(oc) tala nd abner, talabner! #oc #art #sketch

To summarize: - Think about the underlying shape, not the literal pixels - Use carefully, use sparingly to not compromise appeal - Don't be afraid to "cheat" your shapes - These examples are guides, not law. Go with what feels right

For increased clarity, here's the main frame and the sub-pixel frames side-by-side. You can see how the subpixel frame isn't as "pretty" as the base frame. In a few places the shape is slightly more compromised for the sake of a smoother motion. Remember, this is for animation, not static art.

As a test of these principles, here's a subpixel animation I did of Sonic crawling up 3 pixels. If we think about the shapes that make up the character without being super literal to the sprite, we can try to imagine how the character would look "resampled" at a half step.

Here is a faceted 3D sphere. I find it pretty handy for a variety of reasons as a "packed" reference of sorts. Keeping what we've talked about in the thread in mind, observe how we see the pixels in each face change as the sphere rotates.

For the sake of completeness here's the anti-aliased version. Like the circle the anti-aliasing does help smooth out both the shape and motion a little bit, but you can also see how, in this case, the shape is losing focus. It gets a little blurry, which is why you need to be discerning still.

Let's try another subject and use case. Here's a rotating square. Now, in typical pixel art, some of the angles here might look ugly if the image is static (2-3-2-3 stair-stepping for instance) But in animation you can get away with less desirable angles in favor of a consistent shape:

Little thread where I talk about subpixel animation and share some of my own resources I made to study it better. This is a circle I rendered in blender slowly crawling up 2 pixels over the course of 17 frames. I'm showing the aliased version first and I'm going to break down what's happening here

Here is the same render with anti-aliasing. The gif file appears to have 36 colors, but this level of AA can be accomplished with 5 values (and you can use way less than that!) Keep in mind the previous post and notice how the colors change and crawl as the circle gets resampled.

pintei

i go where you go #aerti

biblically accurate aerith 2

biblically accurate aerith

a morrigan and some street fighters (they're still a WIP, though) #pixelart #drrobotniksringracers

Bweh

GET OUTTA MY HEADDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!! Happy 8th Anniversary to Celeste!🍓🥳🎉 #CelesteGame

crystal from the us tomodachi direct

this redesign was originally for fun, but midway through the sketch phase, i gave it a story + #db #songoku #goku #redesign #dragonball #art

6 Hours of Nintendo 64 Facts to Suck and Fuck To

Cutscene: Reboot (Ultimix)

Snyder girl

jovie 💚❤️💛

The evolution of my adult Powerpuff Girls #ppg #powerpuffgirls

Brick's a bad father #ppg #powerpuffgirls

Finally got to designing an adult Princess Morbucks

More of her

oh my clipsvilles

Robin Snyder doodle cuz she's cool

FusionFall Powerpuff Girls artwork from 2022

Pluto #astroboy

I'm 19 now, btw

budz

Crazy ass hypothetical I came up with

cutie 🖤

Was in a Buttercup mood

Kid Goku but he's wearing God's weighted clothes

Akira Himekawa sure has a lot of range to nail all these diferent styles, pretty impressive stuff

BLAM BLAM

hi gang

here's a comm I did 4 @NovemberSong04 over on that other site

1/1なので1-1カービィです

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

missing hammer #art #BRart #oc #roblox

61/100

if you're young and choosing art as a career because "well art is fun and i suck at everything else!!", identify all the secondary skills and soft skills that go into art careers (ie time and finance management, working in a team, etc) and hone those skills above all else

[ #utsona #mettaton ] when your visual disability is aesthetically pleasing 😍😍😍