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Jeremy:
Yes, I mean standard "chessboard" dithering.
The rust compared to the bolts is simply fantastic! The only gripe I have is that the exclamation mark seems entirely unaffected by rust. For C64 wide pixels this is mad awesome!
Incredible stuff you have here. Would love to learn your technique.
By "cross-hatching", do you mean dithering? (like the checkerboard pattern at a 1:1 ratio)
Anyway, your work is really great, much more... graphical? than the normal C64 stuff you see. Welcome to PJ, hope you have more to share :)
This one was a mess and it took 20 days on/off (which is still rather fast). I choose to use as few colors as possible, which with the c64 multicolor mode allows rather simple tools to adapt the sensation of richness with the cross-hatching. I understood quite fast from earlier experience that it allowed for some interesting plays with transitions and gradients. I wanted to avoid the white color and keep it dark. Cross-hatching is at it's best if one doesn't get bored by the periods/patterns/repetitions which at times may be when the pixelratio is cubic and not as those bricks.
its hard to belive that it was painted pixel by pixel. especially this grainy shading like on the left part.
respect
I'm not big into the c64 stuff since it was before my time, but this is just brilliant. Really transcends the platform.
I can't imagine what we'd be able to pull off if we backported modern pixel technique like this to a C64 point-and-click adventure.