How Pizza Tower's Peppino ATE PIXEL ART
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Pizza Tower exploded onto the indie gaming scene last year, and one of the most beloved parts of the game is the artstyle and just how unique and crazy it is. How have Tour De Pizza been able to take such a loose art direction and craft it into one of the best showing of the limits of pixel art in all time? Let's find out!
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just so you know, the all code and spritework were done by 1 man. I also have no idea how this game turned out so great.
to my knowledge, mcpig did all the art work and all the code for pt up to a certain point, I believe that after the level editor demos for pizza tower sertif became the main coder for the game.
Sterif also helped out with the code
Even thought it's all done over the course of 5 years it's still exteemly inpressive
I mean, kinda?
Mcpig was responsible for the animations and coding for the first half of development. Sertif joined the team on 2020 and basically became the main coder for the rest of development.
Actually the code work was mostly done by Sertif and the animation was by McPig
As my friend once said: “Every frame is a treat for the eyes.”
Also, I find it so impressive that you can give a character so much personality in your game that when it says “You’ve hurt Peppino ten times” you actually feel bad
I felt HORRIBLE whenever I got that warning 😭
But when you see "You've hurt Gustavo 10 times" it doesn't feel nearly as bad, because he's not an anxious wreck and you know he can handle it
That and I hate playing as him
"If you hurt Peppino too much, you can go to hell!"
@@exar5262 Pizzahead is in hell because he forgot such a simple rule
“Where did my pixel art go”
Suspiciously shaped pixel art Peppino:
With the new update for The Noise, seeing how they adapted all of the animations for an entirely new character with a new personality genuinely showcases the excellence of this game’s animation and visual flare. While still unhinged in many ways, you can tell The Noise isn’t quite as unhinged as the paranoid, raging Italian of Peppino. He’s instead a snarky, sly, egotistical madman that exudes confidence in most situations he’s thrown in. While Peppino is fighting for his life in hell climbing the tower, Noise is going through mowing down anyone he can just for the fun of it. It genuinely is such a fantastic display of characterization.
Peppino's animations really intensely emphasize the two main parts of his character, horrified and anxious italian man and absolutely unstoppable juggernaut of rage, every single ones of his attack animations are so powerful and angry like all the enemies insulted his grandma, and whenever he gets hit he whines like a dog, i love this superhuman italian guy so much
It is criminal you made a video dissecting Peppino's animations without bringing up Fake Peppino.
Probably doesn't want to spoil one of the best parts of the game
@@Eric-zp6sl Yet he shows Pizzahead early on in the video
@@FireyDeath4 Pizzahead likes the attention.
it’s interesting to note that the entire color palette is referenced from wario land 2 tile rips
how come i find you so often
Toby Fox 🤝McPig
Putting MsPaint scribbles into absolutely fantastic games
Technically the one who did the art was Temmie and not Toby, though Toby did make concept art for the game.
and making music
@@DaDrawBoiMr sauceman and Clascyjitto made the Pizza Tower music
do not call pizza tower sprites scribbles!!
Just McPig, Toby Fox's art looks like ass while McPig's is just messy and chaotic
Also Pizza Tower is fun and Undertale's boring af lmao
one of my favorite animations for peppino is the idle animation in RRF, the fact that the devs cared enough to make an entirely different idle animation for just one ice level already makes it good, but combined with how funny it looks, and how exaggerated it looks, it shows how cold the level really is. sad how most people don't notice it.
As an artist, I find this game’s pixel art to be genuinely beautiful. Most pass it off as funny but sloppy and silly, but the amount of creativity and effort and time and detail there is to every chaotic frame is something wonderful to behold.
pizza tower deserved indie goty
Nah it deserved something better
@@J.T._Entertainment tru
I played both Cocoon (the indie game that won) and Pizza Tower
Both are great games, but Cocoon is nowhere near Pizza Tower in style and personality
Every second of Pizza Tower kept me engaged and hungry for the next thing that got thrown at me
Cocoon also kept me curious about the next world and boss and how the other worlds would come into play
But the entire game was just a slow slog through everything
Pizza Tower definitely deserved indie GOTY
TL;DR: Learn to read. It isn't that long. But simply Cocoon isn't as based as Pizza Tower
@@Peanutdababie wiser words couldn't be said at the end
@@Peanutdababie
Whether one is better than the other and vice versa depends on the person. Some people like the "slow slog" gameplay, while others like fast platformers like PT. It's a matter of taste, not superiority.
