Pixel Art STYLE SWAP! | Ninja Gaiden ⇄ Mega Man X4

[@JuhoSprite]

Reminds me of how the messenger has an 8bit version and a 16bit version of the game and it switches everytime you enter a portal. It's a really good metroidvania you should play it if u haven't already, it's an homage to ninja gaiden

[@BJGpixel]

Wow that sounds really cool, gonna have to check it out!

[@BJGpixel]

@Blank Yeah I've been meaning to pick that one up for awhile, looks awesome!

[@narwhal3638]

@@BJGpixel oh man, cyber shadow is totally awesome, you're gonna love it! It's probably the closest we'll ever get to ninja gaiden 4

[@HyperKaito]

@@BJGpixel Same!

[@niclaswa5408]

@@narwhal3638 You could say the same for The Messenger

[@CKTDanny]

Wow interesting results, I *really * liked the way the Ninja Gaiden one turned out in particular! 😱 Honestly, the whole format here is just really neat. I'd love to see some more of these style swaps from time to time! 😁✨ I feel like you did a great job highlighting the techniques you used too. Especially the hue shifting, it actually had a very noticeable result even as you were tweaking the slider!

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks man! Yeah the Ninja Gaiden one makes me wonder what a full game in that style would be like! For sure, I think I'll revisit this format from time to time! Glad the hue shift segment paid off - it's funny building a sprite like this and having the final steps come down to moving some sliders around..."Art!" 😅

[@CKTDanny]

@@BJGpixel Hahaha at least it's a pretty unique flow! Wow, now I want to try that slider finishing approach to a different style, like digital painting. I'll bet that could be done with adjustment layers & layer masks! 😁

[@BJGpixel]

@@CKTDanny absolutely, in fact I think it's way more common for that medium, and I've just adapted it into a pixel workflow! 😁

[@CKTDanny]

@@BJGpixel Oh, is that so? Interesting! Then I feel like watching it done pixel-style has helped me better visualize what's happening 🤩✨

[@nahruz.w3044]

8:03 "fairly passable"! It look really great brandon.

[@BJGpixel]

😅 Thanks dude, I was trying to picture seeing them show up in each game, if they'd stick out or not - I guess the ultimate thing would also be _redesigning_ the characters to fit those worlds!

[@llamapunk89]

I love how you don't just show your process, you explain it and talk about some of the interesting things you discovered. Always makes me want to attempt to make my own pictures out of tiny squares. 😊

[@GameplayUploaded]

ninja gaiden looks younger while megaman becomes older after swap. Nice!

[@mythosinfinite6736]

My favourite part about this comment is that neither of the names are right

[@volcanianthegreat]

@@mythosinfinite6736 yup its X and Ryu.

[@lordofbread8727]

Petition for Brandon to make "If Shrek was an NES game"

[@BJGpixel]

😂

[@lordofbread8727]

@@BJGpixel so that means a yes:)

[@Mattno.777]

@@BJGpixel Brandon, I swear to God, If you recreate Shreks house and swamp in a 1-Bit Style, well call you an official CHAD

[@hellovik]

This is amazing. Please make this happen.

[@雪鷹魚英語培訓的領航]

@@BJGpixel Because of its meme cred, you'd get a ton of views.

[@phileon2323]

Yo yous should absolutely sawp pokemon between generations, as in get a pokemon from newer games like blach and white,and remake them in the style of the gameboy games

[@CoolGuy-yk9kd]

seconded

[@austinreed7343]

Or swap a Pokémon and a Digimon.

[@user-vd8nm8sv6x]

lovely idea!! maybe he could do a couple versions, one like you said, and one that’s animated as if it’s in the original “follow trainer” mode! that way we can see how he would do a side profile!

[@backflipsimmons]

That or a Earthbound or Final Fantasy style for Pokémon. It might be hard to do the other though. I have full confidence in you though Brandon. Always a treat to see a new video in my feed. Great work as always man!

[@kikasuru3826]

oooh! and give them that weird gen 1 flare!

[@XanderFlicks]

Really enjoyed this video! Commentary was super descriptive and insightful too. Would love to see more in this series!

[@Dinhjason]

Reverse-engineering pixel art styles is really inspiring. Wow, well done. I'll try the same for my stuff too!

[@shanerpressley]

I'd love to see a style swap between Kirby and Yoshi's Island. Great synergy between different takes on a cute artsy style

[@crupplemcsplits792]

Yoshi' s Island DS and Kirby Superstar Ultra were like the first two games I ever played so if he did do this it would be really cool.

