Hey everybody what's going on this is Caleb with deps slopes dot com.
And in this video I'm going to share with you some amazing resources not only for finding a free non-attribute
art that you can use in your sticker pack without having to credit the author totally free.
Amazing.
I'm also going to share with you a couple of Web sites where you can design and create your own stickers
using an online tool.
Very cool stuff.
So let's go ahead and pull open Safari and I want to share with you the first web site now it's called
IO.
And if you actually look at the main web site it's a place that's like a marketplace to download the
latest indie games.
OK now some are free some are for pay and there's just a ton of stuff on here it's pretty cool.
But they have a marketplace where artists can sell game assets and there's an entire section of totally
free game assets.
OK.
So I'm going actually sort these by popularity because there some really cool ones.
And as you can see I mean this is this is high quality.
Very nice stuff here it's not it's not you know your rinky dink you know basic animations here this
is like high quality stuff you could actually use.
I mean I'm going to open this one here.
Gothic Vania and I mean just the Web site just looks so cool.
But let me show you a little trailer here.
Gothic Venia town is like you know a little indie but they shared all the art for free which is pretty
cool.
So if you look here here's the art.
I think it's like a timelapse actually of them designing all of it which is pretty sweet.
But let's see if they show a demo.
Yeah.
So like you can see it's just this cool kind of Castlevania style.
You know art and you can download all that art for free.
There's also you know a dungeon tile pack which is pretty cool.
There is no skeleton sprite pack and if you click on this you'll notice right here permissions you can
use the art provided by this asset pack for personal and commercial use.
You cannot redistribute this asset packs so you can't download it and then sell it as your own asset
pack but you can use it for commercial products you can put it in a sticker app and sell it on the App
Store.
Very cool.
And you'll notice each one has a you know sort of different permissions here.
It says you can use it for personal and commercial use you can't redistribute it.
Most of it will let you do that.
I did see one that says it's not required to credit the author but we would appreciate it.
So it's optional.
But if you want you could put maybe in the credits you know art provided by X and whoever it is.
So I actually used a few assets from this Web site and just kind of modified them a little bit but I
also found that there were some when you downloaded the pack it downloads in a file format called a
sprite sheet.
And if you're not familiar with game design Let me show you what a sprite sheet looks like.
OK here it is.
So this is basically the animation that happens for this character to run.
OK so we have frame one frame to frame three frame four and as they go it creates a nice running animation
that can loop and make it appear that the character is running of course but you'll notice this is just
one static image.
There are not individual frames.
I'll show you how to circumvent that later on.
But many of these four characters at least for the animations will download as a sprite sheet.
There are some cases where each individual frame will be its own punji file but it is unlikely that
it will be like that.
So that's just something to keep in your mind.
Now I want you to notice all of the TNG files have a transparent background.
K that is a must.
Unless of course you saw in the simulator in the first video of this course I had a square gif of Jack
and Mark and that that itself was an image didn't have a transparent background because the whole square
is full of content but the running character for instance the whole background behind him is totally
transparent.
If it was white it would look kind of weird being a square with just the static white background.
So thats why you want to make sure that all of your PNB files have transparent backgrounds and that's
actually why I sort of recommend not doing Jay pig because when you compress a j peg down to save it
it actually creates a white background automatically behind any of the art that you've created.
So Jay Peggs can be used but I don't really recommend using them.
So let's go ahead and move on.
It's IO.
The URL is I.O. slash game assets slash free.
OK you can go and find that very easily online.
Make sure you read the permissions.
If the author does request that you do credit them make sure that you credit them because that's just
kind of a way to be you know saying thank you and giving back because they provided this amazing art
for free.
That's sort of the least we can do to say thank you and say hey this art was from X person.
So it's amazing.
Now there's another tool called pixel art.
And I just personally like this if you're not into the pixel art thing that's fine there are plenty
of other ways you can design stickers but I just found that pixel art was a really cool online tool
to create that sort of retro bit style art that that's just so popular nowadays so if you go in here
and click on start drawing you can go ahead and click on new drawing and you can create your own size
or you can choose from the presets.
Now I have found that what works best is images in 128 by 128 pixels.
I just seem to like that it seems to be a good size on the iPhone sticker pack so go ahead and create
a document of 128 by 128.
Again this is pixel art dot com with an eye not an E and create a new drawing.
OK.
And that's fine.
OK so as you can see the background in and of itself is transparent and we can go in and we can create
pixel art which is super neat.
So I'm going to go ahead and increase the pixel size here just to show you an example if I wanted to
create you know maybe like a pixellated smiley face.
I could do that very easily like so.
OK.
So I just created a smiley face.
It's pretty you know it's not a very nice pretty design but it'll work and I'm going to center there.
And now if I wanted to use this I could just click on download and you'll notice it says layer's frames
or gif.
And the cool thing is that in pixel art you can actually add a frame and you can see the old design.
So if I wanted to I could come in here and I could try my best to re draw it again and then maybe I'll
make the smile a little less this time.
OK.
And let's go ahead and add a new frame we'll draw it again and you'll notice it shows frame too.
Now in the background which is pretty neat.
And now I'm going to make it's just flat out a new frame.
Draw it again.
And of course you'd want to you know pay attention to.
I don't like that I'm going to do that.
You'd want to pay attention to more detail than I am I'm just doing this very very quickly and then
now we're going to do a little Frohman's so.
And then in the last one we're going to go ahead and make him totally sad.
And now if I preview it you'll see it makes this nice animation of smile to frown so you can do that.
Download it as a gift which is really cool.
Or.
Well you know what.
Let me go back to my frames here.
Go to the first frame and I'm just going to download this one frame.
But as you saw you could download it as a gif which is neat.
But this right here one to one ratio is going to download at 128 pixels by 128 pixels.
So if I click download you'll see it comes out right there.
And if you look I'm going to go ahead and hover this you'll see the background is definitely transparent
which is perfect.
Now let's say that you wanted that to be 2x right.
If you wanted to print out a 2 x image that's a little bit bigger.
You could do two by two and watch what happens.
I click download.
It's twice as big.
So you can see pixel art is just this amazing program that you can create not only static images of
this 8 bit pixel theme but you can also create animated gifs using pixel art which is just so so so
cool.
So anyway those are two amazing resources one for free.
Non-attribute an art you can just simply use in your project as well as pixel art which will allow you
to draw and create your own assets which is just super super neat.
So in the next video we're going to go ahead and add in some static graphics that I've downloaded from
I O as well as a couple of other free Web sites and we're going to go ahead and test it out and just
see how easy it is to create a sticker pack in Iowa.
Amazing work guys and I'll see in the next video.