Just saw Hapiel on America's Got Talent and he killed it! The episode should be available on Peacock and whatever other NBC streaming service you can find by tomorrow.
Congrats Daniel!
I just realized it's been some time since I last posted anything here.
I think I'm gonna have to change that and get some of the work I haven't posted here yet on the gallery, a lot has been going on the past couple of months.
i'm looking for something like that for years now :E
there's plenty of vfx tools and video compositors, but so far i haven't seen anything usable for pixel art. there are some pixel art vfx creators, but that's mostly pointless stuff.
the main problem is AA, but even if you manage to force the software to get rid of it, it will still be at the cost of quality and/or other issues.
then there's also some internal optimization (and standards for export and godknowswhatelse), so once you render your png sequence, you can import it back to aseprite to reduce colour count, because the colours are guaranteed to be all over the place. :E
not a great workflow for changes and edits.
so, what i've found is that everything is somewhat fine as long as all you need is some paralax or particles or something similar. because that can be finished and composed back in aseprite.
but to take animations from aseprite and compose them somewhere else, is a massive problem. unless you plan to render the thing as a video, where it won't matter.
with that being said, blender and resolve are both free, so i'd defintely recommend to give them a try and then you'll see for yourself what they can do for you.
Thank you Gawrone, but It's not the filesize that is bothering me actually. I have always used a compressionprogram called Shortpixel (also online) for my sizereduction needs. And it works flawlessly, not the mention the sizelimit on Pixeljoint being extended to a max of 2mb has made this a non-issue. Rather, my projects are rather big as a whole. Working with 600 frames+ in Aseprite can be a bit... gimmicky so to say. So I was wondering how other programs would deal with this. And if people has preferences for me to possibly check out.
If one of the issues you have in mind is that animated gifs exported from Aseprite are surprisingly heavy files, I do not have a comparison to other soft. But in such cases, I always use this online thingie: https://ezgif.com/optimize. The pixel art quality drop is not noticeable. I wouldn't use it for commercial projects, but for stuff like Pixel Joint previews, it works magic. Sometimes cuts ~70%, and the preview looks indistinguishable.
Heya folks! Question for you all! I've been using Aseprite for all my pixelwork, animations included and those tend to be rather large. Which can be a bit of a hassle at times. I was wondering what programs you tend to use for animating works, big or small, so I can look around a bit for possible alternatives. Thanks!
I wouldn't say PJ "outlived" anything given that we no longer bundle desktop icons or forum avatars for people to use.
Also this place takes way too much inspiration from twiiter with things like wrongthink to say it outlived it. 
@Amorph
"It's the anti-social media, small but mighty."
This statement summarizes PJ perfectly.
I notice the mismatch on a regular basis and it bugs me xP But it's the price to pay for dice physics, I think this compromise is more interesting than not having the physics, while still being easy to read no matter how the dice land. And though it may bother my purist eyes, it's still one of the best integrations I've seen.
Ohh yeah, I got slice and dice a while ago on itch. Should redownload it, since I've heard there's been some major updates since I last played it.
I think it's very impressive how well the game visually integrates the pixel art with the 3d dice. You basically don't notice the mixed resolutions.
I've certainly stuck around here for way longer than I did on Twitter ;D (I've been ogling the Chatterbox plenty, just not had anything worth adding to the conversation or uploading to my gallery xP)
Saw Slice & Dice today, with art by a3um. I'm thinking of picking it up, had a nice time with the demo. (Edit: Got it. It's not quite what I was hoping for, but it's pretty good so far :D)
It did already outlive twitter! Twitter only existed for 17 years, while PJ is 20 and still going!
PJ is still kicking it. It's the anti-social media, small but mighty. Not as active right now as it was in its heyday, but I'm pretty confident it's gonna outlive Twitter and many others at this point.
Helloooo! (checking in again... yep PJ is still here, goin strong, I recognize names! All is well in the world. Well, not really, but at least this place exists)
@gawrone: thanks mate. well, let's say it's sort of better than it used to be ;]
@greenraven: yeah, it's a small thingy, but i like it lot. :]
Thank you b236. It is great. PJ has been missing your presence. How are you doing?
Yes! That's the one!
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Alas, they deleted most of their stuff :(. Hopefully Wayback Machine can help.
Thanks!
