5 Steps To Gorgeous Game Art 

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Me, dragging a bleeding corpse across the hospital floor: “well, you see, it’s simple color theory”

0:00 Intro 0:23 Color Theory 3:32 Shapes 5:03 Sound 7:10 Cleanliness 8:21 Depth

Did he just call my game low budget? Joke's on him, i have zero budget lol!

I was able to 2X my game rev! I went from $0 to $00! p.s. I'm just kidding Thomas, your content is actually really helpful to a lot of aspiring devs. The color theory stuff was superb. :)

05:35 "Terrible sound"? That's a masterpiece!!

“You will learn how to double your game’s revenue” HAHA I QUADRUPLED IT, I am at 0

I love that you brought up Thomas was alone for how powerful abstract art can be. And Quake with it's epic soundtrack. I was used to great music coming from the Amiga, but Quake blew me away when I first tried it.

Wow that was awesome! For a topic that's already been covered in depth by many in the past this was a great nuanced summary. Thanks a lot :D

Freaking LOVE you Mr. Brush. These videos are so helpful and because of artists/developers like you, newbs like me can progress lightyears faster than the guys just out there wingin' it. Bookmarked that course, and I'm going to pick that up as soon as I finish a few other courses I'm in the middle of. HOLD ME TO IT!

Great video with great editing as always Thomas, thanks for another great one.

As someone currently going to uni for graphic design, it's incredible how many of the principles we learn and continue to learn apply to game design. Theorems and thought experiments which quite a few students considered worthless because "when or how would we even use this?" when in reality, with a bit of know-how, it could end up being the deciding factor. Fantastic video!

This is amazing, I'm a back-end developer who's been interested in game development and I've been looking around on RU-vid for tips on how to make good-looking simple games and I just found the perfect channel

This was a fantastic video! I know you are a indie dev that has a lot of first hand knowledge of based on your experiences, but I didn't know you had so much knowledge of theory that could so easily apply to other games. If I ever decided that indie dev was for me I would definitely take your course.

each video makes me feel i can make my game better and better just learning the basics since the last time i did video game stuff is 17 years ago and boy things have changed i found my old games ideas storyline maps for FPS games and 2D games i rebooted my ideas and Life thanks to people like you who make these amazing games thank you! am 38 now and i have my second kid on the way now excited to see what i will make

These basics are so important! Even experienced creators sometimes forget... Thank you for the reminder :)

This was awesome. Love to see more of these tips/tricks. The fog blending everything into the color of the sky was news to me. I can't un-see it now.

the answer to the question about why sounds work together is to do with how the waves overlap - for example a note one octave above another note is just double the frequency so the turning points match up a lot

Thanks Thomas for the great tips. Your videos are always helpful and I really appreciate it.

interesting! i went to school for music production specifically for music theory to be able to write / arrange my tunes properly, its cool to see a "colour theory". This feels like something i shouldve learned in high school when i listen to you talking about it!

This literally came at the perfect time for me. I was about to go upstairs and decide on some colors for my game

Thanks Thomas this is very helpful in pointing art direction in my current game and future projects!

There are some great tips here that I can apply to the game I'm making right now! Thanks Thomas!

Thanks for adding! I really enjoyed and hope I can use some method in my game I am working on.

This is an amazing video. Exactly the inspiration I needed right now!

Ive been listening to William benckert's music for the past few weeks and it's really great. Glad you put it in the video!

Love the videos brother! Can’t wait to see the next time you’re streaming again!

Dude, this Video is stupidly overloaded with brilliant and usefull information. Thanks man!

Thanks for teaching about complementary colors, that's a cool concept

This is why people who solo make banger games are so impressive. Because besides coding the thing, you also need to make banger sprites , banger sfx, banger scenes...

This was a nice video. Short but so informative.

Thomas, your videos have been a really great help in my journey as a game dev. Thank you for sharing everything you know! My fingers are crossed that I can use everything you have shown as to help my new metroidvania game stand out 😁🕹 Cheers, friend! 🍻

the your mom joke shouldn't be the best part of this video but dang did it get me good

Amazingggg! Will definitely make good use of these tips. Thank you!

Really needed that. Thanks man.

This video is actually funny af 😂 Thomas is great at (among everything else) keeping us all motivated, so thanks Thomas!

I generally hate it when RU-vid recommends stuff I've already watched, but I'm glad I watched this one again

Beautiful and useful video. Thanks Thomas!

This was extraordinarily helpful.

This was awesome to learn about, thanks!

Awesome! This gave me a lot to think about.

I think a bonus 6th step for making a game look BOOTIFUL has to be motion. I'm surprised this isn't mentioned actually. Little bits of motion are key to making a game feel alive. Maybe it was assumed since it's a video game and things will be moving anyways, but small details like grass blowing, trees swaying, water flowing, maybe bugs flying by or a crystal sparkling can give a sense of wonder.

This is such great advice!! Thank you

Fast rounded info, very enjoyable!

