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[the-tutorial]

Lesson #9: I-I-I- AAAAAAAAAAA

I-I-I- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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[tofupixel]

I recently started learning to use rpg maker (vx ace!) and as a result have become increasingly interested in pixel art. I hadn't really done pixel work since my teens - I do more digital painting and vector art - so while I'm a little familiar and can do passable editing, there's a lot I don't know.

One thing that's kind of perplexing for me is understanding the differences in style between two creators of pixel art. I studied art history and I'm used to the differences being things like brush stroke length or degree of realism... I feel like I'm lacking in lexicon in this new frontier lol

What nuances of an artist do you think are most important to style in pixel art?

This kind of stuff is not really officially studied (yet) so it's all a bit of opinion from me.

Usually in pixel art the biggest differences in styles are which limitations the artists choose to impose on themselves; colour count, resolution, palette... Or more stylistic choices like hue shifting, anti-aliasing style or no, dithering or no, etc.

I personally think there are a huge variety of styles in pixel art, as it's literally just a medium, and I hope you'll agree by the end 8)

Also (imo) there is some seperation between the styles of art for art's sake, and art for videogames, where things have to be clear and readable to be actually playable.

🎮 Old school games:

Sometimes referred to as something like '8-bit' or '16-bit' (relating to the NES era / SNES era consoles), these artstyles usually follow the rules and limitations of the hardware at the time.

This all falls under retro art, most popular styles include: NES, SNES, GB, GBC, C64

Notable artists: Nickwoz, Sandy Gordon, Franken, Cisco

📚 Old school art:

There were also events called Demoscene (still are), where developers would go to a big convention and share their demos. A lot of pixel art competitions were held here, where artists would draw live.

Generally they used to favour a high realism/semirealism style, with lots of texture/dithering, fairly high resolution (if the hardware allowed for it), and adjacent pixels mostly being different from one another.

There are even older styles than this but they are fairly niche and I'm not that well educated. If interested look into some of the old PCs/consoles.

⭐ Modern pixel art:

Usually using more colours and higher resolution, larger clusters of pixels instead of individual ones. Strong use of art fundamentals.

Artists to look at: Adam Ferguson (yes it is pixel art), Snake, Slym, 6VCR, Yes I do Pixels, Gijotto, SovanJedi, JoeCreates, Franek, @8pxl

the rest below are "modern" pixel artists too but I think they have other things in their style that are a bit different!

🎨 Painterly:

Some artists choose to emulate the natural brushstrokes digitally, and keep their clusters large and loose. Usually don't focus on the minute details as much.

@makrustic, @hexh-pixel, Umbohr, Gawrone

🟦 Dithering

These artists all use dithering / texture in ways that make their styles totally unique.

Deceiver, Night, Reo,

💥 Experimental

These artists are always trying new things and honing in on their unique style.

AJ, hby, @ilta222, Alphons

I could really go on for ever, there are so many different styles, cute pixel art, horror pixel art, 1bit (2 colours only), and then adding animation takes it even further, but I think you get the idea

If you want to learn more, the Masters of Pixel Art books have works /interviews from pixel artists of different eras, including demoscene and contemporary.

😊👍

[zundamind]

~ A TELECAST PROMOTING VERTIGO

[bellflowerpuddle]

every time I turn a page in tsc nora kicks me in the stomach and shoots me in the face. when will enough be enough

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[drfuckerm-d]

@hawkstar5 suggested/gave me the idea to do a little tutorial, so i decided it would be a nice quick warm up (was not quick but was nice) its data-centric but i mean. you don't have to tweak it much to make it lore/b4/spiner/noonien/watever. like just give him smirk/orange eyes/glasses/crazy hair and ur good. anyways if u do use this tag me in it or like reblawg with ur shot under it cuz i wanna seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 👁️👁️❤️✨i hope i set it up good and it's not like that horse drawing tutorial joke like i hope i didn't go too fast LOL

[kristiliqua]

some ultrakill fans flaming people for playing on lenient/harmless is so funny to me because here i am in my little corner playing on harmless with Also 100% damage reduction (in major assist settings) because my severe anxiety cannot handle the idea of me taking any damage at all . i am wearing my propeller hat and eating my lollipop and i am having fun :3 (and maybe one day i can ease that anxiety and play without major assists)

[the-tutorial]

Oh well in that case the bunker I just dug is kind of pointless now.

But still, better to have one and not use it than to not have it and need it.

Also, you now actually seem like a person who is nice to be around, good for you.

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Tutorial quest (assigned here)

Be a good person (1/1)

Reward: Duck Plushie (Legendary)

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You have received: Duck Plushie (Legendary)

In your inventory.

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Anyways, bye! New players won't introduce themselves.

I literally just spent like two days digging a bunker and in the meantime, you somehow got your gender transed.

What's happening to Carrion, I mean, Carrion is still kind of an issue, right?

(@the-tutorial)

Oh hii! Last I heard it was like visiting that restaurant, the dumpster fire! There's like an evil hand monster that like goes through wood but that's about it threat wise!

[simonsoys]

Love replaying Deltarune chapters 1 and 2 this weekend with my husband watching it for the first time and him speed running lore theories as we go.

(Also I'll be tagging any spoilers for Chapters 3 and 4 as deltarune spoilers next week.)

[the-tutorial]

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Welcome,

I am the Tutorial and I will teach you everything you need to know to get started!

Here is a tutorial quest to get you started:

[ ] Kill a Lvl 1 slime (0/1)

To do this you will need to learn how to move around, buy or create tools and so much more!

I will also provide you with useful hints to make your starting experience better.

