A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art

Re:A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art by kibwen on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @05:49PM (#9535182)

Which is exactly my point: if we're resorting to external assets, there are infinitely more spritesheets available online for the low, low price of free, because making decent sprites is such a comparatively small effort that even artists themselves attach less value to the task.

(Which still isn't to devalue the effort that it takes to make good-looking sprites; I've tried, and damn do I suck at it.)

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Re:A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art by dragontamer on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @06:08PM (#9535301)

That's not useful at all.

You need a baseline of art, and then you need to tweak the animations to match your video game. A model may not have a "double-jump" animation but you can easily add one through bone manipulations with any 3d model.

But if a sprite-sheet were missing the double-jump animation? You're either doing it yourself (hard pixel art style) or hiring someone else to do it.

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