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1. Creating Your
Own Game

2. This will help you create pixel art characters for
a video game.
It will get you thinking about using Photoshop
in a different way to normal and get you to
create new ideas.

3. 8 X 8 16 X 16

6. • If you want to practice with an easy
program before starting production there
is a website to help you
• Use makepixelart.com (this may only
work on Firefox)
• Once you have completed your image,
print screen and paste it into Photoshop
and save as a JPEG.

7. • You can animate your characters too

8. • Here is a How To Guide for pixel art
– http://vimeo.com/32719806
• Here is a How To Guide for animating your
characters
– http://vimeo.com/36748242

9. Canvas Size
Tool- Pencil Tool
Create a new layer for each
limb/moving element if you
want to animate your
character. Make sure you
name it

10. Once your done

11. Album cover design:
This task will force to you think creatively about images and typography to
create album artwork for a band.
Your band and album name will be randomly generated.
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12. Random Band Generator
To get the name of
the band you will be
working for, go to the
main Wikipedia page.
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Click on the random
article button on the
left hand side of the
page.

13. Random Band Generator
You can press the random article button
a maximum of 3 times.
You must use the title of one of the
searches for your band name.
This will help give you an insight in to a
genre of music for the band.
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14. Random Band Generator
To get your album name, go
to:
http://www.quotationspage.co
m/qotd.html
Press the random quotes
button on the left hand side
of the page.
You must use 3 consecutive
words from the last quote on
the page for your album title.
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15. Album cover design:
Now you have to decide on the musical genre and then select appropriate
images and fonts to produce the artwork.
You can try this many times and you will get a huge range of possibilities.
Consider producing work for both the front and back of the album.
Extension task:
Try to design the inside booklet as well to produce a complete package.
Design a tour poster for your band.
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