Author Topic: Pixel art IS building (Read 10968 times)

Pimpin · October 15, 2007, 02:32:45 PM

Pixel art like that is just awesome. It was before Linde's BMP2SCRIPT, so it was hand-made, the first one being on RTB I think, both made by hitm4n.

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Trader · October 15, 2007, 02:45:23 PM

Meh, I'd rather see it painted or drawn, even digitally. Pixel art does nothing for me. Placing and painting 1x1s does not take skill...only time. I'm certainly not going to reward a person every time he / she spends a good deal of time on something.

Pimpin · October 15, 2007, 03:08:10 PM

Define skill.

Monty · October 15, 2007, 03:11:05 PM

Skill - A status symbol representing how good you are at something. Usage: "He has skill!"
Also - A rare commodity which is rarely, if at all in noobs.

Trader · October 15, 2007, 03:15:06 PM

I can tell you what skill is not:

Skill is not what a player exhibits when building pixel art.

Monty · October 15, 2007, 03:16:34 PM

Now now i'm sure theres skill behind it, just not the skill you'd regard as being important to building.

Trader · October 15, 2007, 03:22:00 PM

Patience, sure.
Creativity, maybe.
Skill, definitely not.

Linde · October 15, 2007, 03:57:47 PM

I don't think effort or skill is crucial to enjoyable art. Pixel art looks good and it can add some spice to a dull server.

VerticalHorizon · October 15, 2007, 09:25:02 PM

The numpad = the hand
Ghost brick cursor = the pencil
Enter key on the numpad = pencil's lead
Ctrl z = pencil's eraser

Basically the same thing is taking place as drawing, it's just not on paper with lead/ink, it would take the same amount of skill to draw a face in Blockland with Blokos as it would to draw it with lead.

DrMobius · October 15, 2007, 09:33:43 PM

whats the paper?

VerticalHorizon · October 15, 2007, 10:45:43 PM

The surface you build it on dumbass.

Anti-Cop · October 15, 2007, 10:53:26 PM

I find pixel art harder than hand drawing. :/

Also, who the hell uses the standard controls?

VerticalHorizon · October 15, 2007, 10:56:39 PM

I didn't rebind much, most of it just things to make it more organized.

Jervan · October 16, 2007, 01:08:49 AM

I use standard controls, only with all the blanks filled to my own liking. Too late to change now, my fingers have already inverted to the key shapes >:P

Trader · October 16, 2007, 09:43:02 AM

No, it doesn't take the same amount of skill. Bricks make your lines straight every time. A color set makes it so that you don't have a way to blend colors. Even drawing for, say, comic books...there's no way that you could put pixel art on the same level as that. It's preposterous.