Topic: Pixel Art

Haha thanks! I appreciate that. lol I don't know if I can teach you really. Just practice I guess lol The character designs are based on other characters I'm working on. I was just doodling one day and drew a character that looked a lot like 50s sci-fi heroes I have seen. I liked it so much I translated it to pixel art.

For the backgrounds, though, I used GIMP. I painted some purple and orange and yellow and used the Smudge tool to make it look like a sunset. For the space background I found a tutorial for making stars in GIMP and messed with it. Then I used the Pixelize blur filter and made it look more pixelated than it did. Bit.Trip Sonic...I used GIMP for the background. Making the loop look like it blended into the background wasn't easy. But really you should just try and practice using Microsoft Paint. That's what I use for the pixel art. Then you can used GIMP or some other free photo editging software (or Photoshop) and

Yeah ok I don't know what happened there lol.
But anyway. Practice. Use Paint. Then you can use more advanced programs for cleaner effects if you want. Oh, and you could study other pixel art as well to get ideas for shading and other such things.

Thank you

Depends what it's about, if it was a resident evil, no thankyou, but a Sim-style game, maybe

You want Skyward Sword on GameBoy? Open this up in a new tab.

so awesome u__u

@RedLink: Nah, it's a sim-style game. _{Thought that was pretty blatant. D:}

@Nintendo1999 That BIT.TRIP.SONIC picture is verry impressive!

Because i am not so good at pixel art (:/) I have started to do it on graph paper, each pixel on a square and they are turning out really well, you guys should try them!

What's that I see?

Is that what I think it is?

It couldn't be!

Oh yes. FFXIII pixel art. Official too

Edited with more appropriate pairings.

I'm lovin' it!

I love your Shine Sprite avatar.

Well, I think its time for an old topic to return from oblivion. I had an hour of nothing to do, so I devoted it for making these minimalistic sprites:

I hope this isn't too big to count as pixel art. I also hope this isn't the first post I've made in the forums... But since this topic popped up on the nl front page on the same day I made this, I really feel I should link it.

That surely is Pixel Art. Great work Karakato and Steamhare.

Yeah, I had the whole day off to make another one. It's a little happy bean character animated.

@steamhare thats some great spriteworke you got there, a little more detailing and you could pass it up for a Blazblue sprite.

I think I'd need to double or triple the frames... and add shading... and expand my color palette exponentially. Fighting game sprites are scary detailed.

What are you guys using for your pixel art out of curiosity?

@steamhare - when I said detailing, I meant THAT.
@Tare - use Gimp my friend, Works a bit like photo shop and it may complicate some who are used to MS paint. On the upside, it isn't difficult to master and you can animate your works. Heres the Link if you're interested: http://www.gimp.org/

@pix - I know you'll be reading this but I have a request. Would it be okay if you posted some of your Kid Tripp spritework for us to see? This thread could use a little more sprites.

@Karakato
Actually I have gimp, was not aware you could animate with it, I'll have to look some tutorials.