Adding this feature will make the art NOT pixelart so I would not consider adding such a feature. It is a pixelart requirement that this be done manually.

Sounds very purist!!

Personally, I feel whatever creates best results, is best. However you get there, you still endup with a bitmap. Insisting that you only get there by pixeling each individual pixel, is IMO, not realistic, in real-world terms.

If you want to create bitmaps, and limit yourself to pixelling each individual pixel, there's nothing wrong with that. It's a great thing, for developing your skill as an artist, but why limit yourself.

It's like refusing to use a calculator when doing a math A-level / degree.

Because a tool will never make something exactly how you want it to look. ever. And the second you use a tool, is the second your work is no longer pixelart.

There's no such thing as 'pixelart', a bitmap, is a bitmap, is a bitmap. It is, and always was, only a collection, an array of coloured pixels. That's the reality of what it is.

However, I guess you use the term 'pixelart' to describe a bitmap that's been painstakingly hand drawn, pixel by pixel. Is that right?

If you're placing this limitation on yourself, as you make your bitmap, that's fine of course. I'd be interested to learn why you do this though.

1) Is it because you feel you get better results? (I guess you have more control over the results, directly, as opposed to using a tool).

2) Is it because you are creating 'pixelart' as a means to hone and develop your skills as artists?

3) Or is it because, it's the 'in' thing to do?

4) A combination of the above?

For the purpose of creating game art, and I think for doing anything in life, what works and creates the best results, is the best. Being a purist, and just doing something because it's 'cool' is something a lot of people like to do. That's not for me though.

I can't see why a tool that offers the artist the best of both worlds, and empowers them to create better art, would be a problem. Just because it also does something that breaks the prime directive of pixelart. Surely, an appropriate combination of pixeling-tools and automated-tools, in the same software package would be a good thing.

I hope this post doesn't come across as rude, or offensive to anyone.


Edited by cosmic4z

If needed I have my pitchfork in hand.

Well put leel

You get the pitchforks, I get the keys. This discussion has been discussed (ô_o) many times and no party will give in. Senselessness I say!