using pixel art for other things...
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Topic: using pixel art for other things...
Posted By: sapphira83
Subject: using pixel art for other things...
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 2:29pm
| quick question...has anybody ever used their pixel art for things other than game development and the likes? |
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 5:06pm
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Banners, avatars, sigs, also made a few pics for kicks and giggles.
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Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 6:27pm
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I use it to kill people on the streets. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 7:05pm
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... ... Icons, quite a few people have done CD covers and magazine covers, TV Advertisements, lego?, I've seen some mario (and other game characters) cross stitching, censoring out people's faces(the people who kill people on the street), placing post-it notes on walls... ------------- |
Posted By: M.E.
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 12:42am
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Hi Sapphira, When I joined PixelJoint I was looking for a place where I could learn how to make sprites and objects for my game. However I have found that working with pixels my oil and acrylics paintings became better. I even painted a 'pixel' painting. But this is nothing new. There were painters that use 'pixels' to make paintings before ( http://www.sharkforum.org/brandl_images/b_b_close.jpg - chuck close for instance) When you regard a pixel = point then there is even a painting style dedicated to it: pointillism. A famous one is this A pixel can also be seen as a little colored stone which has been used ages and ages ago called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic - mosaic My avatar is a pixelled version of a painting I did. Once I was pixelling a portrait of my niece to show her what I did when I am drawing on my computer. She wanted to have it as a picture in her room so we printed my pixelled image 10x the size (to see the pixels enlarged) and that paper was hanging in her room. Pixel art is all around us. Best regards from M.E. ------------- http://www.kunststukken.nl - KunstStukken.nl M.E. Art |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 12:58am
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I've made some desings for clothes and tshirts, and also made some pixel cookies myself. in resume:Pixel art is not limited to sprites and such. at least not anymore(if it was in the past, wich i really doubt). but it is a common misconception to belive that pixel art is only the process of making sprites for games. ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Skull
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 1:04am
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I used it to find my birth father.. ... turns out he was downstairs in the lounge.
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Posted By: sapphira83
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 6:07am
thanx to those who replied. i asked cause i'm thinking about using some of my pixel works for graphic design (since i'm too cheap to get photoshop ).
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Posted By: Brian the Great
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 8:28am
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Pixel art comes in handy in various situations. Like those huge LED signs that only have four colours and a resolution of 50×50. ------------- http://www.twoschizos.com"> 
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 11:14am
| If you're thinking of seriously going into graphic design, you're going to have to get photoshop. Most graphic designers know photoshop as well as corel paint and other programs like that. |
Posted By: Peach
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 12:28pm
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@Aleiav: I'd suggest, if you are not company-compelled to work with PS, and you don't need to print in CMYK, any other graphic software is GOOD, as well as The GIMP. |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 3:27pm
| Either way, I think not knowing Photoshop and being a graphic designer is kind of... I dunno. It'd be like wanting to be a web designer and not knowing Flash or php. Sure a lot of webpages are just in html but... it's still better for you to know more facets of the job you're doing. |
Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 4:29pm
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Hmm, i wouldn't say Photoshop was that important to graphic design. But meh. -------------  http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 5:12pm
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Originally posted by Skull I used it to find my birth father.. ... turns out he was downstairs in the lounge. Can you use it to find my Mika CD? It's been lost for months :( ------------- |
Posted By: sapphira83
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 7:27pm
i do know some things about photoshop. just wanna know if it was possible to use pixel art for logos and banners other than retro 2D games (although that's not a bad thing ).
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Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 10:59pm
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are GBA games retro?
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 19 May 2008 at 6:49am
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Yes. The DS pretty much replaced the GBA. I mean, when was the last time you saw a new GBA game coming out?
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Posted By: tuaarita
Date Posted: 19 May 2008 at 7:10am
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Originally posted by greenraven
Yes. The DS pretty much replaced the GBA. I mean, when was the last time you saw a new GBA game coming out? GBA: 2807 - Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone Release Information Release Number: 2807 Release Group: iND Release Date: 2008-04-09 ------------- I'm running in the desert, running in to the sun, running out of blood and I'm going numb. |
Posted By: sapphira83
Date Posted: 19 May 2008 at 9:31am
my bad i forgot about DS thanx for clearing that up for me
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Posted By: [Ryan_6666]
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 9:37pm
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majority of my pixels are forum signatures, avatars, forum awards and some niffty emotes i made that only make sense on those forums.
i only recently started doing pixels for a game, and its turning out to be more annoying than i thought, especially since im pixeling each frame by itself and i have to do all the maps :/ the main character is my avvy ;)
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Posted By: stonewall
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 10:44am
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I'd say graphic designers tend to use Illustrator |
Posted By: Souly
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 11:51am
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I'm doing a pixel tattoo on myself soon.
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I am the jesus of PJ. |