Marsupial lion

Marsupial lion

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Marsupial lion


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Title: Marsupial lion
Pixel Artist: animalec  (Level 4 Deputy :: 1682 points)
Posted: 8/8/2024 14:49
Palette: 21 colors
Statistics:  3 comments    1 faves    0 avatars

Thylacoleo carnifex is my favourite extinct mammal (yes I am a zoology freak if anyone was wondering). It's evolution is so unique it's almost alien. Scientists for over a century though it was a herbivore, but today we know that Thylacoleo was in fact the biggest mammalian predator since australia split from antarctica and biggest marsupial predater that we know of.

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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 8/19/2024 02:16
Hahaha. There is nothing embarrassing nor wasteful going on here, my friend. Salvaging pieces from other mediums is also a great pixel art practice, and you are doing it perfectly. The pixel art palette management is not something that can easily be written down with exact numbers. For example, a very colourful game mockup with ~300 colours can be very much legit, while a small pac-man sprite with ~30 will not count as pixel art anymore. The number of colours might be just an indicator, but it is not about the high or low number actually - rather how the number you have is utilised. 
 
The best way to practice colour recycling is to use the smallest possible ready made palettes (from Lospec for example). And when you are not making something new, but adapting something to pixel art, try to always focus on two rules: 1) if you find two very similar colours - unify them; 2) if you find some colour used in a very small amount without any reason, replace it with a more frequent colour from the palette. (A good reason to use a very significant colour for only few pixels might be glowing eyes of the character).

Just try to imagine that you have to save precious bits of data, so every new colour added needs to be justified. Of course we don't have to do it like that today, but we want to, just like folk bands don't have to use traditional instruments, but they want to :)

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animalec (Level 4 Deputy) @ 8/18/2024 08:05

I apologise for this I should have check this art more thoroughly.

Well this isn't a software issue but the fact that this is one of my very first pixel (at that point I made maybe 5 or 6 before). And it was made in PS. Having done loads of detailed paleoart I wasn't really thinking about colour count (so yeah originally there was far more colours due to blending modes on layers).

To be honest this is was more or less a salvage. This was a quite hefty art, with a lot going on so I simply took the skull and checked if colour count is roughly around 200. I wasn't aware that pixels cannot be this similar.

Where is some kind of rule book or FAQ to this portal so I can familiarisation myself with PJ rules. I don't want to waste your and my time and embarras myself anymore. 

Cheers 


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 8/11/2024 04:30

Unfortunately I cannot accept it at this state . Hundread of colours used only for one pixel each. What kind of software are you using? You were able to make a clean piece for the Animal Atlas collab so I guess this is not the software fault.


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