i use pillowshading as the base for my dithering and shading. so, if pillowshading is used correctly, it can be a good technique. but yes, its easy to overdo it
ITS FREAKIN POKEMON! YOU DON'T EVEN DESERVE TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH POKEMON IN ANY OF YOUR VIDEOS! YOUR A FRIGGIN IDIOT! POKEMON! POKEMON! POKEMON! I DONT KNOW WHAT THE HELL A POKEYMAN IS BUT YOU NEED TO STOP MAKING SO MANY VIDEOS ABOUT THEM!
LOL I love how everyone's in a bad mood over you spelling it 'pokeyman'. :'D
Ahh, yes, pillow shading. My sister and friend misled me into pillow shading when I began pixel art.. I'm glad I grew a brain and stopped doing that before I joined Sheezyart and Deviantart. >U>;
I hate pillow-shading. it's not a technique, and it's not good. it defeats the whole concept of shading. shading is created by a light source, because another part is lighter. pillow-shading has no light source. and it's PO-KE-MON. not pokeyman. you're probably just saying that because that's the way it sounds in when someone(by which I mean someone with an american accent) says it, which obviously means you can't read, which makes me wonder how you can write.
ITS. FUCKING. POKEMON. I DEMAND YOU TO CHANGE ALL YOUR VIDEOS WITH "POKEYMAN" IN THE TITLE TO POKEMON, OK? besides, why would you want to pillow shade?
in 1820 a man named fredrick osloft one day he was working in his lab until a ghost came by and killed him the next morning fredrick was nowhere to be seen 100 years later two boys went in the lab as a dare the boys where never seen again where aparently murdered now that u have read this comment tonight when u go to sleep the two boys and fredrick will come and murder you but you can stop this by posting this comment on 5 other videos by midnight
Or perhaps you mean the way of the future? I keep trying to match the sprite style of Golden Axe... Perhaps you can tell what sort of shading they used on the sprites on the Sega Gen version.. Cause appears to have a dark outline and get brighter the closer you get to the center (especially the legs) which would mean pillow shading and it looks great. But yes I will admit that Pokemon has seen better days.
..the way of the future my ass. Go to pixeljoint and look at some real sprites. You'll never be taken seriously if you pillow shade, it looks terrible and takes no skill. Golden-axe is borderline pillowshading.
So Golden Axe is borderline pillow shading... Are you suggesting that their sprites aren't beautiful examples of low resolution spriting at it's finest? Art reminiscent of the great works of Frank Frazetta. Well I love how their chracters and backgrounds look. I will check out that site as you've requested.
In the world of 32bit color depth and DVD based gaming, the number of colors is meaningless. There is no need to conserve. We have both the processing power and the speed to make glory. I rather like their unique art style of Golden Axe. Plus the prospective/look are completely different so it's hard to compare. Chrono Trigger was SNES which had a larger pallet (plus I just checked & the character sprites consist of 13 colors) while Golden Axe character sprites only had 10 colors.
sorry to disapoint you, but thats nowhere as near as pillow shading(and you can feel great for that). what you describe is simply a proper shading with a light source on the top/front of the character, showing some highlights in the top parts of the body of the chracater, while lower areas such as the legs doesnt get as much light thus not recieving a highlight. the pillow shadow as described here(and anywhere) is gradient filling every shape of an object on its own, discarding any lightsource.
Nonono... Pillow shading is a very bad habit. Pillow shading makes it look like light is generating from inside each and every body part. You are only supposed to have one light source, and that one light source is usually in the top-left corner.
If it was coming from the middle, then why would the ears, arms, AND tail of Plusle be outlined by a dark shade like that? Since every limb is pillowshaded like that, it means there is a different light source hitting each one of them, which doesn't make sense.
That's what I mean. If there was one light source, not EVERY limb would be shaded like that. If the light was coming straight towards the middle, there wouldn't be so much dark shading on the body. I'm aware of how this is shaded. This is one sprite, the body parts should all have related shading, but instead, they are separately shaded as if they were different areas.
Pillow shading is the worst form of art there is, and it is the most hated form of shading in the pixel art community. The guy who made this deserves to die and burn alive.
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estlib 7 months ago
i use pillowshading as the base for my dithering and shading. so, if pillowshading is used correctly, it can be a good technique. but yes, its easy to overdo it
estlib 7 months ago
you notice that pillow shading is only good for a freaking ball, right?
