Fantastic episode! Would love to see you try to create a character in this universe. mimicking the art style and such. Either way love the content.

@BJGpixel

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's a really cool idea, gonna keep that in mind

Plz do this for metal slug 4 animations

@NapBitez

3 жыл бұрын

seconded! would love to see an analysis

@angrypotato_fz

3 жыл бұрын

@@NapBitez Oh yeah, the classic red hearts boxers :D

@Jamie-qf5ly

3 жыл бұрын

Metal slug is one of my all time favourite pixel art. The sprites always have way more details for the res than you'd think

@pieerboulos8020

3 жыл бұрын

YES

@ragingrabbit7163

3 жыл бұрын

I FUCKING LOVE METAL SLUG

Honestly, Brandon has fully convinced me pixel art is the best art. I might start to do pixel art of my own.

Ah, the difference in needs for the palettes between a portrait and a sprite is something that I need to keep in mind too. I get a little obsessed with accuracy, and it's hard to remember that it's not always a good thing, even in pixels.

i love when i get a notification of a new bjg video makes my day

@williamruiz5965

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@smolse6854

3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: today's Brandon James Greer's channel 1 year birthday!

Sprite analysis of my favorite game of all time? Yes please!

I’m down for a feature length documentary from you on CT and Super Metroid sprites.

Sprite analysis is the best series on KZread!

So detailed and helpful! Especially appreciated the comparison of the portraits in the sprite colors.

Chrono Trigger is one of my all time favorite games, I'm glad that it's getting attention here!

I would love to see a Sprite analysis of Hyper Light Drifter by you

Awesome, can you do a video on Seiken Densetsu 3 sprites?

@thusky4399

3 жыл бұрын

I second that, even though I've been studying these for years!

@BJGpixel

3 жыл бұрын

Love the sprite designs and colours from that game; I'll have to at some point! :D

Still hoping for an analysis on either Landstalker or Shining Force.

@wildgrem

3 жыл бұрын

Shining Force II*

Interesting! Never thought about high saturation and high contrast is actually crucial to low resolution art since it helps creating division!

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS!! Chrono Trigger is SOOO good!!

Great video. I just binge-watched all your videos this weekend. Awesome work!

Another reason for brighter sprites could be so they contrast better against dark game backgrounds. Seeing as the sprites are small on the screen, they need to pop if they're going to contrast well against different environments.

Excellent video as always ! Your love and knowledge for pixel art really shows !

So much valuable information ... in such a short video. I love your content!! Thank you!! Keep it up! :-)

I love the art style in this game, you can take a look at the fire emblem series if you have the time, they got some fantastic portraits and ofc pixel art sprites/animations in general

@BJGpixel

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'll have to check those out - I've seen some of the pixel art, but have only ever played the GameCube one so it'd be nice to explore the rest of the series

@Vagossssssssss

3 жыл бұрын

@@BJGpixel I will give you this link then, if you got time take a look www.feplanet.net/sprites-archive

@IONATVS

3 жыл бұрын

@@BJGpixel The Gameboy Advance ones are the pinnacle of the series’ pixel art. Make sure you have footage in 60FPS if you’re looking up animations online, some of the animations for critical hits and other high action moments in battle use 60FPS single-frame flickering effects to create incredible optical illusions. Older games in the series might be interesting to look at to see the evolution, but are a...bit of a mixed bag spritework-wise and later games transitioned to trad art portraits and 3D models for battles, and did so a bit clumsily at first, which obviously aren’t focus of this channel (though they kept pixelated sprites for the tactical map screen for a WHILE afterwards as a callback to nostalgia)

Angelique is another game on the SNES whose character portraits really stood out to me. Looking back they are not as special or especially well translated like chrono trigger's, but the game used much less detailed character sprites and instead put quite a lot of focus on the anime like character portraits.

This was amazing as per usual. Thank you!!!

Ever since I started watching your videos, I look for the fact that most character sprites are high in saturation to stand out from the background art. I love the realism of desaturated textures and tiles, but simplicity and visibility is crucial for sprites, making it easy on the eyes when playing a game. But it's really neat to see more complexity in the colour palette for the portraits, giving you a more true sense of what that character is truly supposed to look like. Very nice analysis and for such an amazing game!