The art style is actually meant to be a combination of MS Paint art, and late 90s early 2000s cartoons like Rocko's Modern Life.
Also ren and stimpy
From what I've heard, from the more than 5000 animations Peppino has in the folders, only like 1500 of them are used in the final game and the rest being from scrapped content and stuff.
This is the case for most of the characters, really. For example, the cheeseslime's bat animation 6:06 was from a scrapped mechanic called "heat meter", where the enemies would be more agressive for how well you played the level.
I'd really like to see the heat meter come back, it's such a cool idea
Just the Sprite Sheet of Peppino Alone is quite the achievement of artistic platforming story telling evoking the glory days of 90s era cartooning
Has anyone seen some of the enemy sprites smooth animation? especially Pizza slug for no reason he is animated so damn smooth
bongocrab jumpscare
and yeah, modern pt animations are smooth af
@@happygamer_18 Happy jumpsacre
true
the anchovi’s flying animation is absurdly smooth for the limited frames
@@jess648 the heat meter sprite is funny tho
full course spriter!?!?!?!? (hi bongo its me milkshake from full course mod real)
reacting to thumbnail: EXACTLY HE SO FINE.
I still bring Peppino up as a selling point.
The 50 combo walk is also such a niche animation as there is almost no time in which you have a combo that high and arent dashing its so niche most people though it was a unique animation for the final showdown yet it has more frames than some entire player characters on its own when it doesnt even need to exist
"nom nom nom" -Peppino
“Pernoi.” -Peppino Spaghetti
11:28 there was only one guy who made all these sprites. There was no group of animators, just one animator
The batting sprite for the cheese slime was soppose to be used in scrap heater machanic.
Not only did they do a great job with pepino, they recently dropped the noise update with even more animations that are just as good! Mcpig is crazy!
14:34 which makes the speed and destructive chaos of the rocket apparent
Each totem on the pole is a symbolic representation of one family
Making the speed and destructive chaos of the rocket way more apparent
Making the speed and destructive chaos of the rocket way more apparent
Those bullies won't bother me now!
awww the scrunkly 🥰🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 double tap now if you'd scrunkly the when 😆
What is bro YAPPING about
My pocket revolver:
tap tap🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😀😃😄🥰😄😁😁😘😘🤪
@@sparkyspritesstuffThey speak in Tumblr speak, I can translate it for you, as Tumblr native.
They are just loving this pathetic wet best of man (Peppino).
Pongon donut!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😮
I love the fact that when pepino is running, he can easily destroy metal blocks like they're nothing, but when he crashes into an enemy, he slightly nods
9:47 "you've probably been shown the Bouncing Ball three dozen times if you're interested in animation. heres #37 anyway"
And now there's almost as much sprites done for the Noise too!
Now I'm waiting for this thing, but with Noise, cause damn that's awesome:D
Its kinda funny how half of the sprites come from the demo/pre-demo eras of the game. And even then, it doesn't even get noticed because of the art style!
That's just genius.
peppino's walk animation was unchanged since 2018 march
thats why the artstyle works so well, even a crappily made walk(the polish on the sprite is garbage compared to the newer ones) wouldnt stand out too much
I just now discovered your channel, and as someone who's trying to make a game animated like pizza tower, and this was not only fun to watch, but also informative on how to use pixel arr
Im glad I can help you out on your game dev journey! Best of luck on making it
Arrrrr
As a professional pirate, I love making pixel arr.
You want attention to detail well in the vigilante boss fight there's a cow that he calls to airstrike the player when it dies it explodes into raw beef with really smooth rotating animation you can only appreciate it once when it dies during the vigilantes last hp on the first phase because on the second it's all obscured by shadows and even on that part you can see it he only calls in 1 airstrike and during a part where the player can easily spam him out
pov pt animators. "f u solid objects now ur squishy"
animator*
Yes. Just one guy made thousands upon thousands of sprites for the game.
