lovely stuff! something i'd recommend if you were ever to do this again is to run a black sharpie or something like that along the white edges of the paper to colour them in! it's a little thing but it goes a long way, specially if the pieces you're colouring in have black outlines.
its been a while since ive watched this channel and you've gotten so good holy cow. that silhouette sketch method is super impressive when it's done that efficiently
I’ve been here for a very long time, since your first video, and I’ve loved every upload. You’re always so creative and your videos are always super high quality and whenever I see you upload it makes my morning. From a long time fan, thank you Brandon! ❤
This turned out great! You have such a talent for knocking this kind of thing out of the park. It's clear you spend a lot of time creating things. Bravo! I was thinking it might've been cool to have the floor section run at an angle with the bottom edge butting against the front of the glass and the top edge against the backdrop. Then you could have the characters' feet actually contact the floor instead of being completely floating. Also thanks for detailing your process so succinctly! I might do something like this as a gift for a friend, so it'll be convenient to reference this if I move on that. :)
Thanks! That's a great idea; I considered having the paper curve toward the front for that very thing, but it would have required a lot of force to hold it in place and generated some tension. By separating the railing, I think your angling idea would work quite well! Good luck with your project btw! :D
Great job! I did several papercrafts, who is a similar technique, and it looks just amazing. As an advice, you can contour with sharpies each piece by the edge, so in that way you avoid that unappealing white line. You'll need a black sharpie at least, but the ideal setup is having a sharpie of each primary and secondary color, and the most ideal is having A LOT of sharpies.
I was going to say the moon should have remained flat on the sky print as it's too attention grabbing, but seeing how it looked with the interior lights on, it looks fantastic as is. Great work.
One thing that you can do is to use a black pencil to paint the paper edges black, it's a minor detail that can make the diference, for example on the characters that have the black outline would be cool to do that! Love your work it inspires me so much❤
Wow, this turned out really cool! idk why but I always had this thought of shadow boxes being a really tough thing to create. it's nice to see it isn't really all that difficult at all.
New video, and on saturday, what a treat! Also I noticed a small injury on you right finger that wasn't there at the beginning of the video. Was it Piezu, Ichi or the knife? Hope everything is well. Take care!
Very intesresting video here! How much i wish the characters could actually fought manually using magnet or something like soccer board game. I love all your videos, very inspiring! Have you ever tried a challenge to draw pixel art with the same silhouette? I am looking forward to it. Keep up the good work!
Whoa it's so 3d, I can almost feel it!! 🤲😱 Seriously this is such an awesome project, it was really fun to watch the whole process as you documented it! I'd always pondered what techniques people used to space the elements in these shadow boxes, now I know foam is an easy & effective solution! 😁 Also the fact that you cut the sprites out by hand with a knife is very impressive!! the quality of the product looks great; I probably would've cut a few towers off the castle in the background and nicked a few fingers too, had I attempted something of this scale 😆
Hahaha thanks dude! Yeah I'm not sure if there's a 'meta' to this, but I took a stroll around the craft shop and the foam/glue situation seemed the most reasonable (and customizable)! Really curious about automated cutting solutions, although it did turn out to be quite a meditative activity ✨
@@BJGpixel Hmm, well the foam meta certainly seems strong! 😆 And I'll bet - the poking technique with the knife does seem pretty calming as a routine 😌🔪
@@CKTDanny Out of context that could sound pretty chaotic, but yes it certainly was calming! 😄Also really fun to have some "physical pixel art" like that afterwards
if you do this another time i recommend taking a marker and coloring the white edges of the cut paper for elements like characters, it helps make them look nice and clean
Pretty cool! Are you into model toys? Maybe gunpla or WH? The lights at the end were a nice touch, an alternative could be those programmable RGB LED strips.
Thanks! I have a few of those RGB strips; I'd love to find a way to accommodate and hide them somehow - it'd be awesome to have the dynamic colour range! And yeah, have done a couple Gunpla! :D
I know these are a lot of work and I really appreciate how much effort you put into it, if these were available on Etsy or some other platform i'd love to buy a couple :3
You missed a trick not making the fireball look like a spectral pumpkin. The low resolution probably makes it difficult to do though. Any plans to release the template?
I.....did not know that hack for resizing my pixel art in Photoshop. Idk why I haven't been able to figure that out in my 5 years of making pixel art :( THANKS BRANDON
I make them officially since 2019 and the main reason is I can't stand the square/pixel perfect available around. No retroconsole (well, except Gameboy maybe) ever had a square aspect ratio meant to be output, so I only make them at 4 by 3 aspect.
