Why does pixel art in games never look this good anymore? Is it just a lost skill?
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Why does pixel art in games never look this good anymore? Is it just a lost skill?
Why does pixel art in games never look this good anymore? Is it just a lost skill?
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Because it's easier to make a shitty asset flip in Unity/Unreal and call it a day. Blame the industry for growing too big. Nobody wants to take risks anymore except for <5 man dev teams working on their games part time.
Because 99% of the people doing pixel art are shitty, talentless indie devs.
Probably the only pixel art game in recent memory to have actually good soulful animations was pizza tower
>pixel art
lost
>baked lighting
lost
>reflections
lost
>audio compression
lost
>interface design
lost
>engines that aren't unreal or unity
lost
>sense of wonder
lost
>soul
lost
Blessed Lyndis
Yeah we don't want this shit anymore boomer lol
Indies are hacks that's why
The right is more appealing but you are comparing apples to oranges.
Yeah, no. Just have a look at the pixel art games that everyone have been praising for the past years.
>terarria
>undertale
>isaac
>meatboy
>celeste
The reason why pixel art became garbage is because (You) people keep on praising them.
You're comparing something vaguely mimicking late 80s/early 90s pixel art to something not even aiming to replicate a pastiche. A few of those games are ugly but you're basically cherrypicking.
Thanks for proving my point.
>people play games for... le gameplay?!
have a nice day gayphix gay.
Those games gameplay ain't good either or which haven't been done better with better pixel art in the past
Please do tell me about the old pixel art Terraria and Isaac that predate Terraria and Isaac
>inb4 The Legend of Zelda
>thread about sprite animation
>b-but muh gameplay
indie shills are such dishonest cretins holy shit
Right is not even pixel art
What is it then?
Anybody with even a passing interest in KoF knows the method SNK used for 12’s art style, it was one of the main reasons for their financial recession. Next you’re going to start asking how Arcsys animated Xrd or some other ignorant shit.
Yes, they used some moronic, convoluted, inefficient time consuming method, and it doesn't look that good, but it's still pixel art. Just like this is.
Oekaki. Or just digital drawings that were pixelized afterwards
You're one moronic dunning kruger.
Says the silly little fella who actually thought
was pixelated by hand
I can't tell you exactly what method they used, but look at one of the artists twitter I can make an educated guess and say it was drawn and animated in that size and not scaled down. Although the weapon probably was a 3d model, I'll give you that.
If you want an example of pixel games that were definitely not "pixelated by hand" look at nitroplus blasterz or arcana blood.
Yeah it's not just about the pixelizing method, it's the scale of the finished image too. Real pixel art works at a scale where each individual pixel is important to the image. If you have to squint or zoom to see the individual pixels, then it's more of a pixelized digital illustration or model or whatever
I disagree. It's all about the method. If you're putting individual pixels down by hand it's pixel art, regardless of scale.
uses a lot of pixel art techniques, like 1px thick lines without jaggies.
Yes. As game development as become more accessible everything has become less unique and more streamlined. There is no longer a market for quality pixel art, and new artists just don't compare to the decades of experience old ones had. In the past games would have actual artists, now they have people who do video game art.
Unicorn Overlord has some beautiful 2D sprite art if that’s what you’re looking for, no 3D cringe like the modern games in your series.
Vanillaware stuff isn’t pixel art it’s just 2D animation. Which honestly a full game of smooth 2D animations is even more rare than good pixel art. UO is great though.
I tried the demo is there more to it than just being a standard RPG?
>This thread again
Is this some kind of fetish? Do you get off on being intentionally moronic?
Some thread in Ganker are for training AI response, 100% serious.
That would explain a lot
What a beautiful game.
Shame it was one of the most boring games I've ever played, but still, very pretty.
Because you don't play videogames, moron
Team Ladybug are one of the exceptions not the rule
Nah, there are plenty of games with good pixel art if you look beyond indies made by a couple of amateurs.
>spending a week animating one character
holy shit autism
Not a problem when you have multiple artists. Do you think old games like FE6 were animated by one dude?
you never heard of sturgeon's law before?
any game that's "good" is an exception, not the rule
>literally copied from sotn
lol
It's funny because the devs went out of their way to post the development to show it wasn't traced or anything. It's clearly just an homage.
Indie devs devalued pixel art so now only low budget games use it.
devs can still do that. it's just that there's aren't much interest to do certain art styles WITH pixel arts
There are shit tons of pixel art games, but they have different *art styles*. it's that simple
I love cute girls with swords.
I farted
There are no colour limitations for modern pixelshit so talent isn't needed to make them anymore.
That and the fact that morons keep on defending them.
Because it's a form of art that is difficult like any other and americans are lazy as frick
Pixels are now a stylistic choice, not a necessity to push the bounds of.
More modern pixel art.
Picrel had some nice art.
much like anime transitioning from hand drawn to using 3d models/digital, shit is too much work for little pay, and considering the anime industry is constantly imploding in on itself, both mediums just has to find a better quality and time balance.
>.webm
Did that thing go anywhere or is it cancelled forever?
actually anime never transitions from hand drawn it is still hand drawn i think you mean to say transitioning from being colored using paints to colored digitally
I think he means cell animation
FEAR THE KING
Zephiel one shotting the milf was so cool
It's hard, takes time, and normalgays will just look at it and say it has "bad graphics".
I remember an anon posting a game review that said something like, "this game is a scam for charging full price for 2d graphics in X year when all modern games should be 3d," but I can't find it.
What is the maximum sprite resolution you would consider pixel art?
plus infinity
nowadays artists just cluster several pixels together in order to make then look like a singlw one, and it works quite well.
Unless it has mixels, you can reduce those to the actual resolution of the art, which would be however many 'pixels' tall and wide it is, a pixel in your case being however many actual pixels are glued together.
In which case, how many 'pixels' tall and wide would you consider to be the limit of pixel art?
1080p, anything more and I can't see the pixels anymore, so what's the point.
It's easy to tell most people itt never actually lived through the 16-bit era (or to a smaller extent the GBA and DS) because otherwise they'd understand the vast difference in quality between any 2 games on the same system. SNES had pixel art masterpieces that still hold up today getting released alongside games that look like they could have run on an Atari 2600. The same is true with modern stuff, you have a lot of slop next to some genuine talent.
People are naturally more inclined to remember the good stuff. I do remember I played a handful of awful games back in the day, but I couldn't tell you what those were.
GBA FE looks like shit compared to the SNES games thoughever
Blazblue and P4A look pretty good
Those games didn't come out too long ago, r-right?
P4A is 12 years old
Not at all, but plenty of pixel fighting games came out since then.
Nobody tell him.
A lot of indies just treat pixels as regular art but in dots rather than a limitation
That's what good pixels artists do, thougheverbeit.