#Project Support/ Customization

[shallowseeker]

the way that even in early usa, extended families often lived together or within walking distance

the idea that each nuclear family should have its own house, own appliances, own everything and that adult children should move out at 18 is a relatively recent post-WWII, suburbanization-era invention

and it just so happens to be highly profitable

[wyllaztopia]

hey guys, quick update!

this is in regards to @agdreamtale's progression and updates. from this point on, the story will be more lore-driven and thus i've been taking my time with panels and answering asks - meaning i've been drawing more panels with a bit more efforts.

i've also been busy with other things outside the internet, hence the lack of content. however, i do want to thank everyone for the support thus far.

i do have a question however - and this is for future bigger projects such as long comics and animations. would you be willing to support them financially? of course, they will come with their own rewards and whatnot - especially if i plan to set it up on patreon. just curious because we do have more high-end projects planned and being supported financially would be a bonus. i'll still do these projects regardless though! it's just something i'm curious about.

[catsithkelpie]

I got a little carried away with the decorations.

She's a pastel goth now.

Gonna try to find some more black to add to the rest of her, yk, for consistency

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[jackalpants]

THE CHAFF PROJECT

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.

Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.

You follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this.

Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.

Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.

You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.

Non-affiliated badge link:

https://rainbowandco.uk/collections/trans-pride/products/transgender-pride-flag-badge

[tofupixel]

⭐ So you want to learn pixel art? ⭐

🔹 Part 1 of ??? - The Basics!

Edit: Now available in Google Doc format if you don't have a Tumblr account 🥰

Hello, my name is Tofu and I'm a professional pixel artist. I have been supporting myself with freelance pixel art since 2020, when I was let go from my job during the pandemic.

My progress, from 2017 to 2024. IMO the only thing that really matters is time and effort, not some kind of natural talent for art.

This guide will not be comprehensive, as nobody should be expected to read allat. Instead I will lean heavily on my own experience, and share what worked for me, so take everything with a grain of salt. This is a guide, not a tutorial. Cheers!

🔹 Do I need money?

NO!!! Pixel art is one of the most accessible mediums out there.

I still use a mouse because I prefer it to a tablet! You won't be at any disadvantage here if you can't afford the best hardware or software.

Because our canvases are typically very small, you don't need a good PC to run a good brush engine or anything like that.

✨Did you know? One of the most skilled and beloved pixel artists uses MS PAINT! Wow!!

🔹 What software should I use?

Here are some of the most popular programs I see my friends and peers using. Stars show how much I recommend the software for beginners! ⭐

💰 Paid options:

⭐⭐⭐ Aseprite (for PC) - $19.99

This is what I and many other pixel artists use. You may find when applying to jobs that they require some knowledge of Aseprite. Since it has become so popular, companies like that you can swap raw files between artists.

Aseprite is amazingly customizable, with custom skins, scripts and extensions on Itch.io, both free and paid.

If you have ever used any art software before, it has most of the same features and should feel fairly familiar to use. It features a robust animation suite and a tilemap feature, which have saved me thousands of hours of labour in my work. The software is also being updated all the time, and the developers listen to the users. I really recommend Aseprite!

⭐ Photoshop (for PC) - Monthly $$

A decent option for those who already are used to the PS interface. Requires some setup to get it ready for pixel-perfect art, but there are plenty of tutorials for doing so.

Animation is also much more tedious on PS which you may want to consider before investing time!

⭐⭐ ProMotion NG (for PC) - $19.00

An advanced and powerful software which has many features Aseprite does not, including Colour Cycling and animated tiles.

⭐⭐⭐ Pixquare (for iOS) - $7.99 - $19.99 (30% off with code 'tofu'!!)

Probably the best app available for iPad users, in active development, with new features added all the time.

Look! My buddy Jon recommends it highly, and uses it often.

One cool thing about Pixquare is that it takes Aseprite raw files! Many of my friends use it to work on the same project, both in their office and on the go.

⭐ Procreate (for iOS) - $12.99

If you have access to Procreate already, it's a decent option to get used to doing pixel art. It does however require some setup. Artist Pixebo is famously using Procreate, and they have tutorials of their own if you want to learn.

⭐⭐ ReSprite iOS and Android. (free trial, but:) $19.99 premium or $$ monthly

ReSprite is VERY similar in terms of UI to Aseprite, so I can recommend it. They just launched their Android release!

🆓 Free options:

⭐⭐⭐ Libresprite (for PC)

Libresprite is an alternative to Aseprite. It is very, very similar, to the point where documentation for Aseprite will be helpful to Libresprite users.

