Re:Working in One Bit
by JKCalhoun on Saturday August 21, 2021 @05:38PM
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I remember enjoying using Studio-8 (an 8-bit paint program) for the Mac back in the 80's & 90's. I did all pixel art by hand then. From time to time I might fall back to using a scanner to scan in art (and retouching in Studio-8).
Toward the end of my game-writing days I played with creating 3D objects and rendering them — pulling the 2D renders in as sprites. Of course we were well past 1-bit monochrome Macs by that time.
In hindsight I prefer the B&W art in many ways. Every pixel curated.
I miss those paint tools — where you could zoom in at integer scales, click on and off individual pixels. Some modern paint programs still have some of that capability but it seems to often be buried (like you have to figure out how to select a "brush" that is 1 pixel and has no alpha-softening-flow-thing turned on).
Toward the end of my game-writing days I played with creating 3D objects and rendering them — pulling the 2D renders in as sprites. Of course we were well past 1-bit monochrome Macs by that time.
In hindsight I prefer the B&W art in many ways. Every pixel curated.
I miss those paint tools — where you could zoom in at integer scales, click on and off individual pixels. Some modern paint programs still have some of that capability but it seems to often be buried (like you have to figure out how to select a "brush" that is 1 pixel and has no alpha-softening-flow-thing turned on).