aereddia
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I'm working on a game with my friend and he is in charge of the art. He's new to pixel art and has a very strange way of making it, but I wanted to know if this process was normal or completely insane. This will be his process for the battle sprites and we'll be using color palettes to show the different enemies.
He's drawing these images by hand and then scanning them into photoshop. I believe he cleans them up at this point because the scanning process doesn't get everything at 100% and sometimes you just have to make some edits. I'm not sure about the order here, but he shrinks them and reduces their color palettes next. This requires some more clean up since shrinking them will blur some pixels and colors. By this time, the image size is somewhere around 200x200 (give or take 50 pixels), and he's got between 20-40 colors for each image. He's done this for 13 sprites already and will probably do this for more.
I normally don't care how the art gets made, but this feels horribly inefficient to me. I know you can work on art however you want and everybody's habits will be different, but does this sound like a good way to you? Am I crazy? Is this how most people do it? Does it matter?
Thanks.
He's drawing these images by hand and then scanning them into photoshop. I believe he cleans them up at this point because the scanning process doesn't get everything at 100% and sometimes you just have to make some edits. I'm not sure about the order here, but he shrinks them and reduces their color palettes next. This requires some more clean up since shrinking them will blur some pixels and colors. By this time, the image size is somewhere around 200x200 (give or take 50 pixels), and he's got between 20-40 colors for each image. He's done this for 13 sprites already and will probably do this for more.
I normally don't care how the art gets made, but this feels horribly inefficient to me. I know you can work on art however you want and everybody's habits will be different, but does this sound like a good way to you? Am I crazy? Is this how most people do it? Does it matter?
Thanks.