In case you didn't know; pixel art means you create something pixel by pixel. It's actually pretty fun ones you get the hang of it.
Lets make an animated candle...
1) Some preparation: First of all you will need to put the grids on in PSP. Make them 1x1 pixel. Then zoom in close before before starting. Use the paint brush tool and set it to 1 pixel. Make shore you have these settings for your magic wand:
Mode: Add (shift), Match mode: RGB value, Tolerance: 0, Contiguous, Feather: 0, Anti-alias, Inside
2) As always when making pixel art, you start by making an outline in black. Click here to see how the candle outline should look like. The numbers tells you how many pixels to use everywhere, so all you should have to do now is reproduce it.
3) Now you can start colouring. See below for the different colours to use. Forget the flame for now.
4) Now we will start adding some effects. Use the magic wand to select these areas:
5) No go Effects -> 3D Effects -> Cut-out and insert these settings:
6) Now pick up the magic wand again and make selections like this:
7) Go to Effects -> 3D Effects -> Cut-out. Use the same settings as before, but replace the colours with this:
Now your result should hopefully look like this:
8) Now duplicate the candle twice so that you have three layers.
9) Now you can edit the flame outline of layer2. We do this so we can make an animation afterwards. Use this model to change the flame appearence in both layer2 and 3.
10) Now, with the background selected, you can start colouring the flame. Colour the different flames like this:
11) You should now have three slightly different candles looking like this:
12) Lets get them in to animation shop. Just copy each of the three layers and past them one by one into a new project in animation shop.
13) Now you may want to select the three candles and make the background transparent.
All you have to do now is set the speed of your animation and then save it. Here is hopefully your finished result:
Hope you like the result. It was purely my imagination playing around when I first got the idea of making this candle.