Yay a new video! I practically learn pixel art from these! Are there any other resources for pixel artists to use?

Yes, I am late. That said, with all the calls for analyses of different games, I would like one as well. My beloved Golden Sun (the GBA ones, preferably both, I myself am leaning more to The Lost Age if I were to pick one) would suit such an analysis very well.

Great video! Been a designer for a few years, but never thought about color palettes too much. For pixel art, do you recommend following a limited color palette? Or is this more of a preference?

@BJGpixel

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think limited palettes are certainly worth trying, at least as an exercise or experiment! Low colour counts often force you to repurpose colours in ways you may not have considered otherwise, so that can be a good lesson in working with restriction - and I think the simplicity of a limited palette also suits pixel art particularly well :D

this info is wasy too valuable!! thank you so much!

I just want to thank you for putting so much effort into your videos, you even had to buy a capture card and everything, or is there another way?

Very cool and informativ video. Also love your way of presenting content 😄👍

Ok this channel needs and deserves more subs

You just made my day!

Aside from characters that have a clear resemblance with Drabonball cast, Lucca looks a lot like Arale, again from Toriyama ;)

sees new vid from this channel.. decides to keep it square for the foreseeable future

The GBA fire emblem games have some amazing spritework to analyze. Make sure you have 60 FPS on when looking up footage tho, or you’ll miss some of the amazing critical animations.

Really, really good takes.

Please note while viewing graphics from Chrono Trigger that Square was aware that the game's visuals would be stretched from 8:7 to 4:3, and made the assets to fit.

@alynnzz0491

3 жыл бұрын

Hence why the moon looming above Magus' Keep may be an oval when played in an emulator.

@alynnzz0491

3 жыл бұрын

Some things, the moon included, were redrawn for the DS version of the game.

I really appreciate this video, as I've been studying Chrono Trigger's sprites recently. However, I'd love to see more analysis of sprite sizing for GBA, if one were to make RPG sprites for example, how big is too big? How small before too much detail is sacrificed?

super informative

yes this is amazing! i wish you could do one with breath of fire 3 or 4

I was hoping for a speed paint this round. still neat though!

Hey, can you do a video on how to fill in blank spaces in art? Or how to pixel foliage?

new vid yay

Chrono trigger is one my favorite games

Short and sweet, just like the game!

@jonathansmith1281

3 жыл бұрын

@@_thestarsarelookingatyou And they managed to fit all that into only 20 hours of gameplay. That's quite low considering the usual length of RPGs, then and now.

Uhh, you're probably getting bombarded with these requests, so sorry about adding another one, but... Suikoden 2 is a love letter to pixel art. Everything about that game. I'd love to see your take on it. :D

Akira Toriyama has a character generator that does the work for him I am 100% sure, he made few variations and then he just mixes and matches :D All of his character look alike :D

Final Fantasy IV or VI next!

Could u do a analysis over kirby dreamland for the gameboy and how it uses anti aliasing 🥺👉👈

I was trying out chrono trigger the pther day for the first time and i started recommending it to all my friends.So when i saw this vid i clicked it faster than the speed of sound lol

Best sprite channel. I’ve been looking for good tips and tutorials for fantasy esque sprite stuff (really loved final fantasy tactics advanced) You get a lot of not authentic stuff researching it. Any more resources? Would love to see some hd2d style stuff. Also, no Pokémon :( ?

Please make the video that analyze the sprite itself... or the background... Background in CT game is awesome, it looks good even by today standard.

Akira toriyama Best decision square and dragon quest ever made

Could you do a sprite analysis video on hyperlight drifters style?

You could do an anylisis for wargroove, tge style is really pretty

Could you make a video on Marmoset Hexels 3 pls. I would love to see your style in it

I’m going to be making sprites like this.. someday .

How would the sprites look with the softer colors of the portrait?

