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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
Forum Discription: Get crits and comments on your pixel WIPs and other art too!
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Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 11:38pm
Topic: industry
Posted By: inkspot
Subject: industry
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 10:41am
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Hello. Look what I found in my archives! I should finish this. I know the chimney needs to be re-done because it has no actual shading on it. But the place looks a bit messy, I still want to preserve the dirtiness of the old site but it looks a bit... Maybe I overreacted or overpixeled it?  Sorry for the bmp though, but its the only suitable format what I trust! |
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Posted By: jegHegy
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 11:13am
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nice work, although it really needs more contrast. otherwise the details look nice. also, use PNG. lossless and small. ------------- http://jeghegy.deviantart.com/ - http://jeghegy.deviantart.com/ |
Posted By: inkspot
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 11:36am
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Lossless??? No way! It usually smashes up the colours and its insecure. But as for contrast, I hate contrast :D Foggy mornings rule! And besides, that background color may give younthat not-enough-contrast effect. |
Posted By: Wannahlakujuu
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 12:00pm
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It sounds like you don't want to edit it, and without contrast, you use a lot of pointless colors. also PNG doesn't lose any colors, I converted it to PNG on my computer, and it lost no colors at all. from Mark's Pixel tutorial "What not to use : .BMP - 16 million possible colours for each pixel. Extremely inefficient for pixel-art storage. .JPG - Lossy compression will smudge your nice crisp art in a variety of horrible ways.
What you should use : .GIF - Saves images with up to 256 different colours. Small filesize allows fast loading. Loss of image quality only occurs when you excede 256 colours, though it is unlikely you will reach this point unless you are saving a composite of many sprites. .PNG - Similiar to gif, except that it will allow you to save images with more than 256 colours without image loss. Technically better, but not well supported by Internet Explorer (boo, hiss)." It isn't a bad peice though. |
Posted By: inkspot
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 12:04pm
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I told you that I am going to re-shade the chimney and probably half of
the image. Ground textures look silly and too proportional compared to
the isometric angle. And save that PNG file 100 times over and its ruined, I guess. At least many programs ruin it... Thats why I always prefer to use bmp for wips and I am too laizy to convert a wip to PNG just because to show it, or whatever.... i use MS Paint for pixeling and PS for converting to GIF etc. And forget that "it isnt a bad piece though", if its good, then say its good, not some "it isn't" stuff... And if its bad, then say its bad. So simple is that. |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 12:05pm
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Originally posted by inkspot Lossless??? No way! It usually smashes up the colours and its insecure. What program do you use then? PNG always seems to work perfectly fine for me. ------------- |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 12:32pm
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cant u just create in photoshop and then just save to png, i no paint
sumtimes messes work as png but ps is far more superior. i like the piece perhaps a little dull colour wise, although maybe im just a bright sorta guy. |
Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 2:01pm
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png not secure? SARC doesnt even know of any problems with the png's and you cant get hit by making a png, its browsing to web pages using png's and thats only if you use IE. -------------  got game?
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Posted By: Rifts
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 4:37pm
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i personaly think that is gr8, mayb just add some shadeing to the
chimney cant reli think of much more i would do to this but its up to you -------------   |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 2:54pm
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A totally agree about the PNG thing. It's a no-no for pixelart. here are the reasons why: -insecure on some browsers -It slightly darkens the colors, screwing up your hues. No, you dont loose any colors, but if you want to keep a specific RGB, it'll change it. -PNGs are huge. HUGE. ------------- |