my avatar is based on a gta car but i amde it from scr4atch

Dunno who let it in, but lets not play the blame game! The important thing is that this piece was discovered. In the future it would be helpful if you guys pm'd one of the admins so we can take a looksy at the piece.

i figured, but i'm still interested if he can think of something to ''prove'' this is pixelart

Lighten up, guys. Alex is messing around.

how did someone approve this? bit mash up were we! 

heh... who approved this? tz tz tz

I'd love to hear that story too, because currently all evidence says: "not pixel art".

explain why it is pixelart dear alex. i'd love to hear a bedtime story?

yeah, it's made of pixels...pixels and a side of bull shit...oops, did I just say that, my bad....

Of course it is. It's made of pixels, isn't it?

guys trust me! this really is pixel art.

I've collected several clues, which proof that it is NOT pixel art:
1) the 1432 different colors at an image size of 52x52, which means that an effective 52.9% of ALL pixels on this thing have a unique color
2) the already visible compression artifacts on the face
3) EVEN THE BLACK is NOT BLACK, you can easily reveal even more compression artifacts by applying a gamma correction at the factor of 4.0(see here)
==> This is(currently) not pixel art!

I'm not saying that it could not HAVE BEEN pixel art originally. It might be the case that it had just 16 or 32 colors or so and then the artist made the mistake of saving it as jpeg at a poor quality/compression ratio, which might have spoiled the whole thing, so next time you save your hard work, make sure you save to a lossless format.
Towards the aa quality: It is well possible to manually do aa at this quality level.(and with far less colors...)

Suggestion to the artist for saving his honor: Use this image as a reference and repixel the thing with a maximum of 16 colors.

Blood Stained Hurricane: what's up with submitting a car ripped from GTA (the one you're using as avatar now)? Even if you did make it yourself, it's still not pixel art.

Bloof Stained Hurricane (ugly nick :/) This is JPG converted to PNG. You understound? Remove this "pixel" from gallery. BTW. 5 Points and Fav   .

hah. i could make something bétter then this, with LESS then 1432 colours.. 16 would be way enough me thinks

Hahaha, check the picture. Something can be jpeg and switched to png. Either way, it's not pixelled.

You guys who said its in jpeg are n00bs it doesnt let you submit jpegs.

Check the properties.

WTF are you guys on its a PNG

You are all just jealous, because you know you wouldn't be able to make something as good as this.

umm guys, this is totally pixel art. trust me, i know.

It has 1432 unique different colors(counted by XnVIEW)... seems this is really not pixel art. Shame on you!

Scaled, jpeg, lame.

Awesome AAing, man.

Yeah... I'm surprised this even got appoved.

In jpeg format :|

this is not pixel art, its a scaled image.