Official Pixelation Off-Topic Thread

[flaber]

i know that exact feeling blick.

All my friends dont really understand the point of it either.
they are like - but its soo small, who cares.
and my parents all like to tell people aswell. To the point where they make me pull up my folder of some stuff Iv done - so i can show their friends or our extended relatives.
ughh

about painting apicture for a friend.
i had a friend ask me for one - so i made it in Corel Painter.
Not traditional painting, but i found it easier because i could use some of the habits i used in pixelling such as colour choices and block shading to paint it.
Its tricky though.

[Blick]

This girl wants me to do some acrylics on canvas for her. I mean, I can do it, but I want to make it good, which probably won't happen. She was here the other day, making me open up my pixel art folders and even started making me open up my archive folder so I could show her some of the other people's art I have saved and shit. I mean, it was cool that she took an interest in it all, but I guess I just don't like talking about my art. Then my mom had to go and show her my one single crappy, unfinished painting. Which brings this post full circle, since that was about the time my friend realized that her birthday was soon and that I paint and have untouched canvases everywhere (since I buy art supplies when I have money, not necessarily when I'm in need of them.)

B.O.B.: One of my friends, the only one that seems to understand what I do, always jokes about how Photoshop would make my stuff better.

Just like... Lense flare, mess with the contrast slider, and some blur or some shit and you're done!

Haha, I don't think that'd work.

Sure it will. That Pixelator entry you're supposedly working on, when you're really jerking off to porn, yeah, that one, just take a real life picture and color reduce. TRUST ME.

First off, my Pixelator entry is a real thing. Secondly, that wouldn't work.

It works all the time. All you do is download the porn...

That's not what I'm talking about!

[Stwelin]

I still need to use Photoshop on my desktop PC for work/pixel/art. Hopefully I can try out WINE or ween myself off Photoshop in favour of The Gimp, but it's interface is a bit awkward and takes up too much screen space.

I've heard PS is tricky to wine, especially on distros like Ubuntu, but i've never tried it personally. There is actually a community that is entirely devoted towards making the GIMP's interface more photoshop-user friendly. Maybe you could find it on google, if it's still around.

@Flaber, my parents do that too, always asking me to show their friends paintings and stuff that i've done. i *hate* that.

[Lawrence]

B.O.B., pixel art is digital art! But I know what you mean.

[The B.O.B.]

@Lawrence: I know. But when talking to other people, who don't have much education over this sub-genre of digital art, you kinda' have to dumb it down for them. Many of them still refer to it as "2d" or "Super Nintendo" art, as Blick's mother aptly named it. Either way, they don't get it half the time...

[Kren]

Well, I don't want to make a thread out of this, but there is a job for a rpg game, really good storyline, currently I am the spriter but since I am really busy I can't work, so please pm me your portfolio, payment will depend on the quality.

Apart from that, the tank is really amazing though, I wasn't expecting to end that good

[Frychiko]

I've heard PS is tricky to wine, especially on distros like Ubuntu, but i've never tried it personally. There is actually a community that is entirely devoted towards making the GIMP's interface more photoshop-user friendly. Maybe you could find it on google, if it's still around.

Photoshop 7 apparently works very well with WINE according to other users and it's rating on the WINE homepage. I'd rather stick to legal/open source stuff though.
Yeah the photoshop project is called GIMPshop, it's pretty neat, though I haven't tried installing it, looks a bit difficult.
If only paint.NET was available on Linux...

[Panda]

I bought a new laptop last month which came which Japanese Vista, and there was no way to switch to an English inteface aside from buying a new Vista...

Many electronic stores (Bic Camera, Yodobashi Camera, etc) install the english version of the system for you (esp. in places like Akiba and Yokohama) previous to your purchase if you ask them. But ah well, kinda late I guess.

[Helm]

Most of the people I explain pixel art to get it and appreciate it for what it is. But I don't show them much of my stuff because I've found they don't look very impressive to laymen. More of a pixel artist's pixel artist, meh

[Darien]

I suppose that's a consequence of aspiring to computer aesthetic, unfortunately.

I hardly tell anyone I do pixel art, it's really so unviable as anything other than game art or as a hobby, I think people are more likely to admire bad traditional (or more general digital) artists more that good pixel artists because at least bad traditional artists have the perceived potential of achieving "fine art" or respected commerical art success (advertising, illustration, etc.).

Besides I go to a school where all the art students are taught illustration is a bad word, to say I do pixel art would welcome a lot elitism on their part.