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 Dec 29 2007, 10:04 pm
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I made Narutos Giant Shuriken summon as a part of a Pixel Art Contest. I only used 3 colors(Not counting black or white), I mainly used my favorite style of pixel art, dithering. I could not get the same contrast as the one in show but it was a little too dark so I lightened my colors a bit. I'll animate it tomorrow(Maybe.), since its a little bit late right now and I am tired, though give me some C&C!
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Dec 30 2007, 10:19 am
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Maggeh
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It's nice, but you have an inconsistent light source. If you compare the shading on each of the blades they don't match up.
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Yeah, its because my reference had a different light source from the mountains behind it and the smoke around it shading it, and I tried to copy its light source, which made mine all weird xD
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Maggeh wrote:
It's nice, but you have an inconsistent light source. If you compare the shading on each of the blades they don't match up. Yeah I was about to say that. :P You can fix the lighting yourself, can't you, Bakasensei? | |
It's looking good, but it's over dithered (atleast the shadows). You should actually do without.
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My favorite style of pixel art is dithering, the less the colors the better and dithering is a very cool style ^^, so i'll keep it.
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Bakasensei wrote:
My favorite style of pixel art is dithering, the less the colors the better and dithering is a very cool style ^^, so i'll keep it. Dithering is a technique, I don't blame you for your intentions though, it's a really useful technique in pixel art and often one kids quickly learn about. There's one problem though, like all techniques it's very situational. I've seen a lot of cases where people flat out use dithering where it's not need or 100% of the time (basically your mentality), which isn't useful at all. I had to plagiarize a bit from an artist named "Neoriceisgood" because I found myself getting pissed off from the typical "it's my style" excuse, defending an obvious flaw calling it a style. Anyway If you want to keep it, keep it. I just wanted to clear that up. | |
Hulio-G wrote:
Dithering is a technique... For the most part, I'd agree with Hulio here (although I definitely would've said it differently). Pretend your cooking: cayenne is good in some things (in fact it's great in most things), but used in the wrong place it can kind of throw things off or just not work. Dithering (or selout or AA) is like a spice: you hafta figure out where it works (for you) and where it doesn't. The thing about dithering is it kind of automatically gives texture whether you want it to or not. Since metal is generally going to be smooth and shiny, adding dithering here makes it appear rough and stone-like. All that being said, I do accept the excuse that 'it's your style'. If you do it consistently and you enjoy it, it'll work. | |
