What is Sub-Pixel Animation? 

What? "X" button on mobile ads exist?!?!?!

@@FBI-bx8bg If the legends are true...

Back button on Android, best thing ever specially to skip ads early

@@Mushe94 unless the developers were so nice to make clicking the back button quit the whole game at once. and then make the game load really slowly so you'd learn your lesson!!!

Indeed!

Damn straight. IREM/Nazca are the best. R TYPE, Cosmic Cop and In the Hunt all look GORGEOUS.

@@handlessuck589 r type no,in the hunt yes (irem)

True

And with this like 700 complete

*cough* 1, 2 and 3

And also incredibly talented pixel artists whose passion and effort must have played a big part in delivering an amazing look to this game. This trick cemented everything into looking extremely good though.

PIXEL ARTISTS HATE HIM! Learn his one simple secret to make Metal Slug look good.

metal slug has a great charac design aswell to support this

Thalaivare

That's a big secret to the smoothness of the animations, but not all there is to them. The designs are very stylized, and the animation choices have tons of personality (for example, how the Metal Slug tank moves as if it was a living being, especially when reacting to being hit). Add to that a big framecount beyond subpixel animation, and you get some of the best sprites to have graced the earth so far. Should mention the sprite artists for MS did all these manually with no modern shortcuts, and they delivered the entire first game in a matter of a few months since development began. Following games also didn't take too long to release either, counting from the point where they started working on each. That's peak talent right there, it'd take me that same amount of time to stop being lazy and do a 5 frame animation at best lmao

I knew it was from Hollow Knight! Thanks for shouting out the creator.

thank you, i wish @Luis Zuno had added this to the description

@@jpdude98 congrats on getting featured in a book thing

@@BarfCreations Hey what's up dude!! That's so cool running into you here! xD Haha thanks man

ah, so _that_ is why it sounded familiar!

In the End subpixel animations is just an illusion

Thanks for the hint btw!

Thanks for the tip!

Thanks :D

Me too And agree Nice touch

Same, I am glad RU-vid recommended this to me

I think l it's the music from Hollow Knight. Also, sorry for the late reply

not just the music but the sound effect for the talking, too.

Results for pixel art on google:

General rule: do not rotate pixel art Toby fox: Freak this shit, im bouta rotate pixel art

If you wanna see worse than THAT, look no farther than Scott Cawthon's pixel art.

Well the thing is, his pixelart is subpar to put it gently.

Because Undertale is not a pixel-based game. It's a flash game that uses pixelart

Well TJ “””Henry””” Yoshi...

First off, I need to talk about the true masterpiece that is Metal Slug.

QPU: A quarter pixel unit, from having subpixel animation at half intensity in both directions.

@@Viewsk8 well TJ "."

Someone already say it :'c

I had heard of NES games which did this, but for some stupid reason up until watching this video I thought they didn't use or even polish this technique pass the NES era.

Can’t really blame him though, if I was In a world with an artstyle like metal slugs, I’d be rock hard 24/7.

@@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise hell yeah brother No, seriously, i can barely see without my glasses so if i could just see the world in MS style I'd be fine with it until a semi slammed into me while i was inspecting pixels on the highway.

@@elivcdxv1852 So... How's the isekai goin?

@@thereptile9467 made it back a while ago, got the worst ending

@@elivcdxv1852 Damn, sorry to hear that my dude. Lemme guess, you forgot to raise enough bond points rite? Happens to the best of us.

OK, TJ "Henry" Yoshi.

to answer that we need to talk about parallel universes

CRTs and analog buttons would like words with you two.

bruh

I think you missed Metal Slug.

metal slug is the most impressive example tbh

I'm not sure, but I think there's a pattern here. ;)

I see nothing wrong here.

I think the last one is Metal Slug Attack

true, but i don't think that's what you want to do with pixel art.

“A pixel is just a pixel you can’t say it’s only half.” - TJ “””Luis””” Yoshi

@@blendzen9623 Someone can tie this to the classic "There's no such thing as a half A button press" joke, but that someone is not me.

sozcan what the hell are you talking about he’s directly referencing the video that spawned the half a press meme

@@Chris-mc2dt Ah. It woooshed over me

so simple yet so incredebly hard to recreate.

I used to think they draw each frame with each intricate detail from scratch. Still hard though.

So I guess that they succeeded on their objective

song name plz

@@see-sharp it's in the video description

Correct, Dirtmouth i believe, dont know the arrangement though

So THAT'S why it sounded so familiar!

I'm 90% sure that it is a Dirtmouth remix

@Marcos P. Thats what I meant

The remix is by Amie Waters. You’re welcome

It looks amazing and is incredibly fun

It’s so smooth

Hopefully their artists went on to be successful in life. They've created true art.

HEBIN MACHINGEN

Fio is my childhood waifu

TJ “””””Henry””””” Yoshi was proud of this video, though

Lmao

Thanks for the words.

Pixelart college?

@@leonchi7796 Most people called it art school. They had all sorts of techniques explained in various classes.

@Stale Bagelz it's a shame bc you can do a lot of neat pixel effects with modern shaders while still enforcing ie 256 colors only, tiling, sprites etc. Love it when games blend modern graphics and actual pixel-limited stuff.

@Stale Bagelz Who actually gives a a shit if it can actually run on a computer from the '90's?

@@aolson1111 no one really, but it tends to indicate that the look of the pixels are being manipulated by complicated shader algorithms versus painstaking manual manipulation of sprites, which has become a lost artform as a result. not that it really makes it worse, but it's kind of sad for an entire artistic skill defined by its limitations be erased by technology.

I hope

And now I finished it and I feel like these are, as of now, the most well-spent minutes of my life. This was really nice to watch, and very useful to someone who's making a pixel art game! Definitely gonna check more of your channel

@@katie-ampersand I'm glad it helped!

Or just low resoluted imadges of 3d graphics if we take donkey Kong as example

It is!

THank you I appreciated it.

Ohh that explains why this video has these many views.

@@ansimuz Looks like you won the youtube algorithm. Good video tho, just not sure why it's on my feed. Not that i don't appreciate pixel art, but i don't think i've watched anything related to it lately.