Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: had0c on December 26, 2009, 12:19:23 am

Title: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: had0c on December 26, 2009, 12:19:23 am
Hello new to this pixel art "thing" ^^ so wanted some cc on my first attempt at pixel text "yes i know it's small" but you have to start somewhere ^^
(http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/953/poperlolzrox.png)
Title: Re: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: Reo on December 26, 2009, 12:29:21 am
Saving pixelart as .jpg kills the quality(or uploading a .bmp to most imagehosts) :ouch:
You should use .gif(not in paint though, messes with the colors) or .png. :y:
 
Title: Re: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: had0c on December 26, 2009, 12:30:32 am
hmm thought i uploaded it as png..
changed imghoster.. now it works as png.
Title: Re: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: Ürch on December 26, 2009, 03:15:55 am
It's rather difficult to read.
Title: Re: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: Jeremy on December 26, 2009, 03:52:14 am
Readability is probably hindered by the cutoff between peach and red being in the same place as the upper detail on the letters. Imo you could play with anti-aliasing, line weight and subtle curves - I assume that you're wanting a low-res feel but that stuff can still help :)
Title: Re: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: twodayslate on December 26, 2009, 04:05:55 am
It says "POPER ROX"?

Is the orange supposed to be dripping paint or something? Add more curves for the paint then so it looks like a drip.
Title: Re: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: had0c on December 26, 2009, 09:03:09 am
well i wanted to give it a "plastic dripp" feal to it.. hmm i think i should have scaled it a bit bigger.

and yes poper rox.. kinda dirty i know =p but thats the name of my band so ^^

and i did want a minimalistic feeling to it.. the coulours might ... or is bad so i'll give it some more work and repost it .. and maybe scale it up to 300x300 or something :)
Title: Re: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: 7321551 on December 27, 2009, 10:58:54 am
Good luck with this. Maybe I'm naive but I don't know how "Poper Rox" is dirty & now I'm curious.
Anyway, I have a lot of free time today, so I thought I'd see how a smooth, shiny, anti-aliased approach would look.
(http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/xv8w1h0s/poperlolzrox-edit.gif)
Maybe it'll help.
Title: Re: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: had0c on December 27, 2009, 03:35:36 pm
ok did some "practicing" on AA and ... well goofing around i got this.. mind the colors I'm going to change them ^^ only for testing.
(http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4559/poppz.png)
Title: Re: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: had0c on December 27, 2009, 03:37:37 pm
Quote from: had0c on December 27, 2009, 03:35:36 pm
ok did some "practicing" on AA and ... well goofing around i got this.. mind the colors I'm going to change them ^^ only for testing.
(http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4559/poppz.png)

using GraphicsGale and i could not in good way make "half tones" kinda like make a layer 50% in order to make better AA ... well i guess i have to change progs or find a harder way to do it ^^
Title: Re: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: twodayslate on December 27, 2009, 11:35:01 pm
poop? Do I smell a troll? :P

Your new art has a lot different style than POPER ROX. What would you like help on exactly?
Title: Re: Pixel text c+c wanted.
Post by: 7321551 on December 28, 2009, 12:44:39 am
Quote from: had0c on December 27, 2009, 03:35:36 pm
ok did some "practicing" on AA and ... well goofing around i got this.. mind the colors I'm going to change them ^^ only for testing.
There's no AA in this one, yet. In my example, the two intermediate colors between orange and tan are being used to AA the drips (I actually overdid it, so it's a bit blurry - one intermediate color would have sufficed in this case). That said, AA is only really recommended for diagonals. Both of your images are constructed amost entirely out of right-angles, so strictly speaking, you may not need it.
Search the forum for useful anti-aliasing advice, that's how I learned.