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I find this actually helpful. It's a great idea to simplify the normal map to such a simple palette. Gonna actually give it a go.

Amazing breakdown! I've played around with automatic normal map generators, but as you've mentioned the results are often not that great. Drawing them by hand seemed really daunting, but this makes it seem achievable with some time and effort.

Godlike tutorial you deserve 1m subs

Very neat. I wonder if, since there is logic to the methodology, if it could be scripted to automate the process somewhat.

Very cool, but doesn't seem like a sustainable workflow for many sprite with animations to boot.

Tutorial perfeito. Agora eu entendo como as cores dos normal maps funcionam (não só para pixel art).

This the exact style I want to make my game, I just hope to actually make a game one day....

oh it's nice to see how someone else thinks through handling restricting the palette of normals :D

(apologies in advance for the comedically long paragraph, i may have gotten ahead of myself.. still deserved tho) this is so insanely cool and brought normal maps from “eh i’ll probably do that eventually for a gimmick when i improve enough” to “hell yeah i wanna get good enough to start using this stuff more often” for me. as a pixel artist for.. about a year i think? i’m genuinely flabbergasted by how much potential this medium has for Cool Shit™️ and am glad the community has people like you to make guides like this public. god knows how you have under 1k subscribers but i’m sure you’ll grow a following sooner rather than later.

Это выглядит просто охуенно! 🥰

i want to play as your robot detective man. i'm sure i'll eventually study this tutorial, too

simplesmente sensacional meu mano!!

Very cool vid! What if we wanted to do it with a non pixel art 2d game, where the sprites are hand drawn like in Hollow Knight?

It's incredible how much that does for the lighting even with 2d assets in 3d space. Beautiful.

hand painting a normal map is madness, I love it

LOVE IT MAN

I wonder if you could go a step further and make an "occlusion map" to catch those areas like the inside of the jacket that should have light blocked from certain directions, even if their normal logically points that way?

Как же это круто, вы талантливы ))

this is why ai cannot be a replacement for human artists. when is it gonna make something like this!?

I need so hard this as a background gif

Thanks for sharing!

Nice 👍

POG

cool video

i was thinking about normal maps for pixel art for some time but Your video showed this method the best way possible. Amazing, simple and very informative video

Might try using Substance painter to help streamline this process! you can paint with height and make even more detailed normals for your artwork!

Really nice video!!!

Once you get to watch how a 7 second animation is made, you feel immense respect for the artist. I certainly do. People usually scroll away from a "cool" animation and don't realize how much effort was put into it. Someday I hope to make something like this on my own. Bravo, my friend!!

This is SO interesting, and helps me make sense on how this works. Simplifying it to 8-9 colors for pixel art is genius

I have been adding normals to my 3D pixel art game and man it looks so nice

foda!

this looks like a horrible, time consuming and boring process

If you need to create your own normal map palette, Aseprite has a normal map colour wheel: press the button with three lines above the palette, then choose the normal map colour wheel to switch to it. Normal maps are so cool! It looks like magic!

Insanely underrated. Please keep making pixel art tutorials and other videos.

What a fuckin genious, how you minded for normal map in pixel art? Its adorable ❤

This would be awesome in a game engine

Surely this could be automated with some kind of plug-in for something like GIMP to avoid how it'd be impractical to manually edit over 800 frames of sprite animation on a typical character.

Okay, so not only is the concept and execution immediately cool, but realizing I'm listening to an 8-bit version of Persona 5's Beneath the Mask just made it even better

Damn, really impressive

"personagem"??? "iluminação"??????????????? *BRASIL-SIL-SIL-SIL* nmrl, bom tutorial 👍não faço pixel art, mas é interessante ver como as pessoas fazem arte (e to tentando aprender blender em geral, ent isso já ajuda um pouco)

Amazing production quality. Good use of your skillset and nice ascetic fit. Makes it clear how much work pixel art is though.

thank you so much!! its such a clear explanation

You deserve a like for the banger of a music selection alone. 😎👍

Here's the trick for ya: Draw 3 b/w layers over the image: 1. Lit from the right 2. Lit from the top. 3. Lit from the front. Multiply them by Red, Green and Blue respectively. Blend (Add) together. Set bg as that bluish bg color.(0.5R,0.5G,1.0B) The combination is your normal map.

Are you using aseprite importer? To constantly get the results?

this is super sweet tutorial!. Ton of work for animated sprites but I think it's worth it for the results in the end. Not related to the tutorial but I am curious about how you did the wind on the leaves. Is that hand animated? or was there some other technique

Is- is this what happens when one uses 100% of their brain...?

this is the coolest shit ever

This is insanely good! Could you consider doing a video on how to effectively use a small color palette? I wanna try and make my own normal maps but ill probably screw them up, lol

Is generating normal maps from height maps possible instead or does it not give good quality for pixel art?