Pxerin's picture (http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/4718.htm) is a direct rip from an old demoscene artist. Pxerin was already banned from DeviantArt for the same reason.

Yours, me.


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Thats odd. Pxerin re-joined deviantart just this month using a new nickname:

www.pxd.deviantart.com

All of her stuff does look suspiciously good. It's very fishy, and I have no doubts that she DID rip some old game thing.

http://www.back2roots.org/Pics/Find/Lazur%2C1/

found the link for Lazur's works through Halfliquid at DA. Just needed the visual proof but, it looks like pxerin has already pulled outta here. If anyone EVER notices a rip again, please note Sedge or myself (Sedge is away for a couple of weeks)- we'll do what we can with it. URLs always help your case as well and makes it easier for us to pinpoint where the originals came from.

And Ryan, www.pxd.deviantart.com is already banned... lol. They work quickly over there sometimes.

Thanks for everyone's attention and help on this matter.

im to lazy to spam him myself.. anyone got some nice porn sites we can subscribe him/her to?

I thought she looked familiar....No wonder I was uneasy when I saw her page.

I knew it aaaall along. And nobody agreed with me but Chesheyre. Of course, I DID only speak to Chesheyre about it.....but that's beside the point!  I knew those pixel pieces looked too much like a computer had done it - when you zoomed in on say, the Mona Lisa portrait, it just looked like a machine had placed each pixel there, instead of a human. For instance, when you look at Jaeden's work, you can see how she thought about it, like where she knew to place pixels etc. But the Mona Lisa piece was like - PHWOAR nobody has that type of logic to place pixels two-bit by two-bit to dither and stuff....if you get what I mean. ><' Am I confusing everyone?

 

I asked her on AIM, pxd, to do a step by step tutorial of her work basically trying to get her to squirm because I knew she hadn't made those pieces but I acted like I was her biggest fan.  And she's all 'mmm I may do that in the future' - HAHAHA bullsh*t. Anyway, glad she didn't make them for real because otherwise we'd all have to up our game.

I knew it too. Was waaaay too fishy. Those 1x2 pixels stuff are nearly impossible to be made "in mspaint", and I know it because I use it and know what would take.

But, the difference here, what didn't made me go "RIPPER!" with absolutely sure, is that I don't doubt those things are genuine pixel art. Some demoscene and amiga artists are really that hardcore, and I've found animations of stuff like that in progress...

So yeah, like I told everyone I talked about it, she's either a bitch for being a ripper or a bitch for having absurd talent and wanting to drop pixel art.

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I noticed she took the trouble to comment on your ShoutBoard.

Haha, "ass-broken html".

broken link ensillitis

403'd! Still doesn't work

thats really sad. it would have been less obvious if she had at least stalled. that is funny

 

all they had to do is go to the link and hit refresh

Holy crap.  I don't know what's more obnoxious... someone ripping someone else's work or these elitist pixel art experts insulting everyone on the site just because they are not aware of some obscure artist.  Sorry we don't have any PHDs in pixel art on the mod staff.  It's just a site to enjoy and post pixel art for f**k's sake.

Btw, I'm referring to the posts here...

http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/4718.htm

How is it different technically 1ucas? I'm not really in the know about all this demoscene and amiga art scene.

I don't know much either, but from what I know, here are a few differences:

1) Some of the art is used more to show off along with the programs they do (the demos), and the community is very focused on programming as well as on the art (and we're more focused on art, and mostly don't give a f**k about programming)
2) Apparently, some people code their own little programs to make their pixel art, which is part of the challenge and process sometimes.
3) These guys are old-skool, they started a long, long time ago, like '95 or before, and belong to a different era where their community began. They're around for longer than we are. (hence the elitism)
4) They work on different, specific platforms. We don't really give a f**k, we just draw with whatever we can.

Some links:

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_demos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_art_scene
http://ada.planet-d.net/
http://www.scene.org/
http://www.scoopex.at/rangerism/demos.html
http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php

But again, I might be understanding all this wrong. These are just my impressions, from the little I could find out.

 

thats not old

It still sounds recent, but that was 10 years ago! Ha, I was 7!

I agree with Sedge, I was totally pissed off by the accusers in that post, after finding it by accident when looking through my favourites gallery. I think you dealt with them very reasonably PB, and they still threw abuse at you like 'why dont you believe us. We are gods.' Yes they were right, but why is that our fault?

About these Amiga artist: Woah, almost all of their stuff is really impressive. Despite their different techniques, often I've found that there work largely consists of nudey pics of voluptous females, and many of the time I've found some of their more fantasy based pictures (ones that dont try and be a photo recreation) to lack a lot in character. They make up for this with awesome palettes and technically brilliant displays of knowledge. Thats just what I've noticed from viewing some works over at http://www.gfxzone.org/gallery_personal.html

I'm mainly just shocked that these people exist, I feel motivated to push my pixelling skills so its hard to feel an animosity towards these people, because essentially theyre just like you and I.

By the way, I love the religious take on the communities, 1ucas, haha. 

Hah! I was 19! I'm an old f**ker

Thanx dude. The same would go for anybody else accusing somebody. I just want the visual proof before I jump to a conclusion. I also went and asked Halfliquid at deviantART about pxerin. I do my research yanno.

Well, when you compare it to how long the pixel art community has actually been around, it's about half the scene's current lifespan ago or so.

What!? How old are you? That was 10 years ago! By then those guys were pixelling for like 5 years already, so do the math: most of these people are 25 years old, at least, while most of us in this forum are below 18. I was only 9 by then, I didn't even had a computer! (got it in 97)

What we have here is a bunch of people with 10 years (or more!) of pixel art experience. Their amazing artwork is totally justified.

So yeah, I think that's really old. Also, you gotta remember that for being around for so long these people have seen a lot more than we have, so no wonder they acted like "the wise old people against the ignorants". Silly, indeed, but they had good reasons...



Hah, thanks. The analogy suited well.

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By the way, in case you guys wanna check out where these Amiga artists do their stuff, look up for "Deluxe Paint" on an image search. Here's a screen shot:



And some works done in this program:

http://leonbli.free.fr/dnl/gfx/amiga1/ngc.gif
http://damsdr.free.fr/page_pixel/illustrations/illustr_02.gi f
http://leonbli.free.fr/dnl/gfx/amiga1/menstracoustique.gif
http://leonbli.free.fr/dnl/gfx/amiga1/secretcloud.gif
http://www.obsession.se/wolf/images/gallery/Wolf-Light.png

And, at last:
GFX Zone 8-bit gallery (WARNING: this may cause severe depression for some )

Check this one, iSTVAN, because the gallery you saw wasn't focused more on pixel art, this one is (although there are some stuff here that I doubt are genunine pixel art, but who knows? :s)

(oouch )


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Haha, I'm only 13, which explains why I suck so badly ...