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Pixel Art / Smilies and others - I'm back
« on: March 02, 2007, 09:29:39 am »
Hello People.  I'm back.  Thanks to my good friend Dan.  Anyway, I'm here posting the only real pixel works i've done over my extended holiday from pixelation, a holiday to hell.  Anyway, to the point. 


Some emoticons I made for a site i'm with.  Ignore the ones to the right of the red line as I was mostly messing around. 

Meh.  First piece I had made in a while.  Can't be bothered changing it, but I'm always open to crits. 

My fadatar redone for the same site as the emoticons. 

Tiny beginnings of a fighter sprite I was doing.  Tried colouring but that was a miserable attempt anyway. 


So yeah, crit away. 
 

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Archived Activities / Re: Pixelator: Challenge 1
« on: January 26, 2007, 05:20:06 am »
Well.  Looks like I missed out.  Can I go on Mr. Waiting list? 

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General Discussion / Re: Draw something on Artpad and show us.
« on: January 05, 2007, 12:39:30 pm »
In advance, be forewarned that I suck at mouse control.  Just jumpy.  Makes me wish I had a tablet.


Gah. 

EDIT:  Ah crap.  Wrong link.  And I closed the window.  OH well.  Guess I have to do it again. 

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General Discussion / Re: Video game is not art - Hideo Kojima
« on: January 05, 2007, 02:03:05 am »
OK Helm.  Conscious, as I was thinking while writing that, is when the choices made are because of forethought into how something is done.   If I choose to make something bright, it's because I want it to seem light hearted. 

The limits of consciousness is how much you know.  If you don't know much about colour theory, then it is harder to make colour choices which work well together. 

Art is not a completely conscious procedure.  The choices we make when doing things is based on our tastes, and therefore how it turns out will be different from person to person.

It depends on how you came to use red.  If you decided that the work needed more red, as without it didn't quite appeal to you,then that is conscious.  If you were selecting a pallette and came to use red, then that could be interpreted as either.  Yuo could have chosen because you wanted, or just from habit. 

To me, an arrangement, in the way I was using it, is where things are placed together through some sort of sentient thought.   

How much is enough depends on what you were trying to achieve. 

If something is enough it depends on the context.

An ellipsis can have a strong effect on a sentence.  It can change the mood of the sentence quite a bit. 

Other elements could be subject matter, lighting, background, number of forms, texture, and how rough or smooth the shading is. 

Emotions... I personally think that they are just something we feel because of events, and they can be affected by art, so I guess they aren't elements of art. 

No.

Beauty is where something appeals to us because we find it pleasing.  Examples of beauty differ from person to person according to opinion. 




EDIT:  I do agree that beauty is impossible to define in a way that everyone agrees with, but for the sake of having something there... :\

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General Discussion / Re: Official Pixelation Off-Topic Thread
« on: January 05, 2007, 01:35:28 am »
That movie is full of crap.  Seriously, if people have any murderous tendencies, its not like they were made by one video game having blood.  I mean, the whole thing about flight simulator is full of crap, because it's not like there's a religious war going on between small children in year 3.

Anyway, the main problem is desensitizing children to violence.  It doesn't make them more violent, it just makes them more used to it.  And anyway, if the parents are dumb enough to buy GTA for their 7 year old or whatever, it's there fault if there are repercussions.

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General Discussion / Re: Official Pixelation Off-Topic Thread
« on: January 02, 2007, 01:28:52 pm »
17 hours, got the master sword. 

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General Discussion / Re: Video game is not art - Hideo Kojima
« on: January 02, 2007, 01:28:18 pm »
Quote
1. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.

OK.  Seriously.  This sums it all up.  In a game, the graphic style affects the style of the music, or, in some cases, the instruments on which the piece is played.  The style of the game defines the sounds of the music.  In a cut scene, certain music is played to set the mood, affecting the players sense of the movie.  A movie could be called an artwork, a cut scene is a movie within a game.  Whats the difference?

Alright.  What the game is affects the style of the game.  If the game is light hearted, its not gonna have high res., high powered graphics.  It's gonna have simple graphics.  And vice versa.  The movements of the graphics would be stylized so to fit.   All this is made by a conscious thought, so by definition, a game is an artwork where the art is a continuously changing flow of possibilities, to put in slightly immature terms, artsy-fartsy way. If the player moves, the animation is an artwork.  If there is a battle, and the music changes, there is art in that.  It's all just different art forms coming together with interaction. 

I apologize for the unorganized ramble that is the above post. 

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General Discussion / Re: Official Pixelation Off-Topic Thread
« on: January 02, 2007, 01:08:33 pm »
OK.  I haven't been doing anything much, because I got a Wii and Zelda, and thats sums up the past few days for me.

New Years Resolutions:

Learn to play Tears in Heaven, Stairway to Heaven, various songs from video games, specifically Saddest Theme from Chrono Trigger on guitar.

Get a job before the year is out. 

Do decently at school.

Become better at art in general. 

Quit Drama at School for Art.

Finish a game.  Just one is all I ask, and hopefully make a tiny scrap of Money out of it (unlikely).

Go to the Weird Al concert. :D

Become Fitter. 

Try and busk up some money.  :D

OK.  Enough kooky Schemes from the S-man.  Who here has Twilight Princess, and if so, Where are you up to?

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General Discussion / Re: Favorite Color
« on: January 02, 2007, 12:52:21 pm »
I like earthy, rich colours, as well as just colours that just stand out to me as striking.  Probably an innacurate description, but im sure a better one will come to me tomorrow after I sleep.

Picture of colours I quickly picked:



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General Discussion / Re: Official Pixelation Off-Topic Thread
« on: December 24, 2006, 11:05:25 am »
Vwoot.  Kiwi.  You been watching the ashes?  IS it even on ever there?

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