Basic Anti-Aliasing for beginners (Pixel Art Tutorial)
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I do not do pixel art much, but I remember, when I started out, I did the mistake of banding and overusing it. So big thanks for making this! Edit: Also I just noticed the cute doggo at the bottom of the video, slowly moving with the video!
I like that you refer to an AA pixel as half a pixel, it’s a helpful way of looking at it
Wait, you were saying something ? sorry. during the entire video i was just watching the yellow dog follow the time slider,
it's also strange since the youtube slider doesn't go from edge to edge, so there's some weird kind of parallaxy thing going on.
Omg, the dog follows the- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
On mobile it works perfectly :p
Works fine if you maximize the video, but I hadn't noticed until i read the comments (time to restart the vid)
It moves one to one on phone for me
I did not realise it till now. So adorable and clever
this is an hard concept to explain, and you explained it really well!
grammar is an hard concept to explain.
@@DeathAtYourDoorStep Capital letters are too!
A friend of mine flexed on me the fact that his drawing had smooth curves, now i'm trying to learn this to fight back
Can't wait for a Blender tutorial, I've been getting started with basics but I'd really like to see how you do it
Mort I can't wait for more tutorials, these vids help so much!
Thanks one of the most useful tutorials yet
Congrats on 150k subs! I remember when you had like 50k! :D I love your channel, and you've taught me so much about color and pixel art :D
this really helps, i didn't understand how to do it and originally assumed you did it outside the outline.
I really enjoy your tutorials. Your flow and way of explaining things clicks in my brain.
been working on some pixel art myself and just discovered this play list. cant wait to dive in :)
After AGES, I finally feel like I understand AA. THANK YOU!
Thank you! This was really helpful. I can identify some of my mistakes now. Thinking about this and shading is still very hard for me.
that is quality content
Thanks a lot Mort! I've been watching your videos since I started to get into pixel art 4 days ago.
I actually did my first ever piece of pixel art. I believe with a lot of "no-goes" because I still don't know how to apply the Anti-Aliasing.
Once again, thanks a bunch for your videos! :)
YYEYYYYYYYYYY , love your work mort
Bro, thank you so much for your videos! I have dreamed of learning pixel art for a long time, and your videos help me a lot!
7:01 "Because in pixel art everything is just an illusion"
SO MY LIFE IS A LIE?!
Try buy gold instead. Bye!
Best tutorials!! Bravo Mort!
Fantastic Mort !
You can realy notice the difference in the hair and belly of the bear at the end. This is amazing!
6:34
U can use some opacity pixels or how it calls. Set the pencil tool to Alpha compositing mode, so they will match with any background)
Thanks Mort I learned a tonn
nice job men!
I want more videos with tech like that ^^
Love the videos!
Since I’m relatively new to pixel art: How do you decide between what is “shading” and what is “antialiasing”? For example, if you really wanted to make the belly of the bear stick out...because it is a small sprite, shading to one person may look like overuse of antialiasing to another.
This was really helpful, thanks!
Great videos! Really helpful 👍👍
Building stuff in minecraft for over 6 years, actually helped me a lot when i started making some pixel art stuff...
Damn, that was fast!
Just stumble upon your channel. I luv your stuff Bro :D
Very helpful. Just got into doing pixel art.
Not sure if I'll do much AA yet but it's good to know if I need to do some.
Moonlighter fe doesn't use AA at all.
Thx , i use it for Pixel Car Racer and pixel art too , ..... Thanks you so much
I support you MortMort!
It’s so weird for me, cause the beginning stage it looks so off and weird, but the end result looks so good and makes a lot of sense. Good tutorial. 👍🏽
Thank you for the tutorial
Awesome tutorial! I’m just getting started but for down the line, if you were to animate something would you try to sort of keep the lines in which you anti aliased the same?
