Pixel Art Thread

[Anonymous No.2844291]

Previous thread : >>2806740

In this thread you are free to post any of your OCs/studies, ask for tips, critiques, help, post tutorials, references, other artists' cool works and talk about your experience or anything concerning Pixel Art. Please make it clear whether you need critiques or not as to avoid misunderstanding in case you are sharing something that is not yours.

If you are new to Pixel Art feel free to take a look at this first : http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299

http://pixeljoint.com/
http://pixelation.org/
http://2dwillneverdie.com/
https://twitter.com/Pixel_Dailies
http://finalbossblues.com/pixel-tutorials/

Recommended Pixel Art programs :
http://www.aseprite.org/ - http://www.piskelapp.com/
https://graphicsgale.com/us/ - http://pyxeledit.com/
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html - http://pulkomandy.. tk /projects/GrafX2
http://www.cosmigo.com/promotion/index.php
apps :
dotpict - 8bitpainter

[Anonymous No.2844299]

As usual I will gladly accept any suggestions about what could be added and changed about the text and links from the current OP.

Also, for the arts used for the OP and this very post, I usually pick at random from my folder but if you guys would like to be showcased then feel free to tell me.

ー Threads we've had so far :

>>/ic/thread/2479628#p2479628
>>/ic/thread/2509410#p2509410
>>/ic/thread/2568331#p2568331
>>/ic/thread/2613325#p2613325
>>/ic/thread/2647633#p2647633
>>/ic/thread/2715672#p2715672
>>/ic/thread/2757429#p2757429
>>/ic/thread/2806740#p2806740

[Anonymous No.2844419]

*Dogebear teleports behind you...hmph..pathetic..*

[Anonymous No.2844427]

>>2844419
"Unsheathes small penis katana.."

[Anonymous No.2844429]

>>2844427
A magical place.

[Anonymous No.2844647]

I made this roughly a year or so ago. One of my friends asked if I could draw his character so I made some pixel art. I really need to get back into this.

[Anonymous No.2844651]

>>2844647
Looks pretty nice! May I know how long this took for you to finish?

[Anonymous No.2844654]

>>2844651
IIRC it was over a period of about 2-3 days. At that point I made no pixel art for about 6 years so I had to re-learn some techniques.

[Anonymous No.2844731]

>>2844647
what a god-awful character

[Anonymous No.2844754]

>>2844731
sick critique dude

[Anonymous No.2844764]

>>2844754
no I mean it that guy is obnoxious and his character is fugly as fuck
the "pixel art" itself is okay even if the shading gets wonky and shadows aren't cast, but it's so high res it might as well just be a drawing at that point

[Anonymous No.2844772]

I know what I need to avoid pillow shadow but that's all I can come up with.

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>>2844878
What's the source for that?

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>>2844878
ooh i like that.

[Anonymous No.2845214]

Thoughts on high-rez pixel art?

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[Anonymous No.2845285]

>>2845126
Thu on pixeljoint

[Anonymous No.2845287]

>>2845214
not pixel art. just bad resolution.

[Anonymous No.2845298]

>>2845287
It is.

Don't reply any further.

[Anonymous No.2845308]

>>2845287
kys

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>>2845287
are you blind or some shit ?

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>>2845427
nice style. blog?

[Anonymous No.2845438]

>>2845437
not my work, but it's this guy
>https://unomoralez.com/

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>>2845433
That's pretty cute.

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>>2845467
>those stretched and squashed pixels
disgusting. delet this.

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>>2845465
Well well well, if that isn't the infamous nipple grabber 2000 himself...

[Anonymous No.2845543]

>>2845485

Just realized this one looks a lot like the new start up picture on windows 10....

[Anonymous No.2845559]

>>2845429
Artist's name?

[Anonymous No.2845564]

>>2845559
see
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>>2845559
see
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[Anonymous No.2845918]

Trying to get better is like pulling teeth but things are slowly starting to click.

Antialiasing still a mess though.

[Anonymous No.2845944]

>>2844647
This reminds me ALOT of Breath of Fire

[Anonymous No.2845952]

>>2845433
This is ADORABLE!!!
>dat corgi..

[Anonymous No.2845959]

Made a suwako & alien9 crossover for a friends birthday a few days ago

[Anonymous No.2845967]

>>2845443
BEE'S DA BEE'S DA BEE'S! BEE'S DA BEE'S DA BEE'S! BEE'S IN MAH HEAAAD!~~

https://youtu.be/gWSFAditGyQ

[Anonymous No.2845975]

>>2845446
Metal Slug is God tier when it comes to pixel art
>>2845457
Earth Worm Jim has some of the best animations to this day

[Anonymous No.2846063]

That Link is fucking outstanding. >>2844291

[Anonymous No.2846811]

>>2844764
At the very least, elaborate like so, for the next time.

