I think another thing worth noting is the lack of need for a drawing tablet. It's helpful to have one, but you can still make pixel art with only a mouse. Also, pixel art feels like more of a puzzle than a mechanical challenge. With conventional drawing, I find myself repeatedly ctrlz-ing and redrawing lines when I want perfection, but with pixel art I'll just keep moving pixels around until I get a better shape.
That's why I hate pixel art and love 3D art. Vectors, matrices, lighting, meshes. It feels more like playing Factorio or Oxygen Not Included than Candy Crush Saga. It even does not need a drawing tablet too, while having one makes you sculpt better ones though. So if pixel art is like impressionism and pointillism, 3D art is like cubism and expressionism.
Yea, but a lot of these guys could absolutely do just nice looking high res 2D sprites like the original Binding of Isaac or Hollow Knight. Doesn't have to be either 3D or NES.
I disagree. 3D assets are of course going to take more work than pixel art, but ultimately this is just a matter of stylization. With any kind of lower fidelity some degree of stylization is pretty much forced on it. There's also an art to low poly assets too.
@plebisMaximus Binding of Isaac is pixel art... And Hollow Knight was nowhere near a low budget indie, most devs do not have the resources that Team Cherry had.
my favorite use of pixel art has to be in Noita. out of all the games i've played that use the style, it's one that uses a very unique angle of it, the fact that it divides the world into precise units. one of the main draws of the game is that every pixel is simulated, which makes the fact that the world is pixelated make a lot of sense. not to mention the game's art style looks quite good too :D
I think (or maybe I didn't notice) you missed out by not using this one word: Stylization Stylization is something that anybody should want for their stuff to be timeless (while, like you said, seeking pure realism is easily outdated), any sort of stylization helps tremendously. Whether it's low-poly, cartoony, Cel-shaded, etc... But Pixel Art is a specific form of Stylization that stands above the rest. Enjoyed the video btw! I'm definitely a newcomer who fell in love with Pixel Art without it being nostalgic on a first-hand basis.
Main thing about pixel art as opposed to say vector art, or a simple 2D drawing is the lack of "brush strokes". I'm mentioning it since several arguments mentioned here would apply also to low poly or vector graphics.
I'd say a better description than "Looks Cool" is more that it's novel. It's specifically fantastical, and is something fundamentally different than the real world.
excellent video, loved seeing art history and impressionism and pointillism being brought in! All forms of art deal with aesthetic representation of the world and what to show versus not show - in some ways, pixel art just seems like an extreme version of this. So pixel art maybe demands a stronger aesthetic direction, which I think is part of why it looks so cool.
I would say one of the reasons I love pixel art is because I grew up on pixel art games. I was a hand-drawn artist when I was younger and pixel art is the only digital art form I've really explored outside of that. It is really fascinating how far things have come since back then. You know these days they use all kinds of technological tricks such as shaders & combining 3d graphics with 2d and so on to create games that are pushing the medium forward. A game I've been working on has received comments about how it reminds people of this game or that game and so on but with the limitations not being present of those previous games it's not exactly the same (although it is nice to remind people of games they loved). Nostalgia can be tricky but like you said about unlimited colour palette and the additional things I mentioned in this comment things have changed dramatically. I'm actually considering a hand drawn art style for my next game as pixel art is being taken less seriously (I won't get into too much about who and why). Plus the fact I grew up putting pencil to paper when I was younger. I think with the high bit resolutions of today's modern computing some pixel art can be gigantic in size and editing something pixel by pixel is a real chore when you start working on bigger sprites.
As a digital artist who is nowadays getting into traditional art I recently really experienced an important thing. Pixel art similarly to traditional art forces a limit on you where making just more detail has a much harder limit and forces you into more thought through decision making and refinement of what you have. Also, funny enough a graphite drawing feels just as timeless in the age where every smart phone functions at least as a basic photo cam as pixel art in the world of AAA graphics.
