I Redrew Sonic CD To Look NEW - Maniafied #3

Sonic CD redrawn and brought forward in time into 2023 it's about time [Music] welcome to maniified a series where I take an ultrasonic game I spruce it up in the same way that Mania would and today my sights are set on Sonic CD [Applause] such a unique game it's got its own strong identity with wild level design iconic music and I would go so far as to say in the context of the classic games it has its very own art style but you know what that art style is looking a tiny bit dated now almost 30 years later so I'm going to do something about that now I promised this a while ago and ever since then I've been haunted by some malevolent force of time thing is it hides so let's go find it because I don't want it to find me [Music] what's the time huh [Music] foreign [Music] so it's about time we get to it let's first take a look at the title screen from the original game oh yeah that looks good wait that's not right it's all squished oh yeah that's what the Sprites look like in the original game when the game displays them it stretches the pixels if we do that it looks pretty rough well luckily this was fixed in the remake with the art actually being scaled up Ah that's better this right here is what we'll use as our base so let's watch it in action oh yeah definitely one of the coolest title screens in my opinion I'll be totally refreshing this title screen much like I did before and much like Mania did with the classic stages and further on maybe I'll have a little surprise for you let's get started I'm excited for this one so naturally I'm going to start with Sonic himself now if it wasn't obvious Sonic here is a 3D model who's been converted into pixel art and then stretched and it was looking a little bit rough so firstly what I'm doing is removing all the dithering because Mania didn't really include dithering in its art and I'm going to continue to make subtle modifications to the shading so it looks less like a 3D model and more like a 2d piece of artwork now it's here I should probably say I'm going to be a bit looser with the term manified because if I go too far in the Mania Direction these games are going to lose their own charm and identity so from this point I'm just going to kind of do what feels right for each game going forward but I'm not necessarily going to force myself to use the same lighting or exact same shading style as Mania on the character it's just not necessary so even though this Sonic is a model personally I think it's a little bit off model so I'm going to make a bunch of modifications change the shape of things so that Sonic just looks right he has the correct silhouette he has the correct form [Music] like his ears were way too big in my opinion and I'm not the first one to say it Sonic spikes a little bit weird in 3D so I'm gonna make those a little bit more like they are in 2D as you can see I'm changing the belly shading a lot the belly in the original one looked a little strange so I had to make sure I gave that attention and now finally I'm going to be adding extra Shades this is one of the main things that Mania did is add extra Shades to the original artwork [Music] something I've noticed during these is a lot of the title screen out will give Sonic kind of thick stubby arms so I'm always having to thin them down uh it's weird it's consistent and with that we're actually done with Sonic and we're going to move right on to the background and the emblem so this gold ring with wings whatever it is I don't have to add any Shades to this thing this thing's chalk full of Shades but thing is it's just messy there's like straight pixels everywhere again it's a 3D render that's been pixelated and then stretched and you know we need to fix it it's hard to notice close up but there's actually stars on this thing they're easy to see when when you're looking at the whole thing in one go but I wanted to make those more obvious and cleaner I don't know what this bottom thing is I assume there's more stars here but it's really hard to tell so I'm just going to kind of leave it as it is it's it actually gets covered up by the ribbon so you know whatever now the worst part of this emblem is the Wings by worst I mean like just the roughest I'd say so I had to do a lot of cleaning up here like there were Shades that weren't being used a lot of like banding [Music] I really do like how this thing looks though it looks really cool and now we're moving on to the ribbon I'm pretty much directly copying the Mania shading for this thing I'm actually modifying the Mania star to fit the Sonic CD star and I'm sorry guys but I don't like how the text looks on the ribbon okay the title text looks weird so I'm going to completely recreate the title text using the Sonic 1 title text and for the shading I'm basically going to replicate exactly what I did in the Sonic 1 title screen in the first manified video you know for consistency so you can see I have the Sonic one banner up there that I did as a reference [Music] uh oh this isn't good I'm stupid I didn't say once oh gosh I can't do anything wait a minute I have an idea take me back to the intro it's about time okay I need to tell you one thing when you draw this art keep saving it idiot okay would have done that anyway welcome to Mania fight a series where I take oh it's back oh my gosh thank