O_O

The clouring is amazing. Just pure amazing work. It must have taken you ages but all the hardwork has really paid off! Excellent work Slay!

i dunno, i don't think this is a pixel art at all.. hmm, though the piece itself looks really cool altogether, it's just that, we're talking pixels here peeps.. anyone who uses photoshop, or anyone who studies computer & software for that matter, knows how simple images can get "pixelated" once it is saved in either .png or .gif formats.

because pixel is the basic unit in any computer-generated images, it is just normal that we see "pixels" when zooming-in images, ESPECIALLY if it's in .gif/.png formats..

ah, oh well, i guess this is a far-off topic already. ahehehe.. but don't get me wrong, this is a cool piece. it would do better in deviant art if you ask me.

I've talked with St0ven for a very long time about Slay's pieces a long time ago - and downloaded deluxepaint to test my theories....and it in fact is true.  there are auto dither tools even... I didn't want to cause a big ruckus about this, but i'm glad more expirienced artists have.

to all you who say its hand pixeled:
just because you can see distinct dither patterns does not mean it was done by hand.  there are many programs out there that use a pre-defined pallete to create dithering for you.  Neota gave some examples of these programs.  If you dont believe me, research into these programs youself because you only making yourselves sound worse supporting this.

 Btw the Helm below is me. I stand by my comments, and they've nothing to do with jealousy or spite.

 What is funny about you naive guys is, you probably haven't even used a paintprogram that has hotkeys for next/prev color( deluxepaint, grafx2, brilliance..). Just that by itself can boost your working speed  1000%, and make antialiasing incredibly easy and quick to do.
It probably is amazing to you, to be fair.. I would just like guys like slay to put it into context if possible: He drew this with tools that are a few orders of magnitude better than the ones you're likely using.

I also agree with Helm and ptoing, this is not so good as most posters here are making it out to be. go to http://www.gfxzone.org and browse through the 8bit galleries to find some pictures that can be compared on equal ground with this one. Or just think, 'if this was a CG, would I like it, as a picture?'

OTOH, I do want to encourage people to draw demoscene style pics, I like the style and i like perfectionism. So it's great that slay submitted this if it's going to prompt more demoscene style pics.

Is it going to?

 oh my god.....

it's amazing! i had to zoom in to see it for myself. and when i saw it, my jaw dropped! you have amazing talent, and i have to say that it rocks. just wow....

 I can't see any reason why this should not be a pixelart. Perfectly antialiased, thats all. Including the brilliant shading. PERFECT.

All pixels are not some 8 color junk, I was on that opinion until I got brainwashed on the forums by main pixelscene, and now I am tring to work it back as it was before...

That doesnt even LOOK like pixelation. My god.

wow.

 You guys are so naive that it's making me get lightheaded.

 It does look a little bit like it isnt completely hand pixelled but in some places it looks true. Just alot of colors. Like that demoscene stuff. But to anybody who says that helm and ptoing are jealous is just hilarious because their artwork is amazing and they have been on the pixel scene for a looooong time. Still a great peice of work though

Err... even if it wasn't pure pixel, it's still a nice bit of art.

Well.... DAMN! That's some impressive pixel placing.

It looks more like 3D art than pixel, but while zooming in it's clearly pixeled. Very well done.

 i like how some are saying its not pixel art...have you not zoomed in? you can clearly tell ti was done pixel by pixel..slay i applaud your work............very lovely.great colors and great dithering

I can't believe it... this is pixel!!!

it's funny how people call us to be jealous-kind, when they probably have never made a pixel art themselves. Most of us who claim this is NOT a pixel art have done pixelart more or less professionally for several years, some even over a decade. Go figure who to believe.

 So this is pixelart? For real?
Wow

I agree with auron..... in all cases, a great piece

 I like the piece, congrats ^_^

 Yeah, those who doubt it are just jealous of their own lack of skills. Especially since the only ones who are disbelievers 1. have an immature tone in each of their messages and 2. don't have a profile/gallery to show, thus they have nothing and nothing to show for. Photoshop is too hi-end to care about how many colors you're using, and theres no way it can do that kind of hand-made dithering. And slay, this piece of work is one reason why a rating of 5 isn't always enough.

 You know, you doubters don't have to be angry about it just because *maybe* you're not talented enough to create something of such magnitude. I know that I could never do something like this and I applaud slay for creating it, even if he did not do it pixel by pixel. Either way, can't you appreciate it for being well done and creative? I know I can. It's wonderful, slay.

Awesome concept. The shading is superb! :)

 Wow, this is amazing. And if you dont believe him, zoom in. You rock! Mad skills :P

Don't care how he did it. I just like the whole thing all together. Tis wonderful, and imaginative. Besides peepo, as hard as it may seem some people do have patience to complete a piece in it's entirity. In my case I would have only done about 30% of that and quit. He manages to "get er done" though. So kudos to you, guy, and have a good one...

 dis dis

 Do whatever you want. If you like victimizing your own self, fine. Fact of the matter remains, that it's highly probable that most of your art is not 'CREATED BY YOUR HAND' anymore than a person using photoshop can claim the same about his art. I think it's possible you're confusing what HANDPIXELLING is and what INDEX PAINTING is. That you used oldschool means ( Deluxe Paint) and painted in indexed mode doesn't make the blur tool you used, the smear tool you used, the gradient tools you used, and less non-handpixelled. Handpixelling is the intentive placement and attention of composition on the PIXEL LEVEL. Sorry it has to come to this, but regardless of whether you've misunderstood something, or are outright lying, I really don't like false claims.

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I have to agree with Helm on this one. I know Deluxe Paint as I used it back in the days and I have to say i am rather sure you used paintmodes like Smear or Airbrush (on the blue stuff), Blend (On the orange backgound) and Smooth (on some of the aa) as well as contour gradient fill (in the lower right corner grey thing).

And i also have to agree with Helm, that this in fact is not all that terrific.

Thanks for not believing the guy.  Jerk.

 Well I know what I'm talking about, and I'd have to say by my guess, this isn't handpixelled 100%. Modes were used, and then possibly tweaked by hand. Is this bad? No. Is this any less of what it is because of it? No.

It's not this great, there's blatant errors in the AA is places. But not many people do this sort of thing nowdays, so the level's down enough for this to classify as good.

HOLY........CRAP

I wish they had a jaw-drop smiley here.  Sometimes it's better to use more colors.

 HO-LY SHIT
AMAZING DUDE...JUST FREAKIN AMAZING...that only took you one month? it looks like it would have taken you likt 3 years...Geez

 OMG, this thing makes me cry.

 OHM! This rocks...

great demoscene artwork ;D

If what you claim is true, then you, sire, have too much time on your hands

 This doesn't really "look" like pixel art to me, but it still looks very nice and godly to have been done completely by hand.

 

for any of you doubters, paste it into photoshop (etc) and zoom in, its DEFFINITELY pixeled o_o. Just wow <3

 It looks like a color reduction of CG to me, especially on the blue figure, but I've seen some amazing things done from Amiga artists, so I'll just keep the rest of my thoughts on it to myself as I may be wrong. Although, I may be right.

 

Very demo-stylish.  Good job!

fair enough then Slay, in that case, dude ure work is *rudeword* awsome! absolute amazing job

wow...

 Very impressing.
Freakin awesome :O