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Xegnma

Howdy folks, I am curious to discover if there are any other artists here besides myself...drop a few links to your works why dont'cha....

Here's a link to mine if your interested:
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/d/i/dimu/dimu.html

Some of what's there is of a mature nature...but take a gander all the same...little nudity (tasteful...for the most part :) ) never hurt anyone...

I hoping we can share a few ideas and techniques concerning art especially game specific techniques and such...

The site above does'nt feature any of my pixel art but that's reserved for a project I'm working on...I have a few mockup screens but I need to get the code up and running first...hopefully I have something in the next 4 months or so...

Locrian · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:07 pm Post subject:

I've stumbled upon your gallery before. Can't remember from where. Maybe polycount or conceptart.org. I do some pixel art whenever I can find the time. I have yet to teach myself digital painting and 3d modeling. Been sitting on the to do list for years heh. Sigh.

Modanung · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:45 pm Post subject:

I'm sort of an artist as well, surely no programmer.
I do 2D and 3D art, and some pixelart... mostly for myself or Moonlight Productions (My brother (Bjorn), me and Georg).
I do not have an online gallery of some sort, and I don't finish a lot of the things I start. Usually a start working on something else.

Xegnma · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 3:38 pm Post subject:

Rainer Deyke · Demon Hunter Joined: 05 Jun 2002 Posts: 672

I've seen some fairly good-looking art with the standard EGA palette. I've also seen some better-looking EGA art that used a custom 16 color palette. I don't know if that's an option for you. Either way, it's an interesting artistic challenge.

In addition to the black-gray-lt gray-white gradient, there are 24 possible gradients of increasing intensity in the standard EGA palette, all starting at black and ending in white with three colors in between. Basically there are 6 "middle" colors in the palette, each of which can be preceeded by two different colors and followed by two colors in the palette. The middle colors are:

lt blue
preceeded by blue or grey
followed by lt cyan or lt magenta

lt green
preceeded by green or grey
followed by lt cyan or yellow

lt red
preceeded by red or grey
followed by lt magenta or yellow

cyan
preceeded by blue or green
followed by lt gray or lt cyan

magenta
preceeded by blue or red
followed by lt gray or lt magenta

brown
preceeded by green or red
followed by lt gray or yellow

The key to good-looking graphics with the EGA palette, IIRC, is not to choose realistic colors but to focus on overall color balance, color separation, and smooth gradients. Color separation is especially important. If you have green orcs on the grass, draw the grass (or the orcs) cyan or brown. If you have dead trees over bare earth, use red or grey instead of the obvious brown.

Xegnma · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 1:12 pm Post subject:

Nope custom 16-color palettes are not an option, standard all the way, still you provided some cool info there...
Thanks for the insight Reiner...I've been leaning towards similar lines...still I wonder if it can be pushed further...I've seen the the use of a lot of dithering effects using one of two formats(both formats use a 3x3 pixel grid):

#: Color 1
*: Color 2

Format A - 3 step

###
###
###

#*#
*#*
#*#

***
***
***

Format B - 5 step

###
###
###

*#*
###
*#*

*#*
#*#
*#*

#*#
***
#*#

***
***
***

The only problem with dithering is that they only look good to me when they cover a fairly large area and when the colors are fairly close. Any other 16-color techniques folks...

P.S. As an added bonus here's a link to some of my pixel art:
http://www.geocities.com/xhosha/index.html

js71 · Wandering DJ Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 815

I do some pixel art...
Well...
Alot...
But not too much hand drawn art- Except anime.
Go me and my limitations.
Whoo.

Ironshanks · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 1:00 am Post subject:

That pixel art makes absolutely fantastic use of the EGA palette. I think the biggest issue is clarity. On the black background sprites the details are very confusing. I think the contrast just needs to be more balanced. You use the entire gradient a bit too often, and it makes volume hard to judge.
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Xegnma · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:06 pm Post subject:

Xegnma · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 2:31 pm Post subject:

Ironshanks · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:49 pm Post subject:

I mean volume as in like, three dimensional space it's taking up. What I meant by making it hard to judge is that it can look like it's just embossed on a surface, or that it's all on the same level with slight depressions.

Again though, great work. I can't think of any better EGA art, and your colour mixing is spot on.
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Modanung · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:49 am Post subject:

I think he meant pixel art.

valderman · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 1:49 pm Post subject:

I've been drawing a little anime for a few months, but my art still sucks major ass.
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