26 Aseprite Tips for Beginners

I recently did a thread over on Twitter where I posted a bunch of small things I’ve picked up over the years. Original thread here: Since people seemed to like it, I’ve combined them all into a single 8-minute video to put here, hope they help! I elaborate a lot more on these techniques in the thread I linked above: when I use them, why I prefer them over others, etc. So, if there’s some confusion surrounding a few of the clips, I’d recommend checking the original posts out. Timestamps: 00:00 - Quick Reflection 00:27 - Multiple Windows 0:39 Animating position with Custom Brush 1:11 Custom Brush Eraser 1:25 Cheap Impact Frames 1:52 Creating Tags 2:13 Exporting Tags 2:27 Ignoring Tags 2:41 Outlines 2:59 Outline when working with multiple layers 3:32 Adjusting Onion Skins 3:50 Replacing Colours across an animation 4:10 Link Cells 4:28 Quickly Delete section across an animation 4:43 Freeze Frames / Adjusting Frame Speed 5:00 Moving Selection with Arrow Keys 5:13 Simple Squash and Stretch Frames 5:37 Simple Squash and Stretch Frames Pt.2 5:57 Pop-out Text 6:07 Studying GIFs 6:27 Scaling down downloaded work 6:46 Setting up brush size shortcut 7:12 Duplicate frame cell across a timeline 7:26 Create Palette from Sprite 7:36 Duplicating a group of frames 8:00 Exporting your work Music by insaneintherainmusic :
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