11:29 "really shows how meticulous these animators were " prob been told this 100 times already but all the sprites were animated by one guy
15:13 as a balloon rat, im taking this as a threat to us
Didn’t mention the shotgun crouch walk animation :(
DAMN IT
The bat animation was made for a scrapped feature called the heat meter basically if you kill lots of enemies the enemies will walk fast and they will get new attacks like the cheeseslime gets a bat attack
baseball cheeseslime is from the unused heatmeater function
I like how you just made a video about pizza towers animation and a week later noise is added with even more pixel work
im making a tf2 mod and im trying to remake the pixel art so im going to cry - modding chair
Best of luck with making it!! You’ve got this
I'm sure you'll get this alot but,
use aseprite with pixel perfect with the wl2 color palette, mcpig has alot of art streams
also I could help with this it sounds interesting and I need to draw more
don't quote me on tha
@@arcanestratsthose doesnt help much considering mcpig just nails every frame in one go(mostly)
oh you read this cool
i am slowly going to do it demopeppino will live
Most pixel art is art: static. This is pixel animation.
and now theres the noise update
6:12 The bat swinging animation for cheese slime was a part of the scrapped heat meter system in which after reaching it tova certain point, the level becomes more rewarding, but much more punishing
I never expected that this game would be tied with UTDR in my pixel art inspiartions list
Yet here we are
Edit: Yknow i just realized that both of these games have been associated with Mspaint
I'm starting to notice a pattern in my tastes..
great timing!! the noise dlc just came out!
I didnt expect to see the ogre salesman from my favourite rougelike but i am very happy to see him
How a canadian, that finished animation school and a bunch of composers changed the world:
he's also french btw
And then they did it again
The revolver idle looks 3d
i didnt know i needed this
Peppino has like, bajillion sprites. Even the used ones. There’s TOO MUCH
I hope you cover Freedom Planet and itd sequel. Those games also have amazingly done Pixel Art animation.
The rat balloon pose reminds me a lot of the owl in Warioland 3. I haven't played Pizza Tower (yet) but the sheer amount of unhinged animations was enough to make me want to play, just to see what kind of funny shit there was
The Fancy Pants Adventure series is another bunch of games that have many thousands of frames of animation, but they're done in vector graphics, and they aren't quite as expressive as Pizza Tower. I mean they are still in their own way, and sometimes they make nutty animations. It has a heavy focus on making everything super smooth along with the gameplay. The whole game series seems like a polar complement to Pizza Tower in so many ways
Oooh, I think I’ve heard of the series but that sounds interesting to look at
Front facing cheeseslime
Horrifying
6:08
They didnt use the animation because it was related to a scraped feature called the heat meter where the more enemies you kill the angrier they get making yo lose more points.and cheese slime would take out his bat and fork knights dash at you when it reaches a certain point
you say animatiors but I'm pretty sure that it was all made by mcpig / pizza tower guy
that says even more about this games style but also I'm unsure
because there are no real credits which makes people think that tour de pizza is bigger than they actually are ((back in the day to me It was two, pizza tower guy and sauceman but now I think it's five,
frostix, clascy and sauceman for music,
pizza tower guy for art and coding
and sertif to fix the awful code and make the game like, actually good))
there was of course alot of discord involvement in the demos but to my knowledge pretty much nothing got in to the final game (maybe the final frames of the ranks except the P rank if I remember correctly? they tend to have a pretty diffrent style and really look like they were made in mspaint (because of the size, lack of pixel perfect which other sprites had and some colors were like, the mspaint color palette, like the blue, don't quote me on that) but again there's no real info about that, I'm willing to discuss about it more if anyone has clarification
iirc the only sprite that was made by the discord was the early cheese block animations, which were replaced in final game anyways
its really strange to me how so many people thought theres an entire group of animators doing the art, while its literally just mcpig himself responsible for over 80 concept art and every single sprites and tiles
and about the rank anims, its probably just because mcpig havent gotten used to aseprite yet and sometimes forgot to turn on some settings
@@reallyahuman to be honest, I began with like the demos, and the demos were full of discord involvement, usually mcpig just fucked around alot in the discord too saying dumb shit so I get it
also a bit late but, frostix IS clascy, which makes the actual TDP team only 4(McPig, Sauceman, Clascyjitto and Sertif), if you dont count POSTELVIS who only contributed for the menu theme only
Peppino Spaghetti is the perfect Mario and Wario fusion combination dream come true! It also reminds me Nintendo won’t ever give us an proper platformer Mario and Wario crossover.
