Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: |||| on February 21, 2011, 08:31:20 am

Title: Prejudice against orange + new design
Post by: |||| on February 21, 2011, 08:31:20 am
Does the outside need to be AA'd and can that even be done?
(http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9767/lijibmp.png)
(a logo I'm working on)
What program can i use to AA to transparent if that's possible?
Title: Re: Prejudice against orange
Post by: Gamer36 on February 21, 2011, 09:05:43 am
Photoshop. Yeah I know it's pricy but it works wonders.
Title: Re: Prejudice against orange
Post by: Ürch on February 21, 2011, 04:31:47 pm
er, i'm pretty sure most image editing programs support alpha transparency, except maybe MS Paint or something.
Title: Re: Prejudice against orange
Post by: |||| on February 21, 2011, 09:55:11 pm
ah they call that Alpha transparency?!  Alright thank you.
Title: Re: Prejudice against orange
Post by: Im King Louie on February 22, 2011, 12:11:30 am
Gimp is a good program, but the two windows are kind of clunky in a window manager that doesn't tile or snap.
Title: Re: Prejudice against orange
Post by: StaticSails on February 22, 2011, 02:21:31 am
Does the outside need to be AA'd and can that even be done?
(http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9767/lijibmp.png)
(a logo I'm working on)
What program can i use to AA to transparent if that's possible?

Which one is the logo?
I assume it's the one on the right, but the possible palette is kind or more interesting.
Title: Re: Prejudice against orange
Post by: ptoing on February 22, 2011, 02:54:27 am
What I wonder is why you would do a logo like this with pixelart. If it will look more or less like that thing on the left doing it in vectors would take about 5 minutes and you would have very smooth aa, including alpha to the background.
Title: Re: Prejudice against orange
Post by: heyy13 on February 22, 2011, 04:26:47 am
Also logos will allways be converted into vectors eventually, since you need it to be smoothly scalable for differant uses (header, business card, poster, website design, merchendise etc). So having this perfectly raster rendered seems pointless?  ???


EDIT: I agree though the pallet is awsome.
Title: Re: Prejudice against orange
Post by: Elk on February 22, 2011, 06:23:28 am
Another possability would be to increase the size to like 4500x4500 pixel @ 300 dpi with the basic colors (no AA) so it acts as a bitmap (still PNG) and still with a filesize of  50 kb
Title: Re: Prejudice against orange
Post by: Im King Louie on February 22, 2011, 09:22:50 pm
Giving your image the bit depth necessary to have partially transparent pixels kind of defeats the purpose using a pixel art style.  Unless your going for that retro look, which I like.  But your AA is so smooth.  Wouldn't you be better off making it a vector image?
Title: Re: Prejudice against orange
Post by: |||| on February 23, 2011, 12:41:25 am
I would like to have a vector image of this log too eventually  but this; it's just a personal logo anyway, an image sig for my art website (almost done).   I have worked with vectors for  product lables so I'd imagine this could look pretty smooth... I just like pixel art more heh and since it will always be this size it should be fine in this form. i made a large 2'6" png using line tools etc. and a slightly larger painted version (acrylic on wood) also for this event i put together. Not as good of an idea as Elks butI was clueless to pixel art then.
If the size get too big with alpha aa I'll just use a color background probably.

Anyone ever try automatic writing/drawing?  that's how this logo came to be.
My hand just went; I used a ouija planchette to pick the colors i splayed on the table.
 

Title: Re: Prejudice against orange
Post by: |||| on March 09, 2011, 02:24:59 pm
I did another logo type image so I thought I'd post here:
(http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/9290/crossedfingrs.png)
Based on a somewhat sloppy illustration I did [may be seen here:http://lijj.deviantart.com/#/d3b3p82 (http://lijj.deviantart.com/#/d3b3p82)
I wanted to try using only 3 colors.