Is pixel art going to stay?
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Printed Date: 10 September 2025 at 2:42am
Topic: Is pixel art going to stay?
Posted By: Buddy
Subject: Is pixel art going to stay?
Date Posted: 21 November 2005 at 6:26pm
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Pixels nowadays are not as common an Artform compared to other
mediums. Pixels mainly are used in Handheld portable phones, or
gaming devices. They aren't used very often in big name titles for the
current consols. My questions: Do you guys think pixel art will stay? If not, how close is the end? Will we be forced to pursue different mediums? |
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 21 November 2005 at 6:42pm
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January 16th, 3011 ------------- |
Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 21 November 2005 at 8:33pm
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viva la pixel art!!!! -------------  got game?
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Posted By: grave
Date Posted: 22 November 2005 at 2:39am
| even if the game industry stops using it doesnt mean it will die as an artform. |
Posted By: Mindiell
Date Posted: 22 November 2005 at 3:04am
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art is eternal,
so I am... ------------- Mindiell French n00b |
Posted By: Vidd
Date Posted: 22 November 2005 at 3:27pm
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I'd be surprised if games stop using them completely. :/
As an art-form though, I don't see why they'd stop; nearly everyone with access to a computer can attempt it. |
Posted By: Akira
Date Posted: 22 November 2005 at 11:50pm
| as long as things still rely on pixel displays, things will also rely on pixels. thus pixel-art shall live as long as the pixel. |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 8:03am
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Sadly, no. By the year 2525, All governments of the world will outlaw computers. Pixel artists will seek work as fishmongers in the new world. And because they had their hands removed(due to new preventive art rules), it will be very hard to fillet those fish. Oh I left one question...sorry. The ony art allowed will be clog painting.(The Dutch have a leg up on us here.) YOU paint the bottoms of your clogs. |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 8:46am
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i am dutch.. what the hell is clog painting? ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Brian the Great
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 9:12am
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I'm guessing the painting of wooden shoes.
Klompendans lalalala! ------------- http://www.twoschizos.com"> 
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 9:18am
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yeah, but why the bottoms? you dont look at the bottoms... do you? ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Brian the Great
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 9:21am
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Strange people live in this world. ------------- http://www.twoschizos.com">
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Posted By: OMGFossil
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 10:05am
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Originally posted by Brian the Great Strange people live mainly in Japan and on some way-too-far American TV shows. fixed ------------- no siggy |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 10:13am
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haha yes. i have no idea what clog painting is, mainly because i dont
live in holland, altho weed is legal  , i have heard of clogs. and
there are many strange people in this world, including me, altho im not japanese  .
i hate my life. ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: Brian the Great
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 10:21am
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Originally posted by Shark
[...]altho weed is legal[...] I hate it when people say that. It's legal in a weird and twisted way. Also known as the Dutch way. ------------- http://www.twoschizos.com">
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Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 10:35am
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yeah u can only have an ammount right,
i once bought this strange herbal drink once in the netherlands, and it was rather tasty :P i think dutch people should have vager rules, like you can have as much as fits under your hat, or in your mouth. Or the same weight as a small antelope. ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 11:01am
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you can only carry 10 gramms on the streets, for own use, and you may only have 1 hemp plant for own use, and you may not deal or buy it, and if cops see it they may confiscate it i think. my last name is ''te hennepe'' (hennep = hemp) whoo! and my hair is green!.. well washed out green but green nonetheless! i dont do drugs though.. just alcohol muffins and caffeine&taurine (= energydrinks) ooh and lots of sugar. sugar is good! so is chocolate! hmm chocomuffins
another weird thing is this weird thingie, which is quite weirdish: when american people split the bill (like on a date) they call it ''going dutch'', but here we call it ''american style'' ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Brian the Great
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 11:23am
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5 grams! ------------- http://www.twoschizos.com">
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Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 11:47am
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brian, you seem to be well educated on the matter. do they teach it
in schools like in social education, like weighing and stuff. ever been caught with it? its illegal over here in uk, i must pay you guys a visit  ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: Brian the Great
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 11:49am
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Originally posted by Shark
[...] ever been caught with it?[...] What makes you think I do drugs? I think they're a waste of continuum. ------------- http://www.twoschizos.com">
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 11:58am
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keep it on topic guys... or move it to the off-topic thread ------------- |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 12:04pm
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okay then.. pixels will survive as long as holland resists the water ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 12:08pm
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yeah i here its quite flat over there how does that work? many
floods? [back on topic] i cant imagine a world without pixel art. i will always continue even if monitors dont. ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 1:14pm
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I look foward to selling fish......as a fishmonger. But seriously people have been doing"Pixel Art" for hundreds of years. Just think of mosiac making. I think the romans had that down. |
Posted By: DrunkyDuck
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 2:54pm
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Pixel art returned in cellphone and gameboy advance games, but now, even those platforms support 3D games. I guess that could be the reason we wouldn't be seeing pixel art used in newer profesional (commercial) games very often.
But there are plenty of indie developers using pixel art, and projects like dosbox, scummVM or various emulators, so simple folk like you and me can enjoy the oldies. Now where did I put my NES and the Battletoads cartridge? ------------- Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come. I embrace my desire to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human. |
Posted By: Vidd
Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 4:00pm
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I remember loving the GBA for keeping those alive but the DS is doing well too.
Look at Kirby Canvas Curse and Mr Driller etc. Some mobiles are using 3D technology iirc (Duke Nukem?) but they'll always be restricted by screensize, where pixel-art excels. |
Posted By: Blick
Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 5:29pm
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Do you guys think pixel art will stay? Indie developers will keep it alive in gaming for sure. There's a huge community of homebrew game developers for a lot of the 2D systems. Also there's the various other things pixel art is used for. Magazine advertisements and promos, website design, and stand alone art are just a few things. Plus, there's always the demoscene, but I'd personally be afraid to even consider getting into that. ------------- http://punaji.com/"> 
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Posted By: Aramax
Date Posted: 27 November 2005 at 10:36pm
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http://www.stygianworlds.com/ - http://www.stygianworlds.com/ Pixel art lis still alive.
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Posted By: MrPumpernickel
Date Posted: 28 November 2005 at 8:40am
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As long as there are devices that display graphics in pixel form then pixel art will remain. We may not think it, but still much of the GUIs of most of the popular programs of the world (including operation systems) are pixel art. Most people's first encounter with computerized design is MS Paint, still one of the most popular programs among pixel artists. It'll die when devices stop supporting it. Aramax, I don't think there's any argument whether pixel art is still alive or not, heck, this site is in itself part of the testament that it's still very much alive :P ------------- http://www.mousevomit.com/ - http://www.mousevomit.com/ |