What was the name of the pixel artist that used to do fantastic outdoor scenery, mostly trees? I think it was 'beetle' something. Can't remember the rest of his username for the life of me.
That's actually kinda neat. You can really see the difference in shading in those screenshots.
you all probably already know it, but in case you don't:
magic glass which turns your monitor into fake crt:
https://mausimus.itch.io/shaderglass
https://github.com/mausimus/ShaderGlass
it has gazillion presets and settings and it's click-through overlay, so one can actually use it for games and work.
Sorry for reporting this here, but I don't use Discord so I can't do it there...
This art is stolen and the uploader appears to be a spambot. The original artist commented on it. I've seen other such spambot submissions get removed from the queue, but it looks like this one got approved by accident.
Cyangmou charges over 100$US/an hour so as much as I'd like a tutor, I'm not ready to pay that much. So send me a PM if you're interested.
I don't actully need someone who makes it the the monthly top, it's more like an idea of the level I'm going for. There are tons of people I could learn from here.
If Cyangmou is still active on the Discord he might be a good fit.
As Gawrone said I do know that Cyangmou has offered mentorship over Discord before, but he also hosts pixel-along streams on twitch which I highly recommend you to look into. Good luck.
@Zizka
I think you have the highest chance of finding a great mentor here since we have lots of active pixel art legends in the flesh. Good luck! :)
Absolutely agree with Theoden. PJ is a time capsule and in my opinion the strict submission guidelines are what keep it alive. No matter where I'm at in life, I always find time to lurk PJ! I'm grateful to have shared the space with all the amazingly talented artists here over the last 2 decades.
Cyangmou checks all the boxes you've mentioned. Except maybe, purism (however you understand this), but with his knowledge and experience you will definitely get what you need, if you precise your expectations.
Hi!
I'm looking for a mentor who'll help me improve my pixel art (paid). Looking for someone who's good explaining things and who's pretty advanced. I'm looking for people who make monthly top pixel art and who are generally speaking purists.
Message me if you're interested.
Z.
You obviously never asked the wrong questions on here. They really don't like it when you have a mind of your own and question the status quo.
I have opinions on how this place could be run. And apparently some people feel threatened by the mere existence of opinions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
PJ used to be so much more accepting and tolerant once....
12 years in PJ and still lurking around... and making some pixel art occasionally
I come back and check purely to see people older than me, which gets increasingly more difficult on the rest of the internet but PJ never lets me down 
Has it really been 20 years? I'm currently decomposing.
The only vetting in place is to make sure you are a PJ member and have a single pixel piece in your gallery. For a Discord community intended for PJ members, that's really not a tall order.
In the art showcase channel on Discord, it's anything goes. I've been posting digital paintings and pencil drawings, and I haven't gotten banned yet. 
"Good old PJ" had an IRC where everyone was welcomed. Last I checked PJ of today has a discord with some sort of authoritarian vetting process because god forbid you should offend someone by saying oekaki is real pixel art.
@Stickman
Celebrating PJ's 20th year anniversary with a special art event is a really good idea.
I have been here since 2010 and I think the key to PJs longevity is the fact that PJ is unique and niche in what it does and has no agenda other than just keeping the same service going as long as possible. I think the old-school interface and look of the site is iconic and nostalgic and that helps too. It feels like a safehaven or an active timecapsule in this fast evolving, obnoxious internetscape.
Though I must say that PJ is getting less and less active as years pass by, especially in the comments section but people still keep posting here since this is the only "hardcore" or traditional pixel gallery out there.
Every site tries to change something per decade just for the sake of change (at least visually. DeviantArt is a good example to this). But PJ is just the good old PJ :)
I see larwick and leel post on instagram from time to time. Lar is pretty shredded ngl
20 is definitely a milestone worth celebrating! There are a bunch of names that I see every now and then on facebook and would be easy to reach out to. Larwick, Souly, Skull...
It's sort of bizarre to have grown up on here, like I asked Larwick to fileshare me his Tool albums over MSN because I was 12 and didn't know how to download them myself... Cocefi and Indigo are still active on twitter. Miaschugh stepped away from pixel/game art around 2016 I think.
MashPotato, Mil. jamon, Varok Shade, Cocefi, Larwick, Inkspot, miascugh, Indigo...