Say for example if his feet were to turn, would you anti alias where the anti alias you had before would logically be? Idk if that makes sense haha
Any advices to making sprites or backgrounds or stages like in sonic mania or sonic 3? Because those sprites are detailed as heck and I don't know how they made it look less of a cell shaded art and a bit more like soft shading with detail
On the example where the same sprite with anti-aliased outside edges may be seen on different coloured backgrounds, I actually tend to use a % of transparency on the anti-aliased pixels and keep them roughly the same colour as the normal pixels. That way, whatever the background the sprite is on top of, the anti-aliasing will overlay onto it rather than stand out way more on one background colour than another. So, if I have a character with a blue outline for example, I would use say 25%-75% transparent [similarly-coloured] blue on the outside anti-aliased pixels, and those semi-transparent blue pixels will overlay and mix slightly with whatever the background colour is and not be too blatant and conflicting. I use this very rarely though, and only when I think an outline is seriously jaggy and just needs a tiny bit of smoothing in order to look right. It seems to work pretty well.
What do you think about that?
Can you make a video about shadeing?
This whole time I've been thinking AA is Anti-Air, dank
Thank you
Hey Mort! How do you choose which colors to use for AA?
Hey Tyler!
There are a few ways depending on how experienced you are.
As a beginner I would usually just take the dark colour and make it transparent onto of the other, I don't requirement this in the long run but to start out it might be fine.
If you already have a palette you're limiting yourself to then I'd use whatever colour from the palette I feel makes the best looking transmission between the two colours.
And Freehand picking I would do some hue Shifting. (what I talk about in my old Colour video)
Hope that shed some light on it :)
@@MortMort that was helpful
I like to take the existing color and then just darken it on the slider as much as needed to look nice.
i think in pixel art anti aliasing and shading does alot because you wouldnt have much flexibility in shapes and lines and also construction given the less flexibility construction is very good
Great videos. For game asset sprites, wouldn't you make the background a transparent colour or maybe one colour (green screen effect) so the game engine can remove it), with this in mind AA using colours isn't good as you so, so wouldn't you make the AA pixels 50% transparent, so the background image shows through.
Is it a good idea to use AA combined with a slight color filter when handling objects obscured by fog etc.? I kinda like the idea of having these little clouds dynamically change sprites passing through in this way, just subtle and yet distinct enough not to look off.
To clarify, just having a color filter could blend all the colors a bit and make shapes appear softer as a result, but I kind of like the sort of light diffusion that happens in real life, and wonder if subtle AA might be a good method.
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Most of your character example on the video use border or outer line. i don't use them, and i kinda confused on where to put the AA. I need your help.
That tiny dog is my favourite
What do u prefer: Photoshop or Aseprite?
Did U noticed the 'lil doggo at the bottom of the sceen?
6:16 the 'lil doggo it's at the perfect half of the sceen.
Great video, Mort, as usual.
I noticed that you usually anti-alias your drawings on the inside, right next to the contour line. That's to avoid clashing with a background, isn't it?
Also, like you said, there are different styles of anti-aliasing, and there's one kind of AA that people actually break those two dark straight horizontal lines (thinking on your diagonal line there) with a 2-pixel lighter vertical line. Do you know what I mean? Wanna talk about that?
How is anti-aliasing different from doing a light shading and/or highlighting? They looked the same to me.
tyyyyy.
Mort please, make some tutorials about more specific pixelart, because I try and try but I NEVER know how to shade something or how shadows work and stuff like that, and I never draw something I'm happy with. I guess I suck(?
I think for making games, its better to set the half pixel to an alpha colored pixel don't u think?
Great video, I think the "over banded" sprite still looked really cool. Is it just a question of taste or is there a technical reason not to over-band?
There is no wrong or right but some things just make everything easier when you make more complex stuff, but in the end you should do what you think looks cool! :)
what is your program?
Muito bom
How about BACKGROUND
Oooh... I've been banding :o
Are you going to make a dithering tutorial in the future?
