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WALFTEAM now.Pixel artists?
Posted 14 years agoSo how many pixel artists are out there in THE SUBCULTURE? Because I love the stuff. There's PixelJoint, which seems to be the DeviantArt of the whole pixel genre.
My favorite pixel style, though, has to be the style used on Japanese adventure games. It's not the anime-ness of it that I find attractive, but the crazy dithering and odd resolutions. It's also got a certain neatness to it, as it's literally double the resolution that you typically see on Western systems; Japan had it's own set of completely weird and different computing platforms back in the day. There's a good rundown on the way these odd graphics worked as compared to Western stuff here.
There's also a blog full of random, weird screenshots from Japanese adventure games over at fmtownsmarty.tumblr.com. Some are from porn, some aren't; there's no way to tell and sometimes the line was hard to draw with some of those games.
Anyway, it's rare to see this style used by Western artists, and it's a shame because I absolutely adore it's grainy-yet-clean aesthetic.
My favorite pixel style, though, has to be the style used on Japanese adventure games. It's not the anime-ness of it that I find attractive, but the crazy dithering and odd resolutions. It's also got a certain neatness to it, as it's literally double the resolution that you typically see on Western systems; Japan had it's own set of completely weird and different computing platforms back in the day. There's a good rundown on the way these odd graphics worked as compared to Western stuff here.
There's also a blog full of random, weird screenshots from Japanese adventure games over at fmtownsmarty.tumblr.com. Some are from porn, some aren't; there's no way to tell and sometimes the line was hard to draw with some of those games.
Anyway, it's rare to see this style used by Western artists, and it's a shame because I absolutely adore it's grainy-yet-clean aesthetic.
