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Snake Grunger · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2000 3:49 pm

For those who are interested in pixeling art (low-rez, low-color) pics, here are some I did in the past 2 years. I figured to myself that if I wish to accomplish great things with photoshop, I might as well try to work with maximum limitations in order master certain aspects of digital art (such as, doing my own anti-alias, my own shading, defining my own colors), which photoshop normally does for you.

A directory with some of my work

I'm not implying that you NEED to master pixeling in order to master photoshop, but let's try and proove something here: Craig Mullins has done 2 color images that rule, Frost also started out doing pixeling art, Made (french digital artist, www.made.com.bi) did enormous ammounts of pixeling before touching 24-bit images, Danny also did pixeling, Loki too. Let's not forget Acryl!

All AWESOME artists today.

Thus, doing pixel-per-pixel work gives you a solid foundation on what's going on in Photoshop code. Hope to hear neat replies

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napalm · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2000 4:11 pm

damn SG, you suck! go back to ANSI you freak

heh, i haven't seen most of these before actually, they're great-- both subject matter and style. i still love the clean detailed look of pixeled graphics which have served to inspire me since the days when i gawked at the first future crew demos as some lame 3d effect warped an amazing pixel pic

i'm glad that some people are still doing it the good ole fashion way! <loading up theDraw> well, back to my new project!

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napalm (cia productions)
http://www.creators.org

Optical · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2000 4:12 pm

love the bruce pic and that little freaky guy from bond =)

kos.mandis · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2000 4:21 pm

hehe great stuff... Those were the days...(or maybe not

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Made with Deluxe Paint 2, lbm format I think, 320x200 on a 486

sfr · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2000 4:24 pm

Of people on this forum, at least me and Joachim also started out with pixelling, Danny and Loki and Frost you already mentioned

Anyway, though I agree that pixelling was useful practice of creating an entire image on the lowest possible level, I don't think the foundation it gives is specifically good for truecolor computer graphics (any more than for any other medium, I mean). That's because drawing in Photoshop or Painter is getting more and more distanced from its digital nature, especially with techniques like painting in hires and downscaling... (as Mullins says, "let the computer do the math", in contrast to pixelling where the whole idea is doing the math yourself)

Saffron / Sunflower

Snake Grunger · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2000 4:33 pm

Oh yes, I forgot to mention you Saffron, I'm sorry

And if Micke and Joachim worked on Pocahontas for Genesis, they both did pixel art, too

My bad.

I would agree with you and Craig totally, Photoshop helps you by doing the math. So when drawing, you have more time to put in the actual artistic concept of what you're drawing since you don't have to worry about palette and size limit. Great point

Danny · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2000 2:14 am

To celebrate the old days...

Amiga1200 made it possible...1994/95 Shall we go further back in time?

Danny

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micke · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2000 4:56 am

AAAAAH!

This makes me wanna set up my Amiga and post some Old school Graphics...
Hold on....I'll se if i find it...

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-Mikael Noguchi-

http://www.katode.org/noguchi/

derPunkt · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2000 5:51 am

Actually, I wouldn't call that technique dead, YET? =))))
I still pixel some bits (atleast playing around with pencil tool in Photoshop), and I can't think of the other way to get clean results.
Well, true, those were the days (altho, then I was just a kid =)
I did my fair share of pixeling, but with B/W only =))))) - Atari B\W monitor. Imagine doing a raster with 1 colour, hehehe.
anyways, cheers
dP

sfr · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2000 7:53 am

Here's my last pixelled image from December 1998:

Sorry about the truly awful sky and horizon, as usual I ran out of time so I just had to whip up something there as fast as I could...

[ps: Joachim, why don't you post your old pixelled Melon-dick-chick-pic, I just love that one

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Saffron / Sunflower

Frost · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2000 8:13 am

looking good Saffron! =)

Hmm, Melon:Outside... got to put my 486 back up again...

Sumaleth · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2000 9:53 am

I wanted to include Joachim's hermaphrodite pic in the Under Cover article for Loonygames a few weeks back but he wouldn't let me

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Sumaleth.

blup · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2000 4:01 pm

Here's something I did back in '98

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[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

i like kos.mandis's picture.. its very. umm VERY RUSSIAN! reherhehaha

we kiss/kill you (tank and blood are kicky)

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ruyter · Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2000 7:22 am

Pixeling was cool. Here�s some of mine, which I made sometime before I reached puberty or something.... Made with some kind DOS based freeware shit.