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Creating an 8-bit illustration

Creating an 8-bit illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating an 8-bit illustration

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- [Voiceover] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie, I wanna go over creating an 8-bit illustration. Everybody who works and design knows what a pixel is and this is all about replicating that aesthetic of artwork. 8-bit pixels, I grew up in a generation of computer games and graphics that started out in 8-bit glory and this shows a set I did years ago. I did this a little over 10 years ago and it was for a company out in Japan called Bandai and it was artwork uses little avatar icons but they purposely requested that I create these as pixel-based characters. This is simply a TIFF image that I have placed into illustrator here but it was the final art that I game them. It actually was considered hi-res art for production and offset printing but it was 72 DPI and it worked because there is no anti-aliasing. Everything is 90-degree angles and it's kind of the exception to the rule when it comes to developing final artwork. Now, I'm gonna demonstrate that really…

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