Let’s find the right amount of detail for that Mega Man sprite
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- Let’s take a look at that Mega Man sprite from last week and see about giving it some more detail - it looks like there’s the foundation of a better sprite... we just need to take it a little further and find the right rendering style.
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0:00 Intro & Recap
0:41 Base colour adjustment
1:17 Shading with 5 colours
2:35 Selecting new Colours
4:30 Softening the render
5:44 Revisiting the 5-colour concept
6:29 Summary
6:45 CRT Time
7:24 VID OVER
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19 colour Megaman looks like he’s trying to cross Rainbow Road.
He got that bisexual lighting 😩
@@rubyy.7374putting emphasis on the mega MAN 🥵
I think we're talking 2 rainbow roads here
The same thing happened with his Mario sprite 😫
I could imagine if Mega Man had a dance club / disco level, you could put those new highlights on a new layer and have them fade in and out with the dance lights. Maybe even change colour in time with the music. 🪩
Love how you put "0-colour" just for the sake of having a complete grid
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yeah agreed
the "gratuitous" 19 color one looks gorgeous on the crt damn! the blurriness of the screen does wonders for those vibrant rim lights
yeah, somehow 19 wraps back around to being good again
if not my favorite, 5 was also really good
The 19-colour sprite looks surreal on the CRT screen
Great job as always
I was hoping to find a comment like this. The 19 color one actually looked really awesome on the CRT. Would be interesting to see an entire scene mocked up using that style.
0 colors got me 😂
amazing study as always
0 colors is my favorite one
(Dont take it too seriously if it has nothing)
Zero colours managed do get a aesthetic of a character with so few colours. Zero colours really looks like the character "the void"
I didn't see that
@@lolimlol-ps9sf for a moment I thought you were talking about Zero
@@zixvirzjghamn737 lol
I'm partial to minimal palettes, so I love the 5-color v2. It's interesting that bringing down the saturation made the colors more multipurpose. I gotta keep that in mind.
Totally! Always something I have to remember as well, since I tend to go for saturated/punchy - but lowering the saturation makes it easier to pair up different hues
@@BJGpixel something else i found fascinating about the 5 color v2, is that it suddenly looks like a gameboy color sprite rather than an nes sprite. I can imagine playing pokemon crystal and running into a wild mega man!
Tbh I always prefer colors in less saturated tones that are closer together and multi purpose
Not only it looks pretty but it can be considered to be impressive by some and on top of that it saves resources
Theorically, if you were to mod one of the og MegaMan to add these multipurpose versions, it would work except for some minor slowdown in some parts, since one layer of color doesn't update shape
I think it was the best because it didn't use many colours at all, might also be because I'm use to drawing with only plain pencil so less complicated and multicoloured stuff looks better to me.
The 19-colour sprite actually looks fantastic; it’s so stylised with the way it’s got various lighting sources and colours, and gives the impression of being in a neon-lit cyberpunk-inspired level, which would fit Megaman quite well
The 19-color looks like he's in some special level with ethereal lighting, very neat
Personally, 0 color is where I perform best.
I actually love the 19 color? It's a LOT and certainly not usable for a game, but for illustration or certain game cinematics, I think it's super cool (especially in comparison to Too Many Mario, which really was just Too Much)
Also, 0 colors was an unexpected but [chefs kiss] perfect addition
I think it can work on a game too, just need the right art style around it to fit
CRT is magic, even the 19 colour version looks good!
honestly i really love how the colors blended together for the 19-color Megaman! I was surprised, since I thought it looked a bit goofy in PS, but the CRT does wonders
The 5 colour revised actually blew me away. Super impressive work!
14 color is my favorite, reminds me a lot of smash megaman. great work, as always!
i love that i all the title says is "lets find the right amount of detail for that mega man sprite" and i knew exactly what he meant
the 9-color one seems perfect for the clean sprite in modern screens, but the 14 one seems perfect in CRT. 19 colors are not bad, but I agree its a little too much lol
I liked the halfway to mvc on the crt
i love the 19 color one, the large array of vibrant colors used is very pretty to look at
Really loved this video! I feel like this could be a neat series. Upscaling EarthBound's sprites could be a fun challenge since they are so cartooney.
that bossa nova music fit the pixelart super well and i ADORE that low colour pallete you used absolutely awesome video
these kind of videos are literally just you messing around with a single sprite looking at different results and i extremely fw that
Dude, i was spending the whole day wacthing your videos, cant believe you uploaded at the perfect timing!!
I've found I actually really like your "way too far, too many colors" versions each time.
It's not traditional, but it's a style that I vibe with
Mega man kinda looks like he's enjoying the violence a bit too much. o3o
Dang nice, I love pixel art and these videos are really useful!