Dithering is just drawing shading in a checkered pattern O-O
Do an episode talking about 3d pixel art!!
haha yes thank you so much
Wait, what th- the yellow dog follows the red youtube line? I've never seen someone do that before.
tis is crayzay, do gamers really observe every pixel XD
Games don't care a bit! 🥁
What program do you use to make pixel arts?
Aseprite
"everything is just an illusion" sums it up pretty nicely... oh were we talking about pixel art? ;)
But how do you choose color that you can use to AA?
I'm new to pixel art, but I imagine you should choose a dark colour that is already in your palette
Blend the two colors that touch. For example if you look at king dedede's right hand, 2:31, which is yellow and it has a black outline you'll see the anti-alias pixels are a gradient of those two colors: orange and brown.
Thanks mate. This was really helpful. One question trough. What program is that?
Asesprite
Thx for the answer. I already figured it out like 3 weeks ago.
[404 User Not Found] I figured you would have, but figured I’d take the chance haha. Cheers!
@@404User-Not-Found Aseprite... Just to waste your time >:)
5:16 it's kind of irrelevant to pixel art but subpixels do exist
Isn't AA also shading?
no
Getting the right colour is hard tho.
is there a way we can get asperite for free?
I wish they would remake a top reto games this way and redraw them in 4k
you know that 4k means 4000 pixels across,right?
@@Will-zs9ny lol crazy but I'm sure there are tools to help
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What software do you use?
Aseprite
Windows 10
am i the only one that noticed the dog at the bottom of the screen follows the red video mark?
I make sprites decently often and learned the hard way not to blend (no... just no.. that looks bad)
Instead i'm making a minecraft resource pack with my newfound skill of spriteworking (what?)
The idea is it gives you a look at what you're wearing (how you'll look) while invisible... it'll take a bit of setting up but eh
I have watched this video like 5 times, and have yet to be able to do anti-aliasing well, haha.
Basic anti-Aliasing
What is basic and anti aliasing and how do we do this
Why in this video you want to talk about the very basic of antialiasing and how
Why let’s start out by talking about what antialiasing actually is and how
Why to break it down your monitor is built up with a bunch of squares and if you’re trying to make a line or a curve you’re actually building that line or curve and sometimes the line won’t seem smooth
What is line and curve
What is monitor and built up and smooth
Why is monitor built up with a bunch of squares and how and if we’re trying to make a line or a curve you’re actually building that line or curve and sometimes it won’t seem smooth and what does this mean
Why so what anti - aliasing can do is to transfer things out and make it look more natural and how and what do we mean by this
What is transfer and natural
Why so let’s talk about when you should anti aliasing and how
Why for example use them if you wanna fix a jacke and how and what is that
Why did it show two red plant things with no AA and with AA and what does this mean
Why and if we don’t know what a jagged line check out your three common mistakes you’ll leave a link up here and where and how do we do this and why so we can check that video out
What are common mistakes
Why it can also be useful to curve out certain angles or lines
What is line and curve and link and angles
Why and another thing is can soften outlines and what does this mean
Why so if we want to make our outline seem thicker or thinner you can do that with anti aliasing too and how
What is thicker and thinner and seem
Why but one thing is important if we do it to a piece of art keep it consistent out throughout the entire piece of artwork and how
What does important and piece of art and consistent and entire mean
Why you just quickly want to show us the difference between anti aliasing and not antialiasing on a piece of artwork you’ve made anyway and how
Why so this one is antialiasing and this one isn’t and which and why it showed right plant then left
Why beside you can see you haven’t detracted any colours
Why you’ve just removed all your antialiasing
Why so we can see here on the bottom bit how it’s kind of like smoothing some of the edges out and how and where
What does smoothing some of the edges out mean
What does removed mean
Why where over here it just kind of looks flat and it doesn’t really get a dimension of detail
What does dimension of detail mean
Why but in general just trying to use it sort of smooth these round edges out and how and what does this mean and which
Why we can see here and where and you have a jagged line that you’ve fixed and how
What is jagged line
Why so normally you would have to go from one pixel to two pixels to three pixels and then whatever and what does this mean
What are pixels
Why is there big red plant
Why but you’ve done one to two here and where and what are you talking about
