Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pixel art wizard
Voting period ends on 12 Oct 2024 at 19:33:32 (UTC)
- Reason
- I think this is a good exemplar of many of the aspects of pixel art: A limited color palette, the use of complementary colors to create the illusion of a gradient, places where emphasis is placed on individual pixels (such as highlights and the border) and places where a blended effect is desired (the beard and the tones of the face). The one thing it doesn't have that I wish it did is dithering in the gradient areas, but that's not a mandatory aspect of the medium.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Pixel art
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others
- Creator
- Original art by ReffPixels, vectorization by OmegaFallon
- Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 19:33, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – Meh. Lacks visual interest, EV. –Sca (talk) 12:54, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Comment I think for EV, File:Pixel Art Cat with Zoom-in Detail.svg is probably the better choice. That being said, this is good pixel art - and I say this as an aficionado of the genre. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:46, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- That was actually my first choice, but I decided against it for a few reasons. The color selection (not just the palette but the full gamut it implies) is mostly browns and blues, there's not much to indicate how shadows are represented, and there are large areas of flat color. I also dislike the inset detail box, which is just under a 2x magnification and therefore just browbeats the viewer with information they already have. So I went through Commons, found another piece of pixel art I felt illustrated the concept better, added it to the page and waited a week. Moonreach (talk) 15:20, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- This is definitely something that looks more like typical pixel art games of the 90s. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 15:14, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
- As a character portrait, perhaps. It is still more detailed than anything before the PS1 could have reasonably handled! Crisco 1492 mobile (talk) 12:08, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Eh, don't forget computer games. Something circa Kings Quest 6 or Kyrandia 2? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 07:41, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- As a character portrait, perhaps. It is still more detailed than anything before the PS1 could have reasonably handled! Crisco 1492 mobile (talk) 12:08, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- This is definitely something that looks more like typical pixel art games of the 90s. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 15:14, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
- That was actually my first choice, but I decided against it for a few reasons. The color selection (not just the palette but the full gamut it implies) is mostly browns and blues, there's not much to indicate how shadows are represented, and there are large areas of flat color. I also dislike the inset detail box, which is just under a 2x magnification and therefore just browbeats the viewer with information they already have. So I went through Commons, found another piece of pixel art I felt illustrated the concept better, added it to the page and waited a week. Moonreach (talk) 15:20, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 14:11, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 22:26, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 05:30, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support - While I still feel that the cat is more encyclopedic, Adam is right that this does strongly resemble something one would find in the (late) 90s. Given that that's the aesthetic modern pixel art games go for, I'm happy supporting. Crisco 1492 mobile (talk) 12:08, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support Reminds me on my drawing, it was like this, dots by dots, it was French solider, wish to find that image. --Petar Milošević (talk) 10:54, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