I played my fair share of indie pixse art game and (celeste, dead cells, blasphemous, sea of stars and 2 hours of undertail) and for me the thing that I love in pixelart is the lighting. In celeste and sea of stars you can see beautiful lighting that brings life to the world and makes it shine. Another important thing is the amount of pixels, to low is to old and not enough detail but to mach is like a low quality video, you just want it to be HD 2D sprit
I think this is the reason why all the pokemon games up to black and white 2 are so amazing to me. They are simple yet detailed, have a nice story and honestly, in terms of pixelart blacka nd white peaked for its time. Animated pokeomon sprites, big cities. Yes teher was a bit of weird §d in the overworld but it was still simple enough to look good.
great video, i was so surprised when looking at your view and sub count. you clearly have a talent and passion for this so keep at it and I'm sure it will work out :D
Pixel art and stylized, cartoonish art always had some special appeal for me. I love bright, vibrant fantasy worlds and there is something special that makes it better than realistic approach. It tells me that I am not grounded in reality, it's warm, welcoming, very great for your mood when it's raining, dark outside. As a kid I spent tons of time playing with knights, warriors and soldiers figurines or making my own out of plasticine, these also were simplified. Same with animation and probably has something to do with how our brain is wired. Other than appeal, yeah, it has lower entry point (not low though, as you mentioned, art is complicated, specially if you are not "gifted" and have to grind for it, learning every simple concept on your own), it's faster to make than 3D so you can get more done in shorter amount of time, it's also cheaper if you would want to pay someone for making it. There are tons of styles even within pixel art and you can find your own, get inspirations, fuse them and toy with them, learn about which colors you like for certain elements, which shapes feel better, which perspective. In the end, art or entertainment is subjective, everyone will have their own opinion. We do know when something sucks, either by intuition due to different proportions, lack of color harmony, weird positioning etc. Pixel art over all has so much to experiment, work and have fun with that you can spend your life doing it and you might still have room to improve.
Pixelart is appealing for the same reason why cartoons are appealing. Removing less relevant details, gives more focus on the more important details, which augments expression.
Newcomer here^^ I really love pixelart. Honestly I’m more prone to be interested in a game if it has pixel art graphics. It’s just subconscious at this point. Your examples in the video were wonderful but I would also like to mention Hyper Light Drifter for its pixel art and lighting. One of the most stunning games I have ever seen. Great video!^^
Fantastic video! You could really bring up the quality with some audio editing with something like audacity, some compression, EQ and De-essing would bring up the audio quality for free to better match the quality of the video
I choosed pixel art for my game because it works also for the style of my game. In the end it was the right thing but it takes so much work to make everything right.
I think its important to note the technique used by Dead Cells to create pixel graphics. They were able to create easily animated and manipulated pixel art by turning 3d models into 2d pixel art
Didn't see the viewcount on this video when I clicked on it and man, this is some professional level stuff. Also everything in here is completely correct and so far as a 3D modeler, I always fall back on pixelart 2d games when 3D modeling is too much brain power lol. Also, no Wargroove included?? The art in it is top tier :)
I've been sick of pixel art for a very long time. Don't get me wrong, there are some gorgeous new pixel art games and this is coming from a retro game enthusiast. I grew up on Atari 2600, NES, and SNES and I LOVE the way those games looks. I just think there are so many more art styles capable of being accomplished on today's hardware and resolution, why do most 3D indie titles limit themselves to pixel art? I think appealing to nostalgia is just a safer and cheaper route than trying something too new or too different from what's out there.
Honestly, it just feels like a cheap attempt at cashing in on nostalgia or perhaps just the developer trying to capture their own nostalgia. Every single time I see really good pixel art, it just frustrates me. Could've been a high res sprite instead and the game would've looked a lot better for it. Obviously it depends on the title, Shovel Knight is an homage to all those old titles, so looking like them makes sense, but there's absolutely 0 reason Binding of Isaac Rebirth had to look worse than the original. In that example, all it serves to do is kill off the unique style Edmund has and make me wish the original could run at an acceptable framerate. I love retro games and don't mind "bad" graphics, but I'd much rather see something unique and new like the Hollow Knight or Cuphead artstyles than the trillionth quirky earthbound inspired indie RPG with brightly coloured pixelart. I know I'm in the minority here, as these games all sell like crazy, but I'm just so tired of seeing it.
