Recently a video claimed that modern pixel artists are misguided - mimicking sprites as they appear on modern screens, instead of how pixel artists from the 80s and 90s “intended” them to look on hazy CRT televisions.
Not exactly. Let’s discuss.
A thread
1/🧵 First the easy one: This example, from Super Mario RPG, wasn’t drawn by a pixel artist at all.
Rather, it was 3d rendered on a Silicon Graphics workstation and then downrezed to an SNES sprite.
Touchups were done, but the intent was to mimic the 3d render.
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