Imkrazzeeehhhh 8 months ago
ITS FREAKIN POKEMON! YOU DON'T EVEN DESERVE TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH POKEMON IN ANY OF YOUR VIDEOS! YOUR A FRIGGIN IDIOT! POKEMON! POKEMON! POKEMON! I DONT KNOW WHAT THE HELL A POKEYMAN IS BUT YOU NEED TO STOP MAKING SO MANY VIDEOS ABOUT THEM!
chinifilyjeremy 9 months ago
LOL I love how everyone's in a bad mood over you spelling it 'pokeyman'. :'D
Ahh, yes, pillow shading. My sister and friend misled me into pillow shading when I began pixel art.. I'm glad I grew a brain and stopped doing that before I joined Sheezyart and Deviantart. >U>;
TheFailArtist 11 months ago
I hate pillow-shading. it's not a technique, and it's not good. it defeats the whole concept of shading. shading is created by a light source, because another part is lighter. pillow-shading has no light source. and it's PO-KE-MON. not pokeyman. you're probably just saying that because that's the way it sounds in when someone(by which I mean someone with an american accent) says it, which obviously means you can't read, which makes me wonder how you can write.
hedgehoggy147 1 year ago
ITS. FUCKING. POKEMON. I DEMAND YOU TO CHANGE ALL YOUR VIDEOS WITH "POKEYMAN" IN THE TITLE TO POKEMON, OK? besides, why would you want to pillow shade?
swisscakeroll123 1 year ago
@swisscakeroll123 You are right!
IT IS FRICKEN POKEMON YOU IDIOT!
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...idiot...
Slickster1952 1 year ago
LOL! Old video!
nani2416 1 year ago
this looks shitter then before
Didmyreturns 2 years ago
Pillow shading to seasoned pixel artist is frowned upon. It seem to work only in some cases like Harvest moon.
xXRoconzaXx 2 years ago
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in 1820 a man named fredrick osloft one day he was working in his lab until a ghost came by and killed him the next morning fredrick was nowhere to be seen 100 years later two boys went in the lab as a dare the boys where never seen again where aparently murdered now that u have read this comment tonight when u go to sleep the two boys and fredrick will come and murder you but you can stop this by posting this comment on 5 other videos by midnight
StormRiser595 2 years ago
...I seriously can't tell if these videos are jokes or not.
Rynen10K 2 years ago 3
pillow shading is not a technique, its a mistake made by most of the newbie pixel artists
Ails1234 2 years ago 26
and on the sacred 8th day god said "and remeber my children thou shalt never pillow shade a pokemon sprite" and then adam fucked eve.
stickmenarekool 3 years ago
Why would you want to pillow shade? That's a horrible method of shading.
NamiTheUntamed 3 years ago 2
What did you do to my poor Plusle?
justmashu1 3 years ago 2
Well you guys just saw the results. NEVER pillow-shade! x_x
Ratty524 3 years ago 3
Pillow-Shading is terrible. Why did you do this? You completely ruined the sprite. (Or was that the idea?)
GadgicTheHedgehog 3 years ago 3
pillowshading is a sin against spriting
Savaril 3 years ago 23
Amen.
Bluhmann 3 years ago 3
What about OVERshading? Overshading Pwns against this! And yeah... WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE PLUSLE!? Nice try though. :)
toontownroxx 3 years ago
Or perhaps you mean the way of the future? I keep trying to match the sprite style of Golden Axe... Perhaps you can tell what sort of shading they used on the sprites on the Sega Gen version.. Cause appears to have a dark outline and get brighter the closer you get to the center (especially the legs) which would mean pillow shading and it looks great. But yes I will admit that Pokemon has seen better days.
RunandGunPictures 3 years ago
..the way of the future my ass. Go to pixeljoint and look at some real sprites. You'll never be taken seriously if you pillow shade, it looks terrible and takes no skill. Golden-axe is borderline pillowshading.
Savaril 3 years ago
So Golden Axe is borderline pillow shading... Are you suggesting that their sprites aren't beautiful examples of low resolution spriting at it's finest? Art reminiscent of the great works of Frank Frazetta. Well I love how their chracters and backgrounds look. I will check out that site as you've requested.
RunandGunPictures 3 years ago
They are not beautiful examples of low resolution spriting at it's finest.
..not at all. They use more colors than say, Chrono Trigger, and they manage much less.