Couldn't agree more. There's so much nostalgia tripping going on - and it as an art style doesn't work well with LCD panels larger than a smartphone IMO. Why do I want to look at blocky pixels on my 27" 4k IPS screen?
Another reason for indie games to use pixel art is nostalgia, trying to appeal to people wanting to have the same experience as on their old nes, master system, snes,... games
Wow, Algorithm decided to recommend to me a smaller channel, how unyoutubish, time to celebrate! While I love pixel art, I think that the other non-AAA styles, like in Hollow Knight, Hades, Gris, Darkest Dungeon, Don't Starve, Inside, are a bit underrepresented due to people's sheer obsession with pixel art... especially since a lot of the same points you raised about pixel art apply to them as well, like timelessness and impressionistic minimalism. The reason I think pixel art dominates is mostly nostalgia coupled with US historic console dominance, here in Europe PC was more common and PC of the late 90s/early 00s (which is my childhood nostalgia) was more varied when it came to art styles. But US is a global hegemon of everything and the largest video game market so it dictates the discourse today in our global world. I'm not sure about the "lack of detail" argument entirely. You show the examples of Owlboy and Blasphemous which are crazily detailed. Often more detailed than Hollow Knight, which was used as a counter-example to pixel art. I mean, at a certain point it ceases to be a thing that distinguishes pixel art from other non-AAA art styles, because all of them rely on a degree of "impressionistic" simplicity and stylisation. When Owlboy zooms out, the difference between it and Hades' graphics starts to fade... The line between pixel-art and non-pixel art seems to be very blurry today. More often than not pixel art seems to be more one tool in the artist's arsenal, rather than the entire artstyle. Sometimes it's not even made using traditional pixel art techniques, as is the case with Dead Cells and Celeste, which are 3d with pixel filter on top. Some games offer ways of turning off that filter which results in the game becoming fully 3d. And time and time again we see the return of a specific subtype of pixel art, that is the NES/sNES look, which I think is what many people truly have nostalgia for, rather than the technique itself.
The part where you talked about the accessability of pixel art totally resonated! I've made a lot more pixel art recently than I realized. It kind of reminds me of fanfiction in a way--part of the reason fanfic is so popular is how simple it is to make after all. Pixel art is a bit higher in complexity, but it's still very approachable compared to realistic drawing methods
personally I love lower res pixel art (eg. hyper light drifter(my favourite game of all time) celeste, the kingdom games and many more), but am not so keen on high res pixel art (eg. dead cells, owl boy ect). I think It just feels like it's trying to put too much detail in almost, for me anyway
Hey man, this is probably an amazing video and I saw a bit of it but the sound of your mic is pretty painful. Might wanna improve on that, I don't want it to take away from the video but it does for me. Good luck.
@@kodrickgaming Hey, I wanted to start by saying this was a very well done video, I wouldn't go so far as to say the mic was painful, but there was definitely a good deal of echo, Matpat of the game theorist is famously known for using a closet to record lines in, as cloth all around you helps absorb the soundwaves, it really helps with that issue, especially if you're on a budget and sound-dampening foam for the walls is off the table, perhaps this can make your future videos even better, keep up the good work, got a new sub from me.
Good video this but I'm still not sold on many cases of pixel art although, some of it can be done fairly well , I enjoyed the voxel based Cloudpunk earlier this year. I just find it absurd in 2023 how many people are happy to play games which look like they were made in 1993 , which have existed since then. Pixel art doesn't play well with modern LCD panels especially at 4k ,(625-line) CRTs did a good job of hiding to some extent the flaws of pixel art (it's more tolerable on small mobile screens too). Such games are usually extremely dated and not timeless IMO and it's time it was put to pasture and we at least moved onto vector illustrations.
Great video, great commentary, great editing, I'm looking forward to another video. Just an opinion, please write the name of the game somewhere when using the clips, as some may wanna look for those games shown in your videos.
This video is really well made! Underrated channel. I especially love the connection from impressionist art, to early pixel art, to the modern day versions. It's clear that a lot of effort went into the writing ❤ One thing to look into is upgrading your sound though, your mic is very harsh sounding, even clipping a couple times. Improving audio will massively improve the quality perception of your videos.