[@bpelectric]

That's such a cool idea. I especially like that you crossed generations. Some more stuff in that vein would be cool. Would also be cool if you crossed genres, like maybe take a Kunio-kun (River City Rampage, Super Dodge Ball NES) character and do it in an SNES Fire Emblem game style and vice versa haha

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks! Yeah mixing genres would make things even more interesting! :D

[@saultoons]

Whoa, that's super cool. The results turned out really nicely! The pose on the ninja guy is my favourite part, so crazy how flipping it made it look really dynamic. I would also love to see a more realistic proportioned mega man game like the one you designed here, maybe even with a super gritty world too! Awesome as usual :D

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks dude! Haha yeah gritty Mega Man would be an interesting look; I've seen something similar done with Mario artwork and it completely changes the perspective of what's going on in that world 😂

[@saultoons]

@@BJGpixel Bowser really messed up in that world hahaha!

[@PirataGalactico]

BRANDON: i know that watching someone make subtle tweaks to adjustment layers isn't exactly the most compelling kind of footage... ME: This is amazing!!!

[@zaftnotameni]

style swap is such an amazing idea. Love your work in general, this adds another layer of awesomess to it

[@TempestKrimps]

even if the video is just for fun, i actually learned quite a bit from this as a pixel artist myself! most importantly the way to work with value and then color it in with another layer, very helpful

[@rauljvila]

I find your videos very inspiring. Thanks! Random style swap idea: Mario (choose the game you like) Street Fighter

[@mateusbertolaccini3805]

I love this form of art. An incridible remake and an interesting demake. Great job, Brandon!

[@fivestringpat]

this video has been really helpful for someone like me, who hasn't really succesfully drawn anything yet and wasn't sure where to start. watching how you progress the line work, and then go to grayscale for shading and using the colourblending layer to move towards a finished looking product, that all makes logical sense!

[@EpicZombie92]

Thats a really cool idea for a pixel art project! These videos always seem to give me some inspiration. Keep up the great stuff!

[@justintkain]

your method for shading the mmx-style ryu was so interesting! never thought about doing something like that for pixel art before! thanks for sharing, this was super cool to watch! :)

[@peterjanssen5901]

ah, thanks man. You gave me some sweet new helpful techniques I can use when I'm Photoshopping. :) Especially the grey scale underlayer and then adding a colour or colour tone layer and then tweaking it. Good stuff.

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

That was really good, especially Ryu into X-style. The only complaint I have is that the pants should’ve been a little baggy, but otherwise it was awesome. The blue in contrast to the purple was really smart.

[@chrizzzly_hh]

Awesome results! Keep up the great quality in each of your videos! 🙌

[@rpvarela]

3:16 - Tankman, is that you?! Jokes aside, great work as always, Brandon! :)

[@Mattno.777]

Newgrounds

[@isgodreal1337]

Knowing Tankman from FNF: broke Knowing Tankman from Newgrounds: woke

[@elluciano5808]

UGH

[@dynamicsketch]

Working on the shades and highlights of a sprite in gray scale seems like a good way to see how it all translates before applying colors. Good tip.

[@orangebandit-skyrim5415]

First off, you did a fantastic job (like always) Brandon! Secondly, I think it'd be really interesting to see a whole game mockup of one of these styles. For example, a Mega Man X4 level in that old 8-Bit style and vice versa. To repeat my earlier statement, fantastic job Brandon and keep up the amazing work! (:

[@Rysuko1]

I had no idea using gray tones could help choose the colors better in the end. What a fantastic idea, thank you so much for the video.

[@Ruok98Reborn]

“I know that watching someone make subtle hue changes isn’t that interesting” that was my favorite oart

[@BaseOfOperations2]

Brandon, I just want to say, as an artist, I love your channel. Your videos are chill, and informative and the end results always look great. Thank you for making such awesome content :)

[@djjacoby1511]

This is Major Awesome! Great Job! i just wish a whole game could be made i would play it. Artwork on another level!

[@onetouchtwo]

Going out of your way to minimize sprite stacking to one tile is great. I think that's the exact attitude to go into with console faithful pixel art like this. Much appreciated!!

[@Chickenman161]

killed it dude. That final colouring step blew my mind.

[@mindelofortes12345]

Man these pixels art videos are always so interesting. Nice work James 👌🏼

[@Mattakattak]

That's a VERY good exercise! Useful and fun to watch. I think I might start to try this to get better!

[@11sveden12]

I hope folks appreciate the amount of skill needed to do something like this as it is not easy. Tremendous work. The sprites look great.

[@ayeitburns1]

Gorgeous, you've captured the tone of each perfectly and they look great. I'd love to see some more artstyle swaps like this

[@guilhermefeitosa7560]

That's satisfying as hell, nice job

[@oscaroni5104]

This is actually crazy cool, and gives me a good idea on sprite art style, especially related to the systems they came out on

[@narwhal3638]

dude this was awesome! I can't wait for you to do more!

