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"Wow, amazing accomplishment, I just wish you did it a different way" HN is wild.

• VikingCoder 4y ago
  I'm not going to spend a day and a half reproducing old pixel art in Photoshop. I celebrate an artist who will take the time to do that, and I think their final result is fantastic. If there were a tool that would help me do this, there are situations where I would use it. I actually wrote a tool that took a PNG and helped me break out the original sprites, backgrounds, and fonts from an old video game. But I recognize that doing this from a photograph is a couple orders of magnitude more difficult. If anyone is looking for a technical challenge, and has the relevant skills, here I am highlighting how amazing I think it would be.
  • codetrotter 4y ago
    “I'm not going to spend a day and a half reproducing old pixel art in Photoshop” ..instead, I will spend a month and a half writing a piece of software to reproduce the pixel art for me. :^)
  • gorjusborg 4y ago
    The effort the author is willing to put in is a main reason why this content is entertaining to me. The other main component is that he followed through and did it. Commentary by those who don't care enough to invest a day doing it, that also haven't done it, and that are being critical of the work seems pathetic and sad. The work itself is inspiring and joyful.
    • VikingCoder 4y ago
      I don't feel I'm being critical at all. I hope I'm inspiring someone else to put in a parallel effort, with a different form of artistry - writing image processing rather than staring at Photoshop. If the artist took my comment as critical, I apologize - not my intent at all.