Thank you so much. Yeah sadly audio is our constant struggle, we keep trying to improve it but it still doesn't sound right. Definitely will continue to work on improving it, thanks for the feedback and words of encouragement.
Amazing video! Having a look through your channel you have been producing high quality content and (im sure this has been said before) definitely deserve many more subscribers!! Seriously this is amazing, keep it up :)
I think another thing worth noting is the lack of need for a drawing tablet. It's helpful to have one, but you can still make pixel art with only a mouse.
Also, pixel art feels like more of a puzzle than a mechanical challenge. With conventional drawing, I find myself repeatedly ctrlz-ing and redrawing lines when I want perfection, but with pixel art I'll just keep moving pixels around until I get a better shape.
Very true.
That's why I hate pixel art and love 3D art. Vectors, matrices, lighting, meshes. It feels more like playing Factorio or Oxygen Not Included than Candy Crush Saga. It even does not need a drawing tablet too, while having one makes you sculpt better ones though. So if pixel art is like impressionism and pointillism, 3D art is like cubism and expressionism.
@@surplusking2425 that is fine.
Honestly its just one of the best looking art styles on a low budget. You can do cheap 3d but it always looks awful.
Very true.
Yea, but a lot of these guys could absolutely do just nice looking high res 2D sprites like the original Binding of Isaac or Hollow Knight. Doesn't have to be either 3D or NES.
I disagree.
3D assets are of course going to take more work than pixel art, but ultimately this is just a matter of stylization.
With any kind of lower fidelity some degree of stylization is pretty much forced on it.
There's also an art to low poly assets too.
Styleized low poly 3D can look good don’t be so dismissive of it.
@plebisMaximus Binding of Isaac is pixel art... And Hollow Knight was nowhere near a low budget indie, most devs do not have the resources that Team Cherry had.
VERY well made. seriously I thought this was from a 20K channel massive props.
Thanks, working on getting there 😁
my favorite use of pixel art has to be in Noita. out of all the games i've played that use the style, it's one that uses a very unique angle of it, the fact that it divides the world into precise units. one of the main draws of the game is that every pixel is simulated, which makes the fact that the world is pixelated make a lot of sense. not to mention the game's art style looks quite good too :D
I think my favourite with pixel art is hyper light drifter
I think (or maybe I didn't notice) you missed out by not using this one word: Stylization
Stylization is something that anybody should want for their stuff to be timeless (while, like you said, seeking pure realism is easily outdated), any sort of stylization helps tremendously. Whether it's low-poly, cartoony, Cel-shaded, etc...
But Pixel Art is a specific form of Stylization that stands above the rest.
Enjoyed the video btw! I'm definitely a newcomer who fell in love with Pixel Art without it being nostalgic on a first-hand basis.
Very true. We could probably do a whole other video on stylization.
Main thing about pixel art as opposed to say vector art, or a simple 2D drawing is the lack of "brush strokes". I'm mentioning it since several arguments mentioned here would apply also to low poly or vector graphics.
I'd say a better description than "Looks Cool" is more that it's novel. It's specifically fantastical, and is something fundamentally different than the real world.
excellent video, loved seeing art history and impressionism and pointillism being brought in! All forms of art deal with aesthetic representation of the world and what to show versus not show - in some ways, pixel art just seems like an extreme version of this. So pixel art maybe demands a stronger aesthetic direction, which I think is part of why it looks so cool.
Well said!
I would say one of the reasons I love pixel art is because I grew up on pixel art games. I was a hand-drawn artist when I was younger and pixel art is the only digital art form I've really explored outside of that. It is really fascinating how far things have come since back then. You know these days they use all kinds of technological tricks such as shaders & combining 3d graphics with 2d and so on to create games that are pushing the medium forward. A game I've been working on has received comments about how it reminds people of this game or that game and so on but with the limitations not being present of those previous games it's not exactly the same (although it is nice to remind people of games they loved). Nostalgia can be tricky but like you said about unlimited colour palette and the additional things I mentioned in this comment things have changed dramatically.
