I decided to practice making pixel art. While this is FAN ART, this is ALSO A TRACE of @tysontan.bsky.social's artwork of Libbie and Tyson. I'm testing out my pipeline for pixelating high res art into portrait and sprite sizes for games. Credit to Tyson for his art. #FreedomPlanet #GalaxyTrailFanArt - ThreadSky

awmikeharvey.bsky.social • 26 days ago

I decided to practice making pixel art. While this is FAN ART, this is ALSO A TRACE of @tysontan.bsky.social's artwork of Libbie and Tyson. I'm testing out my pipeline for pixelating high res art into portrait and sprite sizes for games. Credit to Tyson for his art. #FreedomPlanet #GalaxyTrailFanArt

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tysontan.bsky.social•24 days ago

The pixel art interpretation looks very pretty! Thank you! The rat in his anthro form is supposed to be much bigger (same head size as Libbie).

awmikeharvey.bsky.social•24 days ago

Thank you! I'll improve at making pixel art with practice. I'm happy that I did a good interpretation.

Question. Are the various heights of characters based on head to body ratio, or some other factor? I based my understanding off of FP2's character heights, but wasn't too sure about the rodents.

tysontan.bsky.social•24 days ago

In Spirit Animals in Disguise, the animal forms of the characters are realistically sized. But their anthro forms share roughly the same head size, so the height difference is limited.

awmikeharvey.bsky.social•24 days ago

Here's an example of my logic behind the character height based on FP2 sprites.

awmikeharvey.bsky.social•26 days ago

I would also like to mention that I'm open to critiques. I want to improve at making pixel art since I'm still not all to comfortable with the method of making them. It's really hard to convert my thinking of a pixel into an area or shape rather than just as part of a stroke or fill in hi res art.

velacosmos.bsky.social•25 days ago

My feedback! 💚

• Pixel art has its own rules; indexed filters are messy and can't fill in for technique

• Strong contrast; the darker the color, the more saturation is needed

• Limited colors; 16 or less is ideal for characters (This has 12!)

• Larger blocks of cel shading so it reads well at 1x

awmikeharvey.bsky.social•25 days ago

Perfect! I made an update and touched up a few things. Your critique was on point to the one I had gotten earlier. I need to be more mindful of the coloring, shading, and outline. Thank you so much!

velacosmos.bsky.social•25 days ago

So I didn't have anything new to add? ; ^ ; Hopefully the links and edit are helpful.

It does look better! Pixel art is a journey, I was in those shoes 5 years ago. It was rough, but there are learning resources for pixel art now 💙 You'll be on the fast-track to adapting your art vision to pixels!

velacosmos.bsky.social•25 days ago

One more bit of feedback:

I highly recommend watching Pixel Overload on YouTube, his tutorials are the most eye-opening pixel art tutorials I have ever watched! 💚

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXg7rexa2k

awmikeharvey.bsky.social•25 days ago

👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 OOOOOO!!! YOU ARE THE BEST!

velacosmos.bsky.social•25 days ago

You're welcome! ^ v ^ A friend recommended Pixel Overload to me as well years ago, and I'm still not over how much it helped me!

He even has a tutorial on sub-pixeling (Probably the most tedious and difficult technique.) It got me over the "not able to do this" hump.

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