I feel compelled to engage with this since thats more or less the premise of this submission.

i'm pretty sure a machine wouldn't use error difusion when down-sampling an image using photoshop. a machine can understand facial features in this day an age and convert it to raw data. and even then, it wouldn't use halftoning as a way to deconstruct said data as a means to understand it since thats a printing technique first and foremost intented for images that can't use too many ink colors - dithering in itself being a form of compression only adds extra steps to the cognitive process of this machine - it wouldn't be an efficient method for data processing, only for data transfer, and that doesn't seem to be the scenario here.

while I understand the concept behind it, i feel disingenous that this is presented as a means to "engage with beauty through the lens of a machine" when certainly the machine doesn't understand the concept of beauty, nor it picked the photos used as a way to represent said beauty. if anything its just a thinly veiled portrait of your own bias towards asian women from what i can tell and a lack of interest in black women, either because the dithering pattern couldn't process poc portraits in ways that matched the rest of the composition or just because you don't see people of color worthy of your pretty faces collage.

I'm in!

digs: space & spaceships, something I could use as a phone wallpaper would be cool so a scene with a vertical focus with these two items would be really nice(you don't have to make something incredibly complex or animated, but i enjoy the "rule of cool").

yikes: yellow

Every year will be "worst year" only and only if you focus on the bad stuff that happens.

we've been all through some hurdles in life, it all depends on our ability to endure it and keep moving foward.

Hey, was around the neighboorhood and felt like saying hi.

always a pleasure to check back around. Hope everyone is doing great in these final hours of the year <3

Hey look, its February already. 

man, I always forget to hang around here more often

I'll let you know, I absolutely adore how this came out. I'll see if i can follow your steps and try to achieve the same effect

WELL, MAY EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT 2019.

funfact: I've seen that animation all over the place. Last time was when it was being used in a Nintendo music stream over youtube.

I recall it being the reason why i went to join the previous years. I barely ever come to PJ these days pther than for the job sub forum.
but only because I'm often busy with other stuff.

Plus there is little to no reason to post stuff on PJ's gallery other than some degree of nostalgia.

OOpps, it seems I missed the secret santa again.

In other News, Squared UP! is live! its a zine about a bunch of cool people doing pixel art for charity.

at least to me pixel art is both a medium that aims to capture both the techniques that were used to circumvent the earlier tech limitations of primitive hardware/software and the aesthethic vibe that spawns naturally from it.

lowpoly does follow the same path and that pretty much conveys the same principle - to catch that early days vibe.

I mean, away from any kind of toxicity people has described around here, the whole concept behind pixelation was, to say something, almost out of reach to anyone just begining. plus with the talents that dwelled the placed it was rather hard to feel that you were among peers looking to pixel stuff for fun. even if that wasn't intentional.

I've got to admit I always felt intimidated to post in pixelation back in my earlier years of PA, to a point I simply just didn't even post at all.

To think Card Sagas Wars was a project that predates my very own interest in pixel art, back in the days when i used deviantart.

Anyone here use Instagram to upload their work? or you guys prefer Twitter over it?

You can't do a recap without saying

PREVIOUSLY, ON PIXEL JOINT

If there is one thing I personally hate from internet-based relationships is the fact that if anything ever happens to someone i care I'll probably never know.

self imposed restrictions is what truly brings the best of each one of us to work around them, much like martial arts or any other discipline. Imagineif every designer had to go through a pixel art course early in their careers.

but like you two have pointed, the restrictions should only be applied on the canvas, not on the artist. to gimp yourself as an artist or as a developer is not a proof of your will and creativity, is merely an act of lazyness.

can't complain. I could, but nah.

Mega Turrican or Super Turrican?

merci merci

who're calling old.

Every time this argument pops up I want to bring this scene from Terminator 2.

not only because this movie is a dramatic rollercoaster between a sentient robot who struggles to become human, only to realise that achieving that bit of imperfection means he has to sacrifice himself for others but also because that scene is from a time and era (1991) when CGI was barely surfacing and it already had everyone by their balls crying because machines would render us all obsolete, only to show that practical effects can't be replaced and are in fact, timeless.