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2D All the way! / Pixel Art - A House and A Room

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Jess T
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Posted: 25th Mar 2005 20:46 Edited at: 25th Mar 2005 20:47
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Hey everyone

I just decided to learn how to do some pixel art today, and these took me about... um, 3 hours? maybe... to do

Hope you like them






If anyone wants to use them for any purpose, whatsoever, go for it, royalty and copyrite free

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Kewl! Very '80s, and the start of 3D games - Head Over Heels, Batman, Ant Attack...

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Reminds me of that Habbo Hotel game...

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Some nice neat pixel pushing there . I miss isometric adventure games, I wish the Sims publishers would make a more RPG style game with the engine, that'd be fun.

It reminds me of this really cool advert I saw, I think it was for Virgin music stores or something, but it was all in that style with little characters running around etc. The funny thing is that this retro style that is popular now, isn't very retro at all, that crisp look was never in any of iso the games I played.

A good way to practice this stuff is to nab old Spectrum screenshots and retouch them (using an emulator), Head Over Heels has some awesome graphics, I coloured a good few screen grabs of that .


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I belive you use this tutorial
http://www.19.5degs.com/element/869.php
since the house is very similar.

btw in which software are you using?
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Posted: 26th Mar 2005 00:24
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Steve,
That was the style I was aiming for Glad it came across

Anime,
You're not the only one to point that out to me

Van,
thanks for the feedback! I'll have a look into doing what you said

Renegade,
Yeah, I used that tute for the house, I only loosely followed the tute for shading techniques.
The room is original.

All my pixel art is done in MS Paint now

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Posted: 26th Mar 2005 13:55
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Copyrite is spelled 'copyright'.


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Posted: 26th Mar 2005 14:01 Edited at: 27th Mar 2005 15:36
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... You're a loser.


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Lets see, Jess's post was edited, and Exeat's sig is in there. I wonder what that means..

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Posted: 27th Mar 2005 15:37
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:o Power abuse!
We aren't allowed to edit other Mod's posts! ABUSE ABUSE!
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LOL jess

They look good i wonder how easy it is to do pixel art =)

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Well, I'm only starting out, and as I said, it took me about 3hrs to do them both...
For the room, I had a relatively clear image of what I wanted in my mind before starting ( crucial! ).

To be honest, the cabinet thingo actually started out as a fridge, but it looked better with a glass door, so I threw it on, and changed the colour of it to brown

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You don't have a fridge in a living room anyway. Nice drawings by the way.


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Posted: 27th Mar 2005 22:34
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lol, yeah, I know
It wasn't going to be a living room to start with, it was going to be a kitchen!
With a bench, and some knives, and... stuff.
Then, the glass, and the couch, and WHOA! Things got outta hand!



Thanks for the feedback

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Posted: 28th Mar 2005 18:37
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I never thought it was a cabinet, I thought it was a 70's style beer fridge .


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Ok so maybe he edited it and therefore his sig reappeared in there.. hmmmm.


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Great job... I really love pixel art... & you've done a great work!

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@ Van B LOL Those colors are just about right for the 70's aren't they?

Looks real good Jess, but your kidding when you say you did that in paint right? If not I'd love to see what you can do in PaintShop or PhotoShop!

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Posted: 30th Mar 2005 21:42
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Well, let's just put it this way, MS Paint is just as good at placing dots as Photoshop, so my guess is it'd look exactly the same! Actually, when you're doing something as basic as pixel art, MS Paint has the added advantage of not being overly complicated for such a simple task.


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MS Paint is the world's second greatest program after Notepad.


The letters line up!!! They line up for god's sake!!!

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Posted: 31st Mar 2005 00:15
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Ben, yeah I did

Vues3d, Thanks

Spaceman, No joke, all done in MS Paint.
Using PhotoShop ( or The GIMP as it's free ) is just too much bother. Exeat nailed it on the head - it's simple, and that's perfect!
I don't want the use of fancy filters or auto anti-aliasing... I want complete control over every pixel ( that's how you get so much detail into such a small area ), thus, MS Paint is the best tool for it

Chris, Are you feeling ok? You want to sit down for a bit? Maybe I'll fetch you a glass of water or something? You sure..? Ok, then...



Thanks for the continued Feedback everyone

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hehe someone did a oopsie

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...

ok.

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hahaha you guys are silly

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Quote: "All my pixel art is done in MS Paint now"


Good to see you're keeping it real.

Some very nice pixel art. That tut's uber coool, I might have a go myself. Just wondered, what are the rectangles with bands of colour at the right of each pic for?




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I believe thats the pallete..


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You got it, Ben

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University is school.

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Nice work there Jess.

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one should have an atari st with a copy of DEGAS ELITE or NEOCHROME to qualify as a pixel artist.

but seeing as they look the business and were drawn in paint you get a big thumz upski. very 16 bit.

i keep getting retro flashbacks when i look at them. ace.

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Thanks guy's


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Nice, looks like you have some skill with MS Paint? Have you tried using Adobe Photoshop to create art work? I believe it would be a breeze for you.

I just start recently making art work also with these editors, but I suck. I am much better at creating on paper with a pencil.

Keep up the good work.

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