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Vigo:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on May 29, 2011, 12:05:46 am --- Any Real pixel artist would gawk immediately at the butchery that would ensue from this craptastic translation.

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I have to disagree with this. I really don't see the elitism in pixel art. You are basing this on the notion that the pixel artist intended for you to see a defined pixelated image. Back in the 8 bit days, we played our games on blurry old Television sets. Those TVs naturally interpolated the images, and made the art look smoother and without the crisp edges or detail. I think any pixel artist from the 8-16 bit era would jump for joy if their art showed up this dynamic and smooth. That is, after all, what they were trying to achieve. They didn't want you to appreciate that mario's mustache was five pixels, they just wanted you realize that those few pixels are a mustache, and hoped even more that you didn't even notice how simple the art really is.

I also think it is a bit silly to say that pixel art is designed with pixels that cannot be interpreted by a computer, when many pixel art techniques were mere computer rasterizations of non computer art. They rasterized all sorts of things: claymation, photographs, hand drawn artwork. Vectorizing the art would be no more of an offense than rasterizing.

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: Vigo on May 29, 2011, 05:18:30 am ---
I have to disagree with this. I really don't see the elitism in pixel art. You are basing this on the notion that the pixel artist intended for you to see a defined pixelated image.
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Ahem. You may want to look up 'Genesim' before you decide to run without caution down this road.

AdvanceMAME, and maybe some other versions, have a 'scale' option that does something somewhat similar to the above algorithm. It looks pretty gross, though.

Hoopz:
I was going to bring up Genesim too. He freaked out about this.  In Vigo's defense, he at least is rational.  Genesim couldnt calm down long enough to be cogent.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on May 29, 2011, 12:05:46 am ---Its highly doubtful you are any good at pixel art if you even consider this to be an option.

Any Real pixel artist would gawk immediately at the butchery that would ensue from this craptastic translation.

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I dunno -- I see at least one professional developer (who also worked in industry back in the day) in this thread who thinks it might be interesting, so perhaps your opinion about "good" and "real" pixel artists is a little off.

 :afro:


--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on May 29, 2011, 12:05:46 am --- You really are trying to hard to hate me.  Its funny for sure.  But then again, its pretty pathetic and sad.  Grow up little boy.

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In Mal's defense, you don't exactly make it difficult with responses like this.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on May 29, 2011, 06:48:41 am ---I was going to bring up Genesim too. He freaked out about this.  In Vigo's defense, he at least is rational.  Genesim couldnt calm down long enough to be cogent.

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Actually, I think if Vigo read the pages that Xiaou has written on the subject (can't find a damned link), I think they would find some common ground  ... or at least more common ground that could be found with the BelligerantKoolAidMan!

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