Hey Brandon, can you do a Golden Sun analysis, pls.

can you do an analysis on jagged alliance 2

RIP AKIRA ❤

tutorial on how to make mother 3 sprites, please.

Are there any other examples out there of drawings being converted to pixel art while trying to stay faithful?

Hey, can you do the "Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones"? I kinda curious how they can making the pixel art so satisfy to watch

can you do something like this Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced

PLEASE i BEG you do a final fight or streets of rage sprite timelapse 🙏🏻

Magus: I have been forgotten

any chance you'll do more PS1 and PS2 RPG pixel art? thank you :)

Make Analysis about gda fire emblem spirits they have cool pixel art

Please Sprite Analysis for Blasphemous!

Please do that with dragonquest 5 sprites🙌

Plz do a overview of the pixel art from megaman zero 1-4 i feel it would make a good video

@BJGpixel

3 жыл бұрын

It would! I've been meaning to pick up the Zero collection on Switch so perhaps after I make my way through them! :D

Very cool! Is Chrono Trigger worth playing? I've been told to play it before, so I'm thinking of putting it on my list of games to play eventually 😁

@BJGpixel

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's a strong recommend from me dawg :D I know your backlog is getting longer after we also discussed adding Final Fantasy VII to it as well - but if you're interested in 16-bit-era RPGs, Chrono Trigger is one of the best! Really fun battle system, and great storylines with some time travel mixed in for good measure :)

@CKTDanny

3 жыл бұрын

I loove time travel and I heard about how the game plays with that concept! Okay, Chrono Trigger is added!! Are there any titles you're looking to play in the next little while, btw? I'm curious because I think I'm going to get around to playing Celeste soon haha

@BJGpixel

3 жыл бұрын

Haha awesome! And yeah actually good call, gotta add Celeste to my list as well! I just recently started a replay of Metal Gear Solid (Twin Snakes ver.) and that's been a lot of fun

@CKTDanny

3 жыл бұрын

@@BJGpixel Ooh, sounds like fun! I never played the MGS games but my friends won't stop talking about them sometimes, maybe I'll play'em sometime too 😁 Let me know if you get to Celeste before me!! Hahaha

@BJGpixel

3 жыл бұрын

@@CKTDanny hahaha will do! Also eyeing up some time for Cyberpunk 2077 - certainly no shortage of games at the moment, guess that's a good thing! 😅

I can't pick HSB but I has HSV from aseprite.

Hello Greer of Brandon james

Hi I’m an animator and I’m writing an animator basics book. I’m doing a pixel section, but I know nothing about pixel art. So I could use a couple tips from you. Thanks

not to put my opinion out there but what about an sprite analysis of the ps1/arcade jojo fighting game heratige for the future

Do you have a comment on the character portraits compared to their in-game designs? I feel like there is a bit of disconnect there for some of them, like they don't really represent the same person.

Although pixel art games are back on the indie scene, very few look as good as Chrono Trigger, Trials of Mana or Yoshi's Island. Even Octopath Traveler and Dragon Quest XI's 2D mode, made by the same company that produced those games, don't look as good. (I mean Octopath looks good but it's the 2D/3D effects, not the pixel art itself imho.) It looks like a lot of the know-how, knowledge and techniques acquired during the SNES/Genesis era pixel artists has been lost through desuetude and is only now being rediscovered.

can you talk about earthbound next?

Yeer

Please pokémon trainer timelapse

Hey can I get your gmail so I can send you my work?

@BJGpixel

3 жыл бұрын

Contact info is in the 'About' tab

@theunknown1545

3 жыл бұрын

I can’t use Instagram or those things I’m not there on that... exactly why I asked...

@angrypotato_fz

3 жыл бұрын

@@theunknown1545 You shouldn't expect of him to publicly post his private e-mail. Don't you realize how overloaded his mail would get? (for example, he has 70 000 subscribers ;)) Maybe you can post your work somewhere in a public place and let him know where it is.

@theunknown1545

3 жыл бұрын

Well, he did post his insta link in his about section... well ok I’ll leave him a link.

Frog

please do stardew valley analysis

Nice, only 1 dislike. Not from me tho