Pixel Art

[Glass Joe]

Metal plating tiles, you had no idea how many tries it took to make them seamless.

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[FelipeO_O]

You could try out the Gifsicle.

It's a command-line interface program for creating, manipulating, editing animated gif's.

You can see more information at: http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/

[Glass Joe]

... that isn't a gif though? i'm talking about seamless textures




I've got no life

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[Foxscotch]

tried and succeeded!

[Yosher]

... that isn't a gif though? i'm talking about seamless textures




I've got no life

aw yeah mechanical version of regular terrain...i love that

[Yosher]

two brothers. they became estranged when the guy on the right shared his unpopular opinion on a critically acclaimed movie

[Glass Joe]

man, the difference changing a few pixels around makes. now the tiles are symmetrical (they fit into a 10x10 grid instead of spilling out of it a little) and that way it makes it a bit more flexible (so I can fix the slopes, for example)

[Camera]

gosh 10x10, I would've stuck with powers of 2 (4, 8 16 etc)

[Yosher]

i always do 16x16

[IkeTheGeneric]

I've been making it a habit to do 70x70 to force myself to pay attention to detail

larger scale pixel art is difficult, does anyone have any tutorials for shading and dithering?

[The Resonte!]

two brothers. they became estranged when the guy on the right shared his unpopular opinion on a critically acclaimed movie

damn critics

[Blocky943]

wtf that looks great

[Glass Joe]

gosh 10x10, I would've stuck with powers of 2 (4, 8 16 etc)

I chose 10 because densi's sprite is 40 pixels tall (he's a lanky motherforgeter) and making it 10x10 feels kinda more natural (8x8 is too small, and 16x16 is too large to really be flexible with)

I've been making it a habit to do 70x70 to force myself to pay attention to detail

larger scale pixel art is difficult, does anyone have any tutorials for shading and dithering?

I don't have much but here goes:
- It's pretty much colloquially accepted that pillow shading is a terrible way to shade, it looks super unnatural so point is you should never do it.
- Color ramp generators are your friend.
- Sketch out what you wanna draw on paper or something first instead of just jumping in, as sketching it out kinda gives you an idea as to what it would look like.

[Bushido]

color ramp generators are not your friend do not use color ramp generators

or, at least don't use them raw- a machine-generated color ramp will be technically sound but usually not actually pretty, so play with the colors you want based off of that ramp until you get something with complementary-enough colors that portray the object close to the palette in your head