Creating Pixel Art (2010)

Re:Creating Pixel Art (2010) by mxwsn on Friday June 03, 2022 @03:16AM (#31605196)

A tip to ease anyone interested in making pixel art: instead of starting from scratch (very hard), for beginners it's much easier to take a high res image and down sampling it as a template. The down sampling algorithm will create many issues as mentioned in this guide, but you can then edit on a single pixel level following the principles of the guide.

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Re:Creating Pixel Art (2010) by zimpenfish on Friday June 03, 2022 @08:38AM (#31607401)

I've been something like this with Pixaki on the iPad - that allows for a reference layer which means you don't need to downsample, just fit the pixels where you want them to be accordingly. Helps in the learning of "how would this translate to pixels?" too.

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Re:Creating Pixel Art (2010) by kixiQu on Friday June 03, 2022 @12:25PM (#31610468)

+1 for Pixaki -- its line tools are the first thing I'd ever used that made pixel art fun (rather than a constant struggle against jaggies).

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