I'm a sinner and a saint. 

As for dealing with m00 here's some time old advice: "Sleep on it."

Only the most profound tend to confound when it's simplicity is unbound...

"I want to get somewhere" "Oh you're sure to do that if you walk far enough" ~ Alice talking to Cheshire Cat

A pair be a fruit unless he meets another pair, then together they be a pair.

Edited by Pixel_Outlaw - 30 December 2007 at 6:42pm

This website is so slow for some reason. I've taken to playing solitaire between link clicks.  

Edited by Monkey 'o Doom - 30 December 2007 at 7:17pm

dunno why, works fine for me.   Maybe it's time you bid AOL farewell?

*hug*

Wow, I'd have just banned her by now.  Way to have patience, Mr. Bug, way to have patience.


*and in case she's reading this, I meant my temper not that she should be banned for 'not fitting in'*


Edited by leel - 30 December 2007 at 7:42pm

I'm out of the loop, who is this new member and what is she doing?

Wow her work is damn impressive. The images are very well done. Tough call. I would let it go but that is just me. There is no special formula for defining the minimal amount of colors necessary. Perhaps low color images are just not appealing to her but there should be some defining rule of thumb for color counts and submission. Something to do with canvas size in proportion to colors used. I'm more concerned that she created the results in a traditional way. Even the holy grail of Pixel Art "Metal Slug" uses many colors. Many of the images in the gallery could not exist as they are in say 256 color mode even if they only use 4 or so colors. Each mode has a unique set of colors that can be used. Even if your sprite has 4 colors it may not be able to exist in lower color resolutions because there is not support for a color or two in the image. To see what I mean try saving a low color sprite down into a 256 color palette in ms paint. Tradition limited the specific colors you could use and how many you could use per scene. Everyone here with the exception of a few have broken with tradition on specific color palettes. Without a specific color resolution there is no solid barrier to limit color count.

Edited by Pixel_Outlaw - 30 December 2007 at 9:30pm

dra \o/

Why have you been missing? Is it that boyfriend of yours...I can have him killed you know...I have friends ;)

*Happy Holidays and the best 2008 to you :*

Dra informed that there was some mention of me beng a "crazy cat lady" ?

po, I don't get where you're coming from at all there. I made that using 51 colors. I chose every shade with a purpose and for a purpose. Colors were only added when needed and not a single one was frivolous. The green shades were chosen s that they would blend with the greean and the grren with the yeloows. Manual control over every single pixel. The choice of the red ramp had to work for a dragon and the ladies hair.The yellows had to be green toned enough to work with the dragon yet suit the brown ramp for the wicker basket.
I controlled everything every single pixel on there. A required no help from software. Outputting at 256 is irrelevant I outputted it at 51 colors. That's all thats needed because I used color conservation to bring it down as much as possible while retaining my vision. I could have made this using around 30 if I recall but I found that the dragon needed extra colors. Color conservation and palette unification is very important in pixelart. It an essential aspect of mastering the medium. I don't find subject matter or what something looks like important at all. Its all technique and the exploration within a mediums specified (written or unwritten) rules.
This is why I can enter any type of museum and enjoy any kind of art. What things look like is irrelevant, its what things are that matter.

I understand you are very pretty, shallow and vain but I expect better from you.
I could make a game with Game Maker and it would be a playable game with a start screen, sprites and everything that is required to constitute a game.

are you implying that its equal to hardcore coding in BlitxMax using the uber technical code superiority and the beauty of clean and refined code?


Zing!!!!

*screw color conservation for now I'm off to bed to conserve energy back to the OT


Edited by jalonso - 30 December 2007 at 9:48pm

i bet jal could make a click the ball game

In Soviet Russia, ball clicks YOU!!

ok, so back to the off topic.

boobs.

oh we're back to leel attention time?   

(._.)

Sorry.. I couldn't resist.

Ouch :p                    

you're just trying to get me to prove otherwise.   You creepy old man.

The fact that jal is creepy and old has nothing to do with it.

So it's 'leel attention' time, eh? Okey dokey, I'm bored and have nothing better to do anyways...

I was searching for an appropriate image for this discussion, but I stumbled onto a TV/movie/animation wiki full of cliches, archetypical characters, etc, and goddamn the appeal of clicking hyperlinks in wiki articles.

lol ew XD

Edit:  Oh man I have just the right thing for this moment!   *looks through photobucket*


Edit2: Lol Fanarts by Ens!





Edited by leel - 31 December 2007 at 10:28pm

You copyrighted a palette?! O_O

Oh yeah? Well... >_> er... <_< um... >_< I know some people, that know some people, that rob some people. :P

Curses I've been foiled!

edit:

HOLY sh*t! Look at all the people on the birthday list.


Edited by greenraven - 31 December 2007 at 10:47pm

Edited by Pixel_Outlaw - 01 January 2008 at 9:34am

Aaah just when I felt like coming back as these challenges they had to put complex foldings! I better go draw some 2d hamster or something.
Jalonso: omg that's the beeeest! May I use your base may I may I ????