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This is a totally valid artistic choice, and they are welcome to do that. I certainly enjoy it myself when it's well done. But... it's not pixel art anymore,
by rleigh 10y ago
This is a totally valid artistic choice, and they are welcome to do that. I certainly enjoy it myself when it's well done.
But... it's not pixel art anymore, it's square art. And if people want to create neo-pointilist/neo-divisionist artwork based upon a grid of coloured squares that's fine. But it's not pixels.
- mrob 10y agoI can understand it being annoying, especially if you have a DSP background, but the name is well established. Language changes over time and "pixel" has gained another meaning. I don't think you're going to convince anybody to switch to "neo-pointilist".
- makomk 10y agoNope, it's exactly pixel art, because in the real world pixels were never simply point samples - indeed, few things are because they're not physically possible. (It's a reasonably approximation for audio, mostly because there's a truly massive amount of oversampling happening behind the scenes to make it work.) Pixel art takes advantage of the fact that pixels are not point samples and never were.