[Anonymous No.2846816]

>>2845442
This is confusing. I like the art, but why does the snow follow the lines of the logs?

[Anonymous No.2846821]

>>2844291
How is this nigga so good?

[Anonymous No.2846824]

>>2846821
Practice

[Anonymous No.2846827]

>>2846816
that guy uses color cycling, basically it switches indexed colorswith other colors to create the snow movement.
In pure data this would be way smaller than the gif it is saved as.

[Anonymous No.2846832]

>>2846827
Thanks man.

[Anonymous No.2846838]

>>2845443
god i love 3s

[Anonymous No.2846841]

>>2844291
critique

[Anonymous No.2846850]

>>2846841
i love all 2 pixels of it

[Anonymous No.2847117]

>>2845214
Impressive, but a waste of time

[Anonymous No.2847123]

>>2846841

Also wrong thread? That's not pixel art, anon.

[Anonymous No.2847128]

>>2847117
retard

[Anonymous No.2847138]

>>2846838
colors
motions
too good
just too good

[Anonymous No.2847152]

>>2845918
to me it looks like you're not really commiting to any shapes/surfaces and just make stuff rounder and rounder to the point of everything becoming balloon-like.

desu this artist has some anatomy issues but I think his rendering is topnotch and it might give you some ideas on how to stop thinking with spheres

[Anonymous No.2847168]

>>2847152
So you're saying I'm using too many soft shapes in placing the shading and I should try for more hard lines in my rendering? Just trying to figure out what stuff is too round.

[Anonymous No.2847201]

>>2847168
the right upper arm has basically merged together triceps/biceps and are about 3 times larger than the deltoids, which by the way lack any sort of definition.

I think if you're going for a more cartoony style you should be more comfortable with having more flat surfaces and more hard edges.

He also has big round tits (I'm assuming they're supposed to be large pecs) and the ribs arent really visible at all below his pecs (exaggerated for effect on the right)

[Anonymous No.2847214]

>>2844429
>that grip
Anon please

[Anonymous No.2847396]

>>2847214
WW1 guy here
OMG I totally overlooked that lol, I'm soo used to drawing hands holding pistol grips like you'd find on an AK or M4 or something fuck

[Anonymous No.2847534]

>>2847168
you are like a beginner artist trying to compensate by doing pixel art
it doesn't work like that and it's quite obvious that you aren't able to visualize and understand how light works yet

[Anonymous No.2847550]

>>2847396
u didn't make that.

[Anonymous No.2847707]

>>2847534
Yeah, I'm pretty much a beginner when it comes to art. Was working on the pixel art for a low-res game I was making a while ago.

Ah well.

[Anonymous No.2848146]

>>2847550
I didn't say i did its just inspo

[Anonymous No.2848169]

>>2847534
>you are like a beginner artist trying to compensate by doing pixel art

Described almost every pixelartist :)

Exceptions: Fool, Junkboy, Snake

[Anonymous No.2848263]

>>2843918
If you have trouble with moonlight, you can use refs. But you'll have to spend a lot of time. Sometimes it's just better to leave a work as it is with its flaws, and start something new with the knowledge you acquired.

>https://www.google.fr/search?q=tree+moonlighting&biw=1366&bih=657&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWl-_-zfvRAhXE6RQKHZWLAfQQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=tree+moonlight

[Anonymous No.2848283]

Miss 2d SF
>tfw they played 90's hiphop and jungle DnB in 3rd strike..

[Anonymous No.2848299]

>>2847707
you can either spend months faking it to try make it look good, years learning how to ACTUALLY make it look good, or just accept that it won't be that good and get on with the game making
>>2848169
that's why recommending loomis is almost always the right thing to do here

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>>2845333
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you guys okay, did i rustle ya jimmies? hehehe

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>>2848169
You need to learn more pixel artists friend, there are dozens of greats. It is true that tons of noobs think they can do pixel art with no art background though, and I'll never understand why.

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>>2845444
Source?

[Anonymous No.2848502]

>>2848361
>It is true that tons of noobs think they can do pixel art with no art background though, and I'll never understand why.
You're saying this as if these people don't realize this themselves, like they're purposely trying to get into Pixel Art despite lacking skills just to annoy people.

