Fake pixelart for n00bies
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=2703
Printed Date: 29 October 2025 at 5:19pm
Topic: Fake pixelart for n00bies
Posted By: kaltsu
Subject: Fake pixelart for n00bies
Date Posted: 02 August 2006 at 4:37pm
 First tutorial I've ever done \o/ I hope all the newbies find it useful. My next lesson will probably be "How to rip other's art and never get caught". Don't hold your breath though.  -------------  Not now honey, I have a deadline.
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Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 02 August 2006 at 7:50pm
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...was this supposed to be funny? ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
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Posted By: kaltsu
Date Posted: 03 August 2006 at 6:54am
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Originally posted by Monkey 'o Doom ...was this supposed to be funny? To be honest, I'm not sure about it even myself. I guess I have kinda twisted sense of humor. That wasn't my main point anyway. I primarly wanted to show everyone how easy it is to fake pixelart and in the same time how easy it is to spot. I think every noobie should take a hint and stop trying. Otherwise you will only make a clown out of yourself. In fact I spent quite a time with step 3 in my piece and you still can tell it's only a fixed reduction. Most of the noobies don't have patience or skills even to complish this part properly so it should be very easy to spot them. Right? My second point was to possibly start a discussion of definitions of pixelart. In this case, I didn't even bother to post my "art" to PJ gallery, still using it as an avatar in http://www.last.fm/user/kaltsu - Last.fm . It looks nice and tells people quite well that I'm into pixelling. Nevertheless not the best possible example. Let's take another point of view. When you do graphics in the game business, you damn sure use references, sketches, tracing, every possible tool and way to make them sprites and backgrounds look good. We don't complain so why are we so strict about it in the PJ? Or are we? I'm sometimes very uncertain about the boundaries of pixelart myself. Where do you draw a line? ------------- Not now honey, I have a deadline.
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Posted By: Skull
Date Posted: 03 August 2006 at 7:39am
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Though..You still need some skill and experience to be able to take Step 2 to Step 3.
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 03 August 2006 at 12:53pm
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I found it funny. Basically all you need to know how to do to reach step 3 is dither. This just goes to show the value of reference photos. ------------- |