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
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.
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.
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
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❤
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
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!
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
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 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
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.
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
love to see you branching out into 3D :D
😂
remember picocad?
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.
so glad to see those two characters back they’re both very fun
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
been here since day one, hes always that goood 😁
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! ❤
Much appreciated, thanks for your support all this time! :D
Absolutely love it. The shadow box turned out so good!
This is great! What a fun way to bring pixel art into the physical realm ❤️
this is really sick!! making a light box out of pixel art would be really cool too, and an interesting dive into silhouettes!
Best pixel art artist on youtube ;)
Thanks for the really beautiful art!
Thanks, Brandon! Had a lot of fun trying something new for this one 😊
Double 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
Awesome pixel art, Brandon!
I appreciate the amount of work you put cutting that manually
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.
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.
Thanks for the tip! :D
That stringlight is the limejuice on the thai curry! Really makes it pop 😍
It's a very different way to visualize pixel art. I liked this very much!
You are the pixel art master bro, like a modern day Bob Ross. Love your videos, please keep up the amazing work. . .🤩🤔😍👌🏾💯
Yeah, gonna have to make one of these... Lighting is a GREAT idea!
Pixel art shadow boxes are so aesthetic
This is really amazing, great job
Very cool, it's really cool to have a piece of your work in real life
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
I love this longer style of videos!
had no idea what a shadow box was, but im happy i found out
This turned out awesome! Great job dude!
Awesome work!
I wonder what it would look like after coloring the edges with a matching marker so that the white edge is minimized. Just an idea!
this is the stuff that motivates me to improve
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❤
This looks amazing I’ll have to give it a try!
Not only a master at pixel art, but at arts&crafts too, i see!
I love Pumpkin Shel! It's like an "Evil Ryu" version of the character possessed by a spooky pumpkin or something. Very cool!
Would have been tempted to run the edge of a black Sharpie over the edges of the card.
Very cool display. 😎
Hello love your art
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
I love this. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for my new hobby 😂
Wow!
This is something new and this is something totally awesome!
I would buy this for my game room!
🤘😁🤘
Thanks! Yes, imagine one like this of the Vader corridor scene! 😱
@@BJGpixel Yes! Please! Make it happen haha. I'm birthdays are in May. You've got time 😅😅❤️
@@DadVader 🤣
Very cool! And Amazing pixel art as always
Another fantastic piece!
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!
Hahaha despite playing with knives for many hours, that was scraped while reaching to a shelf 😅
I really enjoyed this, I love seeing Piezu again and the crafting looks really great too! I am always inspired to do art whenever I watch your videos
That's really rad!
you should also take a pen like a sharpie and roll the nib along all the cut edges so the cuts match the pixel arts outlines.
This was really cool to watch come together
Brandon once again amazing work
Loved this! Thanks for inspiring us as always ❤
This is extremely cool! Great job Brandon!
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!
Man, I've wanted to make one of these for so long.
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
Thats so cool
I was waiting for you to say 'we'll close out with some shadow box time' 🥺 great work Brandon!! always nice to watch your crafts
this is so freaking good!!
To make the lights at the end look better you try using a diffuser.
Impressive job!
Good thing Ichi was put in the Player 1 spot.
(Joke explanation: "Ichi" is the Japanese word for "one".)
Looks awesome and better than the ones from stores
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?
bro thank you sm for making my day with this video i hope that you will live a happy life thank you sm again💙
you're a pixel art legend already
Really cool!
Honestly, a 2.5d game that recreates the look of these shadow boxes would be really interesting to me.
hi.. can you specify the paper that you used, noticed that its a bit glossy.
I've always wanted to do this!
That's awesome!
Freaking love this channel.
What paper are you using? Usually I find card paper curls up 😭
James, could you provide the document to print? So that one could rebuild your project? Would be really kind.
Can you tell me please my friend how many Gsm is the papper?
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
More crafty things! Please!
How do you get the pictures to do this?
Needed LED for the moon but overall epic.
Thats so cool!!!
brandon’s extended character universe confirmed?
I think to really finish it up, touching the cut edges of the paper with a black marker would have helped bring it all together a bit more
you make me want to do so much pixel art but i have stuff to do lol
NOICEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Amazing!!!!
What is the song in the final reveal?
I think it would've been cool if the fireball had a jack o lantern face in it.
so cool!
The real question is, how does the shadow box look in CRT? :P
For someone that isn't that crafty, it turned out great! Awesome vid as always.
very cool!
amazing
Woaa!
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.
갓뎀 형님 멋있습니당
pro tip: color the edges of the cut pieces with a pen.
Is there gonna be a new Luke Skywalker animation to continue that series?
new vid
yay
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 mean i'd buy one
sick
Should of painted the white edges.
💖💖
👍
Box of shadows
Ow the *_EEEEEEEDDGGEEEEE_*
Verny 🙂👍
Have you ever thought of making a game