Haven't been active in ages.
Next year will be Pixeljoints 20 year anniversary. It would be amazing to post a message to everyone to celebrate, by either remaking their first pixel piece or their first avatar with the number 20 on it. Could even be a comp.
@Hapiel: I would assume it being a niche art community has something to do with it. Like if you remember a piece you'd actually have to check back to see it again. At least when I have to draw something specific for work I often loop back to specific pieces I remember here for reference on how they solved a problem.
Short answer is we don't know. I was convinced he had passed but then activity from him appeared on other online communities from after he had stopped visiting PJ, so now it's not so clear. Either way nobody that has tried to contact him has had any response for the past 8 years.
Pixeljoint got an official discord server now yeah, it's linked under the Community tab. Or right here.
Someone mentioned a pixel art related Discord that'd be up for joining? When I search on Google I just get "Pixels is the NFT metaverse for collections you already own!" which does not spark me with joy.
I'd also be curious if anyone found out what happened to jal, he is an absolute star and a legend and I've been worried about him over the years.
What is it about this group that quite a few oldtimers still check in regularly? I'm not aware of any similar internet communities that have this longevity... (2007 here)
I feel plenty old without you measuring my time here in centuries! Also ditto what Reo said, we're early but not the first wave, the site was already populated with great art when Ensellitis dragged me over from dA (RIP to my homie Chris).
I was just thinking the other day: who has been continually making pixel art the longest of all the humans on earth? Theoretically someone could have been making pixel art for 40 years or more, though I doubt many of the pioneers stuck with it that long. But pixel art has really taken off, so I think there are a lot of us who will stick with it for decades to come!
When I can finally play the Beatles "When I'm Sixty-four" on my birthday (knock on wood), I'll have been making pixel art for half a century!
Just wanted to type Mirre - since 2005. Not only active, but a mod.
Mirre, Helm and Ptoing joined before either me or Cure. Wayuki was also here in 2005. Adarias and Big Brother haven't posted here last year but they're still both doing pixel art.
Edit: Morganne too of course!
You joined in 2007. 17 years is, in fact, 1/6 of a century. Just sayin 
Look for the 2005ers in the memberlist... (Sedge "joined" in 2001 but PJ launched in 2005, right?)
No way.
'Cure' has almost been here for nearly 2 decades. That's 20 years. In fact - 1/5 of a century
Out of interest, who are the longest active members on PixelJoint?
Confirm. Everytime a challenge has less than 3 entries at the end of the deadline, it gets another week. This is beyond our control, since we are unable to close the challenge.
I think it's carrying over into this week as well because there weren't enough entries
Hi everyone, silly question, is the Vanity weekly challenge will be maintained or it will be switched?
The first person that comes to mind is Cyangmou of course. But you could also recall some pieces by Wolfenoctis.
Hello guys! Trying to get back at pixel art and tried googling a reference that I had in mind. Only found AI weird stuff. I'm searching for another pixel artist work but I can't remember his name, he did a lot of medieval armor with high details and things like, does anyone know his username? (And feel free to recommend another pixel artist that you like!)
We are very active as a community on discord! Would love to see you there.
I returned back here recently, and returned to pixel art in general recently, and it's been great. Really sad that Pixelation forums aren't up anymore though, I learned so much from those forums that influenced my art a lot. I hope someday twitter and social media bs dies off and people return to places like this and pixelation. Forums are really great, at the very least better than social media.
I joined this community when I was in middle school and now I'm in college pursuing a degree in animation. I definitely wouldn't be here if it weren't for the community. Pixel art was my foundation and start into art as a whole, and it always has a special place in my heart. The forums and stuff helped me through some bad times, and I'm grateful.
I just wish the community was more active now. It would be really nice to hand down a lot of the knowledge I've learned in my journey, along with what I've learned from other pixelartists, to new and aspiring pixel artists. To help others like I was once helped.
Anyways, PixelJoint is cool and I hope that this website continues to exist.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2779230/Zarathustra__Cybergeddon/
So apparently this game was made entirely using AI. For those of you who can look past your own insecurities for a few seconds, I highly recommend you give this a try, there's something very beautiful here.
I honestly can't wait to see more games like this.
well I guess technically that's just 4 years and not 15 years
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Whaaaaat no way, thanks for sharing!