" that allows you to transfer multiple photos through a function you create called an "action"

Photoshop actions are like a saved set of steps in photoshop that allow you to streamline a multi-part process into a single button/tool.

Its genius.

Anyways, I ran these ~400 frames through my "action" I made to resize them using a "nearest neighbor" resizing preference which is what people use who make video game sprites and various 8-bit/16-bit art.

took a few failed attempts, but resulted in the frames I used in the final video!
I was amazed by that batch thing, and how handy it was/almost definitely will be. Wanted to share with those of you who, like me, weren't aware it was out there.

Have a great day, everybody.