General Screenshot/Movie Thread

In the case of the Puyo Puyo art, at least, that would be virtually impossible, considering that this is still the original palette, only using more from it than what was originally used; at worst, it may be desaturated because of how I have OBS Studio and VLC set up, but in general play, they are the same colours as the original file provides, not a single change on that one bit throughout this.
Green Hill, on the other hand, I went with Turquoise and a more Sandy variant of Yellow instead of the bolder shades that we got in Leaf Forest and Sunny Shores, those two zones can have some bad colour bleeding on certain monitors because of the bolder palettes and thus the way I'm doing this is intentional by design to prevent that; chances are in the finished version of GH, it may be changed to have more of a Nighttime or Dawn feel, given the Moon Towers scattered about the zone, I'll do more on that at a better time but know that what you see is not final, it'll be a while before that and I don't expect it to be ready anytime soon, anything shown may be subject to change.

It's about time that we had another Chaotix~style Sound Test screen, honestly has a nice Glass~like touch this time, given the colour effects used here, it honestly feels as if it has four or five layers because of the differences in the letters' colours when overlapping others or the banner on the right hand side.
Out of curiosity, how smoothly does the art scroll; I remember the footage of the Title Screen portion that you had shown was not in a framerate above thirty, it would be astounding though if this scrolls in sixty, especially given the amount of activity onscreen.

 

The sound test background doesn't scroll, and I don't intend to scroll it. I just wanted something that looked nice, and was consistent with the style of the logos I showed some time back..

I assume by "TItle Screen" footage, you mean the logos video I put out some time ago, which had a similar background which did scroll. If so, then I'm afraid you are incorrect. It does run at 60fps, the only reason why it "appears" to be 30fps, is because it's a crappy video on YouTube.

Strictly speaking, I'm not one for caring about showing off effects, I'm interested in showing off art.

 

Even though it doesn't scroll, it definitely uses the shades of Blue and Turquoise in a way that is appealing to its template; both it and the mentioned video honestly remind me of the current version of the Opening and Ending Credits to Charlie Rose, which does similar with its art and palette, we don't see this style often in many modern works and is always welcoming to see.
Good to know that those logos did run in sixty, I was honestly wondering about that for a while, so I'm glad that confusion was cleared up; given that I use MPC~HC with Smooth Video Project to view YouTube videos in higher framerates than their original form, that was the only way I could see this in sixty, the difference in the fluidity shows and still looks great regardless, definitely gets praise from me for its simple yet well sought approach.

 

Your art here looks clean like your DAC technology, that was used in S1: The Next level. This looks amazing! Great job as always MJ.

Meanwhile another Tails shit, this time totally edited Volcanic Tunnel and disabled boss battle in that area, because I found it a chore to beat in original.

 

oh yeah this place exists

 

Your images seem to use a broken link.

 

I agree with Trinotriny. The colours look pretty washed out and muted (like Sonic 3 is known for), at the same time, it kinda reminds me of Sunny Shores from Sonic Megamix.

 

The artwork here is delightful! The use of white and black in conjunction with the grades of colours is used suitably, and you've got shades of colours blending very well! The dithering is used respectfully here too, it isn't overdone and is only used where necessary. I'm aware it's just a mock-up, but it's still nicely done all things considering.

I applaud you sir, and I'm also deeply disappointed in the lack of response to your work here. C'mon people >=(

 

Thank you Markey! I've learned a lot from UTS1, so I've been making major improvements to the work in Project Waffle (my dumb indie game that everyone forgot about), and I'm glad that you like it!

Man, it feels surreal to be complimented by one of my biggest inspirations for making pixel art that I'm feeling really happy right now.

Edit: Oh, and I forgot to post this here:

An updated mock up of a zone for UTS1.

 

I also wanted to write something about this, but I did not come up with words to describe this wonder!

Anyway Unlimited Trees you have talent, I like your art for the colors that you choose, they are great and the details you put on the stage.

For the rest I wish you a good job!

 

Thanks guys!

The light source thing had to do with various problems:
1) It was a mockup and some art I just lazily flipped and other stuff
2) I hadn't touched the art in months as I was busy with Unlimited Trees' Sonic 1. I've already been fixing the problem with the light source and been trying to make things even more consistent.

As for the rocks, as I already mentioned this art is pretty old. I've noticed how repetitve it was and I'm planning on fixing it.

 

Giant Land SMB3 in SMS palette.
Has a hyrbid of Super Mario Bros. 3 NES graphics and SMAS graphics.

 

Hmm, not bad of a conversion at all, this definitely gives the level a Remastered feel, I'm quite surprised that putting Mario titles onto a Sega console or handheld is not often dived into much outside of that one Megadrive Homebrew port.
The slightly increased palette of the Mark III, when used for this artwork, truthfully kind of reminds me of what would happen if many notable Famicom and FDS titles were to utilize this, it's definitely something that I would hope could become possible if hardware modding could get to that point, limits would be broken to high extremes when that becomes a reality.

 

Double Post.


I originally did the following minor cosmetic changes to Studiopolis and Hidden Palace '94 during the opening days of the Revision 03 release in August, I wanted to take some of the artwork back to their original roots and remind those of the '90s for the former, while doing something that'll be relatively new for the latter, something we haven't seen since G Sonic/Sonic Blast; two of the references for Studiopolis will make better sense once the track I made for it is heard, wouldn't have put them in without it.




Restoration of the Pine Pot logo.
This took an honest hour to get looking right, especially the "P" in "Pot", I tried to make it as close to the one used in Bare Knuckle without it looking too hollow.



PBS' New York and New Jersey station WNET makes a cameo.
Perhaps a promotion for one of their programs is being shown?



High Class.



Pre~rendered Super and Master Emerald sprites, based on the ones uploaded by Dolphman, touched up to adapt to the higher colour palette.
The added height and slanting on the Master Emerald could look a little better on the right hand side, I'll probably make it rounder on that edge to look more like the left in shape; the finalized version of the Hidden Palace '94 remaster will have everything look as pre~rendered as I can make it within the game's limitations, that might take a while but it will be fun to work on regardless, the emeralds are a good start and the rest will follow.

 

master system ftw

 

How is this even possible? Really, this is pretty well made art! Good job!