9
« on: September 14, 2017, 01:59:01 am »
I'd say pixel art will always have a place as a style of art, but it is completely obsolete as a necessary skill for making computer art. The place where it had some resurgent use was once mobile phone applications, but the standard resolution on today's mobile phones now far exceeds the size where one needs to consider individual pixel efficiency.
For example, the game I am making ( remaking actually ) for both mobile phones and the PC uses a resolution of 1136 x 640, which is well below what my target platforms are capable of, and still I am making all of my art via painting and photoshop layer effects, no pixel art at all, and it looks quite good ( if I do say so myself ).
But still there are quite a few retro-style games out there making use of pixel art, as a niche style I think it will survive.