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. 🪩
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.
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 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
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
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 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)
5-colour v2 looks like a GBC sprite while double digits move towards 16-bit consoles. I actually liked the MVC pallette one too. Excellent work, as always.
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.
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 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!
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!
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 +1 sub
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 ✨
munkky~ :D Don't really comment much but I always find your videos fascinating. I mostly dabble with Castlevania sprite styles so the most interesting part of these videos is seeing the different array of styles being deployed.
I love the videos and I've been absolutely smashing through them recently trying to absorb as much knowledge and technique as possible. If you could maybe do a beginner tips video that may be super helpful to a lot of people I'm sure. Thank you and keep it up 🐸
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
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. 🪩
@@GearHeadedHamster That’s a future animation for Brandon to make.
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.
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.
Love how you put "0-colour" just for the sake of having a complete grid
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yeah agreed
The 19-color looks like he's in some special level with ethereal lighting, very neat
14 color is my favorite, reminds me a lot of smash megaman. great work, as always!
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
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
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!!
The art is fantastic!
The bg music is so good, bossa nova is fantastic
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
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!
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)
5-colour v2 looks like a GBC sprite while double digits move towards 16-bit consoles. I actually liked the MVC pallette one too.
Excellent work, as always.
This video was a good retcon of another video. The BJG Cinematic Universe is coming along well.
CRTs and pixel art are truly magic together
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.
I really like the "obnoxious highlights", it's prettyyy 😍
I always look forward to you're videos, keep up the good work!
Dude I love the rainbow variants of these characters!
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 kinda like the bright highlights cause it makes him look shinier which makes sense since he’s a robot
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!
Your conviction and care for Pixal Art inspires me to make better art!
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!
My two personal favs are the 14-color and the Halfway to MVC. They're both the perfect mediums.
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
+1 sub
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 ✨
I love the 19 color one the green and purple lighting look great on Megaman
I feel like the 14 color sprite is a nice balance between detail and simplicity, especially on the CRT
I've watched so many of these videos. It's decided. I'm subscribing.
I'm liking, commenting, and subscribing b/c of 19 color sprite. Beautiful in Photoshop and CRT, both!
This is such a fascinating case study. I really enjoyed the process.
The 19 color looks shockingly good once it's on the CRT
5-colour v2 is so good. Holy crap.
6:42 man that 0 color design is 🔥
Pretty cool! Animation is what usually keeps the color palette size in check :)
19 colour megaman would be great for a neon/synthwave inspired level
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I love the way you pick colours
I don't know why, but just loved to see 5 colors vs2
19 colors megaman and idk why... just looks so good
i love your videos!! and u made e a better pixel artist for sure!!
munkky~ :D
Don't really comment much but I always find your videos fascinating. I mostly dabble with Castlevania sprite styles so the most interesting part of these videos is seeing the different array of styles being deployed.
You should try making a sprit that uses the NES color palette, but without limiting how many colors you use per sprite
Awesome stuff! My favourite is the revised 5-colour one (:
5 colour v1, 9 colour, and 14 colour are my favourite 💙🩵
My favorite one has to be the 0 color one.
If you take a look closely, it shows how much detail was put into it.
Love it! Please could you try redrawing the Battletoads sprites someday? Be curious to see your take.
They all look good :)
Ngl, the 0 colours looks fire 🔥
It might be my finest work yet; years of study led to this moment 😎
Yeah the 19 colors are dope.
I love the videos and I've been absolutely smashing through them recently trying to absorb as much knowledge and technique as possible. If you could maybe do a beginner tips video that may be super helpful to a lot of people I'm sure.
Thank you and keep it up 🐸
Have you seen his video called '"How do you start Pixel Art?"…Here's what I did!'? It seems like maybe the closest thing to what you're talking about!
@@Semudara thanks buddy I'll check it out 🙂
The too much sprite kinda reminded me of the sprites in the gba Starfy games and some of TOSE’s other work like Game & Watch Gallery 4.
or what you’d typically see in a PC-98 game.
9 colors is my favourite!
I think I like all the highlights on the 19-color, feels a little more vibrant. Maybe during the final phase of the boss fight?
the 0-color joke got me
I would love to see a crt time tutorial
He's a shiny boy now! Aw yeah woo yeah!
The 0-color one is my favorite.
Honestly the 19 colour MegaMan doesn't look too bad!
Emojis are everywhere! 😯
you actually make pictures out of HUGE squares
The 0 color is so beautiful💙💙💙
Let's go brandonnnn
The 0 color looks soooo good
MvC pallet looks the best for me
6:11 this is the stuff i gotta learn to do with colors i love that desaturated version how do u roughly do this?
have you ever tried shading the lineart and breaking it up?
Nice
I really like the overly colorful Megaman and Mario.... they make me very happy and I don't know why
he became retro
I like the 19 colour version
hey james, can you try making some pixel art using an ega/cga palette from the days of MS-DOS
14 👌✨
19 is 14 in an in-game environment.
cool. the 19 color is shiny, but is over the limit. gotta hit the 15 for the gba/nds. 1 color is reserved for transparency. hmm
How do you get your stuff onto the CRT?
Oh yea boi
I love your videos!!!
The best one was by far the 0-colour one
You really should view the sprites at their native resolution on crt. Otherwise, what's the point?
we love crts
I like the 0 color version the best
Can you make detailed genesis characters? (with Sonic please)
9-color palette is best palette.
Idk 19-color is probably my favourite
Yes daddy good job!
MVC looked the best to me on the CRT
0 color really stood out to me
imagine having too many mega men
not gonna lie but the 0 color is fire 🔥🔥
Plrase do another game gear episode, and talk about sylvan tale.
🔥👍
9 color or MVC imho
Nah he just made dark blue darker, nothing to do with actual saturation, more like he wanted more contrast
wait wait this was 23 minutes ago?
Hello my name is Adam and I like to make tiny nerdy things
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