And that's all that alpha transparency really is, it's an entry in the color palette. In the same way, unrestricted use of alpha transparency can cause an image to lose it's identity as pixel art. However, no one at Deviant Art or Pixel Joint ever says "unrestricted use", and that's really the heart of the matter.Ī 1024x768px image using 400 colors certainly doesn't look very much like pixel art, and there's a good reason for that: there was no restriction in either canvas or palette. I guess this is the same way that I feel about unrestricted dithering, anti-aliasing, or color palettes. Digging into the comments unearths the feeling that transparency dilutes or cheapens the art. Should I really spend any time going into how ignorant this statement is? God gave me a special finger for these cases, and I choose to use it. Now, what is the problem with transparency? The ruling from Deviant Art is that "the only tools used should be the pencil tool, the eye dropper and the eraser". I don't think I'd be here were it not for the wonderfully moody wisps of steam rising above the town of Narshe these were the first images I ever tried to reproduce as a game (and ran into Internet Explorer's inability to display alpha transparencies). To rule out games like Final Fantasy 6 for it's use of alpha transparencies is a great way to undermine your own credibility. The greatest pixel art ever seen (arguably, of course) comes from the SNES era, which made alpha transparencies available as part of the platform. However, when anyone starts saying "These are the rules of pixel art", that's when I get pissed. This is fine if a single website wants to say "These are the rules for this website", that's their prerogative. Without a function for their output to perform, the folks at Pixel Joint (and now Deviant Art) are grasping at straws trying to keep cohesion. These restrictions stem from the functional nature of pixel art: Pixel art was born from the restrictions of computers, and had to perform it's function in that environment. But these restrictions aren't arbitrary, like the ones Deviant Art and Pixel Joint are forcing on the art. Pixel art is defined by it's restrictions, in palette size, color choice, canvas size, and many other ways. How many video games has Pixel Joint ever produced? Personally, I'm not familiar with their art, and don't care about what they say. Unfortunately, people all over the internet have been duped into believing this is true. Pixel Joint is an internet community which believes itself to be God's gift to pixel art, and the definitive voice concerning pixel art. Now, what is Pixel Joint, you wonder? I most certainly did the first time I heard about them. This follows a similar ruling from the folks over at Pixel Joint. Staff members at Deviant Art recently posted a news article describing how any image containing partial transparencies (alpha channel), or which looks as though it was made using transparency effects, will be removed from the pixel art category. Note: This text also appears as a forum post for the BYOND Pixel Art Society.
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