A lot of people truly want to get into Pixel Art because the medium resonates with them, because this is where and how they envision their artistic journey to be and they don't have the strength and patience to grind never ending fundies with a piece of a paper and a pen like /ic/ always loves to parrot. Drawing what you want to draw is important, art is hard and not always very funny, people do what they can manage to do. I've seen Pixel artists starting from the very bottom, being shit at art in general, not giving up, continuing on and they did become relatively decent eventually.

On a side note I believe it's possible to learn art in general by applying fundies to pixel art.

[Anonymous No.2848542]

gonna see where this goes
really want to make a fighting game but it seems overwhelming

[Anonymous No.2848549]

>>2848502
Because many people DO pick up pixel art explicitly because hey think it takes less skill than "normal art." I see his all the time.

Obviously they can be total shit and eventually improve, but it's a lot easier to practice the foundations in media other than pixel art. It's like learning shading and anatomy and form by making mosaics instead of paper and pencil.

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>>2848549
>many people DO pick up pixel art explicitly because hey think it takes less skill
>I see his all the time
I think you might be insinuating what goes inside people's head a bit too much.

Besides even if we roll with that, it is indeed true that some parts of pixel art are more noob friendly than traditional or digital art.

[Anonymous No.2848708]

>>2848542
Nice demon grandma
Old Folks Home: Street Walker Ed.

[Anonymous No.2848859]

>>2848708
not a bad idea
one solid hit will KO and there's almost no interaction, but even walking requires complex input buffering

[Anonymous No.2849742]

I have a hard time finding my own "muh style". I already got the basics done by the way, but I'm just not sure how I should pixel, although I know I want to. I'm working on a game but regarding this I'm fine because it inherently has limitations so it helps (like, sprites size, etc), but when it comes to draw or make an illustration in general... I'm a bit lost.

Should I study a lot of artists every day until I develop my own signature and hope for one day to have something of my own?
Honest talk : for those who are content with their current skills/way of expressing art, how did you do it?

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>>2849742
Learning how to draw as opposed to doing just pixel art helps more than anything.

[Anonymous No.2852519]

Guys, how do I get into pixel art? I really want to, but Im completely fucking lost on where to start.

[Anonymous No.2852531]

>>2852519
draw something, scale it down really small, try to make it look nice.

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>>2852519
Just make something. Edit sprites. Copy sprites. Look at the pixel art you like, and study what makes them good.

But that first "Just make something" is the absolute single most important piece of advice to get you started. Open up paint. Make pixels.

[Anonymous No.2852581]

>>2852519

just edit sprites.
I loved super metroid, saw the trailer for MSR388. I loved every second of the trailer. Fucking amazingly smooth animations, all edits of the original SM.
I figured, how hard can it be? Small sprites, easy palette, nothing but interpolation.
Holy shit did I learn a lot just making "in between" frames to smoothen out animations.
instantly got a hang of all the shortcuts... making blobs of pixels as replacements for different body parts, gettin the flow of the animation down, key frames, etc.

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>>2852550
That's what I did, just downloaded some pixel art apps on my phone and looked at some inspiration and just started making some, was surprised at how quickly you can make them and make them look half decent, it's very easy to get into and make you feel like you actually made something half decent

[Anonymous No.2853649]

Not sure if it counts as "pixel art", but here are some static sprites I've drawn over the years

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>>2848542
nice and simple

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>>2852581
>>2852610
the worst advice

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>>2853858
Tell me how to improve then
It might take a long time but I want to be able to make pixel art like gif related

[Anonymous No.2853899]

>>2853880
learning how to draw first is what you need to do then

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>>2853858
to each their own
my editing of SNES sprites worked out for me in the end

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>>2855360
inb4 post work

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>>2853899
This. Only this.

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>>2852519
Start by making simple things. Make a ball, a box, a cube, a sphere, smilies, emoticons, your own text font by hand. Mess around with color palettes and the color wheel. Make stick figures, then embolden the lines. Make heads and faces with the aim of not being a smilie/emoji. Make super shitty hands. Make better hands. Make strong hands. Make furniture, floor tiles, carpet tiles, wall tiles.

That's how I started and progressed. Recently got into legit animation even though so far I've only tried simple stuff like gif related. If you want inspiration to improve your spritework, play sprite-based games! They'll give you a really good reference for dynamic poses and the different styles out there.

Whatever you do keep this in mind: it'll always look really shitty until you zoom out quite a bit. Don't get hung up on the details and stay zoomed in the entire time!