I'm actually considering a hand drawn art style for my next game as pixel art is being taken less seriously (I won't get into too much about who and why). Plus the fact I grew up putting pencil to paper when I was younger. I think with the high bit resolutions of today's modern computing some pixel art can be gigantic in size and editing something pixel by pixel is a real chore when you start working on bigger sprites.
As a digital artist who is nowadays getting into traditional art I recently really experienced an important thing. Pixel art similarly to traditional art forces a limit on you where making just more detail has a much harder limit and forces you into more thought through decision making and refinement of what you have. Also, funny enough a graphite drawing feels just as timeless in the age where every smart phone functions at least as a basic photo cam as pixel art in the world of AAA graphics.
I played my fair share of indie pixse art game and (celeste, dead cells, blasphemous, sea of stars and 2 hours of undertail) and for me the thing that I love in pixelart is the lighting. In celeste and sea of stars you can see beautiful lighting that brings life to the world and makes it shine. Another important thing is the amount of pixels, to low is to old and not enough detail but to mach is like a low quality video, you just want it to be HD 2D sprit
I think this is the reason why all the pokemon games up to black and white 2 are so amazing to me. They are simple yet detailed, have a nice story and honestly, in terms of pixelart blacka nd white peaked for its time. Animated pokeomon sprites, big cities. Yes teher was a bit of weird §d in the overworld but it was still simple enough to look good.
great video, i was so surprised when looking at your view and sub count. you clearly have a talent and passion for this so keep at it and I'm sure it will work out :D
Thank you so much!
Great video! Was really surprised when I saw the number of subs. Keep it up!
Thanks a ton!
Pixel art and stylized, cartoonish art always had some special appeal for me. I love bright, vibrant fantasy worlds and there is something special that makes it better than realistic approach. It tells me that I am not grounded in reality, it's warm, welcoming, very great for your mood when it's raining, dark outside. As a kid I spent tons of time playing with knights, warriors and soldiers figurines or making my own out of plasticine, these also were simplified. Same with animation and probably has something to do with how our brain is wired.
Other than appeal, yeah, it has lower entry point (not low though, as you mentioned, art is complicated, specially if you are not "gifted" and have to grind for it, learning every simple concept on your own), it's faster to make than 3D so you can get more done in shorter amount of time, it's also cheaper if you would want to pay someone for making it. There are tons of styles even within pixel art and you can find your own, get inspirations, fuse them and toy with them, learn about which colors you like for certain elements, which shapes feel better, which perspective. In the end, art or entertainment is subjective, everyone will have their own opinion. We do know when something sucks, either by intuition due to different proportions, lack of color harmony, weird positioning etc. Pixel art over all has so much to experiment, work and have fun with that you can spend your life doing it and you might still have room to improve.
Well said.
Pixelart is appealing for the same reason why cartoons are appealing. Removing less relevant details, gives more focus on the more important details, which augments expression.
Awesome video, love your editing style !
Thanks so much!!
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the art of Hyper Light Drifter. The pixel art in that game is simply incredible.
It is I actually used art from Hyper Light in the thumbnail of the original article that the video is based off of.
@@kodrickgaming oh, i see.
oh wow how are you a small channel? like damn this video is so good and I'm not only talking about production. Congrats man
Thanks!
Newcomer here^^ I really love pixelart. Honestly I’m more prone to be interested in a game if it has pixel art graphics. It’s just subconscious at this point. Your examples in the video were wonderful but I would also like to mention Hyper Light Drifter for its pixel art and lighting. One of the most stunning games I have ever seen. Great video!^^
Very high quality videos, just the mic is a pretty big deal tho.
Fantastic video!
You could really bring up the quality with some audio editing with something like audacity, some compression, EQ and De-essing would bring up the audio quality for free to better match the quality of the video
Thanks for the tips!
This video is a piece of art, man. Incredible job
Thanks.
I choosed pixel art for my game because it works also for the style of my game. In the end it was the right thing but it takes so much work to make everything right.
With regards to the history of pixel art it could be argued that it goes as far back as ancient mosaic art.
