Masterful Pixel Art

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Masterful Pixel Art Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:38:05 2023 No.10532752 [Reply] [Original]

What are some games you've played with excellent pixel art? I'm looking for some inspiration

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:45:40 2023 No.10532772 File: 111 KB, 820x740, beautiful_gbc.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:46:37 2023 No.10532775 >>10532752 Wow that's sick.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:46:50 2023 No.10532776 File: 1.27 MB, 1620x3192, beautiful_genesis.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:47:52 2023 No.10532782 File: 279 KB, 1300x2524, beautiful_nes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:47:55 2023 No.10532783 >>10532772 Zelda DX aint a god example

Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:48:45 2023 No.10532785
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Some of my favorites include monster world IV, dragon quest (specifically the sfc titles), and the spritework of Nippon Ichi Software games.

>>10532775
The guy is Zaebucca, makes really great stuff

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:48:57 2023 No.10532786 File: 1.81 MB, 1301x4104, beautiful_snes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:49:42 2023 No.10532791 File: 2.65 MB, 2024x1094, 1660076458772334.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:49:56 2023 No.10532793 >>10532783 I like the sprites of the game, but I agree the tiles could have been done better

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:51:07 2023 No.10532795 File: 2.60 MB, 2024x1094, 1660076566227729.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10532791

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 21:52:56 2023 No.10532804 >>10532782 I find games released later in a system's life tend to be better, but man, the nes took it to another level. They figured out the hardware of that thing and ran with it

Anonymous Thu Dec 21 22:04:15 2023 No.10532829
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>>10532772
For GBC, there's also the JP-only Kakurenbo Battle: Monster Tactics. If it weren't for that Star Ocean game, I would consider it to have the best visuals on the system.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 22:15:10 2023 No.10532846 >>10532829 That text box makes me wonder how the japanese dealt with the games that had barely any kanji and spaces on small screens

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 22:19:24 2023 No.10532852 >>10532846 word choice to minimize ambiguity, I'd imagine or they didn't care and expected players to squint their way through

Anonymous Thu Dec 21 22:25:17 2023 No.10532865
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>>10532752
A lot of the card artwork in Pokémon TCG (GBC), Pokémon TCG 2 (GBC), Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (GB) and Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories (GBC) looks superb even today, especially with those smaller resolutions they had to work with due to it being on handhelds, I love the way these look so much.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 22:28:29 2023 No.10532874 >>10532783 Shut the fuck up tranny

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 22:34:00 2023 No.10532889 File: 13 KB, 720x352, adamjmarin-FBXjkGXWUAYO3Uk.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10532865 I'm starting to appreciate this kind of card pixel art more and more. There's this guy called Adam Marin who I feel uses the style perfectly

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 22:43:53 2023 No.10532910 >>10532772 i dont know why you chose pokemon, it has always looked a generation behind

Anonymous Thu Dec 21 22:49:19 2023 No.10532927
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>>10532752
hideous. blurred, smeared, way too busy, and completely devoid of any semblance of sovl from the original. looks like the artist just tried to put braid's graphics into the original zelda.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 22:52:10 2023 No.10532937 >>10532846 Early games, like on the NES, had no kanji

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 22:59:36 2023 No.10532962 >>10532927 You're fine to think that, but can you show some pixel art you do like?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 23:13:20 2023 No.10533012 File: 98 KB, 773x621, 42991.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Rhapsody character spritesheets

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 23:29:34 2023 No.10533048 >>10532785 >The guy is Zaebucca, makes really great stuff Is it from a game or was it fan art?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 23:30:43 2023 No.10533051 >>10532889 This looks superb! I hadn't heard of him before, good stuff.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 23:32:03 2023 No.10533058 >>10532927 >blurred/smeared Huh? The pixels are very well defined in OPs image, fuck ya talking about?

>>	Popckorn !BuTtER.O4. Thu Dec 21 23:50:04 2023 No.10533089 >>10532795 >>10532791 >>10532786 >>10532782 >>10532776 >>10532772 Boy! Oh My!... games will never be this beautiful again... all the 3D Raytracing in the world cannot replace the soul of constrained resources and contrived ingenuity

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 21 23:54:20 2023 No.10533105 File: 247 KB, 1080x1080, zaebucca-20231221-0001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10533048 Just a mockup, unfortunately. Makes you wish companies would follow the meme and "hire this man" to actually make games like these.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 02:22:10 2023 No.10533504 File: 104 KB, 500x700, 1554714394305.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10532752 Cannon Dancer/Osman

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 02:25:22 2023 No.10533515 >>10533105 Oh i'm less impressed then, it's easy to do a single screen like that, i thought I was missing out on GBC games lol it's still great art, but ya, vidya related forum

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 02:25:43 2023 No.10533517 >>10532752 How would this look with composite on a crt?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 02:29:09 2023 No.10533535 File: 806 KB, 3840x2160, Police Quest VGA.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10532752 >>10532772 >>10532776 >>10532782 >>10532785 >>10532786 >>10532791 >>10532795 >>10532829 >>10532865 >>10532889 >>10533105 >laughs in PC adventure games

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 03:06:07 2023 No.10533642 >>10533535 >antialiased/downsampled backgrounds >low color/aliased sprites So hard not to notice it now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 03:09:42 2023 No.10533658 >>10533535 this isn't pixel art