I usually associate my games color pallete with the emotion I want the player to feel. I don't think I've ever used color theory but it sounds good for getting a game done.

So informative, thanks a lot!

so many people are trying to teach me color theory without explaining the logic behind it. they just say "oh this formation of the color wheel is good, and this one is good" and then they just do something else in their examples. you didn't pick green and red as complementary colors and made them slightly more warm. you just picked orange and yollow-ish green, which are not complementary. other example i saw in a video: somebody showed his work to showcase how the triad scheme synergizes, but what made the artwork truly beautiful, was the addition of a color that doesn't fit in any of the mentioned schemes. in the end, people just invent more and more schemes to fit their explanations and that's what makes it so redundant. katana zero is a beautiful game too, to me at least, without fitting any of the mentioned schemes and that's the point. it's subjective with some biases on experience like green + orange, that happens to be the colors of harmonic settings in the woods in a frame of a clearing. some people like monochromatic pink, some hate it but like green, while others hate the green. if you like peaceful clearing scenes, you like the green+orange scheme, if you like futuristic cyber stuff, you like the chaotic katana zero scheme. i like both. i didn't like the katana zero color scheme at first, but i learned to love it. did my perception alter? no, just my subjective taste. it's all just positive and negative associations, which is subjective and thus can't be the logical outcome of appearance itself. it's the same with anything else that is considered beautiful. color schemes are at best a typology of statistically successful combinations, don't come with pseudo logic sorry to dump it here, but i am trying to understand stuff and have limited time to do so. but understanding doesn't mean to uncritically assimilate so called "knowledge" of a subject you "learned" somewhere else and apply it. understanding means to grasp the logic behind the subject and being able to infer with it. here some inspiring words from gautama siddhartha (buddha): "don't believe something, because others believe it" "don't believe something, because all believe it" "don't believe something, because it is written" "don't believe something, because it is considered holy" "don't believe something, because wise people say it" "believe only, what you identified as true"

This is a GREAT video thomas! Also, cool tattoo!

You know what else is gorgeous? You are! Thank you for this video 😀

Hey man, I sent you a podcast invite via mail. Would be great to hear back from you :-)

0:52 I’m gonna need to learn these colour wheel theories, thanks a lot!

Was it just me who loved the chaotic feel of the 7:21 scene? For me looks more fun and unique than the 7:25 generic scene

much love bro! Really helped me :)

Hi. I suck at game art. I'm learning to code now, and working on my game's art keeps getting pushed back. Thanks for this timely video :)

I love this video so much thank you!

Everything works at its best!!

Thanks for the video Thomas. 😀👍🏻

Great Job, keep it up!

obsessed with soft design now and more obsessed with cool scales Nd stuff.

You made this world so amazing I'm not game dev but u give me a lot of boost

Thomas! Thank you for making great videos!!!

This is so informative!

Damn Thomas, you are looking slick these days. Love the new style

Thank you for this video Thomas.

This was excellent info!

amazing video, tysm!

Great video!

I like the "carnival" music for the "let's choose random color for this scene" section. Here in Brazil, when we (designers) see something so colorful and random, we say "isso aí está um carnaval" (that's a carnival) - "Salada de fruta" (fruit salad) is also a choice

5:59 out of context is actually meme-worthy 💀💀💀💀💀💀

Great video as always

So good thanks man

I really love these

He returns

I love your advice ❤🎉

The best advice i was given about art was “you have eyes, use them”

You did an excellent marketing. You jump in right into the industry.... game maker

Appreciate this video very much, Thank you Thomas Brush.

the section on depth, at 8:21 is also about the concepts of atmospheric perspective.

"Wait, it's all just basic shapes?" "Always has been"

wooooo new video finally

nice tips, thanks!

Good video! Subscribed!

That fog trick is underrated.

Colors was what drew people to play games the original Metroid, Godzilla on the NES. Also, the music. But, music I guess is a topic for another video.

I both love and hate these facts. One the one hand, it is SUPER helpful. On the other hand, it is kinda depressing to see colour magic reduced to a process to follow.

golden eye with bad sound still looks fun XDXD

Great Vid!

Hard part is having elements used through multiple levels like coins and enemies not destroy the whole palette when your game have multiple different moods

Have to admit, your videos are world - class, ton of neat info, etc . . $

This is the ONLY REALLY INTERESTING AND REAL tutorial on the intire youtube !! GGs for the video and the montage. I liked

at 7:07 he makes a really insane insight on game development

Incredible value here, I tangentially heard about all of these but this is more detailed and more direct, thanks

Goldeneye with terrible sounds is something that I want to play

I actually liked those random colors in that still

If you are making 2D animations as cutscenes, the artstyle effects the colors too.

Thanks ❤

this is gold

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*_Im making a 2D game right now and I will steal your tips. When I'm #1 on Steam i'll credit you._*

Hi, thanks for sharing your experience ❤🎉 I’m an artist but I like chenge with something unique I guess I found it but tell me is this the one I have go first video game art lesson?