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Published: 2015-08-09 22:42:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 224; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 0
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RPG-style battle sprites of my Apeiron protagonists (not to scale).
Left to Right- Abby Omination (aged up), Leah Perditam, Mark Cizin and Bean Nighe. Second row is scaled 2x. EDIT: Made second row more clear.
I blame DavyWagnarok and Wikipedia for encouraging this. 
It surprised me how well Leah came out. I haven't drawn her in a very long time, probably this is my subconscious way of showing I missed her. Everyone else is a little off-model, but I suppose that's the breaks of stuffing them into a few thousand pixels.
What I learned- Yay I can do pixel art now. Also tried doing clothing folds around the knees and it came out surprisingly not-terrible.
As always, comments, critique and suggestions are all welcome! I enjoy reading comments
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Comments: 9
< AMAZING PROGRESS! Love the middle two! Great poses and costume designs!
I agree with about the muddiness caused by upscaling them. One super easy way to avoid this is:
To change this setting, navigate to Photoshop->Preferences->General
The only setting you need to modify is “Image Interpolation”. Make sure to change it to “Nearest Neighbor”.
Hope that helps! XD
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JimGaga is the best thing that came out from dA's 2009 (or 2010?) April Fools event, thank you for using that plz account. XD
Iirc, Peng uses GIMP (but he also has PSE so maybe he can just open it up when he's making the "set".) If I were more familiar with GIMP controls I'd have tried. c:
Nearest Neighbor doesn't work too well when downscaling pixels, but I haven't tried upscaling pixels with that resampling option.
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Haha! JimGaga is amazing. How could one look at that and not crack up?
Ah, didn't even bother to ask what software he used! We used PS on NN for our game, N30N City RUMBLE and everything came out with very high fidelity (better than Boss Monster IMO). Downscaling is an issue for purists but it didn't muck things up too bad, except for very small icons. Rudy had to go back to redo those... but the portraits came out superb!
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Agreed! I wasn't a fan of Lady Gaga, but that GIF continues to make me laugh to this day.
Also, whoa! I am ridiculously honoured to see you add me to your watch list -- thank you very much, good sir! Peng showed me quite a bit of your work in the past. It's impressive -- I just couldn't get around to viewing that polymorphs image yet, since it keeps making my browser tab crash.
Though I don't exactly conform with other things that pixel purists demand (limited colour palettes, iso angle, absolute lack of colours with mild transparency -- the latter is due to some artistic limitations. I often insist on having some details with mild transparency when I'm depicting smoke/sheer dresses/the like,) I share their sentiments with downscaling. Good to hear it didn't mess up most of the details, though.
That said, I'm very sorry for derailing the comment tree, and thank you for the tips!
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Oh hey, I missed Leah. She's the best one in this batch, imo. I like the "dimension" you added to the pants of Abby and Mark.
The only thing I can nitpick at the moment is how you did the 2x scaling -- There's a lot of artifacts you introduced by resizing them manually. It also adds aliasing to pixels that would make purists frown.
A way to retain the regular, sharp pixel edges is to take a screenshot of the canvas at 200% magnification, and then pasting it onto the image. Remove the background with a 0 feather magic wand. That's what I do, at least -- it's up to you in the end, though.
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Thanks! I'll do scaling the right way if I ever get around to more pixels
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Looking forward to seeing more of them, if you do get to them.
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