a tutorial on.... How to pillow shade? WTH

[Liberated]

I did not make this tutorial, and i can't link to the site where i found it i guess cuz links outside the lounge aren't allowed.
so here is the tutorial itself, i did not make this, i found it on a freewebs site called spritingguides.
Apparently these people destroy nice pixel art and turn it into their own horrible pillowshaded crap.
I didn't know demon cults like this existed :s


THE HORROR!

[DustyPorViva]

lol

[Tigairius]

Original one looked better imo.

[DuBsTeRmAn]

I like it..

[kia345]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

Original one looked better imo.

I think that's the point

[Liberated]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

Original one looked better imo.

exactly!
These people... they.. they... they molest a good looking sprite!!!
They just take the lineart and apply their own completely wrong and ugly pillow shading on to it. I mean why would they do this, they should know that pillow shading is just completely wrong.

[Dumdumdidi]

haha, good example. but pillow shading is a part of our gfx past, people more or less starts with stuff like these before learning thier mistakes.

[Liberated]

Originally Posted by Dumdumdidi

haha, good example. but pillow shading is a part of our gfx past, people more or less starts with stuff like these before learning thier mistakes.

I was told right from the beginning that i shouldn't pillowshade, but these people, they have a proper example and then they ruin it don't they, that's completely different.

[SwimChao]

Thank you! This is exactly the kind of guide I was looking for! I'm gonna be making the best stuff EVER now! ;D

[Soala]

That guide gave me a heart attack...

[SwimChao]

Originally Posted by alexandralove

That guide gave me a heart attack...

If by heart attack you mean the overwhelming inspiration to go out into the world and change Graal one spot at a time by changing everything to this new concept of... "Pillow Shading".. Me too!

[Draenin]

This actually isn't as bad as everything else out there. I mean, at least he put all the highlights in the right places.

The shading makes sense if it's meant to look metallic, but I dunno if that's what his goal was.

[Robin]

This person has never heard of light, apparently.

[DustyPorViva]

So the big question is... is it okay to pillow-shade a pillow?.

[kia345]

You are the sun. There is an object moving directly towards your center, so you're looking at it head on. There are no other light sources. Do you throw away your morals and pillow shade it, or risk someone calling out your inaccurate shading?

[Robin]

if the LIGHT is DIRECTLY on the OBJECT then there would be no SHADING as a SHADOW is a direct result of another object, or the OBJECT in question blocking the light from the OBJECT.

[SwimChao]

There's a difference between pillow-shading and being minimalistic in the shading you do because of the light source.

[Draenin]

Well, there are certain instances where 'pillow shading' does and doesn't work.

If you have an irregular-shaped object, sometimes pillow shading will look somewhat normal if done properly. (The artist in this tutorial made the shades too far apart, so it gets really dark around the edges.)

But if the shape is very recular, like a square or circle or whatever, pillow shading looks terrible on it.

[Robin]

Pillow shading sucks bawls case closed

[Draenin]

Originally Posted by Robin

Pillow shading sucks bawls case closed

It allows spriting newbies to at least get some sort of early experience with placing their highlights and shadows.

[James]

looks comfy

[Soala]

Originally Posted by SwimChao

If by heart attack you mean the overwhelming inspiration to go out into the world and change Graal one spot at a time by changing everything to this new concept of... "Pillow Shading".. Me too!

Not exactly

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Draenin

It allows spriting newbies to at least get some sort of early experience with placing their highlights and shadows.

Very wrong experience. Why make your first step into pixel-art a wrong one? You end up having to relearn it anyways.