As an indie dev I wholeheartedly agree with this video!
so high quality video! Keep this up and youll grow so much!!!!!
Thank you so much!!
Just discovered your channel and am very much impressed. Keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
I think its important to note the technique used by Dead Cells to create pixel graphics. They were able to create easily animated and manipulated pixel art by turning 3d models into 2d pixel art
Brilliant and to the point! Congrats, keep good work 🙂
Thanks!
this video is very well produced but i'd recommend tweaking your mic settings or getting a new one; the high end is quite sharp
Thanks for the tip, I tried some new tricks on our new video, but I still think I don't quite have it, hopefully I will figure it out eventually.
Good video btw, Pixel art its gorgeous nowadays just see the kingodm's games soo beautiful
Thanks!
I like pixel art. I'm still trying to learn it.
Didn't see the viewcount on this video when I clicked on it and man, this is some professional level stuff. Also everything in here is completely correct and so far as a 3D modeler, I always fall back on pixelart 2d games when 3D modeling is too much brain power lol.
Also, no Wargroove included?? The art in it is top tier :)
Thanks so much, and very true Wargroove is another game that showcases great pixel art.
i loved streetfighter in 2D , when they go 3D i stoped play
W vid for small channel remember me when you get famous
Lovely video dude
Thanks!
I've been sick of pixel art for a very long time. Don't get me wrong, there are some gorgeous new pixel art games and this is coming from a retro game enthusiast. I grew up on Atari 2600, NES, and SNES and I LOVE the way those games looks. I just think there are so many more art styles capable of being accomplished on today's hardware and resolution, why do most 3D indie titles limit themselves to pixel art? I think appealing to nostalgia is just a safer and cheaper route than trying something too new or too different from what's out there.
I agree - it's a shame that with today's tech so many want to make games which we saw 30+ years ago.
Honestly, it just feels like a cheap attempt at cashing in on nostalgia or perhaps just the developer trying to capture their own nostalgia. Every single time I see really good pixel art, it just frustrates me. Could've been a high res sprite instead and the game would've looked a lot better for it. Obviously it depends on the title, Shovel Knight is an homage to all those old titles, so looking like them makes sense, but there's absolutely 0 reason Binding of Isaac Rebirth had to look worse than the original. In that example, all it serves to do is kill off the unique style Edmund has and make me wish the original could run at an acceptable framerate. I love retro games and don't mind "bad" graphics, but I'd much rather see something unique and new like the Hollow Knight or Cuphead artstyles than the trillionth quirky earthbound inspired indie RPG with brightly coloured pixelart. I know I'm in the minority here, as these games all sell like crazy, but I'm just so tired of seeing it.
Couldn't agree more. There's so much nostalgia tripping going on - and it as an art style doesn't work well with LCD panels larger than a smartphone IMO. Why do I want to look at blocky pixels on my 27" 4k IPS screen?
Well said!
Thanks!
Another reason for indie games to use pixel art is nostalgia, trying to appeal to people wanting to have the same experience as on their old nes, master system, snes,... games
It's ridiculous how many games are trying to hook into this ,now
What is the name of that game that is like 3D pixel art underwater? I can't find anything on google or looking through your list in the description.
Dave the Diver! I think that is the one
that looks fun
That's correct 😁
Wow, Algorithm decided to recommend to me a smaller channel, how unyoutubish, time to celebrate!
While I love pixel art, I think that the other non-AAA styles, like in Hollow Knight, Hades, Gris, Darkest Dungeon, Don't Starve, Inside, are a bit underrepresented due to people's sheer obsession with pixel art... especially since a lot of the same points you raised about pixel art apply to them as well, like timelessness and impressionistic minimalism. The reason I think pixel art dominates is mostly nostalgia coupled with US historic console dominance, here in Europe PC was more common and PC of the late 90s/early 00s (which is my childhood nostalgia) was more varied when it came to art styles. But US is a global hegemon of everything and the largest video game market so it dictates the discourse today in our global world.
