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Published: 2016-01-17 01:47:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 733; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 17
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So I've been having an overabundance of inspiration lately. Heck, I even had an idea keep me up till 3 in the morning!I don't even know what I was thinking when I thought "Hey, let's make some pixel art!" along with "Hey, let's animate this!"
After lots of failing and toying around with Photoshop, I produced my first pixel art and animation. *feels proud*
I was inspired by the song "Faster Than Light " and the album art for it.
Give it a hear if you're feeling adventurous xD More to come? Perhaps!
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EDIT: Added comet trail, twinkle stars, balanced mountain contrast, dithered sky, added forest silhouette.
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Comments: 26
Oh, what should I say... just cannot describe the beauty...
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Daww thank you so much! ^^ I spent a ton of time doing it xD
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How do I press the favourite button for the second time.
Beautiful! This is a great piece!
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Ohh stop it you :3 I just want to thank you again for all the pointers. It would still be pretty lame if I didn't take your suggestions xD
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No problem! I'm glad I could give some advice
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so this was the rumored pixel art that you did...
Fantastic job!!
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Haha thanks, bud xD
Where'd you hear that from?
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in physics class, of course!
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Lol that was just today. You cheeky little one.
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Thank you so much, Oddish! You should give pixel art a try too. You're already so amazing with perlers! Think about it, you could design your own perler designs!
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Oh, I wish! I've always wanted to pixel an Oddish to Perler, but I think I should learn how to decently draw first...
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OHH this is absolutely perfect! We could do a collab! XD
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I could do a simple sketch then you can pixelize it or perler it?
What we could do is really up in the air.
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Sure! Sounds like fun!
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Awesome! ^^ Looking forward to it (;
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THIS IS AMAZING. May I give some feedback?
Suggestions:
You can try the dithering trick to blend the gradient for the sky that you saw in the other pixel art picture you showed me
The trees are spot on. I couldn't do better if I tried. Something that might make it even better would be to add a layer of trees behind it- not much taller- but darker: more like a silhouette, but not as extreme, which will make the forest look deeper.
The contrast on the mountain is very high. It looks great, but the high contrast puts it on high priority for the human eye, which kinda clashes with the trees, which have a smoother style with less contrast.
Try to smooth some of the sharp edges like you have on the telescope by making the outer pixels a blend of the actual color and the color outside of it.
Something to try in the future for the comets is not just to drag the same comet on its path, but to vary it a bit so that it looks like it has a sparkly trail.
Compliments:
Again, trees blowing me away. Can't even.
ThemoonlookssocuteIloveit
The comets are the perfect touch
One last thing:
Try inverting your screen's colours every once in a while. I find that it helps me to see patterns in the lighting, and how I can smooth some things out. For example, if I invert colours now, it's mostly white, with a dark grey triangle and a little dark grey dot.
That's all I've got for you! I can't believe you did this! Keep it up!
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To be fully honest, I got lazy with it xD Also I wasn't quite sure how to dither the sky cuz its rounded.
I was gonna do it though! xD I'll take all these suggestions and create a 2nd, not-so-lazy version.
Next time, I'll run it by you to spot it out for me, that's if you don't mind. (:
HAHA the moon xD It does look awfully cute now that you mention it
OOHHH WHAT A TECHNIQUE. YES SENPAI! That reminds me, I really want to do an inverted pencil drawing.
Thank you so much for all the pointers!
*edit*
Why am I up at 3:30am xD It looks amaaaazing though!
I had to redo the animation because of improper layering
So worth it!
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Oh god, have I influenced you to stay up late.
Love the updated animation!
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Yeah no kidding! I swear I was gonna sleep but my imagination wouldn't let me xD. I've been up later and later thanks to you vaser HAHA
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Way too simple. Yet somehow I spent 2 hours figuring it out HAHA
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Daww thanks! I'm still looking to improve
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