Why so what you’ve done is basically set one to two and a half if that makes sense and what does this mean and how
Why we will get more into details to them but that is just to kind of show us what antialiasing does quickly and how
What are details
Why so there are two common mistakes that you see a lot when people try to anti alias and what are they
What are common mistakes
Why one of them is banding and what is banding and how
And the other one is just plane old overuse of it and how
What is overuse and plane old
Why so one of the things we want to avoid is banding and how do we do this
What is avoid
Why basically what banding is as we can see here the pixel is basically just following the outline without shortening or anything and how
What does following the outline and shortening mean
Why is it showing that blue bird
Why it’s just kind of melting together and how and why is that called banding and why we don’t want to do that
What does melting together mean
Why another thing is overuse of anti-aliasing and how
What is overuse
Why we can add a lot of anti aliasing but the less experience you is the more difficult it becomes and how and why so you recommend starting out with one ore two colours when we are anti aliasing and how do we do this
What is experience and difficult
Why so remember don’t do banding and don’t overuse anti aliasing and how
Why you said how do we think and apply antialiasing and how and why cause it can be kind of confusing if you don’t understand the concept
What’s is apply and concept
Why yellow grey and red thing showing
Why applying antialiasing can be confusing if you don’t understand the concept
Why but if we take a look at the pink line you made here and where it’s supposed to showcase these little boxes over here and we see the pink line is really how we’re supposed to think about this black line here and where and how is it
What is supposed
Why it’s supposed to be sort of a straight line and why but because we are limited by the pixels it has to go side with jump up side with jump up and how
Why we are limited
What is straight line and limited and side with jump up side with jump up
Why though with anti aliasing we can kind of try and emulate the line that we actually want
Why so when it comes to antialiasing less is really more
Why you really wanna emphasise on it don’t try and overuse and how and why that’s one of the things that can go wrong when you try and do anything
Why of course there are styles that go with it but if you’re just doing it to smooth things out a little bit or blend two colours slightly together this is really more in this case
Why again here is a mistake that you’ve seen a lot of people do they just like at one pixel next up one pixel next up one pixel and then blah blah blah and so on and what do you mean that this
Why and here and where we have a different variation of of bending that we don’t wanna do
Why if you try and fill out this green spot here and where you can see it’s really just only these pixels that we need to emulate so what you’ve done here this first pixel and which you’ve kinda made a little bit dark and then these two here and where is kind of bright and how
What is pixels and emulate
Why again you don’t wanna to do this one to three different colours and how and why you wanna try and keep it to a very minimum amount of colours and how do we do this and what
What is minimum amount
Why so either you would do it like this and what
Why or you would just make one colour like this and what
Why so you just want to zoom into this one real quick and talk about something we might come across and how and why it got closer to bottom green and black thing
Why an uneven amount of pixel lined like this one and which is five pixels long and how and what does this mean
Why so you wanna say ok I don’t wanna to three because then your antialiasing is bigger than your aliasing and how and how can we know and why so you want to keep it to and how and what do you mean by this
Why it’s just below half of the number length of the pixel and how
What is number length
Why so if the line was this far and a black thing came you would probably do something like you know this amount of length and how and what and why a yellow thing came under black thing
Why you see yeah this seems to fit pretty right and what and how
What is seems
why then of course we if we want to do it’s two colours we can do it like this and how and why but we never want to start doing something like and what and how and why did green thing come in the middle of black and yellow thing and why that’s a no go and what does this mean
Why so you hope that helped us understand the concept of how to think about antialiasing a little bit and how
Why try and keep this purple line method in mind like if we didn’t have pixels how would the lines look and how and which
What is purple line method and pixels and lines
Why and you know how many half pixels would we have to put in there and where
What are half pixels
I couldn't help but notice the dog...
