Old Pixelation stuff from around 2003

[Gil]

I found this on my hard drive. Fun stuff.

My very first Pixelation piece I posted, dated October 2003 according to the hard drive:


This was back when the background was purple, Bruce Lee was in the banner and you had to fill out a pop quiz and score enough to register. After that you had to post 10 critiques before you got to post your own stuff. In the General section of course, you'd need to be a total wizard to post in the Serious Critique section

Anyway, here's a miascugh basketcase piece from 2003:


This is, if I have it correctly, one of the first pieces that Splatpixel posted on Pixelation in 2003. I think it's him, shoot me if I'm wrong.


This, still 2003, is something I must've saved because I liked it, it's a day older than my first piece it seems. I can't remember the artist, though I think it was someone well-known.


If memory serves right, this was from someone called Xavier? Not sure. Also 2003


Then, from March 2004, I've got this funny piece:


Someone called Nemesis made the lineart and I colored it with his permission. For some reason, people liked that and after a few days, the whole thread was filled with people's renditions. As far as I know, I started the very first "pixel fad"

[Darien]

haha, fun stuff.  good to see that old banner again.  I got excited today because I found some old images on a USB drive, but then I saw that they were all mostly post this period: http://wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=1277.msg15463#msg15463

I don't think I have anything from the old blue boards.  I'll leave you with these, though:

A strip poker style girl by Helm (I think), heh:



EGA style pic by gustav:



I really wish I had some of that stuff from the old boards.  Or the old proto-pixeljoint webpage someone had started.  The guy with the blue robed wizard avater, I can't remember his name.

[Gil]

Oh damn, the gustav piece

That stuff is legendary!

The guy with the blue robed wizard avater, I can't remember his name.

Zoggles!

[Carnivac]

Here's a 19MB zip file with a lot of 2003/2004 Pixelation images, many of which are sorted into artist folders.  I was living in a hostel at the time which didn't have internet so I'd browse at an internet cafe and download a bunch of stuff onto floppy disks to take back to the hostel and study in my room.

carnivac.co.uk/temp/Pixelation.zip

[Indigo]

OH. MY. GOSH.  This is amazing Carnivac. These bring back so many memories.  So many of these are the images that inspired me to get into pixel art to begin with - including stuff from Kon i thought were long gone.

Thanks for sharing.

[Gil]

Carnivac, dude, you rock! . Time to go through these!

including stuff from Kon i thought were long gone.

Yeah, Alex seems to just google himself if he needs old images, we'll need to buy him some sort of backup storage

[AlexHW]

that's amazing. I'm still missing a lot of my old stuff. I forgot I made some of those. 

[ptoing]

Wow, some really nice stuff. And old lost stuff too. In my folder len and pearun are not by me. The held stuff is partially robotriot (tiles).
But that satchkid image I totally did not have anymore on any of my current harddrives

[Gil]

If you guys have old images lying around, share it

The more nostalgia stuff, the more fun this thread becomes

[ptoing]

Beatman by ndeal.

[Gil]

I remember studying the dither on that back in the day . Sweet sweet nostalgia. The selout though, the horror.

[Carnivac]

Welcome. Just glad I had some of this stuff laying about and it's supposed to be out there being shared and inspiring folks. Sorry for there being a couple of classification errors.  My excuse probably being that I only got a short session each time in that internet cafe so was often rushing about.  Also I was downloading arcade rom files and having to split them into small pieces to fit on the floppy disks too.  Used to go in there with about 40 disks or so each time.  To think these days I could take just one small lil USB stick able to hold many gigabytes instead of 40 floppy disks each only able to hold 1.44MB.  Technology sure does move on quick.   

[Basketcase]

  miascugh didn't make this:



I did. It was a Secret Santa gift. It was based off his own character, who looked much better, and realistically proportioned. I just ripped the colours and make a shorter, stumpier version.

(Looking though Carnivac's treasure archive now... legendary.)

[Gil]

Haha, nice, I didn't know that, I'll edit my post

[Darion]

EGA style pic by gustav:

Ugh, Gustav's work had such a great feel to it ... is he still around? I would love to see more of his stuff.

I know I had other people's shit in my dropbox; I have to dig for it. I just have some older pieces of mine for now:

[junkboy]

In Carnivac's file (amazing stuff, cheers!) there are some sprites named robochick* under /tomi/. Is that the author? Anyone know where I can see more of that persons stuff? I really dug it.

[Gil]

In Carnivac's file (amazing stuff, cheers!) there are some sprites named robochick* under /tomi/. Is that the author? Anyone know where I can see more of that persons stuff? I really dug it.

I'll check when I come home, but I don't think I have more stuff than Carnivac has. Unfortunately, my stuff is also not labelled per artist, so I have to rack my brain trying to figure out who did what.