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If you want to distinguish yourself against your competition, you should look into implementing Index Painting or realtime palette conversion as a built-in feature: https://lospec.com/pixel-art-tutorials/hd-index-painting-in-... You've got a really good start though, the UI looks clean and you've got a good feature set as-is. Realtime palette conversion would let people author pixel art using truecolor tools while st…
I'm not versed in pixel art, so my naive question is, isn't it easier to draw using vector graphics and then convert to pixel art when needed? Because I think it is not easy to manipulate pixels, but vector objects are much easier to manipulate. Also, vector graphics retain the high resolution, so it's much easier to create for many different resolutions. Even if the automatic conversion to pixels wasn't perfect, wou…
Some higher-res or smoothly animated styles do use 2D or 3D renderings that get cleaned up into pixel sprites; if you're old enough to remember the Donkey Kong Country games for the SNES, that's one example. I think 2017's Sonic Mania also used 3D assets in its pixel art pipeline. But most professional-quality pixel art isn't built from higher-res art because there's usually no benefit, especially if it's a low-res "retro" style.
If you want to distinguish yourself against your competition, you should look into implementing Index Painting or realtime palette conversion as a built-in feature: https://lospec.com/pixel-art-tutorials/hd-index-painting-in-... You've got a really good start though, the UI looks clean and you've got a good feature set as-is. Realtime palette conversion would let people author pixel art using truecolor tools while st…
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My biggest question is "why would I buy this and not Aseprite?". Aseprite is very well established in this space and this new tool doesn't seem like it has anythign unique to offer. Not that building a new tool isn't a good project, but when you're selling it you probably need some distinctive features, certainly if you want to win over existing users.
I think creating something for fun is good by itself, also the app looks good. Personally I wouldn't use since I use Linux and prefer OSS, but the app looks really cool, congrats
I'm not versed in pixel art, so my naive question is, isn't it easier to draw using vector graphics and then convert to pixel art when needed? Because I think it is not easy to manipulate pixels, but vector objects are much easier to manipulate. Also, vector graphics retain the high resolution, so it's much easier to create for many different resolutions. Even if the automatic conversion to pixels wasn't perfect, wou…
What are the advantages over aseprite?
- Isometric shape tool
- Built-in pattern brushes (for things like brickwork, landscapes, fences, windows, doors, meshes etc., stuff thats painstaking to draw)
- Color ramp generator with configurable hue shifting
- Inline text tool
I'm not versed in pixel art, so my naive question is, isn't it easier to draw using vector graphics and then convert to pixel art when needed? Because I think it is not easy to manipulate pixels, but vector objects are much easier to manipulate. Also, vector graphics retain the high resolution, so it's much easier to create for many different resolutions. Even if the automatic conversion to pixels wasn't perfect, wou…
I'm not versed in pixel art, so my naive question is, isn't it easier to draw using vector graphics and then convert to pixel art when needed? Because I think it is not easy to manipulate pixels, but vector objects are much easier to manipulate. Also, vector graphics retain the high resolution, so it's much easier to create for many different resolutions. Even if the automatic conversion to pixels wasn't perfect, wou…
Different resolution demand different solutions. For example, if an artist uses a very low resolution such as 16x16 pixels for a character sprite, he will often favour an excessively large head because only then will he have enough pixels for his facial expressions. Likewise it does not make sense to use too many different colours in such a resolution. In contrast, if the arist wants to use more "realistic" sprites, she or he would probably choose a higher resolution with a larger colour palette from the start. So basically one is designing for a specific pixel-resolution and instead of adjusting the pixel-resolution to a screen-resolution one just scales the pixels themselves into little boxes when showing them on higher screen-resolutions.
If you want to distinguish yourself against your competition, you should look into implementing Index Painting or realtime palette conversion as a built-in feature: https://lospec.com/pixel-art-tutorials/hd-index-painting-in-... You've got a really good start though, the UI looks clean and you've got a good feature set as-is. Realtime palette conversion would let people author pixel art using truecolor tools while st…
Thanks for the suggestion! Going to implement this.