Grim Girl Hana Returns! (Pixel Art Mock-Up) 

The obvious name for Crow's Raven is Scare. So instead of a scarecrow it's Crow and Scare.

Crow only exists for like 150 frames, yet somehow i already love his character

I think the old design would work really well as a final level where everything goes in a much darker tone

you could make a story with the characters on the channel

We have a comic book character in France where the child of the grim reaper, who is supposed to take over its job when it will become an adult, wants instead to be a florist ; your character + the flower theme is a nice coincidence here (the comic book is "La petite mort") very nice work as always, thanks a lot !

THAT SKULL SUN IS SO GOSH DANG COOL

Whenever hana loses all her life (or spirit) instead of a random death animation she should hold up a retreat flag

I had a cool idea that Hana’s mood will change the music in sections so every zone would have around six different songs that would also fit the theme of the place.

God, I would love a real Hana game. Something about the aesthetic and Crow's cheeky humor really makes me want tp play this. Great video as always!

8:42 Easy, the scarecrow represents the looming threat of death. He exists in all locations simultaneously until the reaper herself arrives

I always liked that random scarecrow popping up in Zelda on the N64 so liking this one too!

Here’s an idea: How about different moods can give different abilities with the flag. Ex. Spooky Mood let’s you sway the flag back and forth slowly causing a ghost to appear to scare off enemies. Also, different things can impact mood; like if Hanna has low health that puts her in a “distressed” mood, letting her use a quick flag movement to get enemies away from her. You can expand these ideas as much as you want just, if you’re gonna leave a separate comment, credit me if you may. Thank you for listening🤗

Whenever I get a notification from this channel, I get a smile on my face. Love watching the work and design that goes into each piece. Also you seem so humble, yet confident; great attributes for a teacher.

YES! Grim Girl Hana is one of my favourite character sprites you've made.

Everything comes together so well, this could become an actual video game, and I mean, I'd play it

I don't even read the title or look at the thumbnail I just instantly watch the video :D

I can just hear crow’s voice and it feels raggedy but caring, even the bit of defeat with “time is just, not the same” part of his dialogue :D

Dialogue choices or interactions could change her mood, and her mood could make her secondary ability: Like spooky would give her a ghost spell to give life back to flowers, or temporarily revive them to get cocanuts to throw or beanstalks or something.

I like the idea that it starts out very cheery and happy through hana’s perspective and later on it becomes more dark and scary as you move through the depths of hades

I always complicate myself when creating pixel art i always forgot to use patterns so i always end up scribble messy design

You seem like you’d be a good game designer lol. Are you into any game-dev related things besides making pixel art?

Awesome! I love both characters! The color palette is interesting. The deep orange is really cool!

Have the scarecrow named Crow, and the crow named Scare, and Scare squawks while Crow translates it.

Wow this looks amazing! I love how you don’t go too into detail about the animation, and then there are a ton of little things that we see moving at the end.

Ah, this animation is so charming! And the scarecrow's design is awesome, you nailed the vibrant look 😁 Pixelverse hype! Haha

At 17:02, it was cool to see how 12 pixel movement worked out (the Pixel Gods smiling upon you) as you had 3 water rows each 4 pixels in height. In user interface design for web development, it is ideal to make the user interface responsive to different devices. A common trick designers use to achieve this is to use a 12 column grid system, as almost any UI system can be resized / divided up very easily. It is interesting to see how the number 12 can become such a useful number for evenly dividing objects in design, which is partially why I suspect (haven't looked this up yet) humans decided on 12 hours in a day / 12 hours at night or 12 months in a year (maybe not the main reason, but 12 sure is a convenient number for many applications). Mathematically, 12 is the smallest number with exactly 6 divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12). I'm not sure how it would translate to other areas of pixel art as I'm still a beginner at it.

Insanely cool. Real nice showing for Hana. I also love that you still showed yourself failing. Its an important lesson when going down this path.

Love ya man! Thanks!

One of these days you WILL make a game out of this, good job!

Love it! It's so satisfying watching you work, and listening to you explain what you're doing.

It's really rare to find a such underrated channel these days, before they gain a million subscribers. I love your content and i hope your doing great these days.

wow! coming back to this video, i read all the comments and the community is amazing! everyone gives suggestions and is so supportive. i am so happy i came back

Hana in Russian slang means death. We usually say it as a part of a death threat

OKAY BUT THAT SUN SKULL IS SO COOL

Omg so talenteeeed 😫👏🏻. I love it so much, your artwork inspires me a lot to keep on working on pixel art

Dude, you so need to make this an actual game. I would love to play this and I know my kids would get a massive kick out of it. Fantastic work man and I'm learning a ton by watching all your content. Keep it up.

Oh my GOODNESS M8 your video's are actually legit AMAZING I wach them all the time and i enjoy every single one Keep up the good work

If this was a video game with dialogue boxes, you could use Hanas bigger sprite as a dialogue portrait!

I need to learn programming so I can make a game for this :D

I like that you included your failed attempt and what you learned from it.

Hey dude just wanted to send you a massive thank you. Today I got up the courage to submit some artwork to the 'character design challenge' - the have a monthly design challenge with a theme. (Aztec warrior this month) I submitted a pixel art princess and was really nervous as they have draughtsmenship standards for approval. - just got approved. Never would have done it without your channel. Thank you.

Thank you so much. I'm learning so much by just watching your process. It's helping me improve my pixel art so fast.