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 03:13:52 2023 No.10533670 >>10533658 You kinda have a point. The backgrounds are clearly downsampled hand drawn scans. The sprites, maybe, but I bet a lot of it is just rotoscoped.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 03:42:56 2023 No.10533732 File: 360 KB, 500x384, vSjrxt7.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Showing some isometric love This is breath of fire IV

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 03:47:44 2023 No.10533745 >>10533535 It certainly works for its purpose, but you're nuts if you'd call that "excellent pixel art," the methods for making notwithstanding.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 04:36:51 2023 No.10533823 File: 164 KB, 1600x1200, Police Quest 3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10533658 >>10533642 >>10533745 >downsampling Cope. All the environments are made from scratch for non-FMV Sierra games.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 04:39:27 2023 No.10533827 >>10533823 bro if you don't think that was scanned down from a higher res source you are fucking smoking something. All the moving objects, sure, maybe, but not the backgrounds for damn sure.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 04:47:13 2023 No.10533842 File: 48 KB, 1600x1200, Colonel's Bequest.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10533535 >>10533823 Should've just used The Colonel's Bequest. Now you've started an argument.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 04:49:09 2023 No.10533848 >>10533842 God that game owns. Didn't know about it or play it til last year or so despite thinking I knew their whole catalog.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 04:50:31 2023 No.10533850 Anything Natsume Shadow of the Ninja, Dragon Fighter, Pocky and Rocky, Wild Guns, Ninjawarriors

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 05:13:50 2023 No.10533887 File: 37 KB, 639x399, 9734760a6344afaea9d4a06aaefc7a11.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10533848 Gold Rush is another classic that often gets overlooked.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 05:22:31 2023 No.10533905 >>10532783 fuck you

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 05:38:00 2023 No.10533941 File: 741 KB, 640x400, samuraishodown3-galford-stage.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >no SNK

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 05:46:44 2023 No.10533960 >>10533535 >>10533823 >Scanned artwork Wow, you sure showed us, anon...

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 05:48:08 2023 No.10533962 >>10533105 Not sure why he doesn't work on indie games

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 05:54:45 2023 No.10533976

I genuinely dislike the trend towards big cartoony cutout graphics that break the boundaries of typical power-of-2 tile/sprite sizes in the latter days of the 16-bit era.
Not even autistic, it's just visually satisfying when everything is in its place. In my mind great "pixel" art is using those pixels within organized constraints, not trying to asymptotically approach freeform illustrations.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 05:56:05 2023 No.10533979 >>10533960 You mean just like the backgrounds for numerous games that have already been posted here?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 06:14:29 2023 No.10534010 >>10533658 All art displayed on a computer screen is pixel art if you think about it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 06:17:55 2023 No.10534013 >>10533979 Oh good, you're actually seething about being called out for posting crap.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 06:54:24 2023 No.10534106 >>10532752 Raiden Fighters series Battle Garega Armed Police Batrider Esprade Dangun Feveron Parodius games

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 07:13:02 2023 No.10534132
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>>10534010
You tricky tricky individual

>>10534106
I see shmups go underappreciated when it comes to pixel art. I'll throw harmful park in there too

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 07:32:32 2023 No.10534153 File: 2.41 MB, 2271x1284, IMG_4014.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Final Fantasy Tactics Advance always sticks out to me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 07:45:34 2023 No.10534169 >>10534013 >projecting this hard Ayylmao, stay malding

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 07:59:50 2023 No.10534183 >>10534013 >post response to a stupid reply >Ebin, you're totally seething And this is why no one likes you in the real world.

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 08:36:47 2023 No.10534235

>>10533960
How do you think those games were made?

This is the problem with modern "pixel artists". They draw the art directly in pixel form. You're supposed to be a good artist first, draw concept art, then draw your art on grid paper, then do your best at importing that into the computer. Scanning was a possibility.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 08:56:30 2023 No.10534267 File: 74 KB, 320x240, Lomax-PSX-Title.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] lomax, the adventures of

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 10:07:20 2023 No.10534379 File: 163 KB, 2048x1920, actual NES colors.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10532752 whoever made this, had no idea how the NES worked and it just went with the WOW bait

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 11:12:23 2023 No.10534456 File: 96 KB, 768x256, Park Sunny.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10532752

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 11:12:27 2023 No.10534457 File: 412 KB, 499x477, cycle.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10532752 Check out http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 11:13:24 2023 No.10534458 File: 195 KB, 768x256, Park Cloudy.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10534456 >>10532752

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 11:14:27 2023 No.10534462 File: 692 KB, 768x256, Park Raining.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10534458 >>10532752

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 12:15:44 2023 No.10534558 >>10532752 Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon arcade

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 12:17:53 2023 No.10534562 >>10532783 Typical zœmer /vr/ revisionism. YWNBAW

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 12:25:40 2023 No.10534573 >>10534106 >>10534132 Dimahoo has godtier pixel art

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 17:34:41 2023 No.10535171
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>>10532752
Castle of Illusion has some of the most sublime graphics you'll ever see in a video game... it just captured the essence of Disney perfectly, it's so good you can tell the developers truly cared for this IP and wanted to do it justice, and they did.

I definitely recommend everyone play this, as it not only has good aesthetics, but also play really well, with tight level design and control. I love it.

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