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@patrick_h_lauke y'know, if the tech was actually any good (ignoring all the other issues of course) then they wouldn't need to force it on us like this lol

AND ANOTHER THING

from their faq:

What format are the assets in?

200×200 transparent PNGs, ready to drop into any game engine or design tool.

this is nonsensical. this site has scenes, vehicles, characters, character portraits, images of all different kinds and shapes and sizes and scales. so if they're all 200x200, they won't fit together! your 200x200 character can't walk over the 200x200 bridge! they can't git in the 200x200 bus! their overworld sprite is the same size as their dialog portrait!

the only way this works at all is if you downscale the images, which completely destroys the look of pixel art. have you seen pixel art which mixes and matches pixel size? it usually doesn't look good!

and this kind of thing is going to be so much harder to spot because of the low resolution and small color palette. looking at this bridge after the fact, i can spot some weird things that just don't make sense. stray pixels, weirdly shaped clusters, jaggies that don't belong.

but those are also things that beginner pixel artists do. i do them all the time! so how do we tell apart a sloppified pixel art from someone just learning? how do we make sure we call out liars while not accidentally tearing apart a new artist for mistakes that every new artist makes?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@freepixelart/116166886761413677

this shit is ai-generated slop

calling this out because they only mention the AI thing in their about page. i wouldn't have said anything if not for the fact that it strolled across my timeline from the #pixelart tag, and i checked the site because it seemed cool.

FreePixel is a curated library of AI-generated pixel art assets, designed specifically for game developers and creative projects. Every asset in the vault has been generated using specialized AI tools for creating high-quality pixel art sprites, tilesets, characters, and UI elements.

fuck this shit. fuck this slop garbage and fuck the people trying to make money off it. oh yeah i didn't mention, the site is a bait and switch. the pixel art isn't free, you need to pay "credits". for now the credits come from daily lootboxes alone, and you can guarantee they'll start letting you buy them soon.

they made a gambling site for slop. and they know it's gambling too, because the "art" they list has a rarity rating. they slopped out some images, assigned them a rarity score, and put them in a fucking slot machine. they say they want to make pixel art "accessible" (destroy every ai bro who says that word) but how does a gambling machine do that? they're not even pretending. just lying.

fuck this shit.

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