iso cliff tileset :: Pixel Art Detail

You should repost.

I want to see! Let us have a look!

What the heck! I wanna see this, why has it been changed to inactive?

   No, not a religion, just preference. In other words, the grass looks wonderful and blends very well with the rocks. However, on the pixel purist level(I hate the word "purist" as much as the next easy going fella), it just doesn't seem to fit well on the pixel art level, as does your cliff and rock tiles. 

   When I looked up the color count on some of the grass tiles alone, it caught up to about 90+ colors!  I'm not sure why anyone would try to choose up to 90 colors and make them work decently in their piece. In fact, so many of them are near in value, that they seem pointless in being there all together.

   I guess the use of the layer is very ambiguous just on how the user percieves or uses them. IE, one can use layers in a piece to set up a scene, where the background is on one layer, and the character on a separate one. The final image, being the combined "flattened" layer to press into one layer alone. This is fine.

   But when layers are used with opacity and transparencies, it can cause uneeded colors to surface, lost control of the pixel piece, which really should be the point of pixel art since it's existance: Control, due to restriction. If we lost control over the pixel level, then is it really Pixel art, or does it transform into a higher form of hi-res digital art? Again, questions that we all have our opinion on, and that will be debated till the end of time, as there is no clear cut answer: However, I'm sure you already know our answer here at Pixeljoint, which will most likely disappoint you(as well as others). But as a lowly mod, I will stand by my choice against the piece for the time being, in no direct offense to you, as I love your previous works. I'm not against being proven wrong, though, as I would like to know if this was truly done on the pixel level; maybe it was, and you had to save the grass tiles as some jpeg image, causing uneeded artifacts to come out. That or some other strange file format conversion glitch.

   Again, this isn't saying your piece is crap, or that we're better than you: it's just bordering that level of what PJ considers pixel art, and hi-res art. If I were to play a 2d game like this, I'd be stoked about the grass tiles that looked like that. For a game, or a client, it's understable that they would want more colors, not understand the point of good, clean pixel art. Do it for the money, we understand...I just wouldn't consider it pixel art, is all...

Hope this straightens some things out...

awesome, doesnt look like pixelwork!