I love watching the process of this! crow and hana are adorable :>

I've learned so much from watching ALL your videos (which I did in one day). Thanks for all your knowledge!

the style is nice, but it feel weirdly "zoomed in" for a game design, it look like a platformer but you couldn't fit a lot of platforming into the screen

What I appreciate most is your own self criticism of what worked and what didn't. I love learning how much that is a part of the creative process. Thank you for these. I really think you need to make this a game.

Another amazing work, Brandon! I would love to go on that quest! 🙂 Thanks for sharing this Grim Girl Hana world evolution!

Just found your channel, I don't usually comment on videos but holy shit all your videos are quality. keep it up!

I always enjoy watching your videos! 💕

The fact that you can make an animation look like a real game!

Oh crap that’s awesome I love the character!

@Brandon, the more I watch your videos, the more I am impressed by your creativity and by the quality of your pixel-art. Well done.

Thanks for doing what you do. Your work (which is absolutely amazing!) has inspired me to begin pixel art. I've always wanted to do something creative and have never really tried until now. Thank you!

Dude I freaking love your videos I never clicked so fast anything

Your scarecrow character popping up at various times reminds me of the scarecrow character from Howl's Moving Castle. I'd totally forgotten about that until just now!

Something something something leaving flowers on graves = flower theme? Maybe Hana is the flower girl that takes the flowers left on graves and gives them to the inhabitant of each grave in the underworld? Maybe the flowers are scattered because there was a brisk wind and they flew out of her arms and now she’s trying to get them back! Whatever the story, I know I’d play this game nonstop if it was real

Don’t forget the Super Famicom control team is part of this pixelverse.

Loved this, especially when you explained the thought process and what you think worked for the animation. I also love your voice, it's really soothing, wouldn't mind to hear you talk all day

Concept - the bannerscythe changes the world around you The banner has a weak attack, when it's out you see this vibrant world, as you've drawn. Enemies are weak in this version of the world. The scythe has a stronger attack, but when it's out you see a more traditional afterlife sort of place. Enemies are a good amount stronger here, though, so it's a bit risky unless you're really good with the combat in the game. Perhaps you need to use a flower in order to change the mode of your bannerscythe, but maybe not. I dunno.

the mood could be a thing that determines your attack as you suggested. perhaps they're pickups that give you new powers

I freaking adore the CRT time in this videos.

Ok i'm 2 month late but this specific piece is really breath-taking ! i'm really in love with you drawing style, you really are inspiring me for my pixel art learning, thank you Brandon "Nano" !

Love the content! I've always been curious about the relative strengths/weakness of old 80's 8-bit platforms and was wondering if you could do a comparison video of a sample piece of your art optimized for/restricted by the C64, NES, and Gameboy Color.

That looks awesome and even more so on the CRT!

I looove that scarecrow guy, keep up the good work man!

I love Hana! Her world reminds me of the Spyro series

I find your videos and your tutorials equally enjoyable! I have a request: can you make more tutorials? They are pretty much the most entertaining I watch.

I want to say a thing not about the video but really your way in making sprites helped me alot thanks i am one of the subscribers now

She's back! I've been waiting for this haha. Also suggestion for the scarecrow's name, "Qrow"

This is awesome, I really want to get into pixel art and one day be able to make stuff like this

This is beautiful art

would love to play this as a game :) that really does look like an interesting world

The 3 C's are a thing now. That is how things happen. Have you heard of Brandon's 3C's of art? Construction, Contrast, and Color.

Awesome video and result as always! :) By this time I am convinced that if I ever need pixelart, I will commission you. 😋

This style is amazing

Hi, I just wanna say I absolutely love your vids, it inspired me to start pixel art, and it’s been going well so far! I really like the one bit style, for its simplicity. I wish to improve my skills, and hopefully be like you some day!

You made me try my hand on a few characters, great channel! Also, Hana is a cute reaper.

It'd be neat to see you team up with a gamedev and flesh out some of your original characters.

Damn I would give up so fast and just keep going with the first draft. Pretty cool!

Loved it! Keep it up!

Beautiful work... I enjoyed this video very much

I think the scyth could also be a checkpoint and you would have to balance having a weapon and saving progress if you remove the flag then you lose the checkpoint but gain attack points you could be lighter for better platforming when the sycth is planted

your next drawing of hana should be her fighting the slime bats

If that game existed, I'd buy it instantly.

This video is *golden*

3:55 Pixel Sense! Danger!

always a good day when brandon uploads a vid

i feel like the scarecrow character would talk “dodododo”

I am interestet in pixel art for myself and your videos are actually really inspiring :) So... i let you a nice little abbo here and keep up the good work :3

Awesome stuff

Amazing work

Bruh.... this is so impressive

"Hay, Hana!"

i really want this to be a game

This really needs to be a game :)

I know this seems like a bad idea, but have you ever considered doing some of the characters in each other's pixel styles? I imagine it would be really cool to see the Detective in a 16-bit style, or how you'd simplify characters like Hana.

great video! maybe those thumbnails of her can become her actual ingame head, which changes based on the mood she's in? It gives her different abilities and pose or something.

Continue with great work!

Just saw your video on the Alpha series. It would be really cool if you take a look at SNK games, that has a different approach to sprite animation. Also, you should do a video on KOF XIII the best looking pixel art ever made.

Hey, you should put the previous video on the description! :)