Banding: what is it?
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Topic: Banding: what is it?
Posted By: Mars Haseugen
Subject: Banding: what is it?
Date Posted: 28 November 2010 at 1:03pm
As something of a newbie to pixelart; I often see various words used in critique to pieces; I love C+C it helps me to grow; but I dislike being told i'm doing something and not knowing what exactly it is i'm doing; in this case "Banding" I believe it has something to do with shading.
Can someone explain (preferably with images) what banded or banding means?
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Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 28 November 2010 at 2:32pm
http://www.pixel.schlet.net/#C2 - Here's Helm's ramblethread , it gives a great overview of what banding is.
basically, banding is where different pixel lines form a "staircase" sort of effect, i.e. hugging each other. AA can often turn into banding, if the pixels end up pretty much hugging the outline of something (I see some of that, for example, between the AA colour and outline in your Beef Patty piece).
banded-AA often looks fuzzy, or actually increases jaggies. To avoid it, you basically need to pay close attention to pixel clusters :)
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