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Topic: Threshold Cheating?
Posted By: Savven
Subject: Threshold Cheating?
Date Posted: 16 April 2014 at 11:20am
so i learned that with your own line work you can use threshold to make pixel art lines instead of doing it manually yourself. would that be considered cheating in a way? since the pixel lines themselves are being done with an adjustment? I want to know because i kind of like this method for making sprites and objects.


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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 16 April 2014 at 11:26am
Well. Its kinda cheating even if noone knows and the cheating is yourself not others because you fail to learn about polishing lines which is such a great skill to know even if your pixels nver use them.
You can however, do that and clean up and polish it. Especially, if its your own original drawing.

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Posted By: Savven
Date Posted: 16 April 2014 at 11:36am
Thanks for the response.
I haven't actually tried it on
any of my work yet but I was
considering it since I tried it on
a sketch that I did and it seemed like
such a easy way to get the lineart done
but then i realized that the adjustment pretty
much takes away from the whole point of
learning to make your own lines.

Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 16 April 2014 at 12:21pm
Yeah. Its a personal moral artistic choice as it pertains to pixelart specifically.
I would say that if you get it to work for yourself and have a commission or project then this can be a great production time saver and you SHOULD do it.
My well/kinda/iffy was meant for true pixelling in the spirit of pixelart and pixel purity, k.
Anything that is for production, real-life and involved projects 'anything' goes. Time is money.

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Posted By: AlexHW
Date Posted: 16 April 2014 at 12:45pm
If it helps you improve your art and allow yourself to continue to develop your skills, then it's worth trying. Since you've drawn the lines already on paper, it might be educational to see how an automated process interprets those lines. That could help you see your art in a different way and maybe learn something about how you can create lines without the automated process. If you do it without really observing the process, you're cheating yourself from learning anything new. So try and be mindful, and consider what is happening to the pixels. If it looks automated(parts of it don't make sense), then not enough focus has been placed upon the pixels, and it would also be apparent to other pixel-artists that it needs more attention.

Posted By: Savven
Date Posted: 16 April 2014 at 5:38pm
Originally posted by AlexHW

If it helps you improve your art and allow yourself to continue to develop your skills, then it's worth trying. Since you've drawn the lines already on paper, it might be educational to see how an automated process interprets those lines. That could help you see your art in a different way and maybe learn something about how you can create lines without the automated process. If you do it without really observing the process, you're cheating yourself from learning anything new. So try and be mindful, and consider what is happening to the pixels. If it looks automated(parts of it don't make sense), then not enough focus has been placed upon the pixels, and it would also be apparent to other pixel-artists that it needs more attention.


I actually never thought of it that way, very insightful


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