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[tipsieocart]

Here is a tutorial on how I do my pink cartoon style drawings because @gojoiskira requested it 😌 I tried to explain stuff and yk hopefully this is helpful

This is for the outline:

This is for coloring / shading

Sorry it might be bad quality or laggy. I had to do this on my phone and with capcut. Capcut Hates to work.

If anyone tries this tag me I wanna see (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

[the-tutorial]

This carrion is pretty scary, so I decided I need a system anchor in my doomsday bunker. Based on the knowledge I got from the [Orb of Wisdom] that should be able to hold off corrupt entities for at least some time.

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>?spawn system.anchor at -3465 6557 15

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Huh? What was that?

[autumnslance]

New Game+ Tutorial

"I don't remember this part of the story." "It's been so long since I played X expansion." "What happened during that raid again?" "Who was this character?" "I story skipped the MSQ/job quests so I don't know what happened and who these people are!"

There's answers to this, friends. Not only is the game's own Unending Journey (in inn rooms, or as furnishing in your FC or private rooms/homes) able to replay many cutscenes, and there's the completed quest log, but there are places online, such as Garland Tools and the FFXIV Game Script, that keep most (not all) of the quest text handy.

But if you want to relive those quests, and/or get the side dialogues and replay (or first time play!) the experiences, as of Shadowbringers 5.1 there's a feature called New Game+ to allow that.

New Game+ (or NG+) will let you replay past questlines, at your current level (which makes it go pretty fast in a lot of cases). There is No experience or rewards to gain through this feature--no using it to level alt jobs. It purely exists to allow experiencing, or re-experiencing, completed content.

Once defeating the Ultima Weapon and Lahabrea at level 50 in ARR's finale of 2.0, you can go to Vesper Bay and find the Wistful Whitebeard.

More info and images below the Keep Reading cut...

(image taken from gamesconsolewiki and their article on this feature.)

Once you've unlocked the feature by talking to him, you get a new menu option in your Duty menu (the exclamation point icon), right between Duty Recorder and Hall of the Novice.

Once you select the feature it brings up a menu of options; it usually defaults to Main Story Quests, but I also have a paused replay under "Suspend" in progress. There are also options that match other quest interfaces, like your Journal or the Unending Journey; Chronicles of a New Era for raids and trials, Side Story for quests like Hildibrand, the Scholasticate, Role Master Quests, Void Quests, and Chronicles of Light (story important side quests, like Tales of the Dragonsong War, Tales from the Shadows, Tales of Newfound Adventure). Tank, Healer, DPS, Crafting, and Gathering quests also have their own categories.

Each Expansion MSQ is broken into parts; usually 2 parts for the x.0 main expansion, and then 2 parts for the patches. They're only available after x.0 or the patch stories are complete.

Also notice the "Help" icon in the top right of the NG+ overlay; it opens a pretty comprehensive guide, divided into menu sections, about how the feature works.

ARR is split into 6 parts, and I do think 2.0 could use a rework in how they're split but for now, I'm selecting Part 6 to look for specific side dialogues that only exist in this timeframe.

Selecting Part 6 opens the description; the Crystal Braves have just been formed, to help the Scions with the turmoil still facing the realm--from refugees, to Garlemald's continuing threat, to primals and Ascians.

Once you do, the NG+ quest info shows up, usually around where ever you keep your MSQ quest marker. I hide my MSQ tracker once it's done, so NG+ fits in that same spot in the upper left for me.

It tells me to "Relive Past Adventures!", which expac and part I'm in, and which quest is my starting point in this case, "Traitor in the Midst", the start of the Ivy spy plotline in Patch 2.4.

From here it progresses as if I am back in that patch and on those quests, but without any experience or rewards. Aeryn's in her current level 90 appearance and skills, making it easy to skip past and handle level 45-50 enemies in these zones.

So long as I am in NG+, I cannot do current quests, plots, or other content; I can't complete new current level duties (duties new in NG+ itself are fine), I can't access the MB, my retainers, or the Unending Journey. I can manually Suspend my current playthrough, or performing some of these actions (like duties) will automatically suspend my NG+ playthrough. You also cannot start NG+ while doing certain things (like some quests, such as leves).

This also will not let you play through the start of other city-states, only your original starter town. Solo duties will let you choose their difficulty immediately, without having to fail them first like in normal play.

If I want to drop my NG+ save before I've finished the replay--maybe I found the info and screenshots I wanted--I can delete the save.

This is an extremely helpful feature that can be used to replay events and quests, either for the fun of it, or because you want to find specific dialogue or lore information that only exists in a specific point in game. Maybe you want to visit old friends lost along the way, or take new screenshots of your WoL as they are post-fantasia.

Maybe it's just been a few years, and you've found you've forgotten some things and want to remember how the story actually went, especially knowing what you know now.

[chaoticsorceressztc]

Fuck it, Splatoon Fan Music Iceberg.

Feel free to edit this with more stuff

I swear to cod, if I become the lore keeper of Splatoon fan idols I will die.

[genericpuff]

How to Draw Hecate!

Hey y'all, I had the idea to create a little 'how to' guide to drawing stuff in the hybrid style of Rekindled/LO, so here's one featuring Hecate which I was able to slap together from the last episode. Enjoy!! <3

[the-tutorial]

I guess it can't be-

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

...I am pretty sure that whole dimension collapsed...

But at least I'm not stuck in a void anymore.

I hope, nobody else was in that void.

Tiny little question, do you have any dimensional spells? Something that would preferably let me get from one dimension to another.

(My current hypothesis is that I am in a different dimension)

- @glitchy-system

I DO, ACTUALLY!

[Wayward Spell:] Nefarious sends out a parchment labeled "RIP DIMENSION IN HALF SPELL (NEVER USE THIS)"