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>>2855537
>tfw you originally thought that was a smiling pepe with his dick waving like a flag in the background..
>Aggy daggy.

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>>2855981
Damn I can see that

[Anonymous No.2856286]

Tried to do some SF3 inspired coloring for this. Don't think I succeeded to much really.

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fan art wip

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>>2856383
nice. loving the crooked handle

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>>2856383
woaahh dude nice. glad u liked my mug lmao

[Anonymous No.2856475]

>>2856383
That's a really good mug. Top tier.

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... what?

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>>2856383
So cozy.. :3

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ayyy

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>>2857339
Kek
>Fuckin love that bitchin no nonsense duck.

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>>2857342
These are great! Especially the color-schemes.

>>2857507
Nice silhouettes and shading!

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>>2857624
Good stuff. I especially like the skull-fish-slime(?).

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>>2857624
For the love of God plz make corgi edition

[Anonymous No.2859481]

critique pls
first time trying pixel art after reading an actual tutorial

[Anonymous No.2861276]

>>2859481
What is it?

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>>2859481
ahahahahaha

[Anonymous No.2861355]

these are various sprites for a shitty rpg maker game i'm making. I guess a critique would be nice.

[Anonymous No.2861405]

>>2861355
I will say not bad at all.
But you may need to keep the rendering style constant otherwise it seems you just find sprites from different game and put them together

[Anonymous No.2861408]

finished this a couple days ago

[Anonymous No.2861479]

>>2861408
Rad. Great colors, stance and detail. Only complaint is I'm not quite sure what that is on his lower-chest/abdomen.

[Anonymous No.2861492]

>>2848542
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw0h9WmBlsw

wind up animations are super important in fighting games, but also conserving space for your game. complex and overly long animations will weigh down processing speed, which is a big no no with fighting games.

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>>2861479
Oh yeah, it's from this character

[Anonymous No.2861674]

Question, do you guys use a tablet for pixle art at all?

[Anonymous No.2861722]

>>2861674
Mouse and keyboard shortcuts tend to be faster for me. I'll break out the tablet for large images and backgrounds though.

[Anonymous No.2861734]

>>2861355
For the love of all that is good, why would you use such soft shadows on that angel lady? It looks like you took a soft brush and painted over her.

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>>2861405
thanks, and i see what you mean. I do have a lot of trouble keeping their rendering consistent and it's something i need to work on.
>>2861734
It's a boss, I wanted to have them look out of place and a bit more "realistic" in comparison to the normal enemies. I guess that was a bad choice. I'll probably end up recoloring it then.

thank you both for the input, I appreciate it.

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Any programs that let you change the width/height of the pixel grid? So instead of working with pixels that are 1:1 perfect squares, you can work with ones that are 2:3 or 4:5.

It was predictably hard to google so I figure this was a good place to ask.

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>>2863159
Just make your own grid and use a square selector for a base? You'd be able to get a brush that can manage the same thing but keep in mind pixel art relies on perfect squares to be legit pixel art.

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>>2863159

Graphicsgale and Cosmigo ProMotion allow you to modify your pixel brush and and the size of the grid

[Anonymous No.2863428]

>>2853880
Understand values like shading and light sources, study perspective and space, parallaxes, animation, weight, color theory, but most of all read and draw IRL shit to get the basics down.

[Anonymous No.2863771]

Made a portrait of my roommate lol

[Anonymous No.2863803]

>>2845438
this is making me dizzy

[Anonymous No.2864527]

>>2857624
Made a walk cycle for this guy, criticism is welcome.

>>2858668
Thanks!
>>2858755
Haha maybe one day.

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>>2861492
thanks a lot for this, really helpful

[Anonymous No.2864782]

Quick pixel warm-up to start the day.

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>>2845447
Please tell me you have a blog because this is so good

[Anonymous No.2865008]

>>2863428
eight legs, seven vagánias

[Anonymous No.2865179]

>>2844291
don't know shit about pixel art but that's lookin real fuckin nice.

[Anonymous No.2866043]

>>2864782
Made some changes with advice from another more talented pixel-artist. I think it reads a lot better now.

[Anonymous No.2866368]

>>2845452
What is this from?

[Anonymous No.2866740]

>>2866368
Hyper Light Drifter. Great game.

[Anonymous No.2867067]

>>2866368
it's not even in the game, just something they used to hype up their kickstarter
game itself is shit

[Anonymous No.2867069]

>>2867067
I could play it for the great art alone, but it was fun as fuck on top of that. Not sure what you're on about.

