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hey, where do you make your sprites and animations? they look so cool

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Hi thanks for asking!

For this game I drew the parts of the spider separately all in Photoshop and then combined and animated them in Unity itself. You can create movement and squashing/stretching with the Unity animation system.

For Lo-Fi Room and most other things I usually draw lines on paper with brushpens + fineliners then scan them, convert them to pure black and white (threshold), then remove the white and add colour in Photoshop. I also add some overlays and stuff, but nothing too complicated. 

I have a small Wacom intuos tablet (it's around 10 years old now) that I use for the digital colouring/drawing part. I think you can get a more modern one for around $50-$100. The more expensive version has bluetooth.

If you want to get into digital drawing you don't have to get photoshop, I think there are free/cheaper alternatives, it's just what I'm used to. I don't use a lot of the advanced features, I'm usually just drawing with flat colours with the pencil tool. For the backgrounds in this one I used a sponge brush I think, but I usually don't do too much with different types of brushes. 
Procreate on an iPad is good if you have one already, Also for pixel art stuff I sometimes use Aseprite.

If you want to know more specifics, feel free to ask follow up questions~

Thank you so much for the advices!

I have a small huion tablet that I bought like 5 years ago, but it works fine, I'll try and use it too 'cause I love these drawings like art style in games

Also I didn't know that lo-fi room was first drawn by hand, that's really cool

No problem~ It's not just Lo-Fi Room that's done on paper, I do most art/illustration work like that. I struggle to get nice lines with a tablet, but adding colour needs less control so I can do that with the tablet pretty easily. But I think for convenience doing everything digitally would probably be better, especially for animation or if you need to make a lot of changes to the design.

Here are some of the Lo-Fi Room drawings on paper, if you're interested: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCCorGLHNn5/

Good luck with drawing! I'd say the main thing is just to draw often and experiment to try and find a style and workflow that you're happy with, but I think it takes time to figure something out that works well for you.