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General Discussion / honor over dollars
« on: December 17, 2009, 12:45:04 am »
Greetings. This is a question I always wondered; is being a pixel purist foolish in this day and age? I take pride in the fact I never edit or rip sprites from others. I've been doing pixel art for over 10 years and I feel that I have above average skills. However, there are many things I still can't draw. Therefore I'm not as marketable as I could be. For example if there was a job posting to make a cowboy themed game I could make backgrounds and characters no problem, but I can't draw animals.. such as horses. And because of code I live by, I couldn't take that job if horses were needed to be drawn in that game. However, it would be so easy to rip and edit horses from other games... and I dare say that only another pixel artist would even know about the scam.
It would be great to get paid to push pixels, but not at the sake of my values.
So my question is, is my logic wrong? What would you do in the above example? Thank you.
- tetsuya_shino
It would be great to get paid to push pixels, but not at the sake of my values.
So my question is, is my logic wrong? What would you do in the above example? Thank you.
- tetsuya_shino