What Is Your Favorite Pixel Art And Why Is It From SNK

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The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

my understanding is that for a long time snk drew their pixel art with a joystick, like, on the actual arcade machine. this pic isn't snk's thing, it's taito's but i think it drives home the what-the-gently caress-ness of it all:

there's a story of one guy who heard these stories when he got hired at snk, went "bullshit" and his boss responded by using a joystick to draw a KOF sprite in 15 minutes.

that's hard to consider especially considering how loving ridiculous all of snk's pixel art is, especially the animation in the metal slug games

there are a lot of other developers who have done great pixel art but i don't think any of them have reached the point of "driven to bankruptcy twice by it" like snk has

please post very good dot graphics because i love them

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Fungah!: Apr 30, 2011

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The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

also i think the shin megami tensei demon designer guy, kaneko i think, would skip concept art back in the snes days. he'd just draw stuff directly as pixel art into the computer and then do the paper drawings after the fact so they'd have something to stick in the strategy guide, which rules

# ? Feb 22, 2023 20:00

Fungah!: Apr 30, 2011

The Kins posted:

also i think the shin megami tensei demon designer guy, kaneko i think, would skip concept art back in the snes days. he'd just draw stuff directly as pixel art into the computer and then do the paper drawings after the fact so they'd have something to stick in the strategy guide, which rules

that pwns, kaneko ftw

# ? Feb 22, 2023 20:01

tmfc: Sep 28, 2006

PC-98 era pixel art is really good OP

# ? Feb 22, 2023 20:01

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

The Kins posted:

my understanding is that for a long time snk drew their pixel art with a joystick, like, on the actual arcade machine. this pic isn't snk's thing, it's taito's but i think it drives home the what-the-gently caress-ness of it all:

there's a story of one guy who heard these stories when he got hired at snk, went "bullshit" and his boss responded by using a joystick to draw a KOF sprite in 15 minutes.

that's hard to consider especially considering how loving ridiculous all of snk's pixel art is, especially the animation in the metal slug games

there are a lot of other developers who have done great pixel art but i don't think any of them have reached the point of "driven to bankruptcy twice by it" like snk has

please post very good dot graphics because i love them

I remember seeing a picture of the pixel-art joystick that SNK used but I've never been able to find it again, it looked like that but was like 4x as big and was like a 12x12 matrix of buttons

Alaois fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Feb 22, 2023

# ? Feb 22, 2023 20:03

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

tmfc posted:

PC-98 era pixel art is really good OP

how did artists even plan this poo poo out back in the day when they had to like, juggle 16 colour palettes and stuff? utter madness.

# ? Feb 22, 2023 20:04

Plebian Parasite: Oct 12, 2012

tmfc posted:

PC-98 era pixel art is really good OP

# ? Feb 22, 2023 20:08

Pungry: Feb 26, 2011; JUST PICK ONE. ANY ONE.

All the stuff in here is gorgeous but for me it's gotta be Ghost Trick and Ace Attorney

# ? Feb 22, 2023 20:08

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Spiral's sprite from MVC2 was just Capcom's animators flexing

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Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

We need to go back...

# ? Feb 22, 2023 20:15

Punished Chuck: Dec 27, 2010

The Kins posted:

also i think the shin megami tensei demon designer guy, kaneko i think, would skip concept art back in the snes days. he'd just draw stuff directly as pixel art into the computer and then do the paper drawings after the fact so they'd have something to stick in the strategy guide, which rules

This is how at least the first 151 Pok�mon were done too, when you see all the kind of weird sprites from Red/Blue that don�t look like any later depictions of the same Pok�mon it�s not because the sprite was a wonky interpretation of Sugimori�s art, it�s because Sugimori made some changes when interpreting the sprites into traditional art.

# ? Feb 22, 2023 20:15

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Alaois posted:

Spiral's sprite from MVC2 was just Capcom's animators flexing

i think they did a lot of their animation on paper as traditional animation before scanning it in, as the ultimate flex. the archipel documentary on AKIMAN has a couple of peeks at the original drawings

anyway here's something from the west - the end of the shareware episode of tyrian. i think they had to put together a special version without this pic because it traumatized too many kids, lol