⭐⭐ Pixilart (for PC and mobile)

A free in-browser app, and also a mobile app! It is tied to the website Pixilart, where artists upload and share their work. A good option for those also looking to get involved in a community.

⭐⭐ Dotpict (for mobile)

Dotpict is similar to Pixilart, with a mobile app tied to a website, but it's a Japanese service. Did you know that in Japanese, pixel art is called 'Dot Art'? Dotpict can be a great way to connect with a different community of pixel artists! They also have prompts and challenges often.

🔹 So I got my software, now what?

◽Nice! Now it's time for the basics of pixel art.

❗ WAIT ❗ Before this section, I want to add a little disclaimer. All of these rules/guidelines can be broken at will, and some 'no-nos' can look amazing when done intentionally.

The pixel-art fundamentals can be exceedingly helpful to new artists, who may feel lost or overwhelmed by choice. But if you feel they restrict you too harshly, don't force yourself! At the end of the day it's your art, and you shouldn't try to contort yourself into what people think a pixel artist 'should be'. What matters is your own artistic expression. 💕👍

◽Phew! With that out of the way...

🔸"The Rules"

There are few hard 'rules' of pixel art, mostly about scaling and exporting. Some of these things will frequently trip up newbies if they aren't aware, and are easy to overlook.

🔹Scaling method

There are a couple ways of scaling your art. The default in most art programs, and the entire internet, is Bi-linear scaling, which usually works out fine for most purposes. But as pixel artists, we need a different method.

Both are scaled up x10. See the difference?

On the left is scaled using Bilinear, and on the right is using Nearest-Neighbor. We love seeing those pixels stay crisp and clean, so we use nearest-neighbor. 

(Most pixel-art programs have nearest-neighbor enabled by default! So this may not apply to you, but it's important to know.)

🔹Mixels

Mixels are when there are different (mixed) pixel sizes in the same image.

Here I have scaled up my art- the left is 200%, and the right is 150%. Yuck!

As we can see, the "pixel" sizes end up different. We generally try to scale our work by multiples of 100 - 200%, 300% etc. rather than 150%. At larger scales however, the minute differences in pixel sizes are hardly noticeable!

Mixels are also sometimes seen when an artist scales up their work, then continues drawing on it with a 1 pixel brush.

Many would say that this is not great looking! This type of pixels can be indicative of a beginner artist. But there are plenty of creative pixel artists out there who mixels intentionally, making something modern and cool.

🔹Saving Your Files

We usually save our still images as .PNGs as they don’t create any JPEG artifacts or loss of quality. It's a little hard to see here, but there are some artifacts, and it looks a little blurry. It also makes the art very hard to work with if we are importing a JPEG.

For animations .GIF is good, but be careful of the 256 colour limit. Try to avoid using too many blending mode layers or gradients when working with animations. If you aren’t careful, your animation could flash afterwards, as the .GIF tries to reduce colours wherever it can. It doesn’t look great!

Here's an old piece from 2021 where I experienced .GIF lossiness, because I used gradients and transparency, resulting in way too many colours.

🔹Pixel Art Fundamentals - Techniques and Jargon

❗❗Confused about Jaggies? Anti-Aliasing? Banding? Dithering? THIS THREAD is for you❗❗ << it's a link, click it!!

As far as I'm concerned, this is THE tutorial of all time for understanding pixel art. These are techniques created and named by the community of people who actually put the list together, some of the best pixel artists alive currently. Please read it!!

🔸How To Learn

Okay, so you have your software, and you're all ready to start. But maybe you need some more guidance? Try these tutorials and resources! It can be helpful to work along with a tutorial until you build your confidence up.

⭐⭐ Pixel Logic (A Digital Book) - $10 A very comprehensive visual guide book by a very skilled and established artist in the industry. I own a copy myself.

⭐⭐⭐ StudioMiniBoss - free A collection of visual tutorials, by the artist that worked on Celeste! When starting out, if I got stuck, I would go and scour his tutorials and see how he did it.

⭐ Lospec Tutorials - free A very large collection of various tutorials from all over the internet. There is a lot to sift through here if you have the time.

⭐⭐⭐ Cyangmou's Tutorials - free (tipping optional) Cyangmou is one of the most respected and accomplished modern pixel artists, and he has amassed a HUGE collection of free and incredibly well-educated visual tutorials. He also hosts an educational stream every week on Twitch called 'pixelart for beginners'.

⭐⭐⭐ Youtube Tutorials - free There are hundreds, if not thousands of tutorials on YouTube, but it can be tricky to find the good ones. My personal recommendations are MortMort, Brandon, and AdamCYounis- these guys really know what they're talking about!

