Pixelation

General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lick on September 21, 2006, 12:57:40 pm

Title: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Lick on September 21, 2006, 12:57:40 pm
Wouldn't it be cool if Pixelation had smaller linkable banners of varying sizes? Dunno, just had the idea from Punaji actually.  ::)
Title: Re: Pixelation banner?
Post by: Godslayer on September 23, 2006, 12:37:08 am
Explain? Like, banner people could put in their sites as endorsements?
Title: Re: Pixelation banner?
Post by: AdamAtomic on September 23, 2006, 01:22:41 am
there are some specific common sizes of link banners that are pretty standard, i think 88x31 is the most common?
Title: Re: Pixelation banner?
Post by: Lick on September 23, 2006, 01:56:37 pm
Explain? Like, banner people could put in their sites as endorsements?
Exactly!
Title: Re: Pixelation banner?
Post by: Skull on September 23, 2006, 02:00:27 pm
there are some specific common sizes of link banners that are pretty standard, i think 88x31 is the most common?

Indeed it is.
I would surely link it from my site.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner?
Post by: ptoing on September 23, 2006, 08:21:23 pm
(http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/banners/pixbanner1.gif)

Will do more at one point so we have a bit of variety.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Godslayer on September 23, 2006, 08:29:52 pm
Wicked, Ptoing. :)
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Post by: Gas 13 on September 23, 2006, 09:03:46 pm
(http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/banners/pixbanner1.gif)

What's pixelahon?
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: ptoing on September 23, 2006, 09:18:43 pm
Omg, the russian has a point! Fixed, reload :)
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Lick on September 23, 2006, 10:15:48 pm
(http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/banners/pixbanner1.gif)

What's pixelahon?

OMG indeed, and look at the big fullsize banner!! Makes me think the same thing. Maybe someone should edit that big one as well. :D
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: miascugh on September 23, 2006, 10:19:40 pm
Uhm, i didn't read Pixelahon, and that's because it's fixed by now..
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Bo on September 23, 2006, 10:24:25 pm
But where is bruce lee?
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: miascugh on September 23, 2006, 10:25:29 pm
I had him included in my first sketch, but everybody was like 'omg', some like 'omfg' even.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Gas 13 on September 23, 2006, 10:26:09 pm
Yep, it's fixed already. Looks nice now.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Lick on September 23, 2006, 10:41:52 pm
Bruce Lee is in our hearts. (And in the slogan..)
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Bo on September 23, 2006, 10:46:50 pm
yeah, but it would be cool to atleast have his silhuette behind the text or something.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Godslayer on September 23, 2006, 10:57:10 pm
Why was Bruce ever in the banner in the first place?
I like lore.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Lick on September 23, 2006, 11:09:50 pm
'The way of the dragon' ;P (compare with slogan)
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Gas 13 on September 23, 2006, 11:12:03 pm
"Way of the Dragon" was a film with Bruce.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Godslayer on September 23, 2006, 11:12:40 pm
Oh, gotcha.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Werewolf on September 23, 2006, 11:16:46 pm
I don't know, the old banner, although very good, was not visually exciting. This new one, isn't either, there is no life to it. Isn't pixel art about bringing life to something dead?
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Bo on September 23, 2006, 11:19:16 pm
i agree. the way the pixels are diferently sized just doesnt look very good. and overall its just a bit boring.

maybe make it graffiti. and use some restriction like the c64 or some other well used one on this forum.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Werewolf on September 23, 2006, 11:20:50 pm
I agree with you aswell bo, in fact, redo the whole thing in c64 (maybe even smilies...)
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: miascugh on September 23, 2006, 11:25:39 pm
Ugh, ptoing is going to slap me, heh. He made some c64-ish grafitti banner at first and i talked him out of it, because it just looked childish as fuck imo. Well, i still stand by that, and am all against it. I find the current banner visiually quite appealing, good colors and nicely neutral, but i was involved in the making, so.

c64 smileys are in the making btw
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: ptoing on September 23, 2006, 11:29:57 pm
Haha, i like this banner as well, it's neutral, nothing to spazzy and fits in nicely. About the c64 thing, there will be a c64 skin and a set of c64 smilies soon.
And Bruce has fuck all to do with pixel art, hence he is gone. Way of the pixel fit's anyway, no matter what.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Bo on September 23, 2006, 11:32:02 pm
First there was only darkness. Then Bruce Lee apeared and created the allmighty pixel!

