Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Kinagi on October 21, 2005, 10:17:16 pm

Title: New pixel artist needs Critic
Post by: Kinagi on October 21, 2005, 10:17:16 pm

Here you go folks, one of my first pixel arts. Its uhm..a ..warehouse..with..tires..and.. EEP

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b20/Kinagi/warehouse.jpg)

Edit: ..No one is responding, yet 6 people have viewed it..

Title: Re: New pixel artist needs Critic
Post by: Rox on October 21, 2005, 11:02:48 pm

Six people is literally nothing. You gotta hail from a REALLY tiny forum if you expect 6 views to yield any replies. Look at erikl's Knight line-art thread. Closer to 200 views and only one reply. Not very uncommon around here.

A good reason to not give comments on your piece, though, is the simple fact that it's a jpg file. Never save pixel art as jpg. If you've spent, say, hours placing down each individual pixel (which you should have), nothing could possibly ruin everything more than using a visible compressing method.

If you still have the original somewhere, please convert it to gif or png instead and repost.

Title: Re: New pixel artist needs Critic
Post by: AlexHW on October 21, 2005, 11:03:06 pm

sometimes it takes a while to get replies, patience..
First off, I'd advise you to save your images in a more suitable format. Something like a gif would be good (jpg made your image fuzzy looking)..
I think the door is kinda short, and could be taller. The sidewakl behind the building looks wider than the other sidewalk. And the last collumn of windows on the right are wider than the rest.
Its a nice start, and welcome..

Title: Re: New pixel artist needs Critic
Post by: Kinagi on October 21, 2005, 11:24:33 pm

Aye, the door is a bit short.. But the last windows are meant to be larger. Dont ask why, just a whim. I thought I HAD saved it as a Gif..stupid paint.. Yes, I know.. Microsoft Paint isnt exactly GREAT, but It's all I have at the moment.

Edit: AHAH! It is saved as BMP, but photobucket converted it...lousy free webhosting..

Title: Re: New pixel artist needs Critic
Post by: NyanNyanKoneko on October 21, 2005, 11:34:48 pm

Instead of BMP, use PNG.  It's compressed.

GIF is good if you have less than 256 colors or if you want to animate it.

Title: Re: New pixel artist needs Critic
Post by: Evan on October 21, 2005, 11:39:53 pm

Well, gif is good if you're not using MSPaint.

I'd suggest getting graphics gale. It's cheap :::cough, pirated, cough:::

Plus it has a lot of features that are really great.

MSPaint is alright, but it's hard to use effectively when pixelling (although SplatPixel owns with paint.)

Title: Re: New pixel artist needs Critic
Post by: Kinagi on October 21, 2005, 11:49:12 pm

Thanks guys. Here my first sprite in about a year:

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b20/Kinagi/RandomChick.jpg)

Title: Re: New pixel artist needs Critic
Post by: Evan on October 22, 2005, 12:06:05 am

Quote from: Kinagi on October 21, 2005, 11:49:12 pm

Thanks guys. Here my first sprite in about a year:

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b20/Kinagi/RandomChick.jpg)

Either you saved as .jpg again, or your connection is doing that weird compression thing that turns all images into .jpgs to save bandwith.

Either way, uhh, cut it out!

Just kidding, but really, save as .png. Jpg isn't a good format for pixel art, it's for photos since it has a lot of compression.

Title: Re: New pixel artist needs Critic
Post by: Kinagi on October 22, 2005, 12:09:55 am

I am seriously NOT doing it. Photobucket is messing with it everytime I freakin upload it..

Title: Re: New pixel artist needs Critic
Post by: Kinagi on October 22, 2005, 12:26:33 am

As you can see, I updated the sprite, so it no longer has any black outlines. Looks a bit weird.

Title: Re: New pixel artist needs Critic
Post by: Faceless on October 24, 2005, 03:16:55 pm

Photobucket doesn't allow .bmps - hence the file conversion.
Switch to .png or .gif as people have been telling you.
Don't expect m/any decent replies until you do.