Pixel art referrences and possible inspirations

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Re: Pixel art referrences and possible inspirations

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Lot of sprite and tiles ripped from commercial games:
http://www.spriters-resource.com/

ex: Metal Slug background: http://www.spriters-resource.com/arcade/ms4/sheet/16320
Seiken Densetsu 3 village: http://www.spriters-resource.com/snes/s ... sheet/2522
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super tutorial for beginners with examples and explanations
http://pixel-zone.rpgdx.net/shtml/tut-selout.shtml
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A very important article for everyone who wants to create animated sprites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_p ... _animation
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wow this is good, thanks for this one, I'll put a lot of time checking this guy's work.
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http://finalbossblues.com/

Some nice articles about pixelart :)
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