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General Discussion

Graphic or programmer art

Chasersgaming
Sunday, September 25, 2016 - 10:16
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i am probly going to come across a little silly, but I'm just going to put this out there, my son asked me what is the difference between a pixel artist or other artist for games and programmer art?

I couldn't give him a straight answer, art is art which ever way you do it, but he made a suggestion that a programmer art is art/Sprite made by code and not pixels,,or something to that end.

is he right? Il have to give him a high five

i can imagine maybe a long tome ago games could of been made that way, maybe they still are used today?

 

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surt
joined 16 years 1 month ago
Sunday, September 25, 2016 - 12:02
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The usual meaning of "programmer art" is "art made by a programmer".

Usually as a placeholder or out of necessity due to lack of a dedicated artist.

It implies poorer quality as a programmer has presumably dedicated most of their efforts to learning how to program rather than learning how to draw/compose/etc.

What you are talking about would more likely be called something like "programmatic art", "procedural art", "generative art", etc.

Red warrior needs caffeine badly.

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Chasersgaming
joined 10 years 9 months ago
Sunday, September 25, 2016 - 13:44
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Ok cool, thanks for your response, thinking about it my work is probly more "programmer art" right now than pixel. :)

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