You can sign up for Secret Santa again, at pixelation!
Secret Santa is a project where you sign up to participate. On 24 November you get a message containing a name of your secret “partner”, and you draw (pixel) a gift for him/her. You secretly send it to the administrator, and if everything works out fine everyone will get and make one present!
Have fun!
The Japanese pixel artist Syosa made this beautiful animation.
But thats not the best part: He showed exactly how he made this, step by step!
Wip animation
Click here for a full view of all the frames, and some explanation on them (Japanese)
Study it, get inspired, and learn how to make your own animations. Thanks Syosa!
For more info about Syosa, read this interview.
On Pixelation, there was a collaboration running: The hexquisite corpse. All entries were hidden until today, because it got finished!
excerpt taken from the full image
It worked as following: Every member made a tile which would have to connect to the tiles next to it. However, the tiles next your tile where not fully revealed, only the borders were visible. That way you never knew what you were connecting to. This resulted in a random and fun image!
There were a total of 91 tiles.
How come she thinks that this is scary?
It is beautiful!
Halloween costume: low resolution
“The shirt took forever to paint, and my face only took slightly forever.”
I have posted this article earlier on PixelJoint, but as I noticed a lot of people did not know it yet, I will just repost it here
With help of this article you can avoid the zoom blurring bug you get if you zoom in on pixel art in Firefox.
Sadly this is not testable in the beta version. But it is in the Alpha version 3.6, below explains you how to do it. Be aware that this fix is completely at your own risk, as 3.6 of it is not stable yet.
Step 1
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ Download Minefield. This is the project name for alpha releases of Firefox. On that page you can download it, for windows that would be firefox-3.6a1pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe
Step 2
Install minefield. It will not overwrite your existing version of firefox, but wil copy your bookmarks , add-ons, passwords etc.
If you go to pixeljoint.com right now in your new Minefield browser you can already see the images crispy when you zoom in. This because it seems PJ already added the right tags to its css. Thanks!
Step 3
To get the pixel zooming on every website you visit (such as wayofthepixel.net) we need to take another step.
We must create a file named userContent.css
This CSS file will apply the code in it to every page you visit.
In windows, this page must be created in %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profilename\chrome
You can find it by browsing to C: > Documents and settings > ‘Username‘ (mine is Daniel) > Application Data.
Application Data is a hidden folder, you can unhide it by going to (in your explorer) Tools > Folder Options > View > Show hidden files and folders
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial62.html
Non windows users must figure it out themselves, but the file will always be located in Profilename\Chrome
Now open notepad or a similar text editor, and paste in this code:
img[src$=".gif"] { image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; -ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor; }
img[src$=".png"] { image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; -ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor; }
Save it as userContent.css (and watch out it does not become a .txt but a .css) in the chrome folder
Thats it. You are done! When you click images on any site to zoom in, they will be shown ina ll its pixel glory (after you restart your browser).
If you have any questions, comment!
