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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

super tutorial for beginners with examples and explanations
http://pixel-zone.rpgdx.net/shtml/tut-selout.shtml

Trailing concept

A very important article for everyone who wants to create animated sprites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_p ... _animation

Rotonen wrote:http://www.effectgames.com/effect/artic ... with_HTML5

wow this is good, thanks for this one, I'll put a lot of time checking this guy's work.

http://finalbossblues.com/

Some nice articles about pixelart