🔸 How to choose a canvas size

When looking at pixel art turorials, we may see people suggest things like 16x16, 32x32 and 64x64. These are standard sizes for pixel art games with tiles. However, if you're just making a drawing, you don't necessarily need to use a standard canvas size like that.

What I like to think about when choosing a canvas size for my illustrations is 'what features do I think it is important to represent?' And make my canvas as small as possible, while still leaving room for my most important elements.

Imagine I have characters in a scene like this:

I made my canvas as small as possible (232 x 314), but just big enough to represent the features and have them be recognizable (it's Good Omens fanart 😤)!! If I had made it any bigger, I would be working on it for ever, due to how much more foliage I would have to render.

If you want to do an illustration and you're not sure, just start at somewhere around 100x100 - 200x200 and go from there.

It's perfectly okay to crop your canvas, or scale it up, or crunch your art down at any point if you think you need a different size. I do it all the time! It only takes a bit of cleanup to get you back to where you were.

🔸Where To Post

Outside of just regular socials, Twitter, Tumblr, Deviantart, Instagram etc, there are a few places that lean more towards pixel art that you might not have heard of.

⭐ Lospec Lospec is a low-res focused art website. Some pieces get given a 'monthly masterpiece' award. Not incredibly active, but I believe there are more features being added often.

⭐⭐ Pixilart Pixilart is a very popular pixel art community, with an app tied to it. The community tends to lean on the young side, so this is a low-pressure place to post with an relaxed vibe.

⭐⭐ Pixeljoint Pixeljoint is one of the big, old-school pixel art websites. You can only upload your art unscaled (1x) because there is a built-in zoom viewer. It has a bit of a reputation for being elitist (back in the 00s it was), but in my experience it's not like that any more. This is a fine place for a pixel artist to post if they are really interested in learning, and the history. The Hall of Fame has some of the most famous / impressive pixel art pieces that paved the way for the work we are doing today.

⭐⭐⭐ Cafe Dot Cafe Dot is my art server so I'm a little biased here. 🍵 It was created during the recent social media turbulence. We wanted a place to post art with no algorithms, and no NFT or AI chuds. We have a heavy no-self-promotion rule, and are more interested in community than skill or exclusivity. The other thing is that we have some kind of verification system- you must apply to be a Creator before you can post in the Art feed, or use voice. This helps combat the people who just want to self-promo and dip, or cause trouble, as well as weed out AI/NFT people. Until then, you are still welcome to post in any of the threads or channels. There is a lot to do in Cafe Dot. I host events weekly, so check the threads!

⭐⭐/r/pixelart The pixel art subreddit is pretty active! I've also heard some of my friends found work through posting here, so it's worth a try if you're looking. However, it is still Reddit- so if you're sensitive to rude people, or criticism you didn't ask for, you may want to avoid this one. Lol

🔸 Where To Find Work

You need money? I got you! As someone who mostly gets scouted on social media, I can share a few tips with you:

Put your email / portfolio in your bio Recruiters don't have all that much time to find artists, make it as easy as possible for someone to find your important information!

Clean up your profile If your profile feed is all full of memes, most people will just tab out rather than sift through. Doesn't apply as much to Tumblr if you have an art tag people can look at.

Post regularly, and repost Activity beats everything in the social media game. It's like rolling the dice, and the more you post the more chances you have. You have to have no shame, it's all business baby

Outside of just posting regularly and hoping people reach out to you, it can be hard to know where to look. Here are a few places you can sign up to and post around on.

/r/INAT INAT (I Need A Team) is a subreddit for finding a team to work with. You can post your portfolio here, or browse for people who need artists.

/r/GameDevClassifieds Same as above, but specifically for game-related projects.

Remote Game Jobs / Work With Indies Like Indeed but for game jobs. Browse them often, or get email notifications.

VGen VGen is a website specifically for commissions. You need a code from another verified artist before you can upgrade your account and sell, so ask around on social media or ask your friends. Once your account is upgraded, you can make a 'menu' of services people can purchase, and they send you an offer which you are able to accept, decline, or counter.

The evil websites of doom: Fiverr and Upwork I don't recommend them!! They take a big cut of your profit, and the sites are teeming with NFT and AI people hoping to make a quick buck. The site is also extremely oversaturated and competitive, resulting in a race to the bottom (the cheapest, the fastest, doing the most for the least). Imagine the kind of clients who go to these websites, looking for the cheapest option. But if you're really desperate...

🔸 Community

I do really recommend getting involved in a community. Finding like-minded friends can help you stay motivated to keep drawing. One day, those friends you met when you were just starting out may become your peers in the industry. Making friends is a game changer!

