Creating a ‘Mega Man Battle Network’ Portrait | Pixel Dailies

[@EdokLock]

Honestly I wasn't expecting this, this is by far my favorite gba game both as a game and art.. Thank you

Same x)

[@m.irfan-7069]

I am really impressed when play it in first time

[@FireallyXTheories]

💪

[@silversonome5360]

Ooh, that looks nice! Glad I could catch a video as it was posted, too. I often struggle to make pixel portraits, my faces tend to look a bit too harsh sometimes, so this is a nice way to make character faces in pixel art with a more traditional artistic base!

[@romajimamulo]

I bet what they did was start with a high res drawing, shrunk it down, then cleaned it up. Normally you don't get anti aliased lines in pixel art that was made at low res

[@CKTDanny]

I'll take up your bet, how much $ do you want to put on it?

[@romajimamulo]

@@CKTDanny I'm going to pass, I don't feel like setting up a bet with a random stranger on the internet

[@MidniteWv4]

@@romajimamulo you should’ve taken it, many art books that the series put out does show the full resolution images of these portraits. The process continued even when the team worked on the Mega Man Star Force series. But it’s also interesting that some of them took more liberties in the clean up more than others.

[@ultleo839]

I think that's what they did too, but you can just manually do the anti aliasing

[@AlcorSalvador]

@@MidniteWv4 it's hard to find, but there are images of the machines they used for the pixel art. It had a camera to digitizing the image, a touch screen and "mouse" pen combo. Iirc, the machine also quantized the palette, but it was user adjustable. Had onion layer support and other goodies

[@mixandjam]

So good!!!

[@sagmesmo6433]

I can't believe this. My favorite pixel artist on yt doing my favorite game of all time. What a time to be alive

[@Omllegg]

I love Brandon's soft voice

[@RetroGamesHQ]

I just googled, "pixel artist megaman battle network," and this came up. Already ranking in SEO! I'm making a MMBN-inspired game, and I want to be able to have the feeling from 4-6, so thanks for this video!

[@sombat2788]

Does it have a name yet? MMBN is perhaps my favorite series of games, so I'd love to check out what you're doing!

[@saultoons]

That tip to extend the canvas beyond the bounds blew my mind. I'm always wrestling with the outer areas, this is a really nice solution! And I always love seeing small pixel characters translated to a higher-res view or portrait like you did with Mel here, I think that's something really unique to pixel art because usually, you might just scale a 3D or 2D drawn character image to fit a portrait, but here you get to see a lower res and higher detail interpretation of the same character and it almost expands the world in a new way because my sub-conscious already had an idea of how they might look from the smaller piece and I get to see that come to life with the more detailed portrait you made here. Pixel magic at work haha!!! Amazing work Brandon!!!!

[@BJGpixel]

Haha I know right, without extending the canvas it can be a bit constraining - kinda like bumping into a wall 😅 And thanks dude, I feel the same with portraits; it's nice to get a clearer look at the character design - it's like when there's character profiles in the instruction booklet also :D

[@saultoons]

@@BJGpixel I miss instruction booklets!!!! Maybe we need digital ones now

[@BJGpixel]

@@saultoons I know! We went from booklets down to single sheet inserts with downloadable content on one side and an advertisement on the other - and now sometimes there's not even that 😅Digital ones are nice too; I like when there's a concept art gallery accessible from the game menu :D

[@saultoons]

@@BJGpixel Yeah unlockable art and stuff seems to be pretty common and is a nice addition to games. Though it's not the same as getting excited looking at the instruction booklet or even reading about a game in a game magazine haha

Damn, wasn't expectinf that at all I'm a big MMBN fan, thanks for this guide :) (I know it isn't really a "guide", but looking at something being created step by step like that is about the same for me)

Awesome work with the anti-aliasing, it really took the portrait to the next level!

[@Rckbell]

I love this!! Thank you so much for covering Battle Network, it's criminally underrated

[@CKTDanny]

I love how the Mega Man pixel sprites are drawn at that angle, it's a great look! I like how you show how you design your oc to fit right in by following the design principles 😁

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks, it was fun to try and reverse engineer that look - I'd be so curious to see their actual process for comparison! :D

[@CKTDanny]

@@BJGpixel Haha yeah, it'd be lovely to see how every aspect of game design/development is done for some of these well-loved titles 🤩 I think processes must have changed from then & now!

[@johne.7568]

Ive always loved this style! Even the freakier looking characters are so fun to look at!

[@mindelofortes12345]

Oh my god! I love this gameboy series! Thanks so much Brandon! :D

[@abzer0gaming]

That was pretty cool. I'd love to see more of your OCs have that kind of portrait.

[@blabberfish4095]

Finally, some good megaman bn content.

[@future34andpast]

As a battle network fan and a fan of pixel art I approve of this

[@viathatoneartist]

GASP I LOVE BATTLE NETWORK!!! YOUR PIXEL ART IS ALSO GREAT!!

