8bit / 16bit effect
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- antimotion
How can you achieve this?
Photo into PS, then save down as gif with "x" amount of colors?
or is there some kind of plugin to keep colors smooth?
Samples:
- antimotion0
- Nostalgia aside, I just don't get the appeal of this look.CyBrainX
- ukit20
I believe these are drawn pixel by pixel...
- i_monk0
True pixel art is drawn pixel by pixel, but you can use a program to reduce the number of colours used. Pixel artists like a program called Graphics Gale (I think) to do that sort of palette-swapping.
- d_gitale0
Yeah, pixel by pixel...
this thread might hold some options, but you wont achieve that original 80s videogame look
- ETM0
In my day, we made these images and animations by hand. Pixel by pixel. Frame by frame. I used Autodesk Animator (VGA) and then Animator Pro (SVGA).
- mantrakid0
any auto-conversion is mad messy, everything you posted is pixel by pixel, it's the only real way to rock it so that it looks proper. otherwise you just look like you're trying.
- animatedgif0
First example is entirely hand drawn
Second example is actually a 3D render just with low res hand drawn texturesClosest you can hope for without doing it properly is to reduce the colours and have dither turned on which will give you a similar effect as if you had loaded a photo into a 16bit paint applications.
There is no easy solution to get this looking as good as true pixel artwork.
- MrT0
^ This. There's more to them than just the low resolution and reduced palette, they're *drawn* in that style too. The bear image shows that. I'm repeating everyone else aren't I.
- ernexbcn0
- http://en.wikipedia.… Modern remakeanimatedgif
- "modern" I guess haha still looks oldanimatedgif
- antimotion0
Thanks for the suggestions - appreciated!
