Random: Sakurai Explains The Basics Of Pixel Art In His Latest Video

Sprite skills.

Legendary games developer Masahiro Sakurai has been making more videos than we can keep track of over on his YouTube channel, Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games. While we haven't been able to cover each and every one of them on Nintendo Life, his latest upload caught our artistic eye.

In this recent video, 'The Basics of Pixel Art', Sakurai explains the, uhh, basics of pixel art — it's an accurate title, we'll give him that. At just under three minutes in length, this really is a whistle-stop tour of the art form, but it gives an interesting look into how something as simple as a circle can take on a multitude of different forms.

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