How to get this effect?
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- monkchild
Hi. I love the look of this image:
is there any way you can render pics like this or has the artist build this pixel for pixel all the way from scratch? it's not really eBoy. holla.
- ********0
My guess : pixel art
- Sapphire0
MSpaint
- monkchild0
what's "pixel art"? can i read books on the topic?
- Sapphire0
pixel art is the exact opposite of antialiase effects, when you draw with MS Paint you are doing pixel art (unless you painstakinly antialiase it pixel by pixel).
- monkchild0
yeah but who does that? it must take fucking ages to produces images that way.
- Sapphire0
well, some people don't have a life... like me.. we just sit around all day, and that usually gives us alot of time... a LOT of time to do some silly stuff like ... pixel art.
and besides, it got pretty trendy
- monkchild0
yea i know it got unbearable hip but that's why i thought designers would hire 3rd world people to do something as crafy as that and not do it themselves. i mean, if you spend 24 hours a day developing pixel art how much time is there to spend on great ideaS?
- Sapphire0
thats why now 2advanced is employing a "sweat studios" in cambodia
:D
- unknown0
this stuff was mastered in the early 90's by artists at companies like lucasarts, for example check out the gorgeous shots from secret of monkey island
http://www.mobygames.com/game/sh…
Keep in mind that these shots are frames from ANIMATIONS of this style - so good...they even got things like light intensity and shading basically perfect
They illustrated this way out of neccessity - limited colors (8-16 bit usually) and limited processors to redraw 'math' driven graphics.
- mrdobolina0
wish I had the patience for pixel art. I have seen some nicely done paintings using that technique. That is a whole other ball game, though.
- monkchild0
I LOV EMONEY ISLAND. i used to play that shit all the time, the adventure riddle shit is sooooooo odpe. best game ever since bomberman (who got the pixel art right too :))
- Sapphire0
yup..pixel art
- hiphoprelic0
Or you could try adjusting the levels and contrast of a pic in photoshop then pixelate/mosaic filter, and then change mode to indexed color dropping the pic down to fewer colors.
- unknown0
you can do that in photoshop too
just use size 1 on your pencil tool!
And you might want to check this guy out...
http://www.eboy.com/