[@derpkipper]

Maaaan I love your channel! In my subjective opinion, the coolest pixel artists not only keep original ideas intact regarding what makes pixel art what it is, they also bring new things to the table. Your samurai pizza cats video is what got me hooked on your content. I loved how you kept the original NES feel intact while also not having to care for the exact graphical limitations that makes an NES game what it is. In the pixel art community, i often see either one extreme or the other. Your approach is a refreshing balance of the two! I'm looking forward to binging all your other videos lol Also making inbetween colors with a 50% opacity layer is like my bread and butter lmao, very happy to see someone very talented also uses this method!

[@TheMinoOne]

I always loved the art style from the Mega Man GBA games and was even attempting a similar portrait challenge, imagine my surprise and happiness when I saw you did a video on that 😄 thank you!

[@milltonmanakeeper53]

well that’s a coincidence! I was just binging your channel and also thinking about Megaman Battle Network sprites. Good video as always.

[@KyleSzklenski]

Looks amazing! This video was super helpful.

[@KaiTheLegend]

Yessss!! This is what I needed! I love MMBN to death!!

[@ultimatthias]

Battle Network definitely has my favourite style of pixel art, it feels as though it was made to be that way and not adapting from a different medium.

[@helenetveter775]

Yes! Another video!

[@RealityMasterRogue]

oh boy battle network!

[@StudioLams]

Thank you for posting these videos. I am learning so much and the relaxed style of these videos is awesome.

[@roxasmalice5563]

Dude, this is amazing! It would be super sick to see how you would translate this character, and maybe some of your others from that isometric video into the style of the Pokemon Conquest portraits! When you select a pokemon in battle in that game, it sorta shows a really pixel-y image of that pokemon's trainer, which would be super cool to see in one of these videos!

[@kappy2151]

I love how you try new things often. You’re such an inspiration :)

[@brosky117]

That “Continue?” outro is so clever!

[@有賀_竜樹]

Every time I want to give up on pixel art, you upload a video about... *Then I give up anyways, but like, thank you.*

[@Kunosachiaka]

I'll have a lot of fun with this once I'm up to this level, thanks for the tutorial.

[@Cam1417-TK]

I love MM Battle Network! :-) thank you for making this video!

[@EdensPersona]

I was super hoping that you would do a MMBN episode!

[@MADNESS_NH_97]

Can you also do a video creating a classic NES style Robot Master Select Screen?

[@UpsilonX]

Your workflow here is really impressive!

[@Pokecrafter04]

This is so interesting! I might try this myself. Good job!!

[@akhilraj4136]

Yes yes yes, megaman bn is one of my all time favourite games! Would love to see more stuff based on it dude!

[@bubblejuiceman]

OMG Amazing work! Please plase please do more Megaman Battle Network stuff. It's my favorite pixel art style ever. So sad the series never came back (Starforce doesn't count...).

[@maxi_du_5979]

i love it music intro!!!👍👍

[@themustardthe]

that looks really good but i was wondering where the nose is, just bc the ones in the original portraits all have them. I do get the og sprite of nell didn't have a nose but i just assumed that that was a stylistc decision out of how small that original sprite was. just wondering

[@ericg1022]

That's cool! Can you try making one of these but Battle Network 5-6 style? In BN4 and the next sequels they started using a simpler style for the sprites due to BN3 having almost run out of memory during development(resulting in some things being cut from the final release).

[@TheCadHD]

NIce ! definately good job :) still hopeful to see a bit more breath of fire 4 style stuff, portraits and or sprites. :D

[@Isaacthebomb]

Amazing 🔥

[@Skeffles]

This portrait looks great! I'm terrible with portraits. I should give them a little more practise.

[@steffenderfreak1]

So cool 😁

[@garwert]

I was always on the fence about the downscaled kind of look for pixel art. Making it seem as though a higher resolution picture was "simply" resized to fit a smaller canvas, feels like it defeats the purpose. Obviously a lot of work goes into making it look right, strategic placements of half-opacity pixels to smoothen the outlines, less overall contrast and more blending in between elements, etc. etc. But in the end it comes out less impressive to the naked eye, compared to, hm, a piece of pixel art with pretty much any other style. All in all, very much appreciate the video. It's interesting to see the workflow for these kinds of pieces. Keep it up! /

[@erugurara8235]

How hard is to sprite a cartoon character or a character whit Caroon figure, i prefer that kind of desing but there arent that much games that look very cartoony whit good spriting Panzer bandint is a syle that really makes wanna sprite.

[@hatikagura1325]

this had to make me sub or else i'm either insane or live in a cave my whole life

[@nuclear-meltdown]

yay!

[@MTPadDev]

Looks awesome!! :D

[@mikeuk666]

Keep up the great work. Can we get some of your work in the style of Eastward please

[@special_summon]

Battle Network love ♥️

[@NobodyAtAll420]

Great video 👍👍! Pixel 🧙! Can you do some more of the cat fighting the robot someday?

[@a.k.8370]

So goooddd

[@laurenweeks3384]

I think you’d like the dragon quest v character sprites a lot, it’d be cool if you did a top down 8 part character turnaround! Love your videos!

[@Rockastorm]

Just commenting for the algorithm

[@batmanwanye9937]

Could you do Robert Pattinson batman

[@donpoco]

The nose is kind of hard to tell apart from the face

[@eboatwright_]

This is really cool! :D