Art Thread

[Riku]

Man, I am on a roll lately.



If anyone is wondering, the phone says "Caller: Ahalya" in Hindi

[Zang]

love it riku

i did a thing today

[Riku]

Ahhhhhhh all of the improvements! I like the softer style of the new face.

[Tall-Hatted Yanimae]

ZANG LOOK AT YOU GO

I'm sorry I still gotta send you those books downloads

[Tatzel]

You're the best example of what someone can achieve when they work hard and determined enough

[Zang]

oh my god I love you guys.

You're the best example of what someone can achieve when they work hard and determined enough

something in my...fucking eye...


you guys are great, I would still be at square one if it wasn't for everyone's encouragement and advice.

that being said I made a little sprite thing

[Riku]

Hahaaaaaaaaaaaa it's cute. I love it

[Sol Reaper]

For some reason I keep seeing a little "c:" smile even though one's not drawn in

[Zang]

binary is kinda fun sometimes.

[Riku]

What do you mean by that?

[Zang]

What do you mean by that?

the binary tool is kinda fun to use i guess? I dunno is that some kinda like, offensive thing out of context? hope i didnt do that.

[Riku]

Oh, no, not offensive, haha. I'm not a Tumblr social justice warrior. I just was wondering what binary was supposed to mean. I didn't know it was a brush thing or whatever. I thought it was a style or a program or....I don't know.

[Tatzel]

The binary tool is pretty much a pixel brush, you can compare it to the MSPaint tools.

[Ersatz]

I think that would mean the tool's alpha channel (transparency map) only supports one bit (completely opaque or completely invisible, just like GIF). That means brushes have no anti-aliasing at all.

[Ersatz]

The one on the left does not have anti-aliasing, the one one the right does.
Anti-aliasing kind of blurs edges to make them softer.
Each pixel of a picture usually has three values: Red, Green, Blue, and Opacity (alpha) when it is supported. GIFs use a palette (index) to reduce file size. A GIF pic has a maximum of 255 different colors and uses them as in a number painting (dunno if that's how it's called in English; the kind of paintings with outlines of zones to fill in with a set color). GIFs also only support a 1-bit Alpha channel, which means the fourth value of every pixel is either 0 or 1 (invisible or opaque).
By comparison, PNGs can have more than 16 millions of colors and a full 8-bit alpha channel (256 possible values of opacity for every pixel).
This means GIFs can't have anti-aliasing in the alpha channel, but PNGs can.
That's also why when you edit GIFs, you'll want to make them RGB (unindexed) beforehand so you can use whatever color you want and not only the ones in the existing palette.
Hope this helps.