I'm not sure about the "lack of detail" argument entirely. You show the examples of Owlboy and Blasphemous which are crazily detailed. Often more detailed than Hollow Knight, which was used as a counter-example to pixel art. I mean, at a certain point it ceases to be a thing that distinguishes pixel art from other non-AAA art styles, because all of them rely on a degree of "impressionistic" simplicity and stylisation. When Owlboy zooms out, the difference between it and Hades' graphics starts to fade...
The line between pixel-art and non-pixel art seems to be very blurry today. More often than not pixel art seems to be more one tool in the artist's arsenal, rather than the entire artstyle. Sometimes it's not even made using traditional pixel art techniques, as is the case with Dead Cells and Celeste, which are 3d with pixel filter on top. Some games offer ways of turning off that filter which results in the game becoming fully 3d.
And time and time again we see the return of a specific subtype of pixel art, that is the NES/sNES look, which I think is what many people truly have nostalgia for, rather than the technique itself.
Nice video! Comment for the algorithm lol.
Thanks for that!
good vid thumb up
Thanks
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I am a sucker for pixelart games, tho I do not like when they are way too simplified like 8x8 and less. I also draw pixelart, tho not that great
Every great pixel artist started somewhere. Keep it up.
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If someone doesn’t like pixel art, I don’t like them. Enough said.
The part where you talked about the accessability of pixel art totally resonated! I've made a lot more pixel art recently than I realized. It kind of reminds me of fanfiction in a way--part of the reason fanfic is so popular is how simple it is to make after all. Pixel art is a bit higher in complexity, but it's still very approachable compared to realistic drawing methods
personally I love lower res pixel art (eg. hyper light drifter(my favourite game of all time) celeste, the kingdom games and many more), but am not so keen on high res pixel art (eg. dead cells, owl boy ect). I think It just feels like it's trying to put too much detail in almost, for me anyway
Okay bro, it's time to climb the ladder. This is a koality content.
I'm here before this channel launches into the stratosphere.
🤞
Damn the editing is smooth
Hey man, this is probably an amazing video and I saw a bit of it but the sound of your mic is pretty painful. Might wanna improve on that, I don't want it to take away from the video but it does for me. Good luck.
Thanks, will do!
@@kodrickgaming Hey, I wanted to start by saying this was a very well done video, I wouldn't go so far as to say the mic was painful, but there was definitely a good deal of echo, Matpat of the game theorist is famously known for using a closet to record lines in, as cloth all around you helps absorb the soundwaves, it really helps with that issue, especially if you're on a budget and sound-dampening foam for the walls is off the table, perhaps this can make your future videos even better, keep up the good work, got a new sub from me.
Thank you so much, will definitely try that one out.
Good video this but I'm still not sold on many cases of pixel art although, some of it can be done fairly well , I enjoyed the voxel based Cloudpunk earlier this year.
I just find it absurd in 2023 how many people are happy to play games which look like they were made in 1993 , which have existed since then. Pixel art doesn't play well with modern LCD panels especially at 4k ,(625-line) CRTs did a good job of hiding to some extent the flaws of pixel art (it's more tolerable on small mobile screens too).
Such games are usually extremely dated and not timeless IMO and it's time it was put to pasture and we at least moved onto vector illustrations.
256 colors oughta be enough for everybody.
Great video, great commentary, great editing, I'm looking forward to another video. Just an opinion, please write the name of the game somewhere when using the clips, as some may wanna look for those games shown in your videos.
Thanks, will do!
i just want to say: very cool video! May th Algorytm bless you
Thanks so much.
💯 *Promosm*
This video is really well made! Underrated channel.
I especially love the connection from impressionist art, to early pixel art, to the modern day versions. It's clear that a lot of effort went into the writing ❤
One thing to look into is upgrading your sound though, your mic is very harsh sounding, even clipping a couple times. Improving audio will massively improve the quality perception of your videos.
Thank you so much. Yeah sadly audio is our constant struggle, we keep trying to improve it but it still doesn't sound right. Definitely will continue to work on improving it, thanks for the feedback and words of encouragement.
Amazing video! Having a look through your channel you have been producing high quality content and (im sure this has been said before) definitely deserve many more subscribers!! Seriously this is amazing, keep it up :)
Thank you so much!