I feel plenty old without you measuring my time here in centuries! Also ditto what Reo said, we're early but not the first wave, the site was already populated with great art when Ensellitis dragged me over from dA (RIP to my homie Chris).
I was just thinking the other day: who has been continually making pixel art the longest of all the humans on earth? Theoretically someone could have been making pixel art for 40 years or more, though I doubt many of the pioneers stuck with it that long. But pixel art has really taken off, so I think there are a lot of us who will stick with it for decades to come!
When I can finally play the Beatles "When I'm Sixty-four" on my birthday (knock on wood), I'll have been making pixel art for half a century!
Just wanted to type Mirre - since 2005. Not only active, but a mod.
Mirre, Helm and Ptoing joined before either me or Cure. Wayuki was also here in 2005. Adarias and Big Brother haven't posted here last year but they're still both doing pixel art.
Edit: Morganne too of course!
You joined in 2007. 17 years is, in fact, 1/6 of a century. Just sayin 
Look for the 2005ers in the memberlist... (Sedge "joined" in 2001 but PJ launched in 2005, right?)
No way.
'Cure' has almost been here for nearly 2 decades. That's 20 years. In fact - 1/5 of a century
Out of interest, who are the longest active members on PixelJoint?
Confirm. Everytime a challenge has less than 3 entries at the end of the deadline, it gets another week. This is beyond our control, since we are unable to close the challenge.
I think it's carrying over into this week as well because there weren't enough entries
Hi everyone, silly question, is the Vanity weekly challenge will be maintained or it will be switched?
The first person that comes to mind is Cyangmou of course. But you could also recall some pieces by Wolfenoctis.
Hello guys! Trying to get back at pixel art and tried googling a reference that I had in mind. Only found AI weird stuff. I'm searching for another pixel artist work but I can't remember his name, he did a lot of medieval armor with high details and things like, does anyone know his username? (And feel free to recommend another pixel artist that you like!)
We are very active as a community on discord! Would love to see you there.
I returned back here recently, and returned to pixel art in general recently, and it's been great. Really sad that Pixelation forums aren't up anymore though, I learned so much from those forums that influenced my art a lot. I hope someday twitter and social media bs dies off and people return to places like this and pixelation. Forums are really great, at the very least better than social media.
I joined this community when I was in middle school and now I'm in college pursuing a degree in animation. I definitely wouldn't be here if it weren't for the community. Pixel art was my foundation and start into art as a whole, and it always has a special place in my heart. The forums and stuff helped me through some bad times, and I'm grateful.
I just wish the community was more active now. It would be really nice to hand down a lot of the knowledge I've learned in my journey, along with what I've learned from other pixelartists, to new and aspiring pixel artists. To help others like I was once helped.
Anyways, PixelJoint is cool and I hope that this website continues to exist.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2779230/Zarathustra__Cybergeddon/
So apparently this game was made entirely using AI. For those of you who can look past your own insecurities for a few seconds, I highly recommend you give this a try, there's something very beautiful here.
I honestly can't wait to see more games like this.
well I guess technically that's just 4 years and not 15 years
oh neat, artwork that isn't 15+ years old in the hall of fame
It tends to come in waves. Sometimes you'll feel really stagnant and other times you're amazed over what you apparently can do now.
looking at my pixel art improvements in the gallery rn is honestly a little wild. my most recent pixel art is so much prettier than my vtuber concept from a few months back
anyone else find art level-ups staggering sometimes?
Here is the link to Secret Santa post for easier access, because it is already swamped by many fresher news.
During that last decade, have you made any cool artworks you could share in the gallery?
@Partack, wow, a comeback after ten years. I wasn't around back then, but still, I'm very happy to read this.
I still don't get why everyone is all up in arms about AI given that real live humans frankensprite and "copyright" ownership over palettes. At least the AI isn't threatening to murder anyone's dog. 
Hey PJ, keep on rockin. you guys are still awesome =) i'm glad to see this site still active
Hello everyone! Does anyone have the link to that pixel art tutorial by Cure? Where he examplies what is considered pixel art and whatnot? A friend of mine is starting to do pixel art and I thought that would a nice first steps.
my apologies i should have read more closely. i guess my bias against ai in general colored my perspective haha
In that case, the creator of the plugin/model clarifies that it was trained with a person's sprites, with their authorization.
wow those are pretty incredible tools, i know ai is frowned upon here but i'm impressed there's one that works so well in conjunction with aseprite. looks like it pretty shamelessly borrows from other artists though, in some of the examples you can even see it faking a signature in the bottom right cornor lol
the adopt pixel extension for aseprite looks good:
https://astropulse.gumroad.com/
the stable diffusion plugin looks good too! and in the preview of retro diffusion, they use a plugin called paletize I think. This is a start way!
would be interesting to somehow have a high res image on a layer, and pixel in chunky pixels on top of that image. like tracing with legos haha. maybe photoshop can do that? but yeah scaling down a photo and just doing pixel art on top is a pretty quick way to get where you need to be, compared to trying to get whatever software to behave just the way i want.
