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General Discussion / Updates to Forum Rules
« on: February 10, 2022, 11:56:31 am »
I've updated the rules after some internal discussion about how to handle moderation of NFT projects.

Old rule:
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Rule 2: Do not rip artwork. Ever!

Always clearly state what your references were in making a piece. If you sketched in pencil, color-reduced to 1bit and then went to work on it, okay. Ways like this are completely accepted and nobody's going to shout at your for it, but it's good to know anyway. If you stole somebody else's artwork, 1bitted it and then submitted it for critique, not okay. If caught red-handed, by moderators or users, and the case is clear you ripped, you will be banned and forgotten forever. Other similar instances of fraudulent behaviour like posting other people's artwork without permission (regardless of them being edited or not) or jobs without delivering the promised payment will reap similar rewards.

New rule:
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Rule 2: Art theft and fraud is prohibited.
  • Do not post other peoples' artwork without proper permission or licensing. Note if the intent of the post is educational, it might be covered under fair use.
  • Do not attempt take credit for another artist's work. However, it's okay to post studies as long as you have proper permission or licensing and the reference is clearly sourced in the post.
  • Do not engage in any other instances of fraudulent behaviour, such as jobs without delivering the promised payment.
In cases where it's clear there is theft or fraudulent behavior, a permanent ban will be issued.

Rule 2.1: Advertising Web3, NFT, and blockchain projects and jobs is prohibited.
Due to the rampant fraud in the Web3/NFT/blockchain spaces, we cannot allow advertising of these projects nor job listings concerning these projects.

However, discussion of Web3/NFT/blockchain is acceptable as long as it does not endorse any projects and is topical to pixel art. It would be acceptable to have an informative thread about the shortcomings of Web3 or discussing ways the technology could be improved for artists.


I've also removed "Rule 3: Post only pixel art" since we have boards where it's appropriate to post non-pixel art and this is already covered by the "Stay on topic" rule.

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Rule 3: Post only pixel art.

Now this is a bit of a controversial subject, but it hopefully can be cleared out at least so we can go on with our business here: Pixel Art, is art where there's specific attention paid to the fine manipulation of picture elements. It deals with the informative quality of specific, single pixels. If the art you're about to post has not been pixel-pushed on that level, don't bother. Automatic AA, soft brushes, filters, smudge tools, all are indicative of index-painting, or at least dirty-tooling, but do not always mean your art will not benefit from pixel-level critique. If you've made something using some of these tools and then you're able to reign the piece in by optimizing the palette into using the best possible amount of colors, went in and pushed single pixels until everything is right, then it's probable we'll be able to talk about your art and how it can be made better. Always be clear of how you made things, only post concept art when it's relative to a pixel-art piece you've made and never never try to decieve us. As above, workstages and process animations are optional, but always welcome.


And lastly, cleaned up a few typos and added a bit more information about properly posting sensitive/non-work safe content (ex. violence or artistic nudity) - that it may be posted underneath an appropriately descriptive tag. Previously the rule only referenced thread titles and did not cover spoiler tags.

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General Discussion / Lospec Gallery Kickstarter
« on: January 14, 2021, 06:40:30 am »
A common sentiment I've long seen shared among pixel artists is the wish for a modern gallery that's tailored towards displaying pixel art.
That wish may soon be granted because Lospec just announced a Kickstarter for their restrictive digital art gallery today!

Check out the Lospec Gallery Kickstarter page for more details!



Lospec Gallery will be a place to to share your pixel art, chiptune, lowpoly, voxel, textmode and more.

Features to look forward to:
  • Modern interfaces which make it easy to upload and browse art from any device
  • Custom art viewers which display low-spec art properly, without compression
  • Small, focused community where you can more easily get to know people making similar art
  • Full page display that focuses on your art
  • Pixel art viewer automatically zooms in without blurring (and allows user zooming and panning)
  • Moderated categories and search terms so you can find similar pieces with ease
  • Spec Detection automatically reads and displays info about your art such as resolution, palette, filesize and more
  • Timed queues so all new pieces get an equal chance to be seen on the homepage
  • Easy social media posting, so you don't have to worry about resizing and uploading to multiple places
Lospec is a free community and resource hub developed by a single person, Sam Keddy (skeddles), and funded out of pocket with some help from donations. Some of its great features are a searchable tutorial database, palette list, pixel art uploader for social media, png crusher, and many more. The site launched in 2017 and has only continued to get more and more useful to artists thanks to all the hard work and dedication that has been poured into it. It's incredible just how much Lospec has done to help pixel art knowledge become more accessible.

Why Kickstarter? As skeddles puts it: Unfortunately human beings are very needy, and tend to die when not provided with food and shelter. The main goal of this Kickstarter is to raise enough money to keep Lospec's creator alive long enough to finish this gallery, though if we raise more it will allow Lospec to hire even more humans to work on the project, meaning it will be finished faster and with more features. Even donating $1 gets you access to the devlog and lets you be included on the supporters page, but if you are able to contribute more than that you can get beta and alpha access, and some other cool rewards, including shirts with a design of your choice, stickers, and postcard sets.

At the time of this post, the campaign has already raised nearly $8000 and has nearly met its goal after only ~13 hours! I've contributed to the campaign myself since this is something I've long awaited personally and I'm thrilled to see so much positive energy towards a medium I love. If this is a project that excites you like it excites me, please consider contributing or helping spread the word! (Here is a Twitter post by the official Lospec page if you'd like to share it.)

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General Discussion / Link Fixing & Cleanup
« on: March 08, 2019, 07:06:03 am »
I've been going through some old threads and repairing a bunch of links that were still on the wayofthepixel domain. Unfortunately, I can't recover any images that were on hosts which expired like imageshack, but I was able to fix a lot of old activity threads. ;D I may also be sorting and archiving some threads which haven't been touched in a while. If I miss anything, just let me know or report the post in question.

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General Discussion / Official Off-Topic Thread 2019
« on: March 08, 2019, 06:53:51 am »
Happy 2019! Better late than never, right? 8) You can post about anything here that doesn't quite fit anywhere else or deserve its own thread.

Last year's thread is here.

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General Discussion / Ludum Dare 42
« on: August 02, 2018, 05:11:50 pm »
LD42 takes place from August 10-13th! Is anyone participating? Do you plan on working in a team or alone?

I’m not going to be around for the full time, but I’m likely gonna 2-man it like last LD and we’ll try making something in a day.

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Pixel Art / MOVED: Help - where should I pixel ?
« on: July 30, 2018, 03:56:44 pm »

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