A.D.A. Amiga Demoscene Archive

It be nice to discuss pixeling with someone. :)

time of pixeling is over ;)

Nope... Pixeling isn't dead :) Photocheating is!

i would be more than happy if it would be death...

but werent there dozends of little pixelwhores who just copied boris scans over 10 years and still dominate the charts? ;)
copycats are copycats... it dont makes a difference if they use dpaint or photoshop.

What tools do you use nowadays to make pictures?

I must say that i tend to appreciate low color (256 or less) low resolution graphics a bit more than the 24 bit monster resolution pictures from recent years (in general anyway). But that's just me i guess.

Allthough, i can really appreciate Xenusion's work aswell (awesome graphics!) because he does something original with his pictures and creates intense atmospheres.

The stuff that Made does nowadays is something i really love aswell, though again i tend to prefer his older pictures a bit more.

but werent there dozends of little pixelwhores who just copied boris scans over 10 years and still dominate the charts? ;)
copycats are copycats... it dont makes a difference if they use dpaint or photoshop.

I have never copied a Voris picture and i surely never will...
Hmm the firs graphician I think of when people speak about Boris copycat is Made... But he hasn't only made copies.
Infact i like his style very much...
And besides... Who have never copied another picture, only if just for fun oc practise?

all what i tried to say is that there is no big difference between someone who is just copying stupid pornpics with photoshop and someone who copied scans pixel per pixel.
well there is a difference as i honour at least the work amount and palette problems with doing pixel stuff but copying is easy and cant be called art. thats all.

time has changed. no one is better or worser just coz he uses a specific tool.

thats what i tried to say as answer to your little bitching about "photocheating" ;)

Frost, please reply my email which I've send you LIGHTYEARS ago!!

Frost, please reply my email which I've send you LIGHTYEARS ago!!
Please send it again... I lost all mails in my inbox due to a crash... :(

Will do so, frost at tolou.org is still valid, yes?

Correct.

I've got a mailer demon that your mailserver is currently not available.

Hmm...
It should be available...
Try to send again...

Mhh..nope! Anyway, I can write the same to you here. Please make a 14 out of the JP#13. I can use your titlepic for the next issue if you like to! Or as an endpic, what do you think? As endpic I had the idea to write "JP -we wave goodbye" as there's a sort of wave on your picture.

Nope, got it back with a final mailer demon today. But it's okay, you now know what I want from you. ;-))

I wonder if it is some kind of spamfilter that doesn't let your mail through... :(

@Ghandy
First of all I will try to clear up the mess in my apartment :) and then I surely will repixel the picture for you.
I'll send it to you as soon as possible

Fine, I'm looking forward for your picture!! Thx a lot! And happy cleaning up your mess...

@frost
No, you're not alone... ;)
Discuss it with me... :D

@xeNusion
Pixelling is death? You would be happy if so? You should check out Pix/Scenic stuff then... ;)

well lets check out his page then....
last update 2003

and scenic itself is death since nearly a year
if pix wouldnt lurk around on irc from time to time someone could think he died years ago

ok, i have intuos 3 tablet and corel painter but the best way of drawing form me till now is pixel by pixel in brilliance. so i cant agree with xenusion. and i know that it isnt only my opinion

Interesting topic. Gotta hijack it ;)
Anyone interested in pixelling for a serious game project?
If interested, you can ask for details directly by mailing me at saimobvq§interfree.it

Regards,
saimo

I've done some pixelling on my tablet in WinUAE lately. Good fun, and actually preferable to the old mouse.

I've done some pixelling on my tablet in WinUAE lately. Good fun, and actually preferable to the old mouse.

@Archmage: Does that mean that you still use DPaint now and again or have you gone completely Photoshop? Anyway, it's fab that you decided to return to the scene and do graphics again. Your Nexus 7 picture is legendary and awesome!

Thanks! ;) Glad u like it! About time to release something new though... ;)

I mainly use Photoshop, but I am working on a picture in Dpaint as well. I also just discovered the PC-based pixel tool Project One for the C64. Some of the gfx-artists I really admire nowadays are active on the C64, so I'm trying to do something cool to get a foot in the door of that scene. We'll see.

@Archmage:

I'm really looking forward to your work. Decent, non 3D graphics is what i miss the most in modern pc demos. Graphics like in My Galaxy, the Atari demo released at Numerica for example. Or the pictures in lux aeterna luceat eis from Ephidrena... combined with some very "simple" effects (the leaves), those scenes were breathtaking imo.

In a way, i'm hoping that you can bring this back in a new Andromeda demo.

Keep an eye out for upcoming 2D graphics heavy PC demos from Satellite. :)

Keep an eye out for upcoming 2D graphics heavy PC demos from Satellite.

Seriously, is Satellite a new pc demogroup? Stepped over to pc, doom?

No, Satellite is a multiplatform group. There will be Amiga stuff too, maybe even C64 stuff. But as a graphician I need to express myself in higher resolutions sometimes. :)

hmm... interesting :) Any other members known already or is it a secret? Does that mean that you sort of left IRIS or is this a "side project".

Damn, you made me curious :)