[@T-Rav7973]

This was so fun. And learning about colors is helpful.

[@sahi8321]

Wow, actual good recommandation from KZbin. I love this concept and both those sprites look great ! Thanks for your work

[@senormarston]

What an amazing kind of art is the pixel art. Congratulations, this video was great!

[@Myuutantobasuta]

Damn, I've never seen anyone have such a good Grasp on X4's style.

[@TigeriPlaysGames]

ok, this video on its own really helped me get more of a feel for how to do some great pixel art. these sprites look really nice, too :D

[@ChromeColossus]

Boy this was a fun, random video I was recommended, as a pixel art and Mega Man lover. Thanks!

[@Shamazya]

Great video! I think that if you plopped the final result into a mock-screenshot of each respective game it would really show off how in-style they are.

[@sinistarman]

loved this video, might need to start taking notes if I watch more. you're an amazing pixel artist.

[@thebeluvdtrex]

This is amazing. That Ryu drawing is top notch and not only that the X drawing looks perfectly transitioned.

[@mikethecurious2489]

Oh! Maybe a sprite swap with Simon Belmont and Samus Aran?

[@VinciWare]

This was so cool/informative. You’ve got a new subscriber here!

[@hellovik]

Great work! These are two games that I played alot of - so awesome to see them swapped.

[@ruolbu]

Oh wow! Could you make more videos of this kind? I really love the concept and it's soo cool to see a quality sprite of a well known character in a style that they never existed in.

[@SethKotta]

Absolutely brilliant. As far as swaps go, first thing that came to mind was crossing Super Mario Bros with Sonic and Knuckles. Because that's the kind of out of the box thinking you can expect from me.

[@crupplemcsplits792]

I think that Mario bros 3 would offer a cooler style to try and replicate, the original ones style is just not that interesting in my opinion. But Mario and Luigi in a sonic sprite style would be really cool.

[@khrashingphantom9632]

Wow this amazing. I'm not sure how I got here, but I'm glad I stayed. Awesome video. Can we all take a moment to remember how absolutely legit the Mega Man X4 soundtrack is! Lol. Absolutely worth putting it on PS1 for that alone. LMFAO.

[@muhammetislambedirbeyoglu3135]

Woow both was so beautiful, remarkable work!

[@ulrickai]

Oh neat. I quite like the idea of that style swap, looks like a fun project to play with. Great work as always~

[@diegomedeiros4671]

This was such a cool idea. Was very interesting seeing how you did that, and the end result, at least for me, is really closed to the original style. I was thinking since you said about the katana how you would do bc the katana would be mostly hiden behind, amazing what changing the pose made.

[@catcorpusinfernale4870]

Dude you pixel art style it's so cool! Thanks for share it

[@eckitronix]

I'm late to the party; but I got excited seeing this and I wasn't disappointed. I like the way you adapted Ryu into very anime-level proportions, yet also put X in standard human length and all as well! Of course, I'm now inspired to actually make a Box Art Mega Man game or two, but I still need to finish my own personal project I've been slow on, so I think I'll try to binge-watch your channel, since it's been known to inspire me and get me thinking in the past! :D Thank you so much~ As for other swapping ideas...I think I'd have to go with one of these eight: - The worlds of Super Mario Bros. using Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles-styled graphics, and vice versa - various Final Fantasy characters as Chrono Trigger-level caricatures, and the opposite too - one of the first six Mega Man games reimagined as something one might see in Mega Man Zero or Mega Man ZX, and the other way around - Link of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, yet found in the same graphical setting as Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, as well as the reverse - Any of EarthBound's main cast as Super Mario RPG characters, or mirror the suggestion - Any of MOTHER 3's main cast, but as Front Mission characters and machines, or Front Mission mechs as goofy-yet-morbid M3 animals - Erdrick of Dragon Quest III switched around with Kirby of Kirby's Adventure, perhaps rounding out the spike-headed sword boy and giving Kirby a slimy appearance...? - Donkey Kong (red girders and barrels/springs/sentient fire? as compared to jungle joking) swapped up with Super Metroid's proportions and world

[@shaunm6383]

Pixel art style swap with the Legend of Zelda games. Any of them will do.

[@isgodreal1337]

Such as Breath Of The Wild

[@JustAPaperface]

I hope you do more of these! Very nice vid!

[@ShelbyAQD]

That's pretty cool! I might give something like this a try myself. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@hobodefender3476]

God, I love that Ryu sprite so much. Please add that to a game or mod or something. This is awesome.