[Anonymous No.2867258]

Tried to do some animation.
Ignore the shading.

[Anonymous No.2867344]

>>2867069
if you think HLD looks good then all I can offer you is my condolences

[Anonymous No.2867353]

>>2867344
You're so cool man, superior to everyone and all damn. Teach me?

[Anonymous No.2867411]

>>2867344
>>2867353
It's a gaudy Sword & Sworcery

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>>2867411
Where is your game?

[Anonymous No.2869555]

Some nonsense I made when messing around with scenery. Part of me likes it, but it also feels lacking and I can't pin what exactly feels like it's missing.

[Anonymous No.2869834]

>>2869555
A few stars at the top right. Like two.

[Anonymous No.2871989]

I tried to selfportrait myself in CGA (pic related) and EGA colors.
I'm unsure what I've done right or wrong, maybe a "realistic" portrait is not possible possible in such a small resolution so next time I would have to go completly stylized.
Maybe I have to rethink the colors I'm using.
All honest I just need a good book on how to do pixel art.

[Anonymous No.2871990]

>>2871989
This is the EGA one

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>>2861355
way too hires, you wont be a

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>>2868651
Where is your valid counter-argument?

[Anonymous No.2872136]

I made some Hotline Miami-inspired pixel art some months ago.

[Anonymous No.2872278]

>>2872136
The style looks like it, the subject matter reminds me of METRO 2033

[Anonymous No.2872320]

which of these three ways of holding a sword makes this french soldier look better?

[Anonymous No.2872325]

>>2872320
Assuming there is a shield in the other hand or arm; left most looks the most ready for a conflict.

[Anonymous No.2872332]

>>2872325
Nope, no shield.
Although I might make his left arm a little straighter
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.2872447]

Making a mod for the binding of isaac: rebirth+ and i figured i'd post this pic of a wip boss im working on. Didnt do the lil man on the right, he's just for scale.

[Anonymous No.2872448]

>>2872447
Ahh fuck this is an older pic, i fixed that big straight patch on his arms rip

[Anonymous No.2874521]

1 and 2 looks like actual medieval fencing guards.

full plate=no shield

i'm a bit puzzled by the helm tho. maybe something more pointy and different eyeholes like a pigface or a dogface barbuta/bascinet.

(french medieval fencer, here, i like your work)

[Anonymous No.2874949]

i re opened this simple profile i made ages ago and my shame was so big i decided to try again and this is the result,i am happy with result but probably i am missing a lot of basic stuff any help appreciated

[Anonymous No.2874952]

>>2874949
>profile

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>>2874952
>missing a lot of basic
oh yeah my english thanks to point it out

[Anonymous No.2875321]

is this pixel art.

[Anonymous No.2875935]

>>2875321
yes

[Anonymous No.2875964]

>>2875935
then machines have won.

[Anonymous No.2876298]

My first non-edit pixel art. Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.2876824]

>>2876298
And ME1 version aswell. Really enjoying making details. I hope I am not overdoing it.

[Anonymous No.2877488]

Hello /ic/.

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>>2876824
Okay. Last one. I swear.

[Anonymous No.2878062]

Greetings from /vr/.

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>>2878062

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>>2878072
Last one.

[Anonymous No.2878404]

>>2877488
Good!

>>2878062
First time seeing this.

[Anonymous No.2878405]

>>2878075
Thanks for these man, they're amazing and I wish 2d games released nowadays would still use sprites... :/

[Anonymous No.2878406]

>>2878404
Thanks man. Here's another one!

[Anonymous No.2878843]

>>2878404
Amiga games aren't very popular (besides Shadow of the Beast, I guess) but they have amazing sprites and animations. I wish the pixel art community talked more about them.

Here's a site with some Amiga pixel art and color palettes:
http://amiga.lychesis.net/

>>2878405
You are welcome!

>I wish 2d games released nowadays would still use sprites... :/
Well, there's Sonic Mania:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQl7ZS_KKq0

And many indie games:
https://youtu.be/-gKAa_yHmR4
https://youtu.be/UAOFcpOfOVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5UmAdgEODA

[Anonymous No.2879637]

>>2878406
Already got your dA haha.

As a kid I'd love to draw dragons and monsters so it really hit me home. I should start doing it again, thanks for the inspiration. Keep it up!

[Anonymous No.2879638]

>>2878843
>Amiga games
Thanks for the info! That's a dam high quality animation right there. I'd have been tempted to say it was a 3D model at first.