Discord servers Nowadays, the forums of old are mostly abandoned, and people split off into many different servers. Cafe Dot, Pixel Art Discord (PAD), and if you can stomach scrolling past all the AI slop, you can browse Discord servers here.

Twitch Streams Twitch has kind of a bad reputation for being home to some of the more edgy gamers online, but the pixel art community is extremely welcoming and inclusive. Some of the people I met on Twitch are my friends to this day, and we've even worked together on different projects! Browse pixel art streams here, or follow some I recommend: NickWoz, JDZombi, CupOhJoe, GrayLure, LumpyTouch, FrankiePixelShow, MortMort, Sodor, NateyCakes, NyuraKim, ShinySeabass, I could go on for ever really... There are a lot of good eggs on Pixel Art Twitch.

🔸 Other Helpful Websites

Palettes Lospec has a huge collection of user-made palettes, for any artist who has trouble choosing their colours, or just wants to try something fun. Rejected Palettes is full of palettes that didn't quite make it onto Lospec, ran by people who believe there are no bad colours.

The Spriters Resource TSR is an incredible website where users can upload spritesheets and tilesets from games. You can browse for your favourite childhood game, and see how they made it! This website has helped me so much in understanding how game assets come together in a scene.

VGMaps Similar to the above, except there are entire maps laid out how they would be played. This is incredible if you have to do level design, or for mocking up a scene for fun.

Game UI Database Not pixel-art specific, but UI is a very challenging part of graphics, so this site can be a game-changer for finding good references!

Retronator A digital newspaper for pixel-art lovers! New game releases, tutorials, and artworks!

Itch.io A website where people can upload, games, assets, tools... An amazing hub for game devs and game fans alike. A few of my favourite tools: Tiled, PICO-8, Pixel Composer, Juice FX, Magic Pencil for Aseprite

🔸 The End?

This is just part 1 for now, so please drop me a follow to see any more guides I release in the future. I plan on doing some writeups on how I choose colours, how to practise, and more!

I'm not an expert by any means, but everything I did to get to where I am is outlined in this guide. Pixel art is my passion, my job and my hobby! I want pixel art to be recognized everywhere as an art-form, a medium of its own outside of game-art or computer graphics!

This guide took me a long time, and took a lot of research and experience. Consider following me or supporting me if you are feeling generous.

And good luck to all the fledgling pixel artists, I hope you'll continue and have fun. I hope my guide helped you, and don't hesitate to send me an ask if you have any questions! 💕

My other tutorials (so far): How to draw Simple Grass for a game Hue Shifting

[artsystudiofinds]

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As 2024 ending and 2025 is approaching, I give thanks to all my clients for their kind support and appreciation. In spite of tough year I received orders with love and this helps me in continuing my creativity ✨ Looking forward to 2025 with excitement and will be thrilled to introduce new creation coming New Year ✨

Thank you again :)

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How Economists Detect and Measure Collusion in Oligopolistic Markets

Introduction: What is Collusive Oligopoly?

A collusive oligopoly implies a market in which several firms of significant power cooperate to fix prices, output, and market share without competing. This cooperation may take the form of cartels or agreements that are not legally binding, with the ultimate aim of maximizing joint profits. By limiting competition, firms can easily set higher prices, limit their production, and act like monopolists.

Collusion in an oligopolistic market is beneficial because firms realize the benefits of symbiotic relationships as opposed to competition. For example, in a non-collusive market structure, the firm competes intensely to capture market share by significantly reducing price. Such behavior can be inimical to the interest of all companies because it eventually minimizes profitability. However, by agreeing tacitly, the oligopolists can fix prices, avert destructive competition, and provide certainty in the market. One example of this type of cartel includes OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) where member countries work in harmony to provide policy directives for production to control oil prices.

The primary purpose for why such situations exist is due to the strong interdependence of firms in an oligopoly. Pricing and output decisions taken by each of the firms affect the overall market condition. While in perfect competition each firm makes its decisions independently, the oligopolistic firms are highly strategic. Due to the risk of competitive retaliation, the group is likely to shift towards collusion for mutual interests. Although collusive behavior generates greater profits, it also has major economic as well as legal implications. Most governments have banned collusion as it is anti-competitive and detrimental to consumers in terms of limiting competition, innovation, and inflating prices.

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How Economists can identify and quantify collusive behavior in the Oligopolistic Markets

It may not be easy to identify collusion among firms particularly in an oligopolistic market since such firms will undertake elaborate measures towards concealing their collaborative conduct. Let us explore how collusion can be detected and measured by economists both theoretically and empirically.