Yeah I think Reo's method is the way to go. Personally I scale using GIMP, load into Grafx2, then auto-reduce the palette to a number where it feels like it still maintains all the info I want, could be 64 colors or more, then I manually combine similar colors until I feel the palette is about as concise as it can be. Then I load it into Aseprite to do the actual pixelling and cleanup.
Though sometimes I find it faster and easier to just pixel right on top of the (downscaled) full-color photo/painting using a limited palette, using the full scale image as a reference. I used this latter method for these portraits.
i think they mean a method for turning a regular image into pixel art, without having artifacts or needing to do manual editing to make it convincing. i personally don't know of any way to do it without lot's of cleanup, but what reo suggested is probably the closest you can get with normal image editing software. maybe there's something out there though.
So, does anyone know the way to process an image so that it has, let's say, "the rules of pixel art"?
Thanks for your insight on your process with this, Reo! Picking out the palette first and then indexing from there makes so much sense, duh.
Dunno about best but the way I do it, if there's a digital painting I think would be more fun to do/would look better as a piece of pixel art, Is I bring it into Aseprite and size it down to a size where it looks good and I then manually pick out a pixel art appropiate palette from the colors in the painting (so something like 8-24 colors). I then set the color mode to indexed. Obviously some detail will be lost/not every shade will survive but that kind of problem solving is what I enjoy about the process anyway.
Guys, you must stop making so much noise in this chat.... I can't sleep!
No. He stopped replying to everything including his emergency contact and even skype.
It's possible he's still alive but scrubbed his internet identity clean and change his phone number. Because last time I talked to him he was somewhat depressed and said he's going to turn off his phone and go fishing for a week. That was the last I ever heard from him. 
Nobody has managed to get in touch, but there has been a sign of life from what seems to be him (I don't doubt it), at some subreddit, 4 years ago (so 3 years after he disappeared from PJ), which was discovered recently.
Secretly checking monthly awards
Still seeing pixel purist discussions, never change pixel joint. :)
I don't really do art much as I shifted into working IT in banks,absolutely boring and not really well paid. I long to just sit, exist and do some art, no matter how bad it is, but the time is very limited, need to put food on the table.
In the end, did someone manage to contact Jal? Did he pass away? I always had that in mind.
q=1 is the only parameter that works, which gives page x of whatever your latest selected category was. If you were looking at the hall of fame and enters q=1&pg=4227, it gives you the lowest rated artworks. if you look at newest pixel art, it gives you the oldest artwork.
Yeah going back with pages works somehow but only with something like pixeljoint.com/...?q=1&pg=4220, and not with something like ...?ob=rating&pg=4220 parameters which is the one used for Hall of Fame section.
While at it I also tried parameters like ?ob=showcase&pg=4220, ?ob=date&pg=4220, and ?ob=favorites&pg=4220 and these don't work.
Oh great,I forgot to use the url to view,4000+?That's crazy!
You can reach a lot of interesting places if you hack page numbers in the url. The hall of fame goes back to page 4000+ if you feel like going there.
It works and all pieces I've added are still there. Thanks a lot! 
@dinpixels; try to change the number in the page link from 48 to 49. 
Oh my you're right. I still remember some of the first pieces I added to favorites and now they're gone. 
My favorite's pages are currently 48 in total. I haven't checked the total pages last time I checked but I'm leaving this info here just in case that it's important.
There seems to be an upper limit to adding favourites on PJ?Now every time a new collection is added,the original will be one less.
-By the time I discovered this,at least one page in the initial favourites was missing:(
What's the typical queue wait time? Had something in there for 4 days and I saw one prior to mine that's been in there for 6 or so.
Trigonomicon: I'd heard of that ship! Very cool that you got to see it in person!
Also ooh, Name of the Rose adventure game, do want o:
Please update me, when it's done. I'm super hyped but I might forget about it :(
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What is it about this group that quite a few oldtimers still check in regularly? I'm not aware of any similar internet communities that have this longevity... (2007 here)