That would be exactly why I don't doubt your pixelling skills, Instant. I've seen your previous things. But it's also why I wouldn't be suprised if you had a 3D model to base it off of, I've seen you do 3D work as well. Not that that would be a bad thing.

I don't think it was the program itself, the animation in your eggman with the cape flowing is just fine. I'm not really sure WHAT caused the compression.

Hey Chrispy, remember when I was the guy who did all the new enemy/boss sprites for SRB2, with all those angles/animations, making them look 3D? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Also, I'm using Animation Shop Pro 3 to make gifs. Is there something more optimal I could use?

I like it. Don't know if it's true pixelart but it's good nevertheless.

@all: it has 170 colours, not 256. There probably is more than a few useless colours there though. The dither speed effect works really well too

subpixeling my ass. if that doesnt have 3k colors its just because APNGs arent allowed on pj.

@Manupix, we truly analyzed this before adding and we feel its true pixelart with great subpixelling work. If you zoom and pay only attention to the dither patterns you can see its a 1px shift. Maybe the high color count comes from these layers not being 100% opaque. If not animation output as mentioned.

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InstantSonic's gallery shows he's honest and skilled so benefit of the doubt supercedes all. We decided it passed but if anyone has a legit point please do post. Its a great motion FX.

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I wouldn't doubt that it's been hand pixelled. It might've been based on a 3D model or something, though. I think the 255 colors comes from compression issues when converting it to .gif or something.

Yeah, it's probably been done before, haha! Thank you. :)

I've seen something like this that someone tried before, sonic in a schmup. I guess it's coincidence. Pretty nifty piece.

Hey Chrispy, I want to apologize for the way I responded to you earlier. I've been having a bad day, but that doesn't excuse my outburst. Again, I'm sorry.

It certainly was. :3c

Sorry, but chances are this was not hand pixelled. 256 colors + lots of random frame to frame pixel changes and noise + nice 3D look.

Yeah, I should've been more specific. That was my bad.

Well, I'm sorry. Just would have been nice if you were a bit more specific...! Thank you, dude.

It's a serious critique. I'm talking about those checkerboard patterns on the highlights and shadows, it's not really noticable until you zoom in about 3x

Can't tell if what is? Got any real critique or was that just meant to be snarky? :/

I can't tell if that's dithering or noise cause by file compression