[@josiahf1041]

Amazing work my dude

[@nilsnoske6460]

That was nice. I enjoyed that. Would love to see more content like this. :) More Sprite Swaps! ^^

[@DizzyQuanto]

I’m just learning pixel art, and I’ve never really understood concepts like line work. Watching you do these pieces was eye opening! Is there a video on how to understand line work and proper ratios?

[@Cannonbreed]

This is a really cool vid, you really nailed the style switch!

[@chrisbaygin8914]

That is really awesome work!! Ryu the way i had him in myhead! :P

[@c7po457]

Two of my favorite game characters of all time. This was awesome!

[@Voidsworn]

See, that's the way X should've looked on the GameBoy Color.

[@RadicalSharkRS]

Megaman Extreme?

[@Voidsworn]

@@RadicalSharkRS MegaMan Xtreme, to max! Radical! But yeah, that one 🙂

[@018FLP]

I loved this!! Perfect translation

[@catto49yearsago16]

i didn't knew this channel before, now im amazed

[@Amieee]

Amazing work like always! So inspiring, thanks Brandon!

[@spideychris_]

Really loved this video! Also, breath of the wild into an SNES pixelart would be really cool to see someday!

[@HyperKaito]

Congrats, Brandon! You have +100.000 subs!

[@koshaz3x]

Both look amazing, kudos my friend.

[@jupitervideos7702]

Mike Tyson's Punch Out x Doom And as always incredible job

[@TheStunnyBoy]

Hi, Brandon, here's an idea for a possible swap : "Chaos Engine" X "Super Metroid" (or just "Metroid" can make a good swap) Love your work, thanks a lot for all your content.

[@BJGpixel]

Wow I don't think I've ever seen this Chaos Engine game, it looks awesome! Would be neat to cover for a breakdown, and nice idea for a Metroid swap too - thanks! :D

[@TheStunnyBoy]

@@BJGpixel You're welcome, I'm really happy if my commentary has been useful. Can’t wait for your next vidéo ;)

[@SleepyReapy32]

I appreciate that you actually understand "X" is an entirely separate character from "Mega Man" and didn't just refer to him as "Mega Man" throughout the video. It's the small things that count

[@Sherdderworld]

I really like this idea a lot I hope you make it an ongoing series

[@lizafrench8455]

THAT'S AWESOME. My brother does pixel art. Gonna mention this idea to him.

[@sebastianricks9459]

So COOL! Thank you for sharing!

[@CarecaRetrogamer]

Really good, man... I'd really like to see a new, 16 bit Ninja Gaider game using that style... O.o

[@SakariyaMustaf]

Got this recommended randonly. Subscribed. Awesome video ideas

[@Gr8GooseYouTube]

Very very interesting way of exercising your pixel art skills. I will definitly take this inspiration to better practice my ability to make pixel art. I have just started and this has really helped alot to understand all the steps, and time it takes to create such masterpieces! I am going to try to start with 8x8 and continue into larger and more detailed pixel art. I think that this will help me start out small. Starting out small is a good way to start because you will develop skills and it will be easier to master.

[@makotoyuki345]

The final results are looking good Also do you think you could do a style swap between Final Fantasy VI and Tales of Destiny DC?

[@HyperKaito]

Cool idea

[@TonyTheTGR]

This is really super cool for demakes/remakes.

[@DrBIeed]

Excellent work! Looks great.

[@OmkaraHellcore]

Love it. Really talented edit! Now I just need both games swapped as well 😋

[@sephiros9999]

This was really interesting and cool, congrats ;)

[@JDClair]

Fantastic work. Definitely enjoyed. Would love to see a pixel swap of Zelda 2 Link with Samus in Super Metroid

[@hebertdesouza1129]

Awesome work, mate. More of that, please.

[@MADNESS_NH_97]

Could you do a video about the classic NES Mega Man robot master select screen portraits.

[@bcbboard1475]

Really liked this video. I'd like to see you do some more in the future.

[@tarquinnff3]

Looks great. I think it would be interesting to see some of the game boy Square Soft sprites in the NES and/or SNES style.

[@David0gden]

Great video. Very inspirational. I will enjoy being subscribed.

[@vmaltarollo]

I loved this video. Your work is really awsome!!! Please do a pixel swap with classic, X and Zero Megaman series. If possible, do it with as more characters you can!!!

[@HypercatZ]

Me at the beginning of the video:"Is this guy gonna construct the sprites pixel by pixel? No way!" Me halfway through the video:"Holy Andy Warhol!"

[@centauriboy]

This is amazing! Here's a challenge: Chrono Trigger swap to Super Mario RPG!

[@CasteloOfficial]

WOWWWW, OMG, very amazing work!