3:27 full version of distorted pepperman theme now
The noise when
Uhhhh… in about 7 hours LMAO
"Wario Land Gold"
Wow cant wait to play that one
LMAO, sounds like a great game huh?
Hell yeah.
file:_peppino_eat_pixl_art
Like how you go in-depth with peppino’s animations.
Also is it just me or does some of the more older animations from 2018 that mcpig drew look different compared to the later ones. Like peppino who’s arms look think near the shoulder areas and got thinner down the arms until the hands. Like an audio file easing out. Compared to his newer animations that have more normal like arm thickness. Also the forknight animations, Normal forknights have choppy looking animations compared to their ghost counterparts who have animations that look like they were drawn in 60 fps by an AI or something.
Another banger by the spritemaster!
Always appreciate you man, can’t wait for your inscryption vid ✨
can you talk about noise sprites? since he is a new playable character
Stay tuned 👀
What I think is interesting is that peppino doesn't have the most sprites in the game. It's actually the noise who does, considering the different playstyles the devs wanted to give him plus his boss fight. Granted some are unused but using a debug to play as his early version or playing an older demo build where he is playable you're able to see them.
The critter
The noise update even stacked the sprite
I have gotten into so many hyper fixations first by being into the art and style even if the main creation is something im not necessarily interested in at first glance
I’d make a noise update video. Great Stuff!
I’ll consider it after the video currently in production!
mmm pixel art, yummy
is he fat because he ate pixel art?
I wonder what do you think of noise as a playable character. I found him lacking, personally, especially compared to how Peppino was animated.
you made a mistake.
you said animators.
these were all made by one guy.
considering the resolution of sprites, i'd say the sprites are closer to oekaki than pixel-art but i could be wrong.
nah, an offset pixel would still be noticeable, so it counts as pixel art. The sprites ARE unusually big tho, but that is a given if you want to animate them in a flowy, cartoony manner.
14:34 found audio error
nah Caseoh ate pixel art
2:01 lmao
14:32
Sorry I thought repeating myself would help you remember
4:04 why does it feel like those animations sped up
2:15 what are those skulls from the bullet king
I think it’s just the projectile it’s firing
@@sparkyspritesstuffthat’s not what it looks like though? Like I’ve thought this boss like 100 times
yeah the projectiles are in the shape of a skull in the image, rather than just a circle
@@jar9074 Im gonna have to tests this
14:34 lil edit error saying rocket's power loosely twice
me when they forgot mort: :(
2:01 CLICK HERE
12:56 wasn't the first time in one of the first levels in the shop?
14:33 he repeated himself!!
3:34 i see something wrong with the sprite
1 frame of the animation colours the gap between his body and arm
14:36 you said the same line twice.
8:59 what is body breaking? is it an animation principle?
I didn't really understand why the art for this game was Pixelated, wouldn't it look so good if it was not Pixelated?
iirc mcpig's animation skill overall is a bit loose and worse than him on aseprite. plus the outlines looks better than those 534647344x5846437 canvas art with the worst anti-aliasing options possible
@@reallyahuman 😵💫
Top right mushroom is not aligned the same way the others are :(
I love your voice
I sometimes like to just stand in place and watch his silly idle animations and hear his inconsistently pitched voice as he makes exaggerated Italian gestures
A lot of people are gonna hate me for these. But the pizza tower artstyle is not hard to learn and imitate.
This is a good example for differenciating between animation style and art style. Like, animation-wise, it's insanely impressive. The animations are so lively and smooth. There's not a single moment where a character is still during gameplay.
Ate pixel art?
you said Terraria wrong
Terraria's Peppino
I hate to say it. But this game does not have the best pixel art. I know it's supposed to look like how 90's cartoons looked off model. And I think it is kind of a cool aesthetic, but really, it looks like this game was drawn with a mouse and Microsoft Paint. I don't see the big deal. It is a good game, though. But even the game is just another speedrunner type game. There's not a lot going on with it. Other than gimmicks, but that's literally been done by Wario years ago
yeah it was drawn in aseprite
@@nextal_ I knew that. But thanks for telling me anyway 🙂
In all due respect, I feel like saying it’s another speed runner type game and that its gimmicks aren’t super impactful shows almost a complete misunderstanding of what the game is designed around.
@unnamed9482 I've played other games like this. It's not something new. I still love the game though
Actually play the game first then come back
14:30 bro said the same thing twice