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[BlackFlyme]

Was about to ask what you use, but it seems you fixed it.

I know that for GIMP, turning off the interpolation on scaling fixes blurriness for me. I have never used paint.net though.

[Parsely]

Sorry for double-posting! Here's something I made, kind of a prototype.

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I can't make it bigger without making it all blurry, though. Never mind, figured it out.

That character looks fantastic IMO, really great dithering. The background, not so much, but the way I understand it it's a WIP.

[Cheesecake]

^Thanks, dude! Yeah, wasn't really bothered by the background; the moon is literally the circle tool with the paintbucket. :p

I'm probably gonna hold off on this until after exams though.

[Parsely]

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This water. This water has really got me stumped. I can't really find any good reference pictures for a moonlit ocean so I've just been screwing around with the surface below and above the wave. The pattern below looks like utter shit, the pattern above is better but not quite right.. Any advice?

[Cheesecake]

The colors are great but what you said, the pattern isn't quite right. I've got some reference images if you want.

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The top bit of the wave should be more white and frothy. The top pattern should maybe have some dithering between the darker water and where the moonlight hits it.

[Parsely]

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I messed around with the clouds since I'm putting off the water.

[Cheesecake]

^ I like the clouds, gives it a strange, otherworldly feel. The pattern left-side of the wave feels wrong, though. Maybe adding the reflecting moonlight?

Other things: I found a guy one youtube who makes tutorials (he has 11 right now) on pixel art. The videos are short and aimed at newbies. Thought it would be helpful. EDIT: Stupid me didn't mention his channel... He's got a channel called achebit.

Other other thing: How do I animate pixel art? The ones I search online come up with ones for Photoshop. Anyone know how to do so in paint.net (or another free program like GraphicsGale)?

[Shook]

For GraphicsGale, what you can do is to use the built-in frame function (even for the free edition), and then once you've set up your animation how you want it to be, go to export and make it export the individual frames. Then, you can load them into Gimp and get a gif out of that. If you just save a multi-layered file as a gif, you'll get the option to make it an animation, where you can specify frame delay and such (for frame disposal, i recommend "replace").

[Parsely]

Check out JackBread's YT channel. He has a video of animating a kobold in GraphicsGale.

[Cheesecake]

Quick little thing I made. Tried playing with lighting and stuff.

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[Parsely]

Hm, interesting. It's a little busy, but I'm enjoying the lighting. I think you should reduce the letters to illegible single pixel scribbles, because that parchment has three letter words taking up its entire space. If you made the canvas bigger and put some space between these two characters, you could have the beginnings of a great scene. Since the light source is between them, I could see them being on opposite sides of some kind of entrance.

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[Parsely]

Okay the monthly challenges were too much for me to keep up with and I could never think of any good ideas for it anyways, so how about an art exchange instead? How this works is: two artists agree to an exchange, then tell each other what to draw, and when it's finished they present it simultaneously and then argue about whose is prettier (no yours is prettier!). This way people can be challenged and you don't have to wait on someone unreliable like me. How does that sound?

[Nirur Torir]

Sounds fun. I was about to ask about re-starting the challenges.

I'm in; who's trading with me?

[FArgHalfnr]

Sounds fun. I was about to ask about re-starting the challenges.

I'm in; who's trading with me?

I'll give it a try, I needed an excuse to practice my pixel art skills.

[Cheesecake]

Interested, but busy with exams. :c