[Anonymous No.2880263]

>>2879637
Oh, cool : feel free to comment some feedback or suggest important characters you'd like to be sprited. (and maybe give a lil' watch)

[Anonymous No.2880636]

>>2874949
Use better colours, try a very pale red/coral colour for pink, using cool pinks turn out ugly if you aren't pro at it. I like the left one's hair colour better than the second one, the right one has too much happening.

[Anonymous No.2880821]

>>2880263
Bahamut from FF9?
Bismark from FF9 again, too, I believe would fit your artstyle pretty well. If you're not familiar with them don't force yourself though.

[Anonymous No.2881023]

Prove me wrong that pixel art has no future in games. Look at indiegames past 2 years. The only game with actual pixel art is owlboy and it took like 10 years to develop.

[Anonymous No.2881057]

>>2881023
>pixel art in modern """""games"""""

[Anonymous No.2881107]

>>2881023
I could prove you wrong but you sound incredibly stupid so why should I?

[Anonymous No.2881112]

>>2881107
There are probably lurkers who agree with me so why not?
Also I bet you are that special guy who is always mean on /ic/.

[Anonymous No.2881116]

>>2881112
No I'm rarely ever negative.

And I doubt you truly want to be "proven wrong".

[Anonymous No.2881263]

I read a tutorial about pixel art and it says a rule of thumb for color is higher value -> higher saturation and vice versa.
Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?

The tutorial is here (it's pretty gud btw):
>http://www.kyrieru.com/p/this-first-part-will-cover-many-of.html
It's the guy who made Noaika. I recommend you check it out as well, it's pixel art porn, in both a figurative and a literal way.

>>2881023
Eh, I'll take the bait.
>Chasm
>Hyper Light Drifter
Those are my arguments.

[Anonymous No.2881267]

>>2881263
>Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?

In general yes, also this guys colors look off.

[Anonymous No.2882393]

>>2881263
>Chasm
Last 2 years
>Hyper Light Drifter
Good choice of colors but the pixel art is aboslute minimalistic
>bait
Oh shut up.
>Kyrieru/A porn game dev
Lmao.

[Anonymous No.2882398]

>Chasm
Never heard of it before. Looks alright so there you have one.
>Hyper Light Drifter
Good choice of colors but the pixel art is aboslute minimalistic
>bait
Oh shut up.
>Kyrieru/A porn game dev
Lmao.

[Anonymous No.2882451]

>>2880821
Not familiar with Final Fantasy, but you know what? I'll do it! ( I'll post it on dA as soon as I'm done)

[Anonymous No.2882521]

>>2882398
>>Kyrieru/A porn game dev
>Lmao.

Holy shit that's Kurovadis / Eroico developer? I didn't know he had an English blog I thought he was Japanese.

[Anonymous No.2882569]

>>2880636
sorry for late reply and thanks i will try to follow your advices

[Anonymous No.2883465]

>>2882451
Awesome, looking forward to it!

>Not familiar with Final Fantasy
No idea if you're into (retro) RPGs or not but I heavily recommend them if you need fantasy inspiration. From 1 to 9 (10 is good too but maybe not as your first). For a lot of the early ones you'll have to dig over /vr/ (or /v/) to know which versions would be best to play though since they've had a lot of different remakes.

[Anonymous No.2883796]

>>2852519

[Anonymous No.2883814]

>>2883796
what program is this?

[Anonymous No.2883919]

>>2883814
aceprite

[Anonymous No.2883962]

fa/tg/uy here. Currently working on Tiled spritesets for mapmaking. Trying to get some creative criticisms/suggestions on what I've done so far.

Currently have Engraved floors/Smooth walls with rough floors done so far.

I'm going to flat out say this isn't 100% mine, I'm using some sprite sheets from Dwarf Fortress, Specifically Ironhand, for this. Mainly, this is for people to make free maps for things such as RollD20, Tapletop Simulator, and the like that aren't just photoshopped messes or black/white squares.

Since /tg/ doesn't seem to be interested in anything expect trollposting and 40k, I'd figured I'd ask here. Do note the colors used are suppose to be for Microcline, Bauxite, All shades of rock ranging from Andesite, Granite, Chalk and the like, Marble, and Sandstone/Red Sandstone/Iron containing stone.

I was thinking of experimenting with non native colors, such as dyed stones and the like.

[Anonymous No.2884002]

>>2883962
You just slapped a few patterns without any understanding of the texture.
First paint or pencil sketch the surface using photo as reference and then try to simplify it more and more until you get low resolution version.

