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[pixeltao]

Do you remember your first experience with pixel art? I remember animating pixels for the first time on the Etch A Sketch Animator when I was 8 or 9 years old. It was in 1989... Good old days.

[___]

My first pixel art was recoloring a Protoman sprite from Megaman 7 and thinking I was hot shit.

Actually, maybe long before that there was a drawing program on my dad's computer that ran in DOS or something.  I used to try to draw my own games in it all the time.

[The-Imp]

Like, 2004 or 2005, I was introduced to, THE INTERNET. In which I joined a Nintendo forum and recolored Pokemon sprites. Then moved on to custom Pokemon sprites.

Then I found THIS:http://www.geocities.com/skulkraken2002/

AND I PRACTICED. Got better. And now I sprite how I sprite.

[pixeltao]

Like, 2004 or 2005, I was introduced to, THE INTERNET. In which I joined a Nintendo forum and recolored Pokemon sprites. Then moved on to custom Pokemon sprites.

Then I found THIS:http://www.geocities.com/skulkraken2002/

AND I PRACTICED. Got better. And now I sprite how I sprite.

I'm always amazed to see people from the N64/Playstation era doing pixel art. It proves the value of pixel art as a true art form and not just nostalgia.

BTW, those Tsugumo tutorials are great. I read them many times a couple of years ago.

[Xion]

When I was like 7 we had DOS or some ancient version of windows or something, and I used to paint tiny things in the paint program, and the tiled backgrounds that were only allowed to be like, 4*4px.

Found RPG Maker 2k in like '01 and edited the default sprites minimally.

Later, around maybe '03 or so, I found Game Maker and cracked open paint and made a low-res character out of nothing but circles (named Redd, file long gone).

Later I moved to recoloring Megaman sprites - NES styled because I hated the massive feet of the later games.

Somewhere along the line I found Pixelation and that's where the fun began.

This is the oldest thing I can find, made shortly before (or shortly after) I joined pixelation.


Used nothing but MSPaint for the longest. Later changed to GGale. Have never looked back.

[Pietepiet]

I started with making recolours and edits of Sonic sprites back in 2000. Then I quit for quite a while, and picked pixelart up again in 2005 when I went to college and met a classmate with the same interests, after which I just practiced a ton and learned a lot from lurking at Pixelation.

[Nessiah]

I started at 2007 I believe somewhere in August:


and a kind soul (who is now my boyfriend) made a really good edit of it and taught me a lot of stuff

I think what got me mostly in pixel art was when I played Alter A.I.L.A
It was just this realization, nobody cares if your game is that high res or whatsoever as long as the game is fun!

[Oceans Dream]

Ah, people have very different ways/reasons how they got into pixelling. Mine was that I wanted to be a game designer ever since I was little (I'll admit that my old dream was to own Squaresoft). So I decided to try out making a game, though until RPG Maker 2k came along, I only planned for some.

Anyway, I think it was around 1997 or so when I first got around to actually pixelling stuff. It was in a very old computer and I didn't transfer over any files to my new one so I don't have the graphics anymore. I think I probably deleted it anyway.

It looked something like this, as this is the style that I based it off of:

I didn't animate the sprites or anything, so they just faced forward. It was very blocky from what I remember and I think I made an absolutely huge map with it as that would be the map for the whole game. I used MS Paint back then.

I didn't get to seriously pixelling stuff until 2005 however, where I made a game in RPG Maker 2003 with all custom graphics. That's when I really took a liking to it.


I remember this sprite. Wow, was it 2007? You've improved a ton since then! <3

[Nessiah]

I still have your edit!

<3

[Pietepiet]

I started at 2007 I believe somewhere in August:

Impressive improvements there. I'd high five you but that's impossible.

[letsap]

Mario Paint was my first pixel art. I remember having grid paper and copying down sprites from Mega Man X and putting them in Mario Paint, then making little scenes. Good times.

[The-Imp]

Left is 07', right is now.

I Was 12 back in 07'...

[godsavant]

Gaze upon this awesome animation, made seconds after I discovered the joys of pixelling.

Then I realized Pixen was shit at duplicating colors.

[Adamski]

Do you remember your first experience with pixel art? I remember animating pixels for the first time on the Etch A Sketch Animator when I was 8 or 9 years old. It was in 1989... Good old days.

  Why have I never seen this toy?

[Bree]

Kid Pix!

[godsavant]

Kid Pix!

:D

[Xion]

Kid Pix!

Yessss.

[The-Imp]

I loved using Kid Pix when I was 2nd and 4th grade, it was the best.

[Μarkham]

I remember KidPix!  I also remember getting excited to finally play it with a real Sound Blaster when we got one of those.  And then I was disappointed because the TNT had a much cooler explosion sound through the system speaker.

[Fuzz]

My first pixel art was... just now.