goodness let's continue all right we're gonna move on to the background now but I want to ask you a question okay look at this okay this is this is a little planet um what is this what am I looking at this is rough this is disgusting you know what it actually is it's this shot from the intro animation just completely destroyed and turned into whatever this is I don't know why it's stretched into an oval I don't know what's going on but you know what it means it means we can completely recreate this thing from scratch using the intro animation so for the first time we're in Photoshop and I have that shot from the intro animation right here and I'm removing the clouds just a bit of content aware fill Magic and they're gone I'm just gonna clean it up and then I'm going to scale it down to the pixel size and then apply some filters to it to set it to the right colors and to limit it to the amount of colors that we want [Music] and then I just have to crop the thing out and that's it it's just clean up time I don't know if this was like absolutely common knowledge but the fact that I found out that that was part of the intro animation directly put into the game in pixel art form that's wild to me but I was really pleased to find out so that I could do this Recreation more Faithfully [Music] the mountain okay we're just gonna add more shades to this thing it already looks pretty good I'm not gonna do anything crazy to it got the other mountains on the right [Music] and then we're just going to add some detail to these uh plants I guess I don't know what these are but they're cool now we're going to dress up the water we're gonna add some Reflections and then just like with Mania we're going to add some extra detail to the sky we're gonna add a little gradient here and that's that I'm done let's take a look uh get pranked we've only just started Sonic Mania didn't just redraw old game art it reanimated old game art too with extra frames and an added level of fluidity this series is called Mania fight let's really manify this title screen by recreating the entire animation oh yeah that's right so this animation is mainly just Sonic turning around and wagging his finger I suppose but we're gonna really emphasize his motion as he turns okay I'm not just gonna add new frames to what was there I'm gonna completely basically redo this now as you can see I am modifying the original animation but it it's going to be almost unrecognizable when I'm done but here you can see on display my technique it's just do it messy until it looks good right so what I'm doing is I'm kind of like duplicating all the frames modifying the new ones and I'm actually adding a couple brand new frames at the very end just to squash and stretch his head as he kind of lands in his position and remember all that shading I had to do to Sonic before yeah I'm gonna do that to all these frames now to make it all consistent you know what I don't think I've actually done a frame by frame animation on this channel yet that's pretty wild I need to do more of that so yeah this will be a first of many foreign normally it just kind of statically moves with him but this time I wanted to have him actually pull his arm out from his side and have it settle into position nicely [Music] I'm adding a bit of head rotation at the start here it's going to start bending down then it's going to go up and then back down again [Music] a lot of work is going in here to blend the frames together make sure he looks like he's moving in 3D you know his spikes change size and shape as his head turns got to make sure that all looks right there's a lot of lighting changes as that happens too so it's a lot of work finally we're adding extra Shades okay we're nearly there we're nearly there guys gotta clean up those rough arms they were pretty rough before might be hard to tell if I'm adding a bunch of like finger wiggle waggle wiggle waggle I know what to call it finally adding all those extra Shades to the arms [Music] and now we're moving on to the finger wag I just said that again when he waves his hand we're doing that I never noticed before that Sonic raises his eyebrows when he does this but he does now we truly are done okay I'm so excited to show you this you know what let's just do it let's watch the original title screen just to kind of Orient ourselves and now let's watch the new manified title screen oh yeah guys this is my favorite Mania fight here this doesn't get much better than this the brand new Sonic the new animation the background the emblem it all comes together this really feels like it's achieving the name of this series let me know what you think about this um I can be happier honestly okay we are done now I just need to make sure I get rid of that time warp player look I'm done I did it what [Applause] uh okay I'm in my first art video uh hello [Music] oh I'm stuck [Music]

Channel: Lapper

Views: 144,876

Keywords: sonic, tails, knuckles, video editing, vfx, blender, pixel art, artist, game, sega, nintendo, tutorial, editing, fan art, mania, motion graphics, graphics, mograph, motiongraphics, After Effects, Text, Text Transition, Adobe After Effects, Tutorial, Workflow, Lapper, Learn, Motion Design, Typography, Commercial Animation, AE, Transition

Id: ERrSbxqILv4

Length: 12min 23sec (743 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 14 2023