Small Sprite Animations | Pixel Art Timelapse
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video, I’m creating a few animations for my samurai sprite - follow along as I share how I arrived at a 6-frame run cycle, a jump (+double jump), and a special armour transformation animation!
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0:00 Intro
0:22 Run Cycle
2:49 Jump
5:11 Armour Transformation
8:46 Summary
9:20 VID OVER
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Software used: Adobe Photoshop (CS6)
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The clarity you can achieve with movements that are *that* complicated on such a small-scale sprite is quite amazing. Would love you to come back to this one in the future, there's much to explore.
This is seriously impressive and as someone new to pixel art, a great reference piece. The hardest thing for me is learning how to convey more detail with fewer pixels, and this video is about as good as it gets with that!
Such a skilled samurai, training hard enough to jump off the very wind itself!
Could see him fighting off a bunch of tiny lil ninjas any time. Such a cool and detailed mini sprite!
he could slay literally hundreds of lemmings
He run, he jump, but most importantly; He armor up. That’s such an amazing little detail
He really looks like he is spinning!
Never thought limitations to be a good thing. Prolly should try it.
Iron Man Samurai suit ftw
This is so inspiring to me, please continue this samurai pixel art project! Other things you could give a shot spriting are walking up/down steps, talking, dancing, opening a door, giving the samurai animations for when the player has been AFK for a while, eating, drinking, etc! :)
Thanks so much! Great ideas; things like dancing/eating/drinking would be really fun to explore :D
@@BJGpixel I think if you had the character sheathe and unsheathe the katana would be an incredible transition. Like why standing still and while running. I am not sure how difficult that would be to do though.
@@BJGpixel can i use this cycle for my indie game?
i really enjoyed how bouncy the final animations look, especially the jump and transform
Sometimes life give you apples! This is just what I was looking for. Thanks!
If you return, adding run/jump animations for the armored version (or versions, if you make other armor designs) might be a good idea. Could be neat to see how the armor affects his movement.
Samurai action platformer game with these sprites would be siiiiiiiiick!!!! Also I wish I could get ready in the morning by just jumping and spinning, would be really convenient, someone smarter than me needs to make that a thing :'D Thanks for sharing Brandon!!!
Hahaha that'd be great - would love to have that spin transform for getting home from work and activating "pyjamas mode' too 😅
It kinda reminds me way of the red.
@@BJGpixel Marvel did the Armor transformation in iron man and you did it in samurai
The running animations at the end make it look like the katana one is chasing the other and that's pretty funny, great work!
This remains the best channel on youtube
YOU NEED TO MAKE A GAME WITH THIS SAMURAI.
You've captured so much detail into such a small sprite. Just goes to show a lot can be done with these tiny squares.
yes, please do more. this is perfect for a game makers who aren't as skilled in design.
I mean…. Are you game maker who isnt skilled in design ? Cause im someone who loves art and design but im mot good in coding or having ideas for game mechanics
Wow! you really captured the essence of the spin and even the illusion that the armor pieces were in physical space around the samurai. If you ever want to build a full game based off of this character (or any of your other characters for that matter) hit me up!
These animations are really satisfying. It's incredibly impress how animated such a small sprite can be!
I would pay good money for a samurai game where you created all of the assets. I come back to these in particular all the time. I love this sprite.
It’s remarkable how fluid these are
The armor animation is incredible, you are amazing, keep it up!
Wow, the amount of details you put with such few pixels is amazing !
This is incredible, you make everything look so easy! Your channel gets my hyped about pixel art.
love tiny sprites so much. would definitely love to see more videos like this!
it looks so cool!!! I'm surprised how much character there is with the amount of simplicity at the same time. cant wait to see more.
Wow love how alive turn out the animations hope too see more! i learn something new every time 😁
This is the stuff i LOVE man, such little to work with yet so much you can express with it, its really cool.
i love it when you upload keep on creating things that are fascinating
I love these small samurai videos. It's so impressive to watch what you can do even on such a tiny scale.
this sprite looks SO GOOD
Your confusion about the word _further_ is that there are actually two different but similar words: _Further_ and _farther._ The word _farther_ refers to distance, and the word _further_ refers to extent.