[Anonymous No.2884239]

>>2883796
Somehow this scares the shit out of me.

[Anonymous No.2884335]

>>2882398
>>Hyper Light Drifter
>Good choice of colors but the pixel art is aboslute minimalistic

Does that make it bad? Can pixel art not have different styles? Why limit yourself?

>>2881023

Some games I'd add:
Crawl
Cave Story
Kero Blaster
Luftrausers
Nuclear Throne
Super Crate Box
Super Time Force
Enter the Gungeon
Vagante
Hammerwatch
Risk of Rain
Broforce
Downwell
Nidhogg
Samurai Gunn

[Anonymous No.2884336]

>>2884335
(cont.)
And you say "actual" pixel art, as if though complexity is all that matters. It just makes you sound like an amateur who's never attempted to create a style from pixel art.

[Anonymous No.2884384]

>>2883814
Aseprite

[Anonymous No.2884388]

>>2884239
how so

[Anonymous No.2884422]

>>2884388
worst game ever made lol

[Anonymous No.2886510]

bump

[Anonymous No.2886522]

>>2844291

/ic/ pixel art - builds a game, when?

even /3/ that barely has any people has attempted collab projects.

[Anonymous No.2886723]

>>2886522
doing an rpg maker game shouldn't be too hard

[Anonymous No.2886878]

>>2886522
>>2886723
/Infinity Conquest/ was enough of a game for /ic/

[Anonymous No.2886902]

>>2886522
not enough talented pixel artists here for that, and those that are generally tend to be more involved in other (actual) pixel art communities.

[Anonymous No.2887028]

>>2886522
I like the idea, but coordinating a fuckload of people of various skill levels and questionable responsibility would probably cause more harm than good.

[Anonymous No.2887043]

>>2886522
You're pretty much asking architects to engineer a collaborative project. The most a group of pixel artists on /ic/ could muster would be the game assets. The game itself would still need to be programmed to actually be playable. This isn't even taking into account any writing or story that would need to go into the game.

[Anonymous No.2887214]

>>2887043
well i agree with you but i've seen guys at /a/ and even /h/ come up with tons of stories on the fly,
>https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/153575970/

and it doesn't need to be finished asap or be the best game ever,

usually for these collab projects (i've seen two at /3/ and one at /lit/) one guy that has the experience needs to be in charge (i don't have any)

i have a job and plenty of stuff to do but i wouldn't mind giving out ideas or helping on any asset needed as the experience of building something seems pretty exciting to me.

[Anonymous No.2887220]

if anyone is interested this site could be useful for team collab projects
https://slack.com/

[Anonymous No.2887224]

>>2887220
b t w i'm good at making logos or titles, that could be a good start i guess.

[Anonymous No.2887262]

>>2887214
>the ideas man
It's a shit idea. Proposed often, never by experienced artists, and always fails.

[Anonymous No.2887325]

>>2886522

Volunteer collaborations take time, effort and cooperation. I'm working on a volunteer game and progress is slow as fuck.

I'm not saying don't try,but avoid delusion of grandeur or you're dead in the water.

[Anonymous No.2888874]

Is there any information on how to create different textures for different materials in pixel art? Cloth, metal, plastic, skin, glass, stone? What kind of colour ramps should be used?

[Anonymous No.2890923]

>>2888874
There are various tutorials for this out there. Google image pixel texture.

[Anonymous No.2891659]

>>2884336
Calm down. 90% of the games you've listed are way older than 2 years.
>And you say "actual" pixel art, as if though complexity is all that matters. It just makes you sound like an amateur who's never attempted to create a style from pixel art.
Go to steam -> newest games -> category: pixel art
Stop being a little dick and scroll through like 10 sites and you will see what i meant.

[Anonymous No.2891665]

>>2886522
Programmer here. I would rather learn and practice art myself than hiring an artist. They resemble more often than not the egoistic part of a development groups.

[Anonymous No.2892043]

rate my rocks

[Anonymous No.2892121]

>>2892043
needs a lot more texturing and shades, rn it looks really flat and non-stonelike

this is an Enclave soldier I started a while ago that I still need to finish, I think the Wattz rifle needs to be redone bc it's really limp and gross looking

[Anonymous No.2892226]

Hey, this is my first try with pixel art, how did I do?

[Anonymous No.2892362]

>>2892121
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.2892540]

>>2892226
It's more painting than pixel art at this point.
But keep it up.