My favourite was the 14 colour sprite all the way through til I saw the 19 colour sprite on the CRT screen, so good!
I really enjoy your videos brandon! I like the focus on just exoirementing with diffent rendering styles and just messing arou d with colors and just not worrying about making like a finished piece, half of art is the process of it and having fun!
The art is fantastic!
The bg music is so good, bossa nova is fantastic
I have to admit, I was pretty happy when I saw you released a video at around 11:00 PM. But it was even better after hearing that one iconic elevator music song! Another amazing job as always, and I liked the mega-man army!
The end result is amazing. I've been watching you for years, but every time I'm amazed at how, with just a few changes, you can turn what looks like a finished graphic into such a great piece like this enhanced Megaman! Respect! 😍
Thanks dude! It's always surprising to see the number of possibilities with how to finish something like this - hard to pick just a single style, so I include them all 😅 Appreciate your support, as always 🙌
@@BJGpixel If you're surprised by this, imagine my surprise when I'm certain that a particular graphic is already in its final version and cannot be improved, and then you come along and not only improve it but also do so in several variations haha! 😅😉 Awesome job! As always, it's a pleasure to watch your episodes 🥰
The 19-color one looks like he's under intense neon lights
Why is nobody talking about halfway to McV, it frankly is my favorite, it’s not too overblown, but also not too dark and I love it
CRTs and pixel art are truly magic together
Too many color joking aside, I genuinely love the magenta and cyan lighting you added to your Megaman and Mario sprites. I'd unironically love a game that used that aesthetic in their pixel art.
I always look forward to you're videos, keep up the good work!
I actually love the "pushing it too far" sprites, they look like they're standing on Rainbow Road!
I really like the "obnoxious highlights", it's prettyyy 😍
This video was a good retcon of another video. The BJG Cinematic Universe is coming along well.
I like all of them honestly, I think the as long as they’re applied consistently in their context they look good.
The 5-color v2 looks like it belongs in a gameboy color game! All look quite good and im sure with the right bg even the 19-color would look good (like if the 2 rim lights were contextual and changed based on each stage)
in my opinion more detail doesnt neccasarily make a sprite better im not saying more detail is bad but simplicity also has this sort of charm to it
Tbh no shade is kinda boring, for me those "low color amount revisited" are much more interesting
Yeah, I think the MvC Palette version really works great on the CRT monitor, It has just the right amount of stepping and the saturation levels and color variance is not too extreme either.
I always had the problem of making colors like blue washed out when I tried to make them lighter and brighter. It was a paradox as I didn't want to change the hue but wanted to make it brighter (which just isn't possible). This video helped me realize how much it helps to shift the hue towards the adjacent lighter hue when trying to make that color "brighter." Thank you!
Hey great video! I know I’m going to sound like a bunch of other commenters, and I know you might not even read this, but you inspired me to start pixel art! I bought aseprite and that’s all I’ve been doing recently. I’ve watched almost all of your videos within the last month or two. Anyway, I’m writing this comment to tell you thanks for inspiring me and having great content. Have a great day!
Your conviction and care for Pixal Art inspires me to make better art!
I was surprised how much the CRT close up changed them, they are the same but they altered (blended?) enough that more colours appear on the sprites.
Brilliant to see how simple changes can affect the sprite. I really like the v1 and the 9 colour versions.
This is such a fascinating case study. I really enjoyed the process.
The 19-color ver looks amazing!
I like pixel art, and your content really scratches that itch! Your vibe is very calming and nice to just watch/listen to! Thank you for posting these videos :D
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Dude I love the rainbow variants of these characters!
Amazing…
Great work!
Oh the 5 color v2 you nailed it man really proved what you are capable of too with this it truely shocked me when you showed off that one its amazing gives me gbc vibes i really love it truely special talent you have keep it up
Thanks so much Brandon. I love listening to your process. It's so helpful! I am a huge fan of hue shift shading, so I really enjoy hearing how you developed this sprite while exploring that process. I really appreciate how you share your thoughts and considerations regarding this. 🎉
I will always have time for these sorts of video, amazing work as always :)
i love the 19-color one on the cRT display honestly
5 color v2 is definitely my favorite
Your really good at pixel art by the way!
Loved them all, but i think my favorite was the 5 color v2. there’s just something about it’s simplicity and the way the highlights were especially in the eyes that just drew me in.
I love the 14 colors, but the 19 colors has a specific flare to it that could make for a good aesthetic for a game, and the revised 5 color sprite could fit those low color types of games, amazing work.
i love your videos!! and u made e a better pixel artist for sure!!
He's a shiny boy now! Aw yeah woo yeah!