Savaril 3 years ago
In the world of 32bit color depth and DVD based gaming, the number of colors is meaningless. There is no need to conserve. We have both the processing power and the speed to make glory. I rather like their unique art style of Golden Axe. Plus the prospective/look are completely different so it's hard to compare. Chrono Trigger was SNES which had a larger pallet (plus I just checked & the character sprites consist of 13 colors) while Golden Axe character sprites only had 10 colors.
RunandGunPictures 3 years ago
Either way, Golden Axe looks fucking terrible.
Savaril 3 years ago
eh, dude... go look at the current pixeljoint challenge. :D
TehPhotocopier 2 years ago
I saw it.
That doesn't change anything.
Savaril 2 years ago
lol, I just realised it was april fools anyway ;P
TehPhotocopier 2 years ago
sorry to disapoint you, but thats nowhere as near as pillow shading(and you can feel great for that). what you describe is simply a proper shading with a light source on the top/front of the character, showing some highlights in the top parts of the body of the chracater, while lower areas such as the legs doesnt get as much light thus not recieving a highlight. the pillow shadow as described here(and anywhere) is gradient filling every shape of an object on its own, discarding any lightsource.
metarro 2 years ago
just in case, that comment is directed towards runandgunpictures.
metarro 2 years ago
It can't even really be described as a bevel even. Also, lol'd at the pillow shade challenge.
evilagram 2 years ago
Aww. It looks so cool!
SamsMaName18 3 years ago
lol
SamsMaName18 3 years ago
wtf? pokeyMAN!
iain141414 3 years ago 2
Huh... strange, I thought this was a tutorial showing people how NOT to pillow shade /:
Why would you want people to pillow shade?
LivingDollyyy 3 years ago
Pillow Shading looks better.
At least when you use big pokemon...
Pillow shading with small pokemon is just... yuck
AwesomeKoko1 3 years ago
Nonono... Pillow shading is a very bad habit. Pillow shading makes it look like light is generating from inside each and every body part. You are only supposed to have one light source, and that one light source is usually in the top-left corner.
PearledWaveS 3 years ago 2
Actually, the light source is coming from the middle.
AwesomeKoko1 3 years ago
If it was coming from the middle, then why would the ears, arms, AND tail of Plusle be outlined by a dark shade like that? Since every limb is pillowshaded like that, it means there is a different light source hitting each one of them, which doesn't make sense.
PearledWaveS 3 years ago
no, as in floating right in front of the pokemon.
And the reason for that shading is because of the light is first, then the darkened light
AwesomeKoko1 3 years ago
That's what I mean. If there was one light source, not EVERY limb would be shaded like that. If the light was coming straight towards the middle, there wouldn't be so much dark shading on the body. I'm aware of how this is shaded. This is one sprite, the body parts should all have related shading, but instead, they are separately shaded as if they were different areas.
PearledWaveS 3 years ago 3
Why the hell would you make a guide on how to shade in the ugliest way possible?
nilrem 4 years ago 2
What are you guys talking about? Pokemon? He's reshading pokeyman sprites.
Mrevilbobguy 4 years ago
whts pllow shadin
PurplePanthers 4 years ago
Pillow shading is the worst form of art there is, and it is the most hated form of shading in the pixel art community. The guy who made this deserves to die and burn alive.
TheZombix 3 years ago
WTF? Not only is it pillow shaded, THE PALLET IS FUCKED UP! Freakin retard
bladesonic2005 4 years ago 2
fuck pillow shading
UScommando3 4 years ago
Eww. It looks like there's mud on its face.
FlyingSausage94 4 years ago
what is pillow shading?
Sacredfire059 4 years ago
IT BUUUUURNS!
MedicalMeccanica 4 years ago
Why, on Earth, would you encourage Pillow Shading?
skullamania 4 years ago 2
What the hell are you doing?!?!?!
skeddles 4 years ago
its kinda like inferno buy you keep the eyes, you use the pokemons pallete,and you kep the outline nice
deoxyslord 4 years ago
pillow shading is the worst kind of shadow for pixelart!
ReoTheCreator 4 years ago 2
This is rape.
spinzAmail 4 years ago
Pillowshading. worst way of shading.. YOU RUINED THE NICE POKEMON SPRITE NOOB!
l0ll1ge 4 years ago
Pillow shading is when you make the Pokemon look like there is a direct source of light on it. :D
stjimmysgirl1345 4 years ago
I don't get it....anyway If you like pokemon, check out my pokemon vids!!!
finalfantasy8fan 4 years ago
cool, but I prefer to shade Pokemon sprites...:P
gamemaster77789 4 years ago