Am I the only one that breaks the holly rules?
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Printed Date: 11 September 2025 at 9:34pm
Topic: Am I the only one that breaks the holly rules?
Posted By: RBL
Subject: Am I the only one that breaks the holly rules?
Date Posted: 14 November 2014 at 8:41pm
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Hello I spent Last year making isometric pixelart graphics, most of them props. Never before I had done that kind of work, however I use photoshop since version 5.5. So I developed my own way to produce and fulfill the daily quota of 4 objects by using lots of ps resources like: filters, brushes, patterns, gradients, posterize, theshold, actions...
Am I the only one here doing that stuff? Am I so heretic? 
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Posted By: StoneStephenT
Date Posted: 14 November 2014 at 10:24pm
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What tools you use to get the job done doesn't typically matter. What matters is your overall level of control over the image. Do you know why every pixel is where it is? Do you have a cohesive color palette? How much control over your image at the individual pixel level do you actually have? It isn't "heresy" to use tools that shorten the amount of time needed to complete a piece. That said, if those tools cost you some level of control over a piece, they can eventually become a crutch that keeps you from advancing further as a pixel artist. Gradients, transparency filters, and other color-altering tools are typically the biggest offenders in that area. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 15 November 2014 at 9:23am
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In commercial projects (or non-commercial)this is done all the time and can look great and even enhance pixels.
This is generally considered a hybrid pixels and is not added to the PJ gallery (some exceptions sometimes when the tool/FX is not creating pixels for you - 'case by case' basis). The reason this is done here is because it would only suggest to the newer and lesser skilled how to bypass learning pure pixelart techniques because everything that can be created with a tool/CGd FX or other can be manually made if time is of no consequence. For those who can manually produce but did not we always allow the pure pixel version to be added with a link in the description to the hybrid version so that PJers can both see and study the pure but enjoy the piece as it is designed to be seen. We have to be strict on many things for the sake of the new/lesser skilled at the expense of the older/pro/very skilled :) ------------- |