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Offline NickZA

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Because I'm going to be doing a lot of automated rotations for my game, I need to produce sprites that are clean, i.e. very little stippling or single-pixel artefacts, since these get mangled during automated rotations. To put this in different words, sprites with a more "vectorised" and less "painterly" style.

It's one thing to search on "clean" in these forums, but not everyone's definition is the same, presumably, hence my post. I'm looking at stuff of at least similar quality to vedsten's recent post here, with similarly clean work especially at larger sizes (in the region of 64x64 and up to double that would be great).

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Re: Looking for good examples of "clean" style (less stippling)

Reply #1 on: July 25, 2011, 12:46:41 am
It sounds like you're looking for things with few colors and no dithering? Probably no antialiasing?

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/45022.htm# (Anti aliased, but still fairly clean)

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/44375.htm Has single pixel stuff for anti aliasing, but close enough.

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/57135.htm (Maybe not)

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/62459.htm (Perhaps?)

That guy's entire gallery, really.

That's all I'll do for now. Let me know if that's along the line you want.

Edit: Oooh. Found one with no antialising! http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/57347.htm#
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Re: Looking for good examples of "clean" style (less stippling)

Reply #2 on: July 25, 2011, 11:36:29 am
Hey, thanks -- that's the pixel art site I couldn't remember the name of!

Actually I found this to be the best example of your artists' work, Kasumi:

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/10070.htm - nice clean tones, good colour, perhaps too light overall

Generally I'm looking for stuff that leans towards chiaroscuro and with clean lines (and yes -- no antialiasing) = no or minimal stippling.
Some of the following have some dithering but are generally clean and kind of along the lines I'm looking for so if y'all know of similar bits please point me to them! --

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/8530.htm -- Excellent example, although I'm inclined toward deeper shadows and generally less gloss.
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/31235.htm -- Really like the way rock is done here, but overall I would go for much higher contrast
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/60655.htm -- Blockish yet organic forms
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/17613.htm
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/60655.htm

Anyone?

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Re: Looking for good examples of "clean" style (less stippling)

Reply #3 on: July 25, 2011, 02:51:20 pm
You're asking us for examples and then posting five or six of your own in response. What do you need us for?
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Re: Looking for good examples of "clean" style (less stippling)

Reply #4 on: July 25, 2011, 03:25:15 pm
You're asking us for examples and then posting five or six of your own in response. What do you need us for?

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Hey, thanks -- that's the pixel art site I couldn't remember the name of!

He couldn't remember the site they were pulled off of. Probably wouldn't be able to remember otherwise.

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Re: Looking for good examples of "clean" style (less stippling)

Reply #5 on: July 25, 2011, 06:12:32 pm
@Olothontor Well, I'm using the info Kasumi provided to show you what I'm looking for, and if (given the examples), off the top of your head, this reminds you of a particular artist, I'm asking you to please point me to that person's work. I would have done so in the initial post if I'd had examples. Kapisch?

In other words, it's easier for me to ask you and 1000 others, "Have you seen X?" than to see whether I can dig through piles of irrelevant stuff to find what I need.
« Last Edit: July 25, 2011, 06:14:55 pm by NickZA »