pixel art

[distordid_vision]

I know exactly where I want to end up with this, but I don't know exactly where to start...does anyone know of any tutorial sites dedicated to creating pixel art? I have an idea for a killer site and I must incorporate pixel art figures if you will...if someone can help me out, please do. Thank you.

[jhbiddle]

not Pixel art exactly, but there is some cool ASCII art which will be lo- fi related. Do a google search for it I reckon.

power to the pixels!

[Lauradot]

I dont know of any specific sites, but I can tell you how to get the basic look if you're lucky enough to have something like photoshop..

Change the mode to indexed colour (Image -> Mode -> Indexed Colour)

Pick the smallest brush (1x1 - hence the pixel thing. )

Draw, I guess.

I also tried mucking about with grids and fills in flash for good effect.. the best results I got were from an icon package called Microangelo which exports to gif.

GL with it - make sure you post your results.
(I left some stuff in the pic exchange, if you want to see me dancing robots )

[jhbiddle]

I know from my days designing on Deluxe Paint on the Amiga (wow) I spent hours and hours anti aliasing all the things I did. Hours of fun.

Obviously, you can also pixelate an image in Photoshop, but that is kind of cheating.

[Lauradot]

Muhuh.

Deluxe paint *ruled* That and something called QED which I thought was the height of wordprocessing then.

[jhbiddle]

yeah!

there are still things that Deluxe Paint did that Photoshop STILL doesn't do.

So, maybe my advice is to buy a Commadore Amiga!

j

[kazuhiro]

JH: i'd like to know some of these things that photoshop can't do that something on a amiga can.

[Party2000]

Hehe... I have an amiga... with deluxe paint on it... bwahahahah!

It was realy weird to see this thread. I'm working on making a classic-style flash game (Pixel art) and I'm actually using Deluxe Paint! Not my Amiga version, but a PC one I had sitting around. Go Amiga!!

I'll post it here when I'm done with it.