1. Price Analysis

Pricing patterns is the first factor of attention for economists in the process of studying the market. In a competitive market, prices readily change with supply and demand. However, in a collusive market customers may experience that products and service prices do not change frequently or do not rise independently of other firms in the same market. Synchronized price increases, or price rigidity, can show evidence of collusion.

For instance, when economists undertook a survey on major airlines, they found out that most of the airlines had adopted a pattern of hiking fuel surcharges in unison without any justification for change in fuel prices.

This behavior led to the commencement of a large-scale investigation into British Airways and Virgin Atlantic and the companies were subsequently fined.

Another useful approach is to analyze the dispersion of prices across the firms in the industry. In competitive markets the degree of price dispersion is significantly greater than in other markets due to varying cost structures and strategies. However, in collusive markets, firms tend to set equivalent prices as they do not wish to be outcompeted by fellow firms.

2. Market Share Stability

Another element that interests economists is the market position of firms where the market share of each firm is closely monitored. In a highly competitive market, market shares are constantly changing due to developmental efforts carried out by firms such as innovation, efficiency enhancement, or the adoption of low-price strategies. But in a collusive oligopoly, market share may not change in significant terms as firms mutually collaborate to minimize competition.

For instance, a cartel of manufacturers of trucks in Europe, the major players in the industry collaborated to maintain a stable market share and conspired to raise prices for more than a decade.

Such behavior triggered one of the biggest antitrust fines ever in the EU history.

3. Production capacity and its utilization

Another technique whereby economists are able to establish a collusion is by evaluating the levels of production and the capacity utilization of firms. In a collusive market, firms may restrict themselves from producing a larger quantity to maintain a high price. This may result in production capacities being under-utilized in a bid to ensure that they do not supply excess goods in the market thereby reducing the price.

For instance, the cement industry has time and again been under accusation of colluding in several countries, where firms were determined to be collaborating over supply decisions in a manner that would ultimately provide them with better market prices to make huge profits from.

4. Bid-rigging and Auction Data

In markets where several firms bid for contracts through auction or tender, the economists can observe bid patterns as an indication of cartel behavior. Firms are found to manipulate the bidding process, for instance, bid rigging, where firms decide beforehand who amongst them will win by deliberately submitting higher bids, allowing one firm to win at a higher price as compared to a competitive auction. This practice was especially noted in the construction sector among various firms in the UK colluding on tender prices for public contracts.

 By studying auction data, economists can try looking for signs or patterns of rotation among winning bidders. Bid prices that are very close indicate that firms are in fact agreeing to share contracts or bids instead of competing for them.

5. Game Theory and Behavioral Analysis

Game theory is crucial in the analysis of the strategic actions of firms operating in an oligopolistic market. The prisoner’s dilemma is one of the game-theory models that economists use in expectation of understanding how various firms would operate under different competitive or collusive situations. In collusion, firms face a dilemma: They can either coordinate with other firms, and agree to fix high prices that are good for all or it can cheat by lowering prices and grabbing a bigger share of the market.

If firms prefer to cooperate in the future, then there could be a sign of tacit collusion. By modeling the behavior of firms and analyzing these simulated results with actual data, economists can deduce if firms are colluding even in the absence of explicit evidence.

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6. Econometric Analysis

Apart from theoretical models, econometric tests can also be used to detect collusion. This is where market data concerning price, quantity, and cost are analyzed statistically to reveal collusion-like behavior. For example, one can use regression analysis and see if price changes are correlated among firms, which indicate collusion rather than competition.

Structural break tests can also be employed to detect changes in market behavior enough to signal the beginning or end of collusion. However, if, after a time period of stable prices, one of the firms cuts its price and the others copy this move, there is a possibility that a cartel has ceased to exist.

Economic Ramifications of cartelization

Collusion has significant economic consequences both for the market and consumer equally. With an artificial increase in product prices, collusive firms transfer wealth from consumers to producers, or, more correctly, devalue consumer welfare. Such a deviation from the efficient allocation of resources gives rise to deadweight loss, in which output is less than it would have been in competitive circumstances.

Since then, in the 1990s, various global companies colluded to fix the price of lysine, a very important animal feed additive. The livestock farmer paid the increased prices, which he later passed on to the consumers in the form of increased meat prices. Several hundreds of millions of dollars were eventually fined against these companies.

Collusion can also stifle innovation and competition. When firms agree not to compete with one another on prices or market shares, they have no real reasons to invest in innovations that would keep them competitive, work towards greater efficiencies, or produce better products for consumers.

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