Preserved Topic: Pixel Art

i dont remeber they guys site but he goes here he does pixel art versions of like trigun's gun and Big ben and i been trying to find some how to pages for that but...how do you do that?

w007

http://www.mahjqa.com is the site you are talking about.

It involves a lot of time and effort for the most part. Take a pencil of 1px in size and start adding pixels in, eventually you will come up with something. Think of something you would want to make and then start pushing the pixels. It might be easy to start with something like a small garden, or a tree, then work on a small house, moving onto small people, and then start doing bigger stuff.

-Dan-

yea that guys site i like his art, i found a tutorial im looking through now: http://tsugumo.swoo.net/tutorial/

w007

my problem is how do you set up the canvas?
a 16x16 pixel art is reallu small on a 1024xwhatever screen ya know? so i zoom in then enlarge it when i am doen to keep the pixeled look or what?

w007

or maybe what matters is how little of colors you use...hmmm

w007

How you set up the canvas would depend on what you`re making. If it`s a 16X16 piece, you`d need a 16X16 canvas.
The number of colors you use will DEFINATELY make a difference.
THe "pixelated look" comes from the fact that the pencil tool fills each pixel completely, as is apparent from the tutorial that you posted....so maybe I`m missing the question.

from messing with it i notice that the paint tool doesnt seams to do one pixel but the pencle one does, so do i just do a drawing by adding pixel by pixel and using as min colors as posable right? no matter what colors? or is there a set defined amount of colors to use and if so anyway of just getting them to show up in the color palette on eather photoshop or paint shop pro, who knows maybe im just making all this sound harder than i am thinking :P

w007

animedge: for some more information about pixelart, try searching the faq or google, or have a look at http://spritedomain.net/

I'd say you're definately over thinking this. =)

Spend a whole bunch of time just *doing* it, and don't worry so much about "rules". There aren't any...

Yep focus more on what you want to do not on how to get there (then find out how to get their ).

See this FAQ too:

:FAQ: How do I go about making sprites?

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i have read that FAQ tahts how i got that site and i think im geting the hang of it more or less and i figured i was over thinking it, and i tryed to 'google' it but i didnt get much off of it

w007

um i dont know how to post a image so uh just go here: http://www.animedge.net/pixelmegami.gif and tell me whaca think

w007

here is her moving: http://www.animedge.net/pixelmegamimoveing.gif

w007

My suggestions - Change the shape of the figure instead of just moving the layers up and down by a few pixels. For example -- sneaker/arms movement maybe?

The coloring looks good... Thats something I've never been good at.

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i get my colors off of other images :P
and uh she is breathing :P i was to lazy to get her to do anything taht took time to do...that and i was learning how to use image ready...is it just me or is it stupied to use a layer like way of making animation? use image ready and your see what i mean

w007

pssst...almost everyone here uses image ready. *ding*

Its just you.

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guess it is just me...seams weird to do it that way oh well guess ill get use to it

w007

I've never really understood that term "pixel art", and I suppose I've never been that concerned with the definition. I think somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind I thought it meant tiny pictures. Imagine my surprise when I followed your link AnimEdge, to the animation you have done. I like it btw, I thought it would be more this size;

I hope you don't mind my resizing it to illustrate the point
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once again i was lazy :P this was just to see if i could do it...anyhow when i resized my image i made it bigger and traced it, it wasnt tell after word that it mightbe to big, but by the resizing it (with just the outline done) it made it look no so pixely, but seeing it resied with all the colors makes it look better i think :P the only thing that matters with size is that you have to be more detailed in it to make it look better ya know? so if i did make it that size it would have saved me time over all cus it wouldnt have been so detailed, ya know? but overall i think it looks good eather way

w007