Thats the fuck he has to do with pixels :D
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Faktablad on September 23, 2006, 11:32:21 pm
There's nothing I would change about the banner.  It's visually appealing, and the colors are nice.  It doesn't need to be bright and flashy, there's plenty of space for flashiness in the news box and in the forum itself.  Anything flashy added to the banner will just make it seem unprofessional and too specific.  Like ptoing said, Bruce Lee, while cool, has nothing to do with pixel art.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Bo on September 23, 2006, 11:35:14 pm
wel, ok. maybe not anything flashy or lee-ish. but the variaton of pixel sizes just looks shabby to me.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Godslayer on September 24, 2006, 12:38:52 am
Wow, a c64 skin sounds neat as hell. Will it simply be a recoloring or an entirly different skin?
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Werewolf on September 24, 2006, 12:50:42 am
C64 is beautiful, so it should just be the default skin. On a side note, there are a lot of flaws in the design of the forum, although, I don't know what you guys did and what you didn't (most notably the buttons with the notch at the top-left.

EDIT: Screw-it. I'm making a c64 mockup.

EDIT2: Should I continue??

(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/3828/c64pixelationtq8.png)
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Faktablad on September 24, 2006, 01:52:19 am
I can't really tell what that is you're drawing.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Bo on September 24, 2006, 09:42:38 am
same here. it kind of looks like snow covering grass or something like that.

shouldnt the banner have... i dont know... the title of the site?

I know its just a WIP but i think the title is the first thing you should do.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Werewolf on September 24, 2006, 03:04:43 pm
It's supposed to be clouds and the sun... I'll redo it.  :-[
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Bo on September 24, 2006, 05:50:43 pm
I can see the clouds but having the sun mostly green just doesnt work.

would be better if you had it mostly yellow and light grey. with green at the edges and white in a few spots.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: ptoing on September 24, 2006, 06:01:59 pm
I agree that c64 is beautiful, but not everyone might think so, so it wont be the default skin. When we are done with the skins everyone can choose what they prefer, easy as that. And the skin will mainly be a mod in colours and the shape of the buttons will change. The icons will stay as the lil icons miascugh made are perfect in any way and I can not be aresed to remake em all (it's quite a lot)

What is flawed about the buttons with the angle in the top left, i know they merge with some bgcolours and that will be fixed, but other than that I see no flaw really.

And about that c64 pic, what do clouds and sun have to do with pixelart? The banner should be minimal, we need no silly sprites or stuff like that. Also i suggest you take a good look at the sun (with sunglasses) and then at a bush, I think you got the 2 confused.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Werewolf on September 24, 2006, 06:35:41 pm
I can't think of someone who would hate c64, maybe the two pixel wide and the 8x8 limits, just do it in the same palette, that's the part that really kills.

There should be a contest for the pixelation header that everyone can participate in. That would be better, or even a redesign of the forum contest. Even for fun.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: miascugh on September 25, 2006, 02:24:18 am
Werewolf, slow down already. Really, you should cut back on coffee and sugar. Why would we make a redesign contest if we just finished redesigning the whole thing less than a week ago? I'd rather you tell us the numerous supposed flaws you seem to have spotted, so we can do something about it.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Werewolf on September 25, 2006, 02:31:08 am
Yeah, your right miascugh, I talk to much. Well, for one, the user interfacae buttons in the post writing area all are, well, kinda junky (but I'm not sure they even made those, or if the software allowed them...) also the same buttons up top do not work on the page select area.

Do I need to take screens to explain that, because I don't think that's even english.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: miascugh on September 25, 2006, 03:05:37 am
Well, the bbs buttons mostly are adaptions, making them fit with the overall colors. The only ones from scratch are the first three of the second row which i'm really satisfied with (and if you don't then it clearly is a matter of taste), and the teletype one (admittedly somewhat improvised, but does the trick. and no one's ever gonna use that one anyways, unless his name is tomster), and they all illustrate their purpose perfectly fine and in a clear fashion. There's seriously nothing wrong with those buttons.

I don't get the '..same buttons up top do not work on the page select area.' part.
Title: Re: Pixelation banner? ... Official banner now here :)
Post by: Feron on September 25, 2006, 08:31:36 pm
I can't think of someone who would hate c64, maybe the two pixel wide and the 8x8 limits, just do it in the same palette, that's the part that really kills.

There should be a contest for the pixelation header that everyone can participate in. That would be better, or even a redesign of the forum contest. Even for fun.

Dude you can't just plan to recreate a forum you've only been part of for what, 10 seconds?

Secondly I think its pretty disrespectful to the guys who worked on this spiffy forum skin.  I dunno about you but I can certainly appreciate the effort gone into it. 

If YOU feel that the forum needs redesigning every 5 minutes why don't YOU DO IT!