Giant Pixel Art piece I'm working on

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/31374468/

It's taking me an age to do this! probably take another week with adding the pixel details and such. Addictive as hell all this. I haven't done real pixel art since December when I finished the artwork for my game. Maybe it's just me. but I love pixels

C&C? taking into note the description on Deviant Art.

EDIT: and you have to look at it zoomed in. The thumbnail image is a miniscule bit of the full screen size (1680*1050)

in a nutshell it's an image where the artist places every pixel down themselves. no aid of anything, really. just a mouse and a palette.

I used to only make pixel art for my games but doing so has just opened me up to a fairly forgotten art form.

It's not "strict" pixel art though. I'm not using dithering - never liked it, both making it and looking at it. I'm not limiting myself to a palette and I'm using a bit of transparency. A sort of modern day pixel art I suppose...
anyways. just added a watch tower, deepened the woods. gonna get some more guys in later

Opensword's Pixen! It's ok, crashes out more times than I'm happy with but it was free. And Photoshop to lay everything out in. Pixen stutters with a pic over 128*128px so I'd imagine it having a heart attack at 1680*1050.

floyde said:

That is very cool, you should've been around in the days of the SNES, you could've made a very decent living with your pixel art.




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oh no nonono. Back then you had even better pixel artists. When it became a forgotten art form nobody did good pixel art pics for a long time. Look at OCS Chaos Engine graphics. They managed to get an entire semi-photo looking scene in 32 colours way back in 1991. They were gods. Have a lot of respect for them.

Here's one of my much more traditional pixel art drawings.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/24624332/
Though it was never fully finished the water needed so much doing to it.

Bit of an update.
I've replaced the moon with a giant "planet skeleton" style thing. Darkened the sky, added in torches on the ground, added a watchtower with an extremely beefy looking cannon on top. It's all good. I just wish I didn't have any coursework or Lost to watch else I'd steam right ahead with this!

Voidness said:

Um, where's the anti-aliasing?

But seriously, nicely done! Pixel art has its own charm.

I'm also a member on DA, but I barely have any work posted there.

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The AA is going to take aaaages! I can't wait. Thinking I'm going to try a new technique where I don't AA inside an object, but AA it against its background.
Have this killer idea of a mortar launching off a missile into the sky with a stream of smoke being blown back. I love trying to get physics into pixel art stills. however strange that sounds.

Mad! I've never been much a fan of Iso pixel art though. I pixelled my bedroom in Iso once. many ytears ago!

Another update; I've always LOVED pixelling water. Especially water falls. I've got a water tank that burst ontop of a hill so it's pouring out water near the base in the image. I'd show a preview but Green Wing is on in a moment

All my mates are saying I have way too much free time I haven't even begun texturing and AA yet!

I named the file "lifes work" which it will probably end up being at this rate!

Ok we're getting there. slowly. just started work on the clouds too.

Pixel War update 2