I’ve been experimenting with the same things today - trying to find a middle ground between 3-color x2 size sprites and that overly-pillowed look, and also landed on a 9-color version as a decent starting point. Picotron’s alpha release has had me thinking of how to upscale sprites and also play around with adding color. 3-color versions look too flat, and while one cannot do photoshop tricks within Picotron the color palettes out there offer some good midway steps to choose from. I’m leaning hard into Picotron V4 on Lospec, currently (though I absolutely LOVE intense colors and am bucking against the trend towards desaturated palettes). Great content - I’d love to see you continue this experimentation and critical examination of spritework’s evolution beyond the arcade.
14 color Megaman is my favorite. Nice one!
i’d really love to see you talk about fire emblem’s spritework and pallets, specifically the gba and snes ones. so gorgeous
best pixelart content of youtube is on this channel. clap clap clap 🎉
I think, in terms of color choice, the "Halfway to MvC" palette shown at the end actually has to be my personal favorite.
I love the way you pick colours
Recently for my new indie game project (which i might make) i was experimenting sprites for enemies with my girlfriend, so she made a cat-apillar and i made some slime dudes, the point is, that day i learnt the beauty of using more than just black for the sprite outline, this whole time I thought that i was bad at pixel art, after making some of the twins resprites i realized my flaw was not adding enough vibrancy to make certain areas pop more, that's about what i wanted to share!
The whole time i was expecting a comparison to the SNES Megaman 7's sprite. What happened, Brandon?!? Lol.
Great video, love these experimentations.
I’m a graphic designer so I know a good bit about color theory. But I love the way you explain it in your videos, i definitely could never word it as clearly as you do. Always fun to see your content, the 14 color and the halfway to MvC were my favorites!
I'd really, really love to see you shrink a sprite more and more, seeing when it becomes indistinguishable. I feel like that might be something pixel artists have already cracked, but I'm a more "regular" artist and it seems like a super interesting topic! (Plus, probably а clickable video)
I really like that 9-color palette!
I've watched so many of these videos. It's decided. I'm subscribing.
6:42 man that 0 color design is 🔥
I loved the one with few colors and little contrast, it looks official, I love your sprites. I hope you can show us sub-pixel animation in a future video. 🤩😍
I'm liking, commenting, and subscribing b/c of 19 color sprite. Beautiful in Photoshop and CRT, both!
19 would only really work if those gratuitous shading would come from dynamic lighting of a stage; but damn would it look gorgeous in an appropiate scene.
Mega Man with the 19th colours, it looks very nice and it looks so modern to me and I could imagine it in a remaster or something like that.
Your videos are excellent Brandon, congratulations on another super cool video. It helps me a lot when studying, trying to keep the same line of reasoning as you.
Do you intend to do more studies of sprites from more recent games? Something like chained echoes, sea of stars, these games that work a lot on colors, giving a somewhat softer look to pixel art
My two personal favs are the 14-color and the Halfway to MVC. They're both the perfect mediums.
I would love to see the end result with an insane amount of hue variation. While it's definitely overkill on the palette, going for a unique color for every pixel is definitely doable in pixel art if you know your colors. Would look really painterly, especially on a CRT!
Gotta say, I actually love the 19 color version especially on the CRT!
Pretty cool! Animation is what usually keeps the color palette size in check :)
I really like the 5 Color v2. Especially on the CRT.
I love the 19 color one the green and purple lighting look great on Megaman
19 looks hyperstylized and I love it
I would love a video on making tilesets. Both simple grass and dirtpaths, but also like topdown dungeon walls or anything like that!
I kinda like the bright highlights cause it makes him look shinier which makes sense since he’s a robot
Revised 5 colour kinda reminds me of gameboy color era sprites, very cool!
They all look good :)
New BJR banger just dropped
5-colour v2 is so good. Holy crap.
I love 5 colour v2 so much for some reason
19-color sprite is shiny!
Awesome stuff! My favourite is the revised 5-colour one (:
The 19 colour sprite looks totally rad, it'd make for an awesome substitute of the 14 colour version in a level with a bunch of neon lights! ✨
Nice seeing everything on the CRT at the end too, the gradients did end up looking very good! 😁
Thanks so much! Yeah even though I made that one to be ridiculous, it seems potentially viable if there was an entire neon-soaked level design to go along with it 😎 This was a fun CRT Time to put together; seeing all the subtle differences and the way they blend on there ✨
6:38 oh, missed opportunity to arrange the sprites in a square as if it was a stage select screen
otherwise great work as always!
I always find it interesting when you try to replicate other rendering styles in pixel-art. Using a shadow under the topmost eye-pixels really made it look more like what I picture in my head when I think of box-art mega man.
I like the 9-colour the most 👾💜
Love it and they look great on your CRT (such a genius way to finally view your work). It's hard (for me anyways) to decide on a finished look as the dreaded choice paralysis kicks in!