Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: SirPrize on February 04, 2011, 09:28:43 am

Title: [Demake] Gradius III
Post by: SirPrize on February 04, 2011, 09:28:43 am

My first attempt to dive into pixel art with GIMP
(http://images.wikia.com/gradius/images/d/d3/Gradius3.png)

Into this

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs279.snc3/28119_1432159453215_1509775332_31055182_4888229_n.jpg)

What do you think?

Title: Re: [Demake] Gradius III
Post by: ptoing on February 04, 2011, 09:54:22 am

Looks neat, though it would be nice if you tried to work within GB constraints a bit more. Also on GB all shmups had WHITE space, because having a lot of black a) drains the batteries faster and b) does not look nice because of the ghosting the screen had.

Example
(http://www.emunova.net/img/tests/915.png)

Title: Re: [Demake] Gradius III
Post by: robotwo on February 04, 2011, 01:11:45 pm

There also seems to be s lot of dithering going on here , your have 4 colors to work with , you don't have to dither that much  ;D