[Anonymous No.2892602]

my first ever pixel ,,art ,,
rate it

[Anonymous No.2892619]

>>2892226
Reminds me of Lisa the painful with the gradient skyline. If you want to do legit pixel art you'll want to get into dithering for shadows or light effects.

[Anonymous No.2892907]

>>2892602
is that a furc port? dude nice

[Anonymous No.2893301]

Feel like I'm doing shading wrong or something. Any and all criticism appreciated. Working with the GBA palette.

[Anonymous No.2893949]

>>2893301
the left leg looks like digitigrade one, the right foot is too flat and the pelvis look to be to high up also lighting and texture will be neat too

[Anonymous No.2894149]

HI, guys!
My first work, rate please.

[HiImOP No.2894998]

Im looking for a pixel animation tool to replace the one Im currently using (aseprite) and I think GraphicsGale looks promising, the thing is, my computer doesn't seem to like running it.

I kept getting an avifi32.dll error, so I think I fixed that, but now Im getting a generic error
>The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application.

Anyone know a fix? And if not, does anyone know of any other pixel animation software?

[Anonymous No.2895024]

>>2894998
why are you trying to replace aseprite to begin with

[Anonymous No.2895084]

>>2886522
That...That's a nice idea actually.
(I'm the guy who made the Monster Hunter sprites)

[Anonymous No.2895091]

>>2894998
>to replace the one Im currently using (aseprite)
What's wrong with aseprite?

[Anonymous No.2895183]

>>2895024
>>2895091
not that anon but the last time i tried asesprite i found it pretty awful.
What's up with this asesprite shilling?

[Anonymous No.2896345]

>>2895183
And what's awful about it exactly?

We recommend it because it's great, often updated and free.

[Anonymous No.2896727]

>>2886522
>>2887043
maybe we could team up with >>>/vg/agdg

[Anonymous No.2896802]

Is this pixel art? Or just pixel looking? How do you actually know the difference, is it the size?

[Anonymous No.2896805]

>>2896802

[Anonymous No.2896999]

Just a sad broken robot I'm working on, made manually by adding a single pixel at a time. Still has a long way to go, but a friend asked me to animate it so I threw in some sparks and a flickering eye. Suggestions on improvements I could make e.g. shading, additional details, etc?

[Anonymous No.2897212]

>>2896345
just personal preference, the usage feels awful to me and I'm not even sure what exactly is fault for that. Maybe it's just the cursor.
Also I don't know how much it changed since.

I'm not against recommending it and didn't mean to sound like bashing it (which my initial comment absolutly sounded like, sorry for that), what i mean with shilling is that there seems to be people who go against the very idea that other people prefer other software to pixel. I haven't seen any justification for putting it above others, other than personal preference (which is the same reason I don't like it, I know, I know..)

It's certainly a tool that gets the job done but I've yet to see what makes it special.

[Anonymous No.2897612]

>>2896802
>>2896805
i love these

[Anonymous No.2897615]

i just finished this

[Anonymous No.2897671]

>>2896999
how is his head propped up like that? seems like the curve of the spine would make it fall forward, especially if it's broken. right now it looks like it's floating.

[anime is trash No.2897686]

>>2896999
could have the head bob forward brokenly like >>2897671
said

[Anonymous No.2897771]

>>2896802
It's pixel art that doesn't really take advantage of the medium. They're great but you have to ask what does the technique of pixel art lend to the image?

[Anonymous No.2897823]

>>2897671
>>2897686
The shadow shown here was supposed to indicate that. His head is slumped forward and down. I guess I could add a bit more detail to further emphasise that.

[Anonymous No.2897894]

>>2897823
gotta go read your loomis bruh

[Anonymous No.2898017]

>>2897212
Well use whatever works for you. If you want other programs try the ones listed in the OP.

[Anonymous No.2898034]

>>2897671
>>2897686
>>2897894
I see what you're saying now, and you're right. It's a bit too high. Let me just fix that right quick.

[Anonymous No.2898069]

>>2898034
Here we go. How does this look?

[Anonymous No.2898281]

>>2896802

I looks nice, but it's not pixel art. Pixel art is about control at the pixel level, that's what makes it different from digital sketches with a binary brush.

[Anonymous No.2898386]

>>2886522
>>2896727
Programmer here, I'm really looking for pixel artists and musicians. I can pay you guys or do a profit share, either way doesn't matter to me.

[Anonymous No.2898902]

>>2895024
>>2895091

Because I hate the UI and There's an odd delay when I use my tablet and there's no pen pressure. I'm using Photoshop until I find an alternative.

[Anonymous No.2899509]

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