dear admin
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13965
Printed Date: 14 September 2025 at 12:45am
Topic: dear admin
Posted By: marquandDance
Subject: dear admin
Date Posted: 05 March 2012 at 1:27am
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Hi You posted me a quick message to say my entry to the diamond challenge needed revision, as advised in your message, I would like to discuss this. Sorry if this should not be done publicly, but your message to me did say this was the place. The entire image was created in Gimp using just the pencil tool, no tracing took place. The only morally grey area I can see would be that a reduced color version of the original, famous image was also used as a reference. Apologies if such a reference is prohibited, I believe it was a valuable and fair learning tool and would use it again if I felt it was useful (although I would probably explain it's use in future). Thanks. |
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 05 March 2012 at 7:26am
 The piece had received a low score in the public queue. It also had noisy pixels and inconsistent AA, with the AA totally absent in some areas. the bottom most face is off center and extremely small. It is not a matter of whether or not it is pixel art, but that it shows haphazard technique. There is nothing wrong with using a reference, I think a member pointed out its use because he thought the image was just a color-reduced rescaled version of the image. Whether it is or isn't, it has that same uncontrolled quality, which is the central issue. |
Posted By: marquandDance
Date Posted: 05 March 2012 at 11:28am
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OK. I'm not going to let myself get too bummed out over it. It will likely take me some time to resubmit this though. |