Here I made a scene of most popular games of android market - Angry Birds. I am not satisfied with this so I would like your help to make this better!

Its OK but the colors could be better. The clouds should be clean and tidy and the grass is over-pixelled...slightly more overall contrast too.

*Please remember that while we like to help, we like to pixel our own work too. Give others time to reply.


Edited by jalonso - 03 December 2011 at 7:45am

Just to make clear the position PJ takes with derivative work and their addition to the gallery and even how it relates to pixelart overall.

Refs are fine and many do use them. Copying a ref can serve some purpose in that its practice, which is always good. Others tend to have less respect for ref'd art as it does limit originality and creativity.

Using other pixelart as a ref is a very touchy subject since the work has been done already. Copying a pixelart piece is technically a RIP even if made by hand and is never allowed. A fanart version of existing pixelart is always on a case by case basis. This is fine and many great pieces of fanart exists including the #1 piece in the HoF.

Pixelart made from ref material that is not existing pixelart is fine. Here Angry Birds is well known to be NPA and any pixelart version of it is perfectly fine with one major caveat. Plagiarism is uncool and intellectual theft. As artists we should ourselves be responsible to shun this behaviour at all times. Fanart is entirely different on both the technical and legal side of the issue.

So , shall I stop working on this piece and start pixelling my own creation?