A pixel is a pixel. You can't say it's a half.
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can you work for me for free?
Hello everybody, my name is death.
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Måske 😏
No AA ok
AA those are the same picture
Why you know there’s no such thing as a half pixel but that’s just what you’re calling it and what in this case and how
Why so you wanna talk a little bit about how to apply antialiasing to a video game sprite because a piece of artwork is very different from a game sprite and how
What is apply and video game sprite and piece of artwork
Why we can see here that you antialiased blue around him that fits with the background and how but why in games our character can come across a variation of different coloured backgrounds so if we start to make antialiasing on the outer side of this right we can come across this weird looking stuff here and where when it comes up against another background and how
What is variation and backgrounds
Why so your suggestion and remind us if we’re going to make antialiasing on a sprite for a game try and build a sprite on a neutral background like a grey and try and sometimes see how it looks on a bright background also see how it looks on a dark background but in general we’ll just try and build it on a very neutral coloured background and how
What is suggestion and remind and sprite and neutral background and in general and neutral coloured
Why that way it is easy to sort of like see if it’s in between or if it’s too dark or if it’s too bright and how
Why another thing you want us to keep in mind if we are going to do antialiasing on a game sprite is that we have to think about this sprite might have to be animated and how
Why so if we animate something we would have to animate the anti-aliasing as well and how
What is animate
Why you know it may not sound that complicated for more experienced people but if we are a beginner this can be something that can make our animation process even way more difficult and how
Why alright so you wanna talk about how antialiasing can also be applied to lines and how
What is applied and lines and complicated and experienced and animation
Why we can see here and where that these lines are kind of like fading out and how and why was white thing on black things next to purple and why and it’s kind of emulating like a brush that gets thinner and figure so we can see down here and where the line is very thin but it gets thicker up here and where and why but we can’t really make the pixel smaller than one pixel so this is a way again to sort of like shrink things down because then pixel art everything is just an illusion and we’re trying to make one pixel display as much information as possible and how and why so this is a way that we can sort of like thin out a line in pixel art and how
What is the cat and the three different colour rectangles and the black thing next to the purple
What is fading out and emulating and thinner and figure and thicker and illusion and display and pixel and information and possible
Why you just wanna zoom in on your cat guy here because we can see here on his mouth you could just make all these sort of like dark greys and which and where be a black line but it’s a way for you to sort like thin these and what lines out and how and why so instead of it’s just one thick line it’s sort of like look a little bit thinner if we see it from a distant and how and why for example up here and where we can see you’ve made one pixel here with his hair and it just helps give the illusion of a little piece of a hair sticking up that actually sits in front of his head right and how
Why so try and think about how we can use a thinner line in some cases instead of just using a plain out black everywhere and how and what does this mean
Why so last off before you end the video you just wanna try and add some anti aliasing to guy and which and why it showed some bear and talk about your process meanwhile and how
Why bear is in top right
Why so first off you like to have your preview window here and where of your sprite so you have a close-up view and a faraway view and how
What is preview and close-up and faraway view and sprite
all visual stuff are ilusions ,feels bad man
am I the only one that thought that no anti aliasing was a big nicer?
yes
Antialiasing is a softening of edges through average pixel value. Like averaging three lines in three layers into one line. Pixel art AA you describe is nothing else than dithering. Average of color shades. Dithering is a 2D technique, AA is 3D technique. There is no true AA in 2D pixel art, it´s all dithering... 2D AA can be done by using transparent layers not just different color shades... And still... true AA requires time value to cheat eyes while dithering does not use time variable.
i cannot undestand sorry
which parts?
A pixel is a pixel. You can't say it's only a half.
I think you missed the point lol
crtnr clearly he meant the 'illusion' of a half-pixel
Is this a Pannenkoek reference?
Okay TJ "''""Henry"''"" Yoshi