In this video we’ll look at a few examples of health bar / HUD design from pixel art games, and learn how to construct one for ourselves!

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0:00 Intro
0:06 Different Types of Health Bars
2:10 Constructing Health Bars from Tiles
3:29 Canvas Size and Allocating Space for HUD
4:21 Blocking, Design Idea, and Rendering
8:36 Reviewing the Screen Space
9:10 Alternate Idea 1
10:31 Alternate Idea 2
11:34 Final Thoughts
12:04 VID OVER

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Software used: Adobe Photoshop 2022
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