So while they cannot get "farther inward," assuming that this would actually get the armor closer relative to the position of the object toward which it's moving, they _can_ get "further" inward, which just means "inward to a greater extent."
I LOVE THIS CHARACTER! :D It's so simple, yet looks so good! :D
So amazing! You really get the point across super efficiently with your animations!
Wowww, your animation is so smooth and well executed. Great job!
I have been pixelling for over a decade and I just wanted to say that every single video you upload is really full of awesome pixel art technique and amazing presentation. Hope you will keep making videos!
Your videos always bring me joy! I like watching them while doing my own pixel art!
This is awesome, the animations are so appealing to watch. :)
Man, your channel is awesome! Probably some of the best content I've ever seen on TH-cam!
this is so cool the breakdown
Thank you for this video, wonderful animations!
I'd make the top knot bob up and down with the run cycle. The head stays level but the hair can bounce.
Fascinating how much life you can bring into a characters of this tiny size!
ok samurai stark. armor up..........in 5... 4... 3... COME ON.!!
I absolutely love your work with the little samurai. You always impress and inspire☺️🙌
Your content is very soothing. As a crap pixel artist myself (I live more on the programming side of things), I get a lot of inspiration for things to make imagining your art driving them. I really like the ultra-minimal pixel art especially because it really gets to the heart of readability and conveyance as each individual element becomes more abstract (i.e. one or two squares)
this is, by far, your best video!
really loved this content. amazing video and process bro^^
I started learning pixel art 3 months ago and thanks man for your tutorials, I reproduce a lot from scratch doing it with you and I learn a lot
We run, we jump, we armor up! sounds so good! great video overall
So "Simple" and yet looks so cool! 🤩
✌️😊✨
Holy crud, that armor animation was smooth AF!!!
Thanks! This video inspired me to work more on a pico 8 game! I was having trouble making small cute character sprites, but seeing how you did really helps out! Thanks!
Aaah more of that character!! The double jump is so nice 4:56
Integration of these large cellsize works into ("with"?) backgrounds could be something interesting too 9:00
Great video!
Ok i was already amazed for the most part of the video, but the transformation one? 200% more!!! This was amazing, omg. Great job. For a very small pice nothing was confused about it
"keep it square" gave me the biggest grin
Wow this make things simple , and fast
Great art comes from great restriction!
You know what your samurai really needs?
A cat.
Absolutely love it
That armour transformation looks so cool! It's really neat just seeing the rotation animation loop indefinitely too. And the armour pieces coming together makes me think a game around a samurai with magnetic armour would be pretty neat! 😁
As others have said, I think it'd be really cool to see this become a recurring project you come back to from time to time! It feels like you're playing off some of the limits of pixel art and that's really neat 👾 (And there's lots to learn here, haha!)
Thanks! I like the idea of it being magnetic; it'd be fun to come up with some in-world reasons to explain/justify the transformation! :D Definitely gonna have to explore some more; its really fun working out how to convey these things with such a small scale ✨
@@BJGpixel If Tony Stark found himself in the middle of the Samurai era 😆
@@CKTDanny hahaha totally! That actually feels like something they could try as one of those animated movies, similar to Batman Ninja 😆
@@BJGpixel Hahaha! I think Batman Ninja might've been the first anime I'd seen, and the only one for a while 😆🦇 Quite the experience!!
@@CKTDanny haha great one to start with! Actually I haven't seen it, and I also don't know anything about how it was received etc - but I think that's the right way to go into it - just seems like a fun concept either way! 🦇🥷
Amazing job! I love you channel!
Your art style is super cool and I like the design of the samurai😯
this looks so cool!
Great as always!
Thanks buddy! 😁
You managed to get so much character with such few pixels. Agree with other people who say they want to see more of this tiny samurai.
That was so awesome
This is so inspiring.
Beautiful
I love this channel. This is super cool. But hearing him say Kah-TAN-a over and over killed me 😂 kah-tah-nah
This really needs to become a game.
Nice animations. That sprite size would perfectly fit into my current game ;)
the animations are so smooth and satisfactory, i want to animate like that!. Also, you should post the assets so people can use them! (with crediting obviously)
i love that spinning motion for the armor being put on! the run could use some work. the back leg should come forward more on frames 2 and 5. they look as though they're dragging behind a bit instead of coming forward naturally. great video as usual though. i always love how you explain your process!
Very cute!
ahhh! it's so cute!
Great stuff!
These small sprite tutorials are good for things like pico 8
Lovely work man, since you said you will keep doing more stuff, i think he needs a bow and arrow! :D
Love the weight on the movements.
Thanks dude, that's a great idea! :D
great content again
That’s awesome.
Kind of reminds me of Ronin Warriors
Man I would love to have the same pixel art know how as you. Its my favorite style to work in 😁
Awesome 👏
When the Samurai lands, he feels too light - try adding another / revising a frame to add a little weight, maybe making his bun flop down them up again or moving his head down another pixel. Great work, this taught me a lot!
Hi Brandon, love your work and your videos. 😁 These small animations are fun (and hard!) to do. Your jump and double jump animations look awesome! I like the bounciness and especially the ripple effect. Very fantasy zen monk-like. I did notice that the running animations here lack a frame where the feet are in the center of the body, which seems to reduce the feeling of movement passing from out in front to back behind. If you examine the distance between the feet pixels you’ll maybe see what I mean - they stay in the outermost areas only and skip over the center. If you do another video with little guy that could maybe be altered if you feel it needs it. Also, that samurai dude needs a little black cat! =^_^=
This is giving me crazy celeste vibes
Great video, just a question. While exporting the jump sprite sheet should i keep the original pixel size? (Example: if my standing charachter is 50px tall, but the jumping frame is bigger or smaller than 50px, should i resize it to 50px?)
Now I really want to see a game made with these sprites
I guess one pixel does make a difference :)
Hey Brandon! I know you don't make games, but I've been watching a couple of gamejam TH-camrs and I think it would be awesome to see you challenge a bunch of them to make a game using a style and sprite set of your making. It could be a really cool video to see you make an awesome style set and see them try to make a small. short game out of it :D
The run animation without sword looks form me like his jumping on his front foot :D otherwise great vid as always.
He run...
He jump...
But most importantly, he armor up!
I think that you could justify the start of the double jump by making dust particles with low alpha follow the samurai when he goes in the air for the first jump(you know what I mean)
Would be awesome to see this guy on itch in a little asset pack!
This is by far my favorite video. Is it okay if I use this as a base to start my own style?
Nice!
i said it once, and say it again: i would pay to play a game designed by this guy...
Oh, this is so nice! I am learning quite a lot! Hm, for next one could you do another mock up, but with magical girl character? Like Sailor Moon or Card Captor Sakura but something original. Would be neat to see what you can come up with. Double Like!! ^^b
You've beautifully animated the movement of armor pieces - they really look like popping out from behind the character! Also I noticed how greatly you used the principles of animation - even though the sprite is very small, it had the squashing, anticipation and easing. Great job!
I'm annoyed a bit by Photoshop animation that whenever I want to add a layer to the 1st frame (or turn an existing one visible), I have to manually turn it off for all the other frames. Do you know if there is a way to turn off this behaviour? (does it even bother you as well? :D)
Thanks so much dude! And yeah I know exactly what you mean about the timeline 😅 I'm not sure it can be changed, but to be honest it doesn't really bother me because I know to expect that behaviour, and sometimes I use it to my advantage. Sometimes if I want to make adjustments to the first frame, I'll duplicate the first frame so it becomes frame 2, make the edits there, and then delete the original frame 1. Hope that helps!
@@BJGpixel Yeah, it sounds like a good work-around! Just a shame there is no checkbox for that :) Thanks for reply, all the best!
Imagine BJG's power if he made pictures out of tiny cubes (Voxels)! :O
such a neat little character to bring back every now and then! have you considered giving him a name?
Feels like his off hand & foot are too dark, but Awesome! Reminds me of "The Guyver" movie 🎬 transformation. . .🤔😁👌💯
is there a way to make a high detail pixel character to move but with faster process of animating it?
Knights of Zodiac* vibes on the armor build spin i like it!